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Zhou J, Shao Z, Liu J, Duan Q, Wang X, Li J, Yang H. From Endocytosis to Nonendocytosis: The Emerging Era of Gene Delivery. ACS APPLIED BIO MATERIALS 2020; 3:2686-2701. [DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.9b01131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Jie Zhou
- MOE Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety, State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, People’s Republic of China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety, State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, People’s Republic of China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety, State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, People’s Republic of China
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Laurent Q, Berthet M, Cheng Y, Sakai N, Barluenga S, Winssinger N, Matile S. Probing for Thiol-Mediated Uptake into Bacteria. Chembiochem 2020; 21:69-73. [PMID: 31603284 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201900378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Cellular uptake mediated by cyclic oligochalcogenides (COCs) is emerging as a conceptually innovative method to penetrate mammalian cells. Their mode of action is based on dynamic covalent oligochalcogenide exchange with cellular thiols. To test thiol-mediated uptake in bacteria, five antibiotics have been equipped with up to three different COCs: One diselenolane and two dithiolanes. We found that the COCs do not activate antibiotics in Gram-negative bacteria. In Gram-positive bacteria, the COCs inactivate antibiotics that act in the cytoplasm and reduce the activity of antibiotics that act on the cell surface. These results indicate that thiol-mediated uptake operates in neither of the membranes of bacteria. COCs are likely to exchange with thiols on the inner, maybe also on the outer membrane, but do not move on. Concerning mammalian cells, the absence of a COC-mediated uptake into bacteria observed in this study disfavors trivial mechanisms, such as passive diffusion, and supports the existence of more sophisticated, so far poorly understood uptake pathways.
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- Quentin Laurent
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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Lu J, Wang H, Tian Z, Hou Y, Lu H. Cryopolymerization of 1,2-Dithiolanes for the Facile and Reversible Grafting-from Synthesis of Protein-Polydisulfide Conjugates. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:1217-1221. [PMID: 31927989 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b12937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Grafting-from (GF) is an important yet underdeveloped strategy toward protein-polymer conjugates. Here, we report a simple cryopolymerization method that enables highly efficient GF synthesis of cell-penetrating protein-polydisulfide conjugates. Rapid and controlled ring-opening polymerization of 1,2-dithiolanes under cryo-conditions can be initiated by proteins bearing a reactive cysteine, owing to both favored thermodynamics and augmented kinetics arising from frozen-induced high local concentration of substrates. This method is applicable to various wild-type or genetically engineered proteins without the need of chemical installation of an initiation group. The resulting conjugates can be reversibly degrafted under mild conditions to regenerate functional "native" proteins in a traceless fashion. These unique features make such conjugates highly useful in applications such as a dynamic switch of protein functions, cytosolic delivery of protein therapeutics, and protein purification. The method is also potentially useful for the in situ growth of other types of polymers from protein surface.
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- Jianhua Lu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , People's Republic of China
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Su D, Coste M, Diaconu A, Barboiu M, Ulrich S. Cationic dynamic covalent polymers for gene transfection. J Mater Chem B 2020; 8:9385-9403. [DOI: 10.1039/d0tb01836h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Dynamic covalent polymers have revealed strong potential in gene delivery, thanks to their versatile self-assembly, adaptive and responsive behaviors.
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- Dandan Su
- Institut Européen des Membranes
- Adaptive Supramolecular Nanosystems Group
- University of Montpellier
- ENSCM
- CNRS
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM)
- CNRS
- Université of Montpellier
- ENSCM
- Montpellier
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- Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of Romanian Academy
- Iasi
- Romania
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- Institut Européen des Membranes
- Adaptive Supramolecular Nanosystems Group
- University of Montpellier
- ENSCM
- CNRS
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM)
- CNRS
- Université of Montpellier
- ENSCM
- Montpellier
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Zhang R, Qin X, Kong F, Chen P, Pan G. Improving cellular uptake of therapeutic entities through interaction with components of cell membrane. Drug Deliv 2019; 26:328-342. [PMID: 30905189 PMCID: PMC6442206 DOI: 10.1080/10717544.2019.1582730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2019] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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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 prevents direct translocation of chemic entities, and thus obstructs their efficient intracellular delivery. Generally, hydrophilic small molecule drugs are poor permeability that reduce bioavailability and thus limit the clinic application. The cellular uptake of macromolecules and drug carriers is very inefficient without external assistance. Therefore, it is desirable to develop potent delivery systems for achieving effective intracellular delivery of chemic entities. Apart from of the types of delivery strategies, the composition of the cell membrane is critical for delivery efficiency due to the fact that cellular uptake is affected by the interaction between the chemical entity and the plasma membrane. In this review, we aimed to develop a profound understanding of the interactions between delivery systems and components of the plasma membrane. For the purpose, we attempt to present a broad overview of what delivery systems can be used to enhance the intracellular delivery of poorly permeable chemic entities, and how various delivery strategies are applied according to the components of plasma membrane.
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- Renshuai Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics & Institute of Advanced Materials, Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics & Institute of Advanced Materials, Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences, Haikou, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences, Haikou, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Taishan Medical University, Tai’an, P.R. China
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Chinak OA, Shernyukov AV, Ovcherenko SS, Sviridov EA, Golyshev VM, Fomin AS, Pyshnaya IA, Kuligina EV, Richter VA, Bagryanskaya EG. Structural and Aggregation Features of a Human κ-Casein Fragment with Antitumor and Cell-Penetrating Properties. Molecules 2019; 24:E2919. [PMID: 31408975 PMCID: PMC6721048 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24162919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2019] [Revised: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Intrinsically disordered proteins play a central role in dynamic regulatory and assembly processes in the cell. Recently, a human κ-casein proteolytic fragment called lactaptin (8.6 kDa) was found to induce apoptosis of human breast adenocarcinoma MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells with no cytotoxic activity toward normal cells. Earlier, we had designed some recombinant analogs of lactaptin and compared their biological activity. Among these analogs, RL2 has the highest antitumor activity, but the amino acid residues and secondary structures that are responsible for RL2's activity remain unclear. To elucidate the structure-activity relations of RL2, we studied the structural and aggregation features of this fairly large intrinsically disordered fragment of human milk κ-casein by a combination of physicochemical methods: NMR, paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE), Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), circular dichroism, dynamic light scattering, atomic force microscopy, and a cytotoxic activity assay. It was found that in solution, RL2 exists as stand-alone monomeric particles and large aggregates. Whereas the disulfide-bonded homodimer turned out to be more prone to assembly into large aggregates, the monomer predominantly forms single particles. NMR relaxation analysis of spin-labeled RL2 showed that the RL2 N-terminal region, which is essential not only for multimerization of the peptide but also for its proapoptotic action on cancer cells, is more ordered than its C-terminal counterpart and contains a site with a propensity for α-helical secondary structure.
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- Olga A Chinak
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 1 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 1 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 1 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 1 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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Cheng Y, Zong L, López‐Andarias J, Bartolami E, Okamoto Y, Ward TR, Sakai N, Matile S. Cell-Penetrating Dynamic-Covalent Benzopolysulfane Networks. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:9522-9526. [PMID: 31168906 PMCID: PMC6618005 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201905003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Cyclic oligochalcogenides (COCs) are emerging as promising systems to penetrate cells. Clearly better than and different to the reported diselenolanes and epidithiodiketopiperazines, we introduce the benzopolysulfanes (BPS), which show efficient delivery, insensitivity to inhibitors of endocytosis, and compatibility with substrates as large as proteins. This high activity coincides with high reactivity, selectively toward thiols, exceeding exchange rates of disulfides under tension. The result is a dynamic-covalent network of extreme sulfur species, including cyclic oligomers, from dimers to heptamers, with up to nineteen sulfurs in the ring. Selection from this unfolding adaptive network then yields the reactivities and selectivities needed to access new uptake pathways. Contrary to other COCs, BPS show high retention on thiol affinity columns. The identification of new modes of cell penetration is important because they promise new solutions to challenges in delivery and beyond.
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- Yangyang Cheng
- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
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- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
- Current address: School of Pharmaceutical SciencesXiamen UniversityXiamen361102China
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- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
- Current address: SyMMES, UMR 5819CEA38054GrenobleFrance
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of BaselBaselSwitzerland
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- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
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- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
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Cheng Y, Zong L, López‐Andarias J, Bartolami E, Okamoto Y, Ward TR, Sakai N, Matile S. Cell‐Penetrating Dynamic‐Covalent Benzopolysulfane Networks. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201905003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Yangyang Cheng
- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Geneva Geneva Switzerland
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- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Geneva Geneva Switzerland
- Current address: School of Pharmaceutical SciencesXiamen University Xiamen 361102 China
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- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Geneva Geneva Switzerland
- Current address: SyMMES, UMR 5819CEA 38054 Grenoble France
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Basel Basel Switzerland
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- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Geneva Geneva Switzerland
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- Department of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Geneva Geneva Switzerland
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Zhou L, Ma T, Li T, Ma X, Yin J, Jiang X. Dynamic Interpenetrating Polymer Network (IPN) Strategy for Multiresponsive Hierarchical Pattern of Reversible Wrinkle. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:15977-15985. [PMID: 30964635 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b22216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Dynamic micro-/nanowrinkle patterns with response to multienvironmental stimuli can offer a facile method for on-demand regulation of surface properties, thus allowing for generation of a smart surface. Here a practical yet robust strategy is described to fabricate redox, light and thermal responsive wrinkle by building dynamic double interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) as the top layer for a typical bilayer system. IPNs were constructed through the photochemical reaction of a mixture comprised of light-sensitive anthracene-containing polymer (PAN) and redox-sensitive disulfide-containing diacrylate monomer (DSDA). Thanks to the dynamic covalent reversible C-C bond in PAN and S-S bond in DSDA, the morphology of wrinkled surface not only can be reversibly and precisely (micrometer scale) tailored to all kinds of complicated hierarchical pattern permanently, but also can be controlled temporarily by irradiation of near-infrared light (NIR). A sine wave model is proposed to investigate the dynamics of real-time reversible wrinkle evolution. This general approach based on IPN allows independent multistimuli control over wettability and optical properties on the wrinkled surface, thus, presents a considerable alternative to implement a smart surface.
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- Liangwei Zhou
- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, State Key Laboratory for Metal Matrix Composite Materials , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200240 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, State Key Laboratory for Metal Matrix Composite Materials , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200240 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, State Key Laboratory for Metal Matrix Composite Materials , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200240 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, State Key Laboratory for Metal Matrix Composite Materials , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200240 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, State Key Laboratory for Metal Matrix Composite Materials , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200240 , P.R. China
- School of Physical Science and Technology , Shanghai Tech University , Shanghai 201210 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, State Key Laboratory for Metal Matrix Composite Materials , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200240 , P.R. China
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Gallego I, Rioboo A, Reina JJ, Díaz B, Canales Á, Cañada FJ, Guerra‐Varela J, Sánchez L, Montenegro J. Glycosylated Cell‐Penetrating Peptides (GCPPs). Chembiochem 2019; 20:1400-1409. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201800720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Revised: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Iván Gallego
- Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e, Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS)Departamento de Química OrgánicaUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela Campus Vida 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain
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- Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e, Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS)Departamento de Química OrgánicaUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela Campus Vida 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain
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- Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e, Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS)Departamento de Química OrgánicaUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela Campus Vida 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB) del CSIC C/Ramiro de Maetzu 9, CP 28040 Madrid Spain
- Departamento de Biología Estructural y QuímicaFac. Ciencias Químicas Univ. Complutense de Madrid Avd/ Complutense s/n, CP Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Estructural y QuímicaFac. Ciencias Químicas Univ. Complutense de Madrid Avd/ Complutense s/n, CP Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB) del CSIC C/Ramiro de Maetzu 9, CP 28040 Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía FísicaFacultade de Veterinaria Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 27002 Lugo Spain
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- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía FísicaFacultade de Veterinaria Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 27002 Lugo Spain
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- Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e, Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS)Departamento de Química OrgánicaUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela Campus Vida 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain
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Shu Z, Tanaka I, Ota A, Fushihara D, Abe N, Kawaguchi S, Nakamoto K, Tomoike F, Tada S, Ito Y, Kimura Y, Abe H. Disulfide‐Unit Conjugation Enables Ultrafast Cytosolic Internalization of Antisense DNA and siRNA. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:6611-6615. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201900993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Zhaoma Shu
- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Research Center for Materials Science Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Emergent Bioengineering Materials Research Team RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science 2-1, Hirosawa Wako-Shi Saitama 351-0198 Japan
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- Emergent Bioengineering Materials Research Team RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science 2-1, Hirosawa Wako-Shi Saitama 351-0198 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
- Emergent Bioengineering Materials Research Team RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science 2-1, Hirosawa Wako-Shi Saitama 351-0198 Japan
- CREST (Japan) Science and Technology Agency Tokyo 102-0076 Japan
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Shu Z, Tanaka I, Ota A, Fushihara D, Abe N, Kawaguchi S, Nakamoto K, Tomoike F, Tada S, Ito Y, Kimura Y, Abe H. Disulfide‐Unit Conjugation Enables Ultrafast Cytosolic Internalization of Antisense DNA and siRNA. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201900993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Zhaoma Shu
- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Research Center for Materials Science Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Emergent Bioengineering Materials Research Team RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science 2-1, Hirosawa Wako-Shi Saitama 351-0198 Japan
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- Emergent Bioengineering Materials Research Team RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science 2-1, Hirosawa Wako-Shi Saitama 351-0198 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
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- Chemistry Department Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya Aichi 464-8602 Japan
- Emergent Bioengineering Materials Research Team RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science 2-1, Hirosawa Wako-Shi Saitama 351-0198 Japan
- CREST (Japan) Science and Technology Agency Tokyo 102-0076 Japan
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Hildebrandt J, Trautwein R, Kritsch D, Häfner N, Görls H, Dürst M, Runnebaum IB, Weigand W. Synthesis, characterization and biological investigation of platinum(ii) complexes with asparagusic acid derivatives as ligands. Dalton Trans 2019; 48:936-944. [PMID: 30565617 DOI: 10.1039/c8dt02553c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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After more than 50 years of platinum-based anticancer research only three compounds are in clinical use worldwide. The use of the well-known lead compound of this class of anticancer agents, cisplatin, is limited by its side effects and varying resistance mechanisms. Therefore, we report on platinum(ii) compounds with asparagusic acid derivatives as ligands which show interesting anticancer results on cisplatin resistant cell lines.
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- Jana Hildebrandt
- Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Humboldstraße 8, 07743 Jena, Germany.
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Bartolami E, Basagiannis D, Zong L, Martinent R, Okamoto Y, Laurent Q, Ward TR, Gonzalez‐Gaitan M, Sakai N, Matile S. Diselenolane‐Mediated Cellular Uptake: Efficient Cytosolic Delivery of Probes, Peptides, Proteins, Artificial Metalloenzymes and Protein‐Coated Quantum Dots. Chemistry 2019; 25:4047-4051. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Revised: 12/29/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Eline Bartolami
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Geneva CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering CH-4002 Basel Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Geneva CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Geneva CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
- Current Address: School of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringSoutheast University Nanjing 210096 China
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Geneva CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Basel Basel Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering CH-4002 Basel Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Geneva CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering CH-4002 Basel Switzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Basel Basel Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering CH-4002 Basel Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Geneva CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Geneva CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering CH-4002 Basel Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Geneva CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering CH-4002 Basel Switzerland
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Tirla A, Rivera-Fuentes P. Peptide Targeting of an Intracellular Receptor of the Secretory Pathway. Biochemistry 2019; 58:1184-1187. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Alina Tirla
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Delivery remains a major obstacle restricting the potential action of small molecular drugs as well as novel biologics which cannot readily enter cells without the help of a vector. A successful active delivery process involves three steps: (a) tagging the drug with a vector, (b) effective trafficking of this [drug-vector] conjugate through biological barriers, and finally (c) controlled drug release. While covalent bond formation and/or supramolecular association is involved in the making of the [drug-vector] conjugate, the final step requires precisely a controlled dissociation in order to trigger drug release. Therefore, in pursuit of smart, effective, and nontoxic delivery systems, it has become widely recognized that control over dynamic self-assembly could unleash the efficacy of artificial vectors. In this Account, I discuss our endeavors, and those of colleagues, in the recent implementation of Dynamic Covalent Chemistry (DCvC) in delivery applications. DCvC exploits reversible covalent reactions to generate covalent systems that can self-fabricate, adapt, respond, and fall apart in a controlled fashion. A privileged set of reversible covalent reactions has emerged in the community working on delivery applications and is based on condensation reactions (imine, acylhydrazone, oxime), and disulfide and boronate ester formations. The latest developments making this chemistry particularly attractive for such a DCvC approach are discussed. The rational justifying the potential of DCvC in delivery is based on the principle that using such reversible covalent reactions afford transient [drug-vector] conjugates which form spontaneously and chemoselectively, then adapt and self-correct their structure during self-assembly and trafficking thanks to the dynamic nature of the reversible covalent bonds, and finally respond to physicochemical stimuli such as pH and redox changes, thereby enabling controlled dissociation and concomitant drug release. For these reasons, DCvC has recently emerged as a leverage tool with growing prospects for advancing toward smarter delivery systems. The implementation of DCvC can follow three approaches that are discussed herein: (1) dynamic covalent bioconjugates, involving the transient covalent conjugation with a vector, (2) dynamic covalent vectors, involving the controlled dynamic and adaptive assembly and disassembly of vectors that complex drugs through supramolecular association, and (3) dynamic covalent targeting, involving the transient chemoselective formation of covalent bonds with the constituents of cell membranes. While DCvC has already attracted interest in material sciences, the recent results described in this Account showcase the vast potential of DCvC in biological sciences, and in particular in delivery applications where self-fabricated, adaptive, and responsive devices are of utmost importance.
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- Sébastien Ulrich
- IBMM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, Montpellier, France
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Donnelly DP, Agar J, Lopez SA. Nucleophilic substitution reactions of cyclic thiosulfinates are accelerated by hyperconjugative interactions. Chem Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9sc01098j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Cyclic thiosulfinates are a class of biocompatible molecules, currently expanding our in vivo toolkit.
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- Daniel P. Donnelly
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Northeastern University
- Boston
- USA
- Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Northeastern University
- Boston
- USA
- Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Northeastern University
- Boston
- USA
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Meng X, Li T, Zhao Y, Wu C. CXC-Mediated Cellular Uptake of Miniproteins: Forsaking "Arginine Magic". ACS Chem Biol 2018; 13:3078-3086. [PMID: 30272440 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Miniproteins have a size between that of larger biologics and small molecules and presumably possess the advantages of both; they represent an expanding class of promising scaffolds for the design of affinity reagents, enzymes, and therapeutics. Conventional strategies to promote cellular uptake of miniproteins rely on extensive grafting or embedding of arginine residues. However, the requirement of using cationic arginines would cause problems to the modified miniproteins, for example, low solubility in solutions (proneness of aggregation) and potential toxicity, which are open secrets in the peptide and protein communities. In this work, we report that the cell-permeability of cationic miniproteins can be further markedly increased through appending a magic CXC (cysteine- any-cysteine) motif, which takes advantage of thiol-disulfide exchanges on the cell surface. More importantly, we discovered that the high cell permeability of the CXC-appended miniproteins can still be preserved when the embedded arginines are all substituted with lysine residues, indicating that the "arginine magic" essential to almost all cell-permeable peptides and (mini)proteins is not required for the CXC-mediated cellular uptake. This finding provides a new avenue for designing highly cell-permeable miniproteins without compromise of potential toxicity and stability arising from arginine embedding or grafting.
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- Xiaoting Meng
- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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Du S, Liew SS, Li L, Yao SQ. Bypassing Endocytosis: Direct Cytosolic Delivery of Proteins. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:15986-15996. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b06584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Shubo Du
- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore
- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117456, Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211800, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore
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Mosquera J, García I, Liz-Marzán LM. Cellular Uptake of Nanoparticles versus Small Molecules: A Matter of Size. Acc Chem Res 2018; 51:2305-2313. [PMID: 30156826 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 232] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The primary function of the cell membrane is to protect cells from their surroundings. This entails a strict regulation on controlling the exchange of matter between the cell and its environment. A key factor when considering potential biological applications of a particular chemical structure has to do with its ability to internalize into cells. Molecules that can readily cross cell membranes are frequently needed in biological research and medicine, since most therapeutic entities are designed to modulate intracellular components. However, the design of molecules that do not penetrate cells is also relevant toward, for example, extracellular contrast agents, which are most widely used in clinical diagnosis. Small molecules have occupied the forefront of biomedical research until recently, but the past few decades have seen an increasing use of larger chemical structures, such as proteins or nanoparticles, leading to unprecedented and often unexpectedly novel research. Great achievements have been made toward understanding the rules that govern cellular uptake, which show that cell internalization of molecules is largely affected by their size. For example, macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids are usually unable to internalize cells. Intriguingly, in the case of nanoparticles, larger sizes seem to facilitate internalization via endocytic pathways, through which the particles remain trapped in lysosomes and endosomes. In this Account, we aimed at presenting our personal view of how different chemical structures behave in terms of cell internalization due to their size, ranging from small drugs to large nanoparticles. We first introduce the properties of cell membranes and the main mechanisms involved in cellular uptake. We then discuss the cellular internalization of molecules, distinguishing between those with molecular weights below 1 kDa and biological macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. In the last section, we review the biological behavior of nanoparticles, with a special emphasis on plasmonic nanoparticles, which feature a high potential in the biomedical field. For each group of chemical structures, we discuss the parameters affecting their cellular internalization but also strategies that can be applied to achieve the desired intracellular delivery. Particular attention is paid to approaches that allow conditional regulation of the cell internalization process using external triggers, such as activable cell penetrating peptides, due to the impact that these systems may have in drug delivery and sensing applications. The Account ends with a "Conclusions and Outlook" section, where general lessons and future directions toward further advancements are briefly presented.
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- Jesús Mosquera
- CIC biomaGUNE and CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- CIC biomaGUNE and CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- CIC biomaGUNE and CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
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Priegue JM, Lostalé-Seijo I, Crisan D, Granja JR, Fernández-Trillo F, Montenegro J. Different-Length Hydrazone Activated Polymers for Plasmid DNA Condensation and Cellular Transfection. Biomacromolecules 2018; 19:2638-2649. [PMID: 29653048 PMCID: PMC6041776 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Revised: 04/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The recent advances in genetic engineering demand the development of conceptually new methods to prepare and identify efficient vectors for the intracellular delivery of different nucleotide payloads ranging from short single-stranded oligonucleotides to larger plasmid double-stranded circular DNAs. Although many challenges still have to be overcome, polymers hold great potential for intracellular nucleotide delivery and gene therapy. We here develop and apply the postpolymerization modification of polyhydrazide scaffolds, with different degree of polymerization, for the preparation of amphiphilic polymeric vehicles for the intracellular delivery of a circular plasmid DNA. The hydrazone formation reactions with a mixture of cationic and hydrophobic aldehydes proceed in physiologically compatible aqueous conditions, and the resulting amphiphilic polyhydrazones are directly combined with the biological cargo without any purification step. This methodology allowed the preparation of stable polyplexes with a suitable size and zeta potential to achieve an efficient encapsulation and intracellular delivery of the DNA cargo. Simple formulations that performed with efficiencies and cell viabilities comparable to the current gold standard were identified. Furthermore, the internalization mechanism was studied via internalization experiments in the presence of endocytic inhibitors and fluorescence microscopy. The results reported here confirmed that the polyhydrazone functionalization is a suitable strategy for the screening and identification of customized polymeric vehicles for the delivery of different nucleotide cargos.
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- Juan M. Priegue
- Centro
Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica
e Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS), Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago
de Compostela, Spain
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- Centro
Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica
e Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS), Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago
de Compostela, Spain
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K.
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- Centro
Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica
e Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS), Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago
de Compostela, Spain
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- Centro
Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica
e Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS), Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago
de Compostela, Spain
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Pei Y, Li M, Hou Y, Hu Y, Chu G, Dai L, Li K, Xing Y, Tao B, Yu Y, Xue C, He Y, Luo Z, Cai K. An autonomous tumor-targeted nanoprodrug for reactive oxygen species-activatable dual-cytochrome c/doxorubicin antitumor therapy. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:11418-11429. [PMID: 29881865 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr02358a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The precise tumor cell-specific delivery of therapeutic proteins and the elimination of side effects associated with routine chemotherapeutic agents are two current critical considerations for tumor therapy. In this study, we report a reactive oxygen species (ROS)-activated yolk-shell nanoplatform for the tumor-specific co-delivery of cytochrome c (Cyt c) prodrug and doxorubicin, in which the bioactivity of Cyt c could be restored by the intracellular ROS-trigger and readily initiate the sequential doxorubicin release. The DOX-loaded lactobionic acid-modified yolk-shell mesoporous silica nanoparticles were first encapsulated with 4-nitrophenyl 4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)benzyl carbonate (NBC)-modified Cyt c via boronic ester linkages, and functionalized again with lactobionic acid to further shield Cyt c and confer the selective tumor targeting against liver cancer cells. The key feature in this design is that by taking advantage of the boronic ester linkage, the cytotoxicity of Cyt c capped on the nanoparticle could be temporarily deactivated during blood transportation and rapidly restored upon exposure to the ROS-rich microenvironment within liver cancer cells, thereby simultaneously achieving the protein therapy and stimuli-responsive doxorubicin release. This study presents a novel strategy for the development of tumor-sensitive co-delivery nanoplatforms.
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- Yuxia Pei
- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, P. R. China.
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Donnelly DP, Dowgiallo MG, Salisbury JP, Aluri KC, Iyengar S, Chaudhari M, Mathew M, Miele I, Auclair JR, Lopez SA, Manetsch R, Agar JN. Cyclic Thiosulfinates and Cyclic Disulfides Selectively Cross-Link Thiols While Avoiding Modification of Lone Thiols. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:7377-7380. [PMID: 29851341 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b01136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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This work addresses the need for chemical tools that can selectively form cross-links. Contemporary thiol-selective cross-linkers, for example, modify all accessible thiols, but only form cross-links between a subset. The resulting terminal "dead-end" modifications of lone thiols are toxic, confound cross-linking-based studies of macromolecular structure, and are an undesired, and currently unavoidable, byproduct in polymer synthesis. Using the thiol pair of Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1), we demonstrated that cyclic disulfides, including the drug/nutritional supplement lipoic acid, efficiently cross-linked thiol pairs but avoided dead-end modifications. Thiolate-directed nucleophilic attack upon the cyclic disulfide resulted in thiol-disulfide exchange and ring cleavage. The resulting disulfide-tethered terminal thiolate moiety either directed the reverse reaction, releasing the cyclic disulfide, or participated in oxidative disulfide (cross-link) formation. We hypothesized, and confirmed with density functional theory (DFT) calculations, that mono- S-oxo derivatives of cyclic disulfides formed a terminal sulfenic acid upon ring cleavage that obviated the previously rate-limiting step, thiol oxidation, and accelerated the new rate-determining step, ring cleavage. Our calculations suggest that the origin of accelerated ring cleavage is improved frontier molecular orbital overlap in the thiolate-disulfide interchange transition. Five- to seven-membered cyclic thiosulfinates were synthesized and efficiently cross-linked up to 104-fold faster than their cyclic disulfide precursors; functioned in the presence of biological concentrations of glutathione; and acted as cell-permeable, potent, tolerable, intracellular cross-linkers. This new class of thiol cross-linkers exhibited click-like attributes including, high yields driven by the enthalpies of disulfide and water formation, orthogonality with common functional groups, water-compatibility, and ring strain-dependence.
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- Daniel P Donnelly
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.,Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.,Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.,Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.,Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.,Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.,Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.,Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.,Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Northeastern University , 360 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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Hoch DG, Abegg D, Adibekian A. Cysteine-reactive probes and their use in chemical proteomics. Chem Commun (Camb) 2018; 54:4501-4512. [PMID: 29645055 DOI: 10.1039/c8cc01485j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Proteomic profiling using bioorthogonal chemical probes that selectively react with certain amino acids is now a widely used method in life sciences to investigate enzymatic activities, study posttranslational modifications and discover novel covalent inhibitors. Over the past two decades, researchers have developed selective probes for several different amino acids, including lysine, serine, cysteine, threonine, tyrosine, aspartate and glutamate. Among these amino acids, cysteines are particularly interesting due to their highly diverse and complex biochemical role in our cells. In this feature article, we focus on the chemical probes and methods used to study cysteines in complex proteomes.
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- Dominic G Hoch
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA.
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Yang R, Liu S, Wu Z, Tan Y, Sun S. Core-shell assay based aptasensor for sensitive and selective thrombin detection using dark-field microscopy. Talanta 2018; 182:348-353. [PMID: 29501163 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2018.01.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Revised: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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In this work, we developed a robust and ultrasensitive bio-sensor based on the target-aptamer recognition strategy and microscopic enumeration of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) using dark field microscopy (DFM). The aptasensor with a core-shell structure consisting of a magnetic bead (MB), aptamer and AuNPs was fabricated by complementary hybridization of the DNA probe on the AuNPs surface to the aptamer coupled to the MB. Upon addition of the target molecule, the strong interaction between the aptamer and the target molecule, thrombin, results in the release of the AuNPs from the MB. The quantities of thrombin is therefore linearly correlated to the number of the released AuNPs, which can be digitally counted using DFM. To demonstrate the feasible use of the aptasensor for target detection, thrombin was evaluated as the model target. The limit of detection was determined to be 2.54 fM with dynamic range of 6 fM-100 fM. When the concentration of thrombin exceeded 100 fM, the counted number of AuNPs didn't correlate linearly to molecules of thrombin anymore, as the nanoparticles aggregated partly due to high concentration. However, the color of the solution changes to purple and the concentration of free AuNPs can be conveniently quantified by UV-Vis spectroscopy for up to 100 nM. It is noteworthy that our aptasensor is very easy to operate and requires neither complex isolation and amplification processes nor expensive instruments and consumables. Furthermore, this strategy can be easily generalized to other targets by replacing the corresponding aptamers and show great potential for the detection of biomarkers in clinical samples.
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- Rui Yang
- Institute of Optical Imaging and Sensing, Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, The Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Optical Imaging and Sensing, Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, People's Republic of China; Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, The Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, People's Republic of China.
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- Institute of Optical Imaging and Sensing, Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, People's Republic of China; Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China.
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Morelli P, Bartolami E, Sakai N, Matile S. Glycosylated Cell‐Penetrating Poly(disulfide)s: Multifunctional Cellular Uptake at High Solubility. Helv Chim Acta 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/hlca.201700266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Paola Morelli
- Department of Organic Chemistry University of Geneva Quai Ernest Ansermet 30 CH‐1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry University of Geneva Quai Ernest Ansermet 30 CH‐1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry University of Geneva Quai Ernest Ansermet 30 CH‐1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry University of Geneva Quai Ernest Ansermet 30 CH‐1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
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Chuard N, Poblador-Bahamonde AI, Zong L, Bartolami E, Hildebrandt J, Weigand W, Sakai N, Matile S. Diselenolane-mediated cellular uptake. Chem Sci 2018; 9:1860-1866. [PMID: 29675232 PMCID: PMC5892345 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc05151d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Selenophilicity, minimized dihedral angles, acidic selenols, multitarget hopping: cytosolic delivery with 1,2-diselenolanes outperforms 1,2-dithiolanes, by far.
The emerging power of thiol-mediated uptake with strained disulfides called for a move from sulfur to selenium. We report that according to results with fluorescent model substrates, cellular uptake with 1,2-diselenolanes exceeds uptake with 1,2-dithiolanes and epidithiodiketopiperazines with regard to efficiency as well as intracellular localization. The diselenide analog of lipoic acid performs best. This 1,2-diselenolane delivers fluorophores efficiently to the cytosol of HeLa Kyoto cells, without detectable endosomal capture as with 1,2-dithiolanes or dominant escape into the nucleus as with epidithiodiketopiperazines. Diselenolane-mediated cytosolic delivery is non-toxic (MTT assay), sensitive to temperature but insensitive to inhibitors of endocytosis (chlorpromazine, methyl-β-cyclodextrin, wortmannin, cytochalasin B) and conventional thiol-mediated uptake (Ellman's reagent), and to serum. Selenophilicity, the extreme CSeSeC dihedral angle of 0° and the high but different acidity of primary and secondary selenols might all contribute to uptake. Thiol-exchange affinity chromatography is introduced as operational mimic of thiol-mediated uptake that provides, in combination with rate enhancement of DTT oxidation, direct experimental evidence for existence and nature of the involved selenosulfides.
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- Nicolas Chuard
- Department of Organic Chemistry , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland . ; http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chiorg/matile/ ; Tel: +41 22 379 6523
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- Department of Organic Chemistry , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland . ; http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chiorg/matile/ ; Tel: +41 22 379 6523
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- Department of Organic Chemistry , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland . ; http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chiorg/matile/ ; Tel: +41 22 379 6523
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- Department of Organic Chemistry , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland . ; http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chiorg/matile/ ; Tel: +41 22 379 6523
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- Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry , Friedrich-Schiller University Jena , Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry , Friedrich-Schiller University Jena , Germany
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- Department of Organic Chemistry , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland . ; http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chiorg/matile/ ; Tel: +41 22 379 6523
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- Department of Organic Chemistry , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland . ; http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chiorg/matile/ ; Tel: +41 22 379 6523
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Bouillon C, Bessin Y, Poncet F, Gary-Bobo M, Dumy P, Barboiu M, Bettache N, Ulrich S. Biomolecular dynamic covalent polymers for DNA complexation and siRNA delivery. J Mater Chem B 2018; 6:7239-7246. [DOI: 10.1039/c8tb01278d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Dynamic covalent polymers made from modified amino acids complex nucleic acids and deliver siRNA in living cells.
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- IEM
- Adaptive Supramolecular Nanosystems Group
- Université de Montpellier
- CNRS
- ENSCM
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Cysteine thiols are involved in a diverse set of biological transformations, including nucleophilic and redox catalysis, metal coordination and formation of both dynamic and structural disulfides. Often posttranslationally modified, cysteines are also frequently alkylated by electrophilic compounds, including electrophilic metabolites, drugs, and natural products, and are attractive sites for covalent probe and drug development. Quantitative proteomics combined with activity-based protein profiling has been applied to annotate cysteine reactivity, susceptibility to posttranslational modifications, and accessibility to chemical probes, uncovering thousands of functional and small-molecule targetable cysteines across a diverse set of proteins, proteome-wide in an unbiased manner. Reactive cysteines have been targeted by high-throughput screening and fragment-based ligand discovery efforts. New cysteine-reactive electrophiles and compound libraries have been synthesized to enable inhibitor discovery broadly and to minimize nonspecific toxicity and off-target activity of compounds. With the recent blockbuster success of several covalent inhibitors, and the development of new chemical proteomic strategies to broadly identify reactive, ligandable and posttranslationally modified cysteines, cysteine profiling is poised to enable the development of new potent and selective chemical probes and even, in some cases, new drugs.
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Tjin C, Otley KD, Baguley TD, Kurup P, Xu J, Nairn AC, Lombroso PJ, Ellman JA. Glutathione-Responsive Selenosulfide Prodrugs as a Platform Strategy for Potent and Selective Mechanism-Based Inhibition of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2017; 3:1322-1328. [PMID: 29296673 PMCID: PMC5746864 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Dysregulation of protein tyrosine phosphorylation has been implicated in a number of human diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases. As a result of their essential role in regulating protein tyrosine phosphorylation levels, protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) have emerged as important yet challenging therapeutic targets. Here we report on the development and application of a glutathione-responsive motif to facilitate the efficient intracellular delivery of a novel class of selenosulfide phosphatase inhibitors for the selective active site directed inhibition of the targeted PTP by selenosulfide exchange with the active site cysteine. The strategy leverages the large difference in extracellular and intracellular glutathione levels to deliver selenosulfide phosphatase inhibitors to cells. As an initial exploration of the prodrug platform and the corresponding selenosulfide covalent inhibitor class, potent and selective inhibitors were developed for two therapeutically relevant PTP targets: the Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence factor mPTPA and the CNS-specific tyrosine phosphatase, striatal-enriched protein tyrosine phosphatase (STEP). The lead selenosulfide inhibitors enable potent and selective inhibition of their respective targets over a panel of human PTPs and a representative cysteine protease. Kinetic parameters of the inhibitors were characterized, including reversibility of inhibition and rapid rate of GSH exchange at intracellular GSH concentrations. Additionally, active site covalent inhibitor-labeling with an mPTPA inhibitor was rigorously confirmed by mass spectrometry, and cellular activity was demonstrated with a STEP prodrug inhibitor in cortical neurons.
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- Caroline
Chandra Tjin
- Department
of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- The
Child Study Center, Yale University School
of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- The
Child Study Center, Yale University School
of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department
of Psychiatry, Yale University School of
Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06508, United States
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- The
Child Study Center, Yale University School
of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
- E-mail:
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Strategies for transitioning macrocyclic peptides to cell-permeable drug leads. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2017; 48:242-250. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2017] [Revised: 07/17/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Over the past two decades, hundreds of new somatic mutations have been identified in tumours, and a few dozen novel cancer therapeutics that selectively target these mutated oncoproteins have entered clinical practice. This development has resulted in clinical breakthroughs for a few tumour types, but more commonly patients' overall survival has not improved because of the development of drug resistance. Furthermore, only a very limited number of oncoproteins, largely protein kinases, are successfully targeted, whereas most non-kinase oncoproteins inside cancer cells remain untargeted. Engineered small protein inhibitors offer great promise in targeting a larger variety of oncoproteins with better efficacy and higher selectivity. In this article, I focus on a promising class of synthetic binding proteins, termed monobodies, that we have shown to inhibit previously untargetable protein-protein interactions in different oncoproteins. I will discuss the great promise alongside the technical challenges inherent in converting monobodies from potent pre-clinical target validation tools to next-generation protein-based therapeutics.
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- Oliver Hantschel
- Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), School of Life Sciences, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Li T, Gao W, Liang J, Zha M, Chen Y, Zhao Y, Wu C. Biscysteine-Bearing Peptide Probes To Reveal Extracellular Thiol–Disulfide Exchange Reactions Promoting Cellular Uptake. Anal Chem 2017; 89:8501-8508. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Tao Li
- The MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, P.R. China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, State Key Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, P.R. China
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Brea RJ, Devaraj NK. Tension Promoted Sulfur Exchange for Cellular Delivery. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2017; 3:524-525. [PMID: 28691060 PMCID: PMC5492249 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Zong L, Bartolami E, Abegg D, Adibekian A, Sakai N, Matile S. Epidithiodiketopiperazines: Strain-Promoted Thiol-Mediated Cellular Uptake at the Highest Tension. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2017; 3:449-453. [PMID: 28573207 PMCID: PMC5445525 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The disulfide dihedral angle in epidithiodiketopiperazines (ETPs) is near 0°. Application of this highest possible ring tension to strain-promoted thiol-mediated uptake results in efficient delivery to the cytosol and nucleus. Compared to the previous best asparagusic acid (AspA), ring-opening disulfide exchange with ETPs occurs more efficiently even with nonactivated thiols, and the resulting thiols exchange rapidly with nonactivated disulfides. ETP-mediated cellular uptake is more than 20 times more efficient compared to AspA, occurs without endosomal capture, depends on temperature, and is "unstoppable" by inhibitors of endocytosis and conventional thiol-mediated uptake, including siRNA against the transferrin receptor. These results suggest that ETP-mediated uptake not only maximizes delivery to the cytosol and nucleus but also opens the door to a new multitarget hopping mode of action.
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- Paola Morelli
- Department of Organic Chemistry; University of Geneva; Quai Ernest Ansermet 30 CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry; University of Geneva; Quai Ernest Ansermet 30 CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
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Adachi Y, Sakamoto K, Umemoto T, Fukuda Y, Tani A, Asami T. Investigation on cellular uptake and pharmacodynamics of DOCK2-inhibitory peptides conjugated with cell-penetrating peptides. Bioorg Med Chem 2017; 25:2148-2155. [PMID: 28284862 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2017.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2017] [Revised: 02/09/2017] [Accepted: 02/10/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Protein-protein interaction between dedicator of cytokinesis 2 (DOCK2) and Ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1 (Rac1) is an attractive intracellular target for transplant rejection and inflammatory diseases. Recently, DOCK2-selective inhibitory peptides have been discovered, and conjugation with oligoarginine cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) improved inhibitory activity in a cell migration assay. Although a number of CPPs have been reported, oligoarginine was only one example introduced to the inhibitory peptides. In this study, we aimed to confirm the feasibility of CPP-conjugation approach for DOCK2-inhibitory peptides, and select preferable sequences as CPP moiety. First, we evaluated cell permeability of thirteen known CPPs and partial sequences of influenza A viral protein PB1-F2 using an internalization assay system based on luciferin-luciferase reaction, and then selected four CPPs with efficient cellular uptake. Among four conjugates of these CPPs and a DOCK2-inhibitory peptide, the inhibitory activity of a novel CPP, PB1-F2 fragment 5 (PF5), conjugate was comparable to oligoarginine conjugate and higher than that of the non-conjugated peptide. Finally, internalization assay revealed that oligoarginine and PF5 increased the cellular uptake of inhibitory peptides to the same extent. Hence, we demonstrated that CPP-conjugation approach is applicable to the development of novel anti-inflammatory drugs based on DOCK2 inhibition by investigating both cellular uptake and bioactivity.
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- Yusuke Adachi
- Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa 251-8555, Japan
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- Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa 251-8555, Japan
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- Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa 251-8555, Japan
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- Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa 251-8555, Japan
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- Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa 251-8555, Japan
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- Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa 251-8555, Japan.
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Chuard N, Gasparini G, Moreau D, Lörcher S, Palivan C, Meier W, Sakai N, Matile S. Strain-Promoted Thiol-Mediated Cellular Uptake of Giant Substrates: Liposomes and Polymersomes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:2947-2950. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Nicolas Chuard
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
- Current address: Firmenich SA, Division of Research and Development; Geneva Switzerland
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry; University of Basel; Basel Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry; University of Basel; Basel Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry; University of Basel; Basel Switzerland
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
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Chuard N, Gasparini G, Moreau D, Lörcher S, Palivan C, Meier W, Sakai N, Matile S. Strain-Promoted Thiol-Mediated Cellular Uptake of Giant Substrates: Liposomes and Polymersomes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201611772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Nicolas Chuard
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
- Current address: Firmenich SA, Division of Research and Development; Geneva Switzerland
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry; University of Basel; Basel Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry; University of Basel; Basel Switzerland
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- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry; University of Basel; Basel Switzerland
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; University of Geneva; Geneva Switzerland
- National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering; Switzerland
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Louzao I, García-Fandiño R, Montenegro J. Hydrazone-modulated peptides for efficient gene transfection. J Mater Chem B 2017; 5:4426-4434. [DOI: 10.1039/c7tb00179g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The synthetic potential of dynamic bond formation is introduced for the delivery of plasmid DNA by modulated amphiphilic peptides. The synthetic advantage of these dynamic bonds allowed the identification of improved reagents (better efficiency and lower toxicity) for plasmid transfection assays in human HeLa cells.
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- Iria Louzao
- Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS)
- Departamento de Química Orgánica
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
- 15782 Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS)
- Departamento de Química Orgánica
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
- 15782 Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS)
- Departamento de Química Orgánica
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
- 15782 Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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Yang W, Yu C, Wu C, Yao SQ, Wu S. Cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)-based star polymers for simultaneous intracellular delivery of miRNAs and small molecule drugs. Polym Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7py00666g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)-based star-like system with high transfection efficacy for synergistic delivery of miRNAs and chemotherapeutic drugs has been reported.
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- Wenhua Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices
- College of Materials Science & Engineering
- South China University of Technology
- Guangzhou 510640
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices
- College of Materials Science & Engineering
- South China University of Technology
- Guangzhou 510640
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices
- College of Materials Science & Engineering
- South China University of Technology
- Guangzhou 510640
- China
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- Department of Chemistry
- National University of Singapore
- Singapore 117543
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices
- College of Materials Science & Engineering
- South China University of Technology
- Guangzhou 510640
- China
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