Polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery

MA Beach, U Nayanathara, Y Gao, C Zhang… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The recent emergence of nanomedicine has revolutionized the therapeutic landscape and
necessitated the creation of more sophisticated drug delivery systems. Polymeric …

The dawn of a new era: targeting the “undruggables” with antibody-based therapeutics

L Qian, X Lin, X Gao, RU Khan, JY Liao, S Du… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The high selectivity and affinity of antibodies toward their antigens have made them a highly
valuable tool in disease therapy, diagnosis, and basic research. A plethora of chemical and …

Controlled-radical polymerization of α-lipoic acid: a general route to degradable vinyl copolymers

KR Albanese, PT Morris, J Read de Alaniz… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Here, we present the synthesis and characterization of statistical and block copolymers
containing α-lipoic acid (LA) using reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) …

Understanding cell penetration of cyclic peptides

PG Dougherty, A Sahni, D Pei - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Approximately 75% of all disease-relevant human proteins, including those involved in
intracellular protein–protein interactions (PPIs), are undruggable with the current drug …

An overview of dynamic covalent bonds in polymer material and their applications

S Huang, X Kong, Y **ong, X Zhang, H Chen… - European Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Dynamic covalent bonds (DCBs) have received widespread attention due to their unique
reversibility and stimulus responsiveness. The introduction of DCBs often endows materials …

Cellular uptake of large biomolecules enabled by cell-surface-reactive cell-penetrating peptide additives

AFL Schneider, M Kithil, MC Cardoso, M Lehmann… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Enabling the cellular delivery and cytosolic bioavailability of functional proteins constitutes a
major challenge for the life sciences. Here we demonstrate that thiol-reactive arginine-rich …

Sulfur chemistry in polymer and materials science

H Mutlu, EB Ceper, X Li, J Yang… - Macromolecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfur and its functional groups are major players in an area of exciting research taking
place in modern polymer and materials science, both in academia and industry. In fact …

Improving cellular uptake of therapeutic entities through interaction with components of cell membrane

R Zhang, X Qin, F Kong, P Chen, G Pan - Drug Delivery, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Efficient cellular delivery of biologically active molecules is one of the key factors that affect
the discovery and development of novel drugs. The plasma membrane is the first barrier that …

Rational design of nanocarriers for intracellular protein delivery

X Qin, C Yu, J Wei, L Li, C Zhang, Q Wu… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Protein/antibody therapeutics have exhibited the advantages of high specificity and activity
even at an extremely low concentration compared to small molecule drugs. However, they …

Thiol-mediated uptake

Q Laurent, R Martinent, B Lim, AT Pham, T Kato… - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
This Perspective focuses on thiol-mediated uptake, that is, the entry of substrates into cells
enabled by oligochalcogenides or mimics, often disulfides, and inhibited by thiol-reactive …