Bioorthogonal chemistry and its applications

RE Bird, SA Lemmel, X Yu, QA Zhou - Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bioorthogonal chemistry is a set of methods using the chemistry of non-native functional
groups to explore and understand biology in living organisms. In this review, we summarize …

Bioorthogonal chemistry

SL Scinto, DA Bilodeau, R Hincapie, W Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Bioorthogonal chemistry represents a class of high-yielding chemical reactions that proceed
rapidly and selectively in biological environments without side reactions towards …

Nanogels: Synthesis, properties, and recent biomedical applications

QY Duan, YX Zhu, HR Jia, SH Wang, FG Wu - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanogels, also termed hydrogel nanoparticles, have the properties and functions of both
nanomaterials and hydrogels. Till date, a considerable number of nanogels have been …

Design challenges in polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering

MI Echeverria Molina, KG Malollari… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Numerous surgical procedures are daily performed worldwide to replace and repair
damaged tissue. Tissue engineering is the field devoted to the regeneration of damaged …

Covalently Crosslinked hydrogels via step‐growth reactions: crosslinking chemistries, polymers, and clinical impact

Y Gao, K Peng, S Mitragotri - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are an important class of biomaterials with the unique property of high‐water
content in a crosslinked polymer network. In particular, chemically crosslinked hydrogels …

In situ PEGylation of CAR T cells alleviates cytokine release syndrome and neurotoxicity

N Gong, X Han, L Xue, R El-Mayta, AE Metzloff… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cell immunotherapy is successful at treating many
cancers. However, it often induces life-threatening cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and …

Insights into the role of sialylation in cancer progression and metastasis

C Dobie, D Skropeta - British Journal of Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Upregulation of sialyltransferases—the enzymes responsible for the addition of sialic acid to
growing glycoconjugate chains—and the resultant hypersialylation of up to 40–60% of …

Metabolic glycoengineering–exploring glycosylation with bioorthogonal chemistry

M Kufleitner, LM Haiber, V Wittmann - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Glycans are involved in numerous biological recognition events. Being secondary gene
products, their labeling by genetic methods–comparable to GFP labeling of proteins–is not …

Evidence and therapeutic implications of biomechanically regulated immunosurveillance in cancer and other diseases

V Mittelheisser, V Gensbittel, L Bonati, W Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Disease progression is usually accompanied by changes in the biochemical composition of
cells and tissues and their biophysical properties. For instance, hallmarks of cancer include …

The staudinger ligation

C Bednarek, I Wehl, N Jung, U Schepers… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
While the Staudinger reaction has first been described a hundred years ago in 1919, the
ligation reaction became one of the most important and efficient bioconjugation techniques …