A global review on short peptides: frontiers and perspectives

V Apostolopoulos, J Bojarska, TT Chai, S Elnagdy… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Peptides are fragments of proteins that carry out biological functions. They act as signaling
entities via all domains of life and interfere with protein-protein interactions, which are …

Intracellular delivery by membrane disruption: mechanisms, strategies, and concepts

MP Stewart, R Langer, KF Jensen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

Mechanisms and biomaterials in pH-responsive tumour targeted drug delivery: a review

M Kanamala, WR Wilson, M Yang, BD Palmer, Z Wu - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
As the mainstay in the treatment of various cancers, chemotherapy plays a vital role, but still
faces many challenges, such as poor tumour selectivity and multidrug resistance (MDR) …

Design and development of polymers for gene delivery

DW Pack, AS Hoffman, S Pun, PS Stayton - Nature reviews Drug …, 2005 - nature.com
The lack of safe and efficient gene-delivery methods is a limiting obstacle to human gene
therapy. Synthetic gene-delivery agents, although safer than recombinant viruses, generally …

Endosomal escape pathways for delivery of biologicals

AK Varkouhi, M Scholte, G Storm, HJ Haisma - Journal of Controlled …, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite continuous improvements in delivery systems, the development of methods for
efficient and specific delivery of targeted therapeutic agents still remains an issue in …

pH-sensitive nano-systems for drug delivery in cancer therapy

J Liu, Y Huang, A Kumar, A Tan, S **, A Mozhi… - Biotechnology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology has been widely used in the development of new strategies for drug
delivery and cancer therapy. Compared to traditional drug delivery systems, nano-based …

Cytosolic delivery of nucleic acids: The case of ionizable lipid nanoparticles

M Schlich, R Palomba, G Costabile… - Bioengineering & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ionizable lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the most clinically advanced nano‐delivery system
for therapeutic nucleic acids. The great effort put in the development of ionizable lipids with …

Basics and recent advances in peptide and protein drug delivery

BJ Bruno, GD Miller, CS Lim - Therapeutic delivery, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
While the peptide and protein therapeutic market has developed significantly in the past
decades, delivery has limited their use. Although oral delivery is preferred, most are …

Endocytosis at the nanoscale

I Canton, G Battaglia - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Endocytosis is a fundamental process in which eukaryotic cells internalise molecules and
macromolecules via deformation of the membrane and generation of membrane-bound …

Nucleic acid therapeutics using polyplexes: a journey of 50 years (and beyond)

U Lächelt, E Wagner - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Since the elucidation of the molecular structure of nucleic acids and understanding of their
role in encoding and translating genetic information into biological function, 1 the knowledge …