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Yang B, Gao J, Pei Q, Xu H, Yu H. Engineering Prodrug Nanomedicine for Cancer Immunotherapy. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2020; 7:2002365. [PMID: 33304763 PMCID: PMC7709995 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202002365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Revised: 08/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Immunotherapy has shifted the clinical paradigm of cancer management. However, despite promising initial progress, immunotherapeutic approaches to cancer still suffer from relatively low response rates and the possibility of severe side effects, likely due to the low inherent immunogenicity of tumor cells, the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, and significant inter- and intratumoral heterogeneity. Recently, nanoformulations of prodrugs have been explored as a means to enhance cancer immunotherapy by simultaneously eliciting antitumor immune responses and reversing local immunosuppression. Prodrug nanomedicines, which integrate engineering advances in chemistry, oncoimmunology, and material science, are rationally designed through chemically modifying small molecule drugs, peptides, or antibodies to yield increased bioavailability and spatiotemporal control of drug release and activation at the target sites. Such strategies can help reduce adverse effects and enable codelivery of multiple immune modulators to yield synergistic cancer immunotherapy. In this review article, recent advances and translational challenges facing prodrug nanomedicines for cancer immunotherapy are overviewed. Last, key considerations are outlined for future efforts to advance prodrug nanomedicines aimed to improve antitumor immune responses and combat immune tolerogenic microenvironments.
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- Bin Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Drug Research & Center of PharmaceuticsShanghai Institute of Materia MedicaChinese Academy of SciencesShanghai201203China
- Department of Medical UltrasoundShanghai Tenth People's HospitalUltrasound Research and Education InstituteTongji University School of MedicineTongji University Cancer CenterShanghai200072China
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- State Key Laboratory of Drug Research & Center of PharmaceuticsShanghai Institute of Materia MedicaChinese Academy of SciencesShanghai201203China
- Department of Medical UltrasoundShanghai Tenth People's HospitalUltrasound Research and Education InstituteTongji University School of MedicineTongji University Cancer CenterShanghai200072China
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- State Key Laboratory of Drug Research & Center of PharmaceuticsShanghai Institute of Materia MedicaChinese Academy of SciencesShanghai201203China
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- Department of Medical UltrasoundShanghai Tenth People's HospitalUltrasound Research and Education InstituteTongji University School of MedicineTongji University Cancer CenterShanghai200072China
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- State Key Laboratory of Drug Research & Center of PharmaceuticsShanghai Institute of Materia MedicaChinese Academy of SciencesShanghai201203China
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Xiong H, Li X, Kang P, Perish J, Neuhaus F, Ploski JE, Kroener S, Ogunyankin MO, Shin JE, Zasadzinski JA, Wang H, Slesinger PA, Zumbuehl A, Qin Z. Near‐Infrared Light Triggered‐Release in Deep Brain Regions Using Ultra‐photosensitive Nanovesicles. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201915296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hejian Xiong
- Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- National Centre of Competence in Research in Chemical Biology 30 quai Ernest Ansermet 1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455 USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455 USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455 USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Charlestown MA 02129 USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York NY 10029-5674 USA
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- Acthera Therapeutics Ltd. Peter Merian-Str. 45 4052 Basel Switzerland
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
- Department of Bioengineering The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
- Center for Advanced Pain Studies The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75080 USA
- Department of Surgery The University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX 75390 USA
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Xiong H, Li X, Kang P, Perish J, Neuhaus F, Ploski JE, Kroener S, Ogunyankin MO, Shin JE, Zasadzinski JA, Wang H, Slesinger PA, Zumbuehl A, Qin Z. Near-Infrared Light Triggered-Release in Deep Brain Regions Using Ultra-photosensitive Nanovesicles. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:8608-8615. [PMID: 32124529 PMCID: PMC7362956 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201915296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2019] [Revised: 01/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Remote and minimally-invasive modulation of biological systems with light has transformed modern biology and neuroscience. However, light absorption and scattering significantly prevents penetration to deep brain regions. Herein, we describe the use of gold-coated mechanoresponsive nanovesicles, which consist of liposomes made from the artificial phospholipid Rad-PC-Rad as a tool for the delivery of bioactive molecules into brain tissue. Near-infrared picosecond laser pulses activated the gold-coating on the surface of nanovesicles, creating nanomechanical stress and leading to near-complete vesicle cargo release in sub-seconds. Compared to natural phospholipid liposomes, the photo-release was possible at 40 times lower laser energy. This high photosensitivity enables photorelease of molecules down to a depth of 4 mm in mouse brain. This promising tool provides a versatile platform to optically release functional molecules to modulate brain circuits.
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- Hejian Xiong
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080 (United States)
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080 (United States)
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080 (United States)
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080 (United States)
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- National Centre of Competence in Research in Chemical Biology, 30
quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080 (United States)
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080 (United States)
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of
Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School,
Charlestown, MA 02129 (United States)
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029-5674 (United States)
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- Acthera Therapeutics Ltd., Peter Merian-Str. 45, 4052 Basel
(Switzerland)
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080 (United States)
- Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, Texas 75080 (United States)
- Center for Advanced Pain Studies, The University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080 (United States)
- Department of Surgery, The University of Texas at Southwestern
Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390 (United States)
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Gai P, Yu W, Zhao H, Qi R, Li F, Liu L, Lv F, Wang S. Solar‐Powered Organic Semiconductor–Bacteria Biohybrids for CO
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Reduction into Acetic Acid. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202001047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Panpan Gai
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesKey Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical SciencesQingdao Agricultural University Qingdao 266109 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesKey Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical SciencesQingdao Agricultural University Qingdao 266109 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesKey Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- College of ChemistryUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesKey Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical SciencesQingdao Agricultural University Qingdao 266109 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesKey Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesKey Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesKey Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- College of ChemistryUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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Gai P, Yu W, Zhao H, Qi R, Li F, Liu L, Lv F, Wang S. Solar-Powered Organic Semiconductor-Bacteria Biohybrids for CO 2 Reduction into Acetic Acid. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:7224-7229. [PMID: 32065712 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202001047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
Abstract
An organic semiconductor-bacteria biohybrid photosynthetic system is used to efficiently realize CO2 reduction to produce acetic acid with the non-photosynthetic bacteria Moorella thermoacetica. Perylene diimide derivative (PDI) and poly(fluorene-co-phenylene) (PFP) were coated on the bacteria surface as photosensitizers to form a p-n heterojunction (PFP/PDI) layer, affording higher hole/electron separation efficiency. The π-conjugated semiconductors possess excellent light-harvesting ability and biocompatibility, and the cationic side chains of organic semiconductors could intercalate into cell membranes, ensuring efficient electron transfer to bacteria. Moorella thermoacetica can thus harvest photoexcited electrons from the PFP/PDI heterojunction, driving the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway to synthesize acetic acid from CO2 under illumination. The efficiency of this organic biohybrid is about 1.6 %, which is comparable to those of reported inorganic biohybrid systems.
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- Panpan Gai
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.,College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.,College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.,College of Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.,College of Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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Lyu Y, He S, Li J, Jiang Y, Sun H, Miao Y, Pu K. A Photolabile Semiconducting Polymer Nanotransducer for Near‐Infrared Regulation of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201909264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Yan Lyu
- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University 70 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637457 Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University 70 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637457 Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University 70 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637457 Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University 70 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637457 Singapore
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- School of Biological ScienceNanyang Technological University 60 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637551 Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University 70 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637457 Singapore
- School of Biological ScienceNanyang Technological University 60 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637551 Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University 70 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637457 Singapore
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Lyu Y, He S, Li J, Jiang Y, Sun H, Miao Y, Pu K. A Photolabile Semiconducting Polymer Nanotransducer for Near-Infrared Regulation of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:18197-18201. [PMID: 31566854 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201909264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Revised: 09/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Noninvasive regulation of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is conducive to understanding of gene function and development of gene therapy; however, it remains challenging. Herein, a photolabile semiconducting polymer nanotransducer (pSPN) is synthesized to act as the gene vector to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 plasmids into cells and also as the photoregulator to remotely activate gene editing. pSPN comprises a 1 O2 -generating backbone grafted with polyethylenimine brushes through 1 O2 -cleavable linkers. NIR photoirradiation spontaneously triggers the cleavage of gene vectors from pSPN, resulting in the release of CRISPR/Cas9 plasmids and subsequently initiating gene editing. This system affords 15- and 1.8-fold enhancement in repaired gene expression relative to the nonirradiated controls in living cells and mice, respectively. As this approach does not require any specific modifications on biomolecular components, pSPN represents the first generic nanotransducer for in vivo regulation of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing.
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- Yan Lyu
- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637457, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637457, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637457, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637457, Singapore
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- School of Biological Science, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637551, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637457, Singapore.,School of Biological Science, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637551, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637457, Singapore
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