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Combined biolistic and cell penetrating peptide delivery for the development of scalable intradermal DNA vaccines (2024)
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Physical-based gene delivery via biolistic methods (such as the Helios gene gun) involve precipitation of nucleic acids onto microparticles and direct transfection through cell membranes of exposed tissue (e.g. skin) by high velocity acceleration. Th... Read More about Combined biolistic and cell penetrating peptide delivery for the development of scalable intradermal DNA vaccines.

Effects of Microenvironment and Dosing on Efficiency of Enhanced Cell Penetrating Peptide Nonviral Gene Delivery (2024)
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Transfection, defined as functional delivery of cell-internalized nucleic acids, is dependent on many factors linked to formulation, vector, cell type, and microenvironmental culture conditions. We previously developed a technology termed glycosamino... Read More about Effects of Microenvironment and Dosing on Efficiency of Enhanced Cell Penetrating Peptide Nonviral Gene Delivery.

Development of a Gene-Activated Scaffold Incorporating Multifunctional Cell-Penetrating Peptides for pSDF-1α Delivery for Enhanced Angiogenesis in Tissue Engineering Applications (2022)
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Non-viral gene delivery has become a popular approach in tissue engineering, as it permits the transient delivery of a therapeutic gene, in order to stimulate tissue repair. However, the efficacy of non-viral delivery vectors remains an issue. Our la... Read More about Development of a Gene-Activated Scaffold Incorporating Multifunctional Cell-Penetrating Peptides for pSDF-1α Delivery for Enhanced Angiogenesis in Tissue Engineering Applications.

Efficient Delivery of Transducing Polymer Nanoparticles for Gene-mediated Induction of Osteogenesis for Bone Regeneration (2020)
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Developing non-viral gene therapy vectors that both protect and functionally deliver nucleic acid cargoes will be vital if gene augmentation and editing strategies are to be effectively combined with advanced regenerative medicine approaches. Current... Read More about Efficient Delivery of Transducing Polymer Nanoparticles for Gene-mediated Induction of Osteogenesis for Bone Regeneration.

Highly versatile cell-penetrating peptide loaded scaffold for efficient and localised gene delivery to multiple cell types: From development to application in tissue engineering (2019)
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Gene therapy has recently come of age with seven viral vector-based therapies gaining regulatory approval in recent years. In tissue engineering, non-viral vectors are preferred over viral vectors, however, lower transfection efficiencies and difficu... Read More about Highly versatile cell-penetrating peptide loaded scaffold for efficient and localised gene delivery to multiple cell types: From development to application in tissue engineering.

Ex vivo MRI cell tracking of autologous mesenchymal stromal cells in an ovine osteochondral defect model (2019)
Journal Article

Background Osteochondral injuries represent a significant clinical problem requiring novel cell-based therapies to restore function of the damaged joint with the use of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) leading research efforts. Pre-clinical studies... Read More about Ex vivo MRI cell tracking of autologous mesenchymal stromal cells in an ovine osteochondral defect model.

Discovery of peptide ligands targeting a specific ubiquitin-like domain– binding site in the deubiquitinase USP11 (2018)
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© 2019 Spiliotopoulos et al. Published by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. Ubiquitin-specific proteases (USPs) reverse ubiquitination and regulate virtually all cellular processes. Defined noncatalytic domains in USP... Read More about Discovery of peptide ligands targeting a specific ubiquitin-like domain– binding site in the deubiquitinase USP11.

Post-modified polypeptides with UCST-type behavior for control of cell attachment in physiological conditions (2018)
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Upper Critical Solution Temperature (UCST)-type thermally responsive polypeptides (TRPs) with phase transition temperatures around 37 ?C in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) buffer (pH 7.4, 100 mM) were prepared from poly(L-ornithine) hydrobromide and... Read More about Post-modified polypeptides with UCST-type behavior for control of cell attachment in physiological conditions.

Osteogenic programming of human mesenchymal stem cells with highly efficient intracellular delivery of RUNX2 (2017)
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Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are being exploited in regenerative medicine due to their tri-lineage differentiation and immunomodulation activity. Currently, there are two major challenges when directing the differentiation of MSCs for therapeutic ap... Read More about Osteogenic programming of human mesenchymal stem cells with highly efficient intracellular delivery of RUNX2.

Controlled release of G AG-binding e nhanced t ransduction (GET) peptides for sustained and highly efficient intracellular delivery (2017)
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Controlled release systems for therapeutic molecules are vital to allow the sustained local delivery of their activities which direct cell behaviour and enable novel regenerative strategies. Direct programming of cells using exogenously delivered tra... Read More about Controlled release of G AG-binding e nhanced t ransduction (GET) peptides for sustained and highly efficient intracellular delivery.

Highly efficient delivery of functional cargoes by the synergistic effect of GAG binding motifs and cell-penetrating peptides (2016)
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Protein transduction domains (PTDs) are powerful nongenetic tools that allow intracellular delivery of conjugated cargoes to modify cell behavior. Their use in biomedicine has been hampered by inefficient delivery to nuclear and cytoplasmic targets.... Read More about Highly efficient delivery of functional cargoes by the synergistic effect of GAG binding motifs and cell-penetrating peptides.