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Reddy Baddam S, Ganta S, Nalla S, Banoth C, Vudari B, Akkiraju PC, Srinivas E, Tade RS. Polymeric nanomaterials-based theranostic platforms for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) treatment. Int J Pharm 2024; 660:124346. [PMID: 38889853 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2024.124346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2024] [Revised: 06/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
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Breast cancer, the second leading global cause of death, affects 2.1 million women annually, with an alarming 15 percent mortality rate. Among its diverse forms, Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) emerges as the deadliest, characterized by the absence of hormone receptors. This article underscores the urgent need for innovative treatment approaches in tackling TNBC, emphasizing the transformative potential of polymeric nanomaterials (PNMs). Evolved through nanotechnology, PNMs offer versatile biomedical applications, particularly in addressing the intricate challenges of TNBC. The synthesis methods of PNMs, explored within the tumor microenvironment using cellular models, showcase their dynamic nature in cancer treatment. The article anticipates the future of TNBC therapeutics through the optimization of PNMs-based strategies, integrating them into photothermal (PT), photodynamic (PT), and hyperthermia therapy (HTT), drug delivery, and active tumor targeting strategies. Advancements in synthetic methods, coupled with a nuanced understanding of the tumor microenvironment, hold promise for personalized interventions. Comparative investigations of therapeutic models and a thorough exploration of polymeric nanoplatforms toxicological perspectives become imperative for ensuring efficacy and safety. We have explored the interdisciplinary collaboration between nanotechnology, oncology, and molecular biology as pivotal in translating PNMs innovations into tangible benefits for TNBC patients.
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- Sudhakar Reddy Baddam
- University of Massachusetts, Chan Medical School, RNA Therapeutic Institute, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Army College of Dental Sciences, Chennapur, Secunderabad 500087, India
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- Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana 501301, India
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Allied Healthcare Sciences, Malla Reddy University, Hyderabad 500014, India
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- Averinbiotech Laboratories, Windsor Plaza, Nallakunta, Hyderabad 500044, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, H.R. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Shirpur, Maharashtra 425405, India.
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De León González FV, Boddington ME, Kofsky JM, Prindl MI, Capicciotti CJ. Glyco-Engineering Cell Surfaces by Exo-Enzymatic Installation of GlcNAz and LacNAz Motifs. ACS Chem Biol 2024; 19:629-640. [PMID: 38394345 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.3c00542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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Exo-enzymatic glyco-engineering of cell-surface glycoconjugates enables the selective display of well-defined glyco-motifs bearing bioorthogonal functional groups, which can be used to study glycans and their interactions with glycan-binding proteins. In recent years, strategies to edit cellular glycans by installing monosaccharides and their derivatives using glycosyltransferase enzymes have rapidly expanded. However, analogous methods to introduce chemical reporter-functionalized type 2 LacNAc motifs have not been reported. Herein, we report the chemo-enzymatic synthesis of unnatural UDP-GlcNAc and UDP-GalNAc nucleotide-sugars bearing azide, alkyne, and diazirine functionalities on the C2-acetamido group using the mutant uridylyltransferase AGX1F383A. The unnatural UDP-GlcNAc derivatives were examined as substrates for the human GlcNAc-transferase B3GNT2, where it was found that modified donors were tolerated for transfer, albeit to a lesser extent than the natural UDP-GlcNAc substrate. When the GlcNAc derivatives were examined as acceptor substrates for the human Gal-transferase B4GalT1, all derivatives were well tolerated and the enzyme could successfully form derivatized LacNAcs. B3GNT2 was also used to exo-enzymatically install GlcNAc and unnatural GlcNAc derivatives on cell-surface glycans. GlcNAc- or GlcNAz-engineered cells were further extended by B4GalT1 and UDP-Gal, producing LacNAc- or LacNAz-engineered cells. Our proof-of-concept glyco-engineering labeling strategy is amenable to different cell types and our work expands the exo-enzymatic glycan editing toolbox to selectively introduce unnatural type 2 LacNAc motifs.
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 2S8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 2S8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 2S8, Canada
- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 3N6, Canada
- Department of Surgery, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 2V7, Canada
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Mittas N, Gkika DA, Georgiou K, Alodhayb AN, AbdelAll N, Khouqeer GA, Kyzas GZ. Bibliometric research analysis of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs): evidence and research activity dynamics. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:119903-119924. [PMID: 37932616 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-30752-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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The escalating issue of water pollution has become a worldwide issue that has captured the attention of numerous scientists. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have emerged as adaptable materials with exceptional attributes, including easy synthesis, low cost, remarkable durability, long life, and accessibility. These attributes have motivated researchers to develop novel materials based on MIPs to tackle hazardous contaminants in environmental matrices. The purpose of this paper was to conduct a bibliometric analysis on MIPs' publications, in order to shed light on the developments and focus points of the field. The selected publications were obtained from Scopus database and subjected to a filtering process, resulting in 11,131 relevant publications. The analysis revealed that the leading publication source (journal) is Biosensors and Bioelectronics; the mostly employed keywords are solid-phase extraction, electrochemical sensor, and molecular recognition; and the top contributing countries are China, Iran, and the USA. The Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm was used for extracting thematic axes from the textual content of the publications. The results of the LDA model showcase that the topic of synthesis and performance of MIPs for environmental applications can be considered as the most dominant topic with a share value of 72.71%. From the analysis, it can be concluded that MIPs are a cross-disciplinary research field.
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- Nikolaos Mittas
- Hephaestus Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, International Hellenic University, 65404, Kavala, Greece
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- Hephaestus Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, International Hellenic University, 65404, Kavala, Greece
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- School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science, King Saud University, 11451, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Hephaestus Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, International Hellenic University, 65404, Kavala, Greece.
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Beyer S, Kimani M, Zhang Y, Verhassel A, Sternbæk L, Wang T, Persson JL, Härkönen P, Johansson E, Caraballo R, Elofsson M, Gawlitza K, Rurack K, Ohlsson L, El-Schich Z, Wingren AG, Stollenwerk MM. Fluorescent Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Layers against Sialic Acid on Silica-Coated Polystyrene Cores—Assessment of the Binding Behavior to Cancer Cells. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14:cancers14081875. [PMID: 35454783 PMCID: PMC9024825 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14081875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sialic acid (SA) is a monosaccharide usually linked to the terminus of glycan chains on the cell surface. It plays a crucial role in many biological processes, and hypersialylation is a common feature in cancer. Lectins are widely used to analyze the cell surface expression of SA. However, these protein molecules are usually expensive and easily denatured, which calls for the development of alternative glycan-specific receptors and cell imaging technologies. In this study, SA-imprinted fluorescent core-shell molecularly imprinted polymer particles (SA-MIPs) were employed to recognize SA on the cell surface of cancer cell lines. The SA-MIPs improved suspensibility and scattering properties compared with previously used core-shell SA-MIPs. Although SA-imprinting was performed using SA without preference for the α2,3- and α2,6-SA forms, we screened the cancer cell lines analyzed using the lectins Maackia Amurensis Lectin I (MAL I, α2,3-SA) and Sambucus Nigra Lectin (SNA, α2,6-SA). Our results show that the selected cancer cell lines in this study presented a varied binding behavior with the SA-MIPs. The binding pattern of the lectins was also demonstrated. Moreover, two different pentavalent SA conjugates were used to inhibit the binding of the SA-MIPs to breast, skin, and lung cancer cell lines, demonstrating the specificity of the SA-MIPs in both flow cytometry and confocal fluorescence microscopy. We concluded that the synthesized SA-MIPs might be a powerful future tool in the diagnostic analysis of various cancer cells.
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- Sarah Beyer
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden; (S.B.); (Y.Z.); (L.S.); (J.L.P.); (L.O.); (Z.E.-S.); (M.M.S.)
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- Chemical and Optical Sensing Division, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Richard-Willstätter Straße 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany; (M.K.); (K.G.); (K.R.)
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden; (S.B.); (Y.Z.); (L.S.); (J.L.P.); (L.O.); (Z.E.-S.); (M.M.S.)
- Biofilms-Research Center for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, 20520 Turku, Finland; (A.V.); (P.H.)
- FICAN West Cancer Centre, Turku University Hospital, 20520 Turku, Finland
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden; (S.B.); (Y.Z.); (L.S.); (J.L.P.); (L.O.); (Z.E.-S.); (M.M.S.)
- Biofilms-Research Center for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden
- Phase Holographic Imaging AB, SE-223 63 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden;
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden; (S.B.); (Y.Z.); (L.S.); (J.L.P.); (L.O.); (Z.E.-S.); (M.M.S.)
- Biofilms-Research Center for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden;
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, 20520 Turku, Finland; (A.V.); (P.H.)
- FICAN West Cancer Centre, Turku University Hospital, 20520 Turku, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden; (E.J.); (R.C.); (M.E.)
- Umeå Centre for Microbial Research, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden; (E.J.); (R.C.); (M.E.)
- Umeå Centre for Microbial Research, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden; (E.J.); (R.C.); (M.E.)
- Umeå Centre for Microbial Research, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Chemical and Optical Sensing Division, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Richard-Willstätter Straße 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany; (M.K.); (K.G.); (K.R.)
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- Chemical and Optical Sensing Division, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Richard-Willstätter Straße 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany; (M.K.); (K.G.); (K.R.)
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden; (S.B.); (Y.Z.); (L.S.); (J.L.P.); (L.O.); (Z.E.-S.); (M.M.S.)
- Biofilms-Research Center for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden; (S.B.); (Y.Z.); (L.S.); (J.L.P.); (L.O.); (Z.E.-S.); (M.M.S.)
- Biofilms-Research Center for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden; (S.B.); (Y.Z.); (L.S.); (J.L.P.); (L.O.); (Z.E.-S.); (M.M.S.)
- Biofilms-Research Center for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden; (S.B.); (Y.Z.); (L.S.); (J.L.P.); (L.O.); (Z.E.-S.); (M.M.S.)
- Biofilms-Research Center for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden
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