Cationic lipids for gene delivery: Many players, one goal

F Ponti, M Campolungo, C Melchiori, N Bono… - Chemistry and physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lipid-based carriers represent the most widely used alternative to viral vectors for gene
expression and gene silencing purposes. This class of non-viral vectors is particularly …

Engineering and delivery of cGAS-STING immunomodulators for the immunotherapy of cancer and autoimmune diseases

S Zhou, F Cheng, Y Zhang, T Su… - Accounts of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The cyclic GMP-AMP synthase-stimulator interferon gene (cGAS-STING)
pathway is an emerging therapeutic target for the prophylaxis and therapy of a variety of …

Added to pre-existing inflammation, mRNA-lipid nanoparticles induce inflammation exacerbation (IE)

H Parhiz, JS Brenner, PN Patel, TE Papp… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Current nucleoside-modified RNA lipid nanoparticle (modmRNA-LNP) technology has
successfully paved the way for the highest clinical efficacy data from next-generation …

Polymer–lipid nanoparticles for systemic delivery of mRNA to the lungs

JC Kaczmarek, AK Patel, KJ Kauffman… - Angewandte …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Therapeutic nucleic acids hold great promise for the treatment of disease but require vectors
for safe and effective delivery. Synthetic nanoparticle vectors composed of poly (β‐amino …

Carbon Nitride‐Based siRNA Vectors with Self‐Produced O2 Effects for Targeting Combination Therapy of Liver Fibrosis via HIF‐1α‐Mediated TGF‐β1/Smad …

MX Liu, L Xu, YT Cai, RJ Wang, YY Gu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hypoxia is an important feature, which can upregulate the hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1α (HIF‐
1α) expression and promote the activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), leading to liver …

Endocytic profiling of cancer cell models reveals critical factors influencing LNP-mediated mRNA delivery and protein expression

EJ Sayers, SE Peel, A Schantz, RM England, M Beano… - Molecular Therapy, 2019 - cell.com
Lipid nanoparticles have great potential for delivering nucleic-acid-based therapeutics, but
low efficiency limits their broad clinical translation. Differences in transfection capacity …

Dynamic protein assembly by programmable DNA strand displacement

RP Chen, D Blackstock, Q Sun, W Chen - Nature Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Inspired by the remarkable ability of natural protein switches to sense and respond to a wide
range of environmental queues, here we report a strategy to engineer synthetic protein …

Antisense oligonucleotides targeting angiogenic factors as potential cancer therapeutics

BT Le, P Raguraman, TR Kosbar, S Fletcher… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2019 - cell.com
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and conventional cancer therapies
such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy do not address the underlying molecular …

Oligonucleotide therapeutics: chemistry, delivery and clinical progress

VK Sharma, JK Watts - Future medicinal chemistry, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Oligonucleotide therapeutics have the potential to become a third pillar of drug development
after small molecules and protein therapeutics. However, the three approved …

Design of ionizable lipids to overcome the limiting step of endosomal escape: application in the intracellular delivery of mRNA, DNA, and siRNA

D Habrant, P Peuziat, T Colombani… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The intracellular delivery of nucleic acid molecules is a complex process involving several
distinct steps; among these the endosomal escape appeared to be of particular importance …