Current advance of nanotechnology in diagnosis and treatment for malignant tumors

B Wang, S Hu, Y Teng, J Chen, H Wang, Y Xu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer remains a significant risk to human health. Nanomedicine is a new multidisciplinary
field that is garnering a lot of interest and investigation. Nanomedicine shows great potential …

Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

Computational design of ACE2-based peptide inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2

Y Han, P Král - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Peptide inhibitors against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, currently causing a worldwide
pandemic, are designed and simulated. The inhibitors are mostly formed by two sequential …

Histidine as a key modulator of molecular self-assembly: Peptide-based supramolecular materials inspired by biological systems

Y Chen, K Tao, W Ji, VB Kumar, S Rencus-Lazar… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Histidine, a versatile proteinogenic amino acid, plays a broad range of roles in all living
organisms and behaves as a key mediator of the interactions of biomolecules with inorganic …

Mechanistic understanding from molecular dynamics simulation in pharmaceutical research 1: drug delivery

A Bunker, T Róg - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this review, we outline the growing role that molecular dynamics simulation is able to play
as a design tool in drug delivery. We cover both the pharmaceutical and computational …

Computational biomaterials: computational simulations for biomedicine

X Dai, Y Chen - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the flourishing development of material simulation methods (quantum chemistry
methods, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, phase field, etc.), extensive adoption of …

[HTML][HTML] Fluorescent multifunctional organic nanoparticles for drug delivery and bioimaging: a tutorial review

G Vargas-Nadal, M Köber, A Nsamela, F Terenziani… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fluorescent organic nanoparticles (FONs) are a large family of nanostructures constituted by
organic components that emit light in different spectral regions upon excitation, due to the …

Simulation methods for self-assembling nanoparticles

P Král, H Chan, L Vuković, S Raj, S Sen, Y Han… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last decades, nanoparticles (NPs) have been assembled into clusters, low-
dimensional superstructures, crystallites, and bulk materials. Typically, the self-assembly …

Bimodal liquid biopsy for cancer immunotherapy based on peptide engineering and nanoscale analysis

J Bu, W Jeong, R Jafari, LJ Kubiatowicz, A Nair… - Biosensors and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite its high potential, PD-L1 expressed by tumors has not been successfully utilized as
a biomarker for estimating treatment responses to immunotherapy. Circulating tumor cells …

Nanoparticle conjugation stabilizes and multimerizes β-hairpin peptides to effectively target PD-1/PD-L1 β-sheet-rich interfaces

W Jeong, J Bu, Y Han, AJ Drelich, A Nair… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
β-Hairpin peptides present great potential as antagonists against β-sheet-rich protein
surfaces, of which wide and flat geometries are typically “undruggable” with small …