Applications of cucurbiturils in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

D Das, KI Assaf, WM Nau - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The supramolecular chemistry of cucurbit [n] urils (CB n) has been rapidly develo** to
encompass diverse medicinal applications, including drug formulation and delivery …

Designer peptide amphiphiles: self-assembly to applications

A Dasgupta, D Das - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
Peptide amphiphiles (PAs) are extremely attractive as molecular building blocks, especially
in the bottom-up fabrication of supramolecular soft materials, and have potential in many …

Rational design of peptide-based smart hydrogels for therapeutic applications

S Das, D Das - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Peptide-based hydrogels have captivated remarkable attention in recent times and serve as
an excellent platform for biomedical applications owing to the impressive amalgamation of …

Short peptide-based smart thixotropic hydrogels

B Pramanik - Gels, 2022 - mdpi.com
Thixotropy is a fascinating feature present in many gel systems that has garnered a lot of
attention in the medical field in recent decades. When shear stress is applied, the gel …

Peptide-based low molecular weight photosensitive supramolecular gelators

B Pramanik, S Ahmed - Gels, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the last couple of decades, stimuli-responsive supramolecular gels comprising
synthetic short peptides as building blocks have been explored for various biological and …

Black rice anthocyanins embedded in self-assembled chitosan/chondroitin sulfate nanoparticles enhance apoptosis in HCT-116 cells

T Liang, Z Zhang, P **g - Food chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Self-assembled nanoparticles using the biopolymers chitosan (CH) and chondroitin sulfate
(CS) were developed to improve the biological activity of anthocyanin (ACN). The …

Molecular recognition of peptides and proteins by cucurbit [n] urils: systems and applications

L Armstrong, SL Chang, N Clements, Z Hirani… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of methodology for attaching ligand binding sites to proteins of interest has
accelerated biomedical science. Such protein tags have widespread applications as well as …

Enzymatic Dimerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly of Alanine‐Tyramine Conjugates into Versatile, Uniform, Enzyme‐Loaded Organic Nanoparticles

M Kumar Pradhan… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we report a novel enzymatic dimerization‐induced self‐assembly (e‐DISA)
procedure that converts alanine‐tyramine conjugates into highly uniform enzyme‐loaded …

Smart thixotropic hydrogels by disulfide-linked short peptides for effective three-dimensional cell proliferation

S Chowdhuri, A Saha, B Pramanik, S Das, P Dowari… - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular assembly of short peptides is a crucial process and has shown numerous
potential applications as biomaterials. In the present work, the hydrogelation process of …

The effects of a short self-assembling peptide on the physical and biological properties of biopolymer hydrogels

S Chowdhuri, M Ghosh, L Adler-Abramovich, D Das - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Hydrogel scaffolds have attracted much interest in the last few years for applications in the
field of bone and cartilage tissue engineering. These scaffolds serve as a convenient three …