ATP-Responsive Low-Molecular-Weight Polyethylenimine-Based Supramolecular Assembly via Host-Guest Interaction for Gene Delivery.

abstract：:Neutron reflectometry was used to investigate effects of calcium ions on the interfacial behavior of beta-casein at the silicon oxide-aqueous solution interface. The structural characteristics of the adsorbed layer were determined from reflectivity curves fitted to three- and two-layer optical models. The results show...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Follows D,Holt C,Nylander T,Thomas RK,Tiberg F

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High molecular weight trimethylene carbonate (TMC) and epsilon-caprolactone (CL) (co)polymers were synthesized. Melt pressed (co)polymer films were cross-linked by gamma irradiation (25 kGy or 50 kGy) in vacuum, yielding gel fractions of up to 70%. The effects of copolymer composition and irradiation dose on the cytot...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Bat E,Plantinga JA,Harmsen MC,van Luyn MJ,Zhang Z,Grijpma DW,Feijen J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In tissue engineering, incorporation of bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) into biomaterial scaffolds is an attractive strategy to stimulate bone repair. However, suboptimal release of BMP-2 remains a great concern, which may cause unfavorable bone formation as well as severe inflammation. In this study, genipin-cro...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zhang Q,Tan K,Zhang Y,Ye Z,Tan WS,Lang M

更新日期：2014-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulose is the most familiar and most abundant strong biopolymer, but the reasons for its outstanding mechanical performance are not well understood. Each glucose unit in a cellulose chain is joined to the next by a covalent C-O-C linkage flanked by two hydrogen bonds. This geometry suggests some form of cooperativi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Altaner CM,Thomas LH,Fernandes AN,Jarvis MC

更新日期：2014-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid-based poly(ester urea) (PEU) copolymers functionalized with pendant catechol groups that address the need for strongly adhesive yet degradable biomaterials have been developed. Lap-shear tests with aluminum adherends demonstrated that these polymers have lap-shear adhesion strengths near 1 MPa. An increase ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zhou J,Defante AP,Lin F,Xu Y,Yu J,Gao Y,Childers E,Dhinojwala A,Becker ML

更新日期：2015-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrospinning of polymer melts can offer an advantage over solution electrospinning, in the development of layered tissue constructs for tissue engineering. Melt electrospinning does not require a solvent, of which many are cytotoxic in nature, and the use of nonwater soluble polymers allows the collection of fi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Dalton PD,Klinkhammer K,Salber J,Klee D,Möller M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orb-weaving spider silk fibers are assembled from very large, highly repetitive proteins. The repeated segments contain, in turn, short, simple, and repetitive amino acid motifs that account for the physical and mechanical properties of the assembled fiber. Of the six orb-weaver silk fibroins, the piriform silk that m...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Perry DJ,Bittencourt D,Siltberg-Liberles J,Rech EL,Lewis RV

更新日期：2010-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious diseases remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide despite the tremendous effort devoted to the design and development of antimicrobial agents. However, the decrease in the effectiveness of some antibiotics is often associated with the development of drug resistance by pathogen. This leads to an u...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Nguyen D,Nguyen TK,Rice SA,Boyer C

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To adapt the physical properties of living materials to their biological function, nature developed various types of polymers with outstanding physical behavior. One example is the vitreous body, which is important intraocular elements not only because of its optical and mechanical performances, but also due to its im...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Annaka M,Mortensen K,Vigild ME,Matsuura T,Tsuji S,Ueda T,Tsujinaka H

更新日期：2011-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous catechol-containing polymers, including biodegradable polymers, are currently heavily discussed for modern biomaterials. However, there is no report combining poly(phosphoester)s (PPEs) with catechols. Adhesive PPEs have been prepared via acyclic diene metathesis polymerization. A novel acetal-protected catec...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Becker G,Ackermann LM,Schechtel E,Klapper M,Tremel W,Wurm FR

更新日期：2017-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiders have evolved a complex system of silk producing glands. Each of the glands produces silk with strength and elasticity tailored to its biological purpose. Sequence analysis of the major ampullate silk reveals four highly conserved concatenated blocks of amino acids: (GA) n , A n , GPGXX, and GGX. While the GPGX...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Brooks AE,Stricker SM,Joshi SB,Kamerzell TJ,Middaugh CR,Lewis RV

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A heterofunctional support for enzyme immobilization may be defined as that which possesses several distinct functionalities on its surface able to interact with a protein. We will focus on those supports in which a final covalent attachment between the enzyme and the support is achieved. Heterofunctionality sometimes...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Barbosa O,Torres R,Ortiz C,Berenguer-Murcia A,Rodrigues RC,Fernandez-Lafuente R

更新日期：2013-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycaprolactone (PCL) was reported a long time ago; however, its biomedical applications has not been extensively investigated in comparison with poly(lactide- co-glycolide) (PLGA) due to its too slow degradation profile. Here, we are reporting an oxalate-connected oligocaprolactone multiblock copolymer (PCL-OX) as a...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Chang SH,Lee HJ,Park S,Kim Y,Jeong B

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogels derived from resilin-like polypeptides (RLPs) have shown outstanding mechanical resilience and cytocompatibility; expanding the versatility of RLP-based materials via conjugation with other polypeptides and polymers would offer great promise in the design of a range of materials. Here, we present an investig...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： McGann CL,Akins RE,Kiick KL

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited studies have been done on the interactions between subunits of self-assembling protein cages. E2 protein cage from Bacillus stearothermophilus was investigated in this work to impart pH-sensitive disassembly profile. Key amino acids were identified at the intratrimer and intertrimer interfaces, and histidine r...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Peng T,Lim S

更新日期：2011-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present time-resolved in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations and real-time manipulation of nematic ordered cellulose and ultradrawn polyethylene films. Drawn films of these two polymers exhibited a unique response to the low-dose electron beam. Electron beam damage was minimal based on ret...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Brown RM Jr,Barnes Z,Sawatari C,Kondo T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acids have been engineered to participate in a wide variety of tasks. Among them, the enzyme-free amplification modes, enzyme-free DNA circuits (EFDCs), and hybridization chain reactions (HCRs) have been widely applied in a series of studies of bioanalysis. We demonstrated here an ultrasensitive hairpin probe-...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Liao Y,Fu Y,Wu Y,Huang R,Zhou X,Xing D

更新日期：2015-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Turbidimetric titration was used to initiate associative intermolecular interactions between a pair of protein molecules, gelatin-A and gelatin-B, having complementary charges that led to pH-induced liquid-liquid phase separation and the formation of complex coacervate. The stoichiometric binding ratio was found to be...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Tiwari A,Bindal S,Bohidar HB

更新日期：2009-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:As with many other biosourced colloids, chitin nanocrystals (ChNCs) can form liquid crystalline phases with chiral nematic ordering. In this work, we demonstrate that it is possible to finely tune the liquid crystalline behavior of aqueous ChNC suspensions finely. Such control was made possible by carefully studying h...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Narkevicius A,Steiner LM,Parker RM,Ogawa Y,Frka-Petesic B,Vignolini S

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:As an aim toward developing biologically mimetic and functional nanofiber-based tissue engineering scaffolds, we demonstrated the encapsulation of a model protein, fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated bovine serum albumin (fitcBSA), along with a water-soluble polymer, poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), within the biodegrad...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zhang YZ,Wang X,Feng Y,Li J,Lim CT,Ramakrishna S

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive strand RNA viruses replicate in specialized niches called membranous web within the cytoplasm of host cells. These virus replication organelles sequester viral proteins, RNA, and a variety of host factors within a fluid, amorphous matrix of clusters of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) derived vesicles. They are tho...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Ho JCS,Steininger C,Hiew SH,Kim MC,Reimhult E,Miserez A,Cho N,Parikh AN,Liedberg B

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The adsorption of human immunoglobulin G (hIgG) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) on cellulose supports were investigated. The dynamics and extent of related adsorption processes were monitored by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D). Amine groups were instal...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Orelma H,Filpponen I,Johansson LS,Laine J,Rojas OJ

更新日期：2011-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Injectable in situ crosslinkable biomaterials seeded with multipotent progenitor cells and coupled with minimally invasive arthroscopic techniques are an attractive alternative for treating irregularly shaped osteochondral defects. An in situ crosslinkable poly(lactide-co-ethylene oxide-co-fumarate) (PLEOF) macromer h...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： He X,Jabbari E

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New type of N-glycosylated peptides having periodic sequence of -[X-Gln(beta-D-GlcNAc)-Aib]- [X = L-Glu(OMe), L-Lys(Ac), L-Ala; Aib = alpha-aminoisobutyric acid] were synthesized by polymerization of glycosylated tripeptides with an active ester methods using Cl(-+)H(3)N-L-Glu(OMe)-Gln[beta-D-GlcNAc(Ac)(3)]-Aib-ONp (N...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Takasu A,Horikoshi S,Hirabayashi T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-termini of Spidroins produced in the major and minor ampullate glands of spiders are highly conserved. Despite this conservation, no corresponding peptides have been identified in the spinning dopes or the silk filaments so far. To prove their presence or absence, polyclonal antibodies derived against fusion pro...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Sponner A,Unger E,Grosse F,Weisshart K

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we have shown that the amphiphilic decyl esters of both D- and L-tyrosine (DELT) self-assemble in aqueous solution above their critical micelle concentration values to form long rodlike structures that can be enzymatically polymerized. In the current study, we have examined the self-assembled structures of...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Marx KA,Lee JS,Sung C

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supramolecular nanogel, a physically cross-linked nanosize hydrogel, spontaneously self-assembles in aqueous solution via secondary interactions and is thus of great interest in nanomedicine as a drug carrier. We developed a versatile method for supramolecular nanogel self-assembled by electrostatic interaction betwee...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kim K,Bae B,Kang YJ,Nam JM,Kang S,Ryu JH

更新日期：2013-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperbranched poly(amino ester)s containing tertiary amines in the core and primary, secondary, and tertiary amines in the periphery, respectively, were evaluated for DNA delivery in vitro. The same core structure facilitated the investigation on the effects of the terminal amine type on the properties of hyperbranche...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Wu D,Liu Y,Jiang X,He C,Goh SH,Leong KW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel family of amphiphilic temperature- and pH-sensitive poly(organophosphazenes) with varying ratios of ethylene oxide, alkyl chains and free acid units was synthesized by living cationic polymerization. Depending on their composition, these poly(organophosphazenes) exhibited lower critical solution temperatures r...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Couffin-Hoarau AC,Leroux JC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-editing technologies hold tremendous potential for treating genetic diseases. However, the efficient and safe delivery of genome-editing elements to the location of interest, and the achievement of specific targeted gene correction without off-target side effect remains a big challenge. In this Perspective, we ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Qiu M,Glass Z,Xu Q

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00