Bacterial components as naturally inspired nano-carriers for drug/gene delivery and immunization: Set the bugs to work?

F Farjadian, M Moghoofei, S Mirkiani, A Ghasemi… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Drug delivery is a rapidly growing area of research motivated by the nanotechnology
revolution, the ideal of personalized medicine, and the desire to reduce the side effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetotactic Bacteria and Magnetosomes as Smart Drug Delivery Systems: A New Weapon on the Battlefield with Cancer?

D Kuzajewska, A Wszołek, W Żwierełło, L Kirczuk… - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
An important direction of research in increasing the effectiveness of cancer therapies is the
design of effective drug distribution systems in the body. The development of the new …

Magnetotactic bacteria and magnetosomes–Scope and challenges

JJ Jacob, K Suthindhiran - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2016 - Elsevier
Geomagnetism aided navigation has been demonstrated by certain organisms which allows
them to identify a particular location using magnetic field. This attractive technique to …

Magnetosomes: biogenic iron nanoparticles produced by environmental bacteria

A Dieudonné, D Pignol, S Prévéral - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
The scientific community's interest in magnetotactic bacteria has increased substantially in
recent decades. These prokaryotes have the particularity of synthesizing nanomagnets …

Biomineralization and biotechnological applications of bacterial magnetosomes

G Ying, G Zhang, J Yang, Z Hao, W **ng, D Lu… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Magnetosomes intracellularly biomineralized by Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are
membrane-enveloped nanoparticles of the magnetic minerals magnetite (Fe 3 O 4) or …

Improved methods for mass production of magnetosomes and applications: a review

A Basit, J Wang, F Guo, W Niu, W Jiang - Microbial Cell Factories, 2020 - Springer
Magnetotactic bacteria have the unique ability to synthesize magnetosomes (nano-sized
magnetite or greigite crystals arranged in chain-like structures) in a variety of shapes and …

Preparation, characterization, and in vitro release kinetics of doxorubicin-loaded magnetosomes

S Zhang, X Fan, G Zhang, W Wang… - Journal of Biomaterials …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The doxorubicin (DOX) was successfully coupled to the magnetosomes from
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (At. ferrooxidans) by genipin bridging. The parameters …

Designer nanocarriers for navigating the systemic delivery of oncolytic viruses

F Howard, M Muthana - Nanomedicine, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Nanotechnology is paving the way for new carrier systems designed to overcome the
greatest challenges of oncolytic virotherapy; systemic administration and subsequent …

Magnetically based nanocarriers in drug delivery

EB Denkbaş, E Çelik, E Erdal, D Kavaz, Ö Akbal… - … in Drug Delivery, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles, which can be considered as one of the largest group of nanocarriers, have
an important role in diagnostics and therapy. Incorporation of the nanoparticles prepared by …

A Versatile Magnetic Nanoplatform for Plug-and-Play Functionalization: Genetically Programmable Cargo Loading to Bacterial Magnetosomes by SpyCatcher “Click …

F Mickoleit, JJ Beierl, S Markert, MA Klein… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bacterial magnetosomes (“MAGs”) represent a promising class of magnetic iron oxide
nanoparticles with exceptional material characteristics and high application potential in the …