The electrospinning of a thermo-responsive polymer with peptide conjugates for phenotype support and extracellular matrix production of therapeutically relevant mammalian cells

Ruiter, F. A.A.; Sidney, L. E.; Kiick, K. L.; Segal, J. I.; Alexander, C.; Rose, F. R. A. J.

doi:10.1039/c9bm01965k

Corrigendum to ‘LC-MS metabolomics comparisons of cancer cell and macrophage responses to methotrexate and polymer-encapsulated methotrexate’ [International Journal of Pharmaceutics: X Volume 1 (2019) 100036] (2020)
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Al-Natour, M. A., Alazzo, A., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., Kim, D. H., & Alexander, C. (2020). Corrigendum to ‘LC-MS metabolomics comparisons of cancer cell and macrophage responses to methotrexate and polymer-encapsulated methotrexate’ [International Journal of Pharmaceutics: X Volume 1 (2019) 100036]. International Journal of Pharmaceutics: X, 2, Article 100044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpx.2020.100044

© 2020 The Author(s) The authors regret that the original version of Fig. 3 incorrect. The updated figure is below for reference. [Figure presented] Fig. 3 Super-resolution microscopy image of methotrexate loaded PLGA nanoparticles (green) (92 μg/mL,... Read More about Corrigendum to ‘LC-MS metabolomics comparisons of cancer cell and macrophage responses to methotrexate and polymer-encapsulated methotrexate’ [International Journal of Pharmaceutics: X Volume 1 (2019) 100036].

Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles (VLPs) (2020)
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Blok, A. J., Gurnani, P., Xenopoulos, A., Burroughs, L., Duncan, J., Urbanowicz, R. A., …Alexander, M. R. (2020). Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles (VLPs). Biointerphases, 15, Article 061005. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0000586

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 highlights the global need for platform technologies to enable rapid development of diagnostics, vaccines, treatments, and personal protective equipment (PPE). However, many current technologies require the detailed mechan... Read More about Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles (VLPs).

Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles (2020)
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Blok, A. J., Gurnani, P., Xenopoulos, A., Burroughs, L., Duncan, J., Urbanowicz, R. A., …Alexander, M. R. (2020). Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles. Biointerphases, 15(6), Article 061005. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0000586

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 highlights the global need for platform technologies to enable the rapid development of diagnostics, vaccines, treatments, and personal protective equipment (PPE). However, many current technologies require the detailed me... Read More about Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles.

Synthesis and Antibacterial Evaluation of New Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines Kinase Inhibitors (2020)
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Greco, C., Catania, R., Balacco, D. L., Taresco, V., Musumeci, F., Alexander, C., …Schenone, S. (2020). Synthesis and Antibacterial Evaluation of New Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines Kinase Inhibitors. Molecules, 25(22), Article 5354. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25225354

Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines represent an important class of heterocyclic compounds well-known for their anticancer activity exerted by the inhibition of eukaryotic protein kinases. Recently, pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines have become increasingly attracti... Read More about Synthesis and Antibacterial Evaluation of New Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines Kinase Inhibitors.

Biomedical engineering approaches to enhance therapeutic delivery for malignant glioma (2020)
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McCrorie, P., Vasey, C. E., Smith, S. J., Marlow, M., Alexander, C., & Rahman, R. (2020). Biomedical engineering approaches to enhance therapeutic delivery for malignant glioma. Journal of Controlled Release, 328, 917-931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.11.022

© 2020 We review the challenges of next-generation therapeutics for both systemic and localised delivery to brain tumours and discuss how recent engineering advances may be used to enhance brain penetration of systemic delivery therapies. The unmet c... Read More about Biomedical engineering approaches to enhance therapeutic delivery for malignant glioma.

Reduction-responsive polymers for drug delivery in cancer therapy—Is there anything new to discover? (2020)
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Monteiro, P. F., Travanut, A., Conte, C., & Alexander, C. (2021). Reduction-responsive polymers for drug delivery in cancer therapy—Is there anything new to discover?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, 13(2), Article e1678. https://doi.org/10.1002/wnan.1678

© 2020 The Authors. WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Among various types of stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems, reduction-responsive polymers have attracted great interest. In general, these systems h... Read More about Reduction-responsive polymers for drug delivery in cancer therapy—Is there anything new to discover?.

Repurposing Nonantifungal Approved Drugs for Synergistic Targeting of Fungal Pathogens (2020)
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Vallières, C., Singh, N., Alexander, C., & Avery, S. V. (2020). Repurposing Nonantifungal Approved Drugs for Synergistic Targeting of Fungal Pathogens. ACS Infectious Diseases, 6(11), 2950-2958. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00405

With the spread of drug resistance, new antimicrobials are urgently needed. Here, we set out to tackle this problem by high-throughput exploration for novel antifungal synergies among combinations of approved, nonantifungal drugs; a novel strategy ex... Read More about Repurposing Nonantifungal Approved Drugs for Synergistic Targeting of Fungal Pathogens.

Effects of Polymer 3D Architecture, Size, and Chemistry on Biological Transport and Drug Delivery In Vitro and in Orthotopic Triple Negative Breast Cancer Models (2020)
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Anane‐Adjei, A. B., Pearce, A. K., Anane-Adjei, A. B., Cavanagh, R. J., Monteiro, P. F., Bennett, T. M., …Alexander, C. (2020). Effects of Polymer 3D Architecture, Size, and Chemistry on Biological Transport and Drug Delivery In Vitro and in Orthotopic Triple Negative Breast Cancer Models. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 9(22), Article 2000892. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202000892

© 2020 Wiley-VCH GmbH The size, shape, and underlying chemistries of drug delivery particles are key parameters which govern their ultimate performance in vivo. Responsive particles are desirable for triggered drug delivery, achievable through archit... Read More about Effects of Polymer 3D Architecture, Size, and Chemistry on Biological Transport and Drug Delivery In Vitro and in Orthotopic Triple Negative Breast Cancer Models.

Designing topographically textured microparticles for induction and modulation of osteogenesis in mesenchymal stem cell engineering (2020)
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Amer, M. H., Alvarez-Paino, M., McLaren, J., Pappalardo, F., Trujillo, S., Wong, J. Q., …Rose, F. R. (2021). Designing topographically textured microparticles for induction and modulation of osteogenesis in mesenchymal stem cell engineering. Biomaterials, 266, Article 120450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2020.120450

© 2020 The Authors Mesenchymal stem cells are the focus of intense research in bone development and regeneration. The potential of microparticles as modulating moieties of osteogenic response by utilizing their architectural features is demonstrated... Read More about Designing topographically textured microparticles for induction and modulation of osteogenesis in mesenchymal stem cell engineering.

All Surfaces Are Not Equal in Contact Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (2020)
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Xue, X., Ball, J. K., Alexander, C., & Alexander, M. R. (2020). All Surfaces Are Not Equal in Contact Transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Matter, 3(5), 1433-1441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.10.006

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. The world faces a severe and acute public health emergency due to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Healthcare workers are... Read More about All Surfaces Are Not Equal in Contact Transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

Controlling the Biological Fate of Micellar Nanoparticles: Balancing Stealth and Targeting (2020)
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Sivaram, A. J., Wardiana, A., Alcantara, S., Sonderegger, S. E., Fletcher, N. L., Houston, Z. H., …Thurecht, K. J. (2020). Controlling the Biological Fate of Micellar Nanoparticles: Balancing Stealth and Targeting. ACS Nano, 14(10), 13739-13753. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c06033

Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society. Integrating nanomaterials with biological entities has led to the development of diagnostic tools and biotechnology-derived therapeutic products. However, to optimize the design of these hybrid bionanomater... Read More about Controlling the Biological Fate of Micellar Nanoparticles: Balancing Stealth and Targeting.

An improved synthesis of poly(amidoamine)s for complexation with self-amplifying RNA and effective transfection (2020)
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Gurnani, P., Blakney, A. K., Yeow, J., Bouton, C. R., Shattock, R. J., Stevens, M. M., & Alexander, C. (2020). An improved synthesis of poly(amidoamine)s for complexation with self-amplifying RNA and effective transfection. Polymer Chemistry, 11(36), 5861-5869. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0py00912a

© The Royal Society of Chemistry. Cationic polymers are widely used as materials to condense nucleic acids for gene-based therapies. These have been developed to mainly deliver DNA and RNA for cancer therapies but the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has de... Read More about An improved synthesis of poly(amidoamine)s for complexation with self-amplifying RNA and effective transfection.

Synthesis of Passerini-3CR Polymers and Assembly into Cytocompatible Polymersomes (2020)
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Travanut, A., Monteiro, P. F., Oelmann, S., Howdle, S. M., Grabowska, A. M., Clarke, P. A., …Alexander, C. (2021). Synthesis of Passerini-3CR Polymers and Assembly into Cytocompatible Polymersomes. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 42(6), Article 2000321. https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.202000321

© 2020 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH GmbH The versatility of the Passerini three component reaction (Passerini-3CR) is herein exploited for the synthesis of an amphiphilic diblock copolymer, which self-assembles into polymersomes. Carboxy-funct... Read More about Synthesis of Passerini-3CR Polymers and Assembly into Cytocompatible Polymersomes.

Functionalized block co-polymer pro-drug nanoparticles with anti-cancer efficacy in 3D spheroids and in an orthotopic triple negative breast cancer model (2020)
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Taresco, V., Abelha, T. F., Cavanagh, R. J., Vasey, C. E., Anane-Adjei, A. B., Pearce, A. K., …Alexander, C. (2021). Functionalized block co-polymer pro-drug nanoparticles with anti-cancer efficacy in 3D spheroids and in an orthotopic triple negative breast cancer model. Advanced Therapeutics, 4(1), Article 2000103. https://doi.org/10.1002/adtp.202000103

Amphiphilic block co-polymers composed of poly(ethylene glycol)-co-poly(lactide)-co-poly(2-((tert-butoxycarbonyl)amino)-3-propyl carbonate) (PEG-pLA-pTBPC) are synthesized in monomer ratios and arrangements to enable assembly into nanoparticles with... Read More about Functionalized block co-polymer pro-drug nanoparticles with anti-cancer efficacy in 3D spheroids and in an orthotopic triple negative breast cancer model.

The In Vitro, Ex Vivo, and In Vivo Effect of Polymer Hydrophobicity on Charge-Reversible Vectors for Self-Amplifying RNA (2020)
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Gurnani, P., Blakney, A. K., Terracciano, R., Petch, J. E., Blok, A. J., Bouton, C. R., …Alexander, C. (2020). The In Vitro, Ex Vivo, and In Vivo Effect of Polymer Hydrophobicity on Charge-Reversible Vectors for Self-Amplifying RNA. Biomacromolecules, 21(8), 3242-3253. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00698

RNA technology has the potential to revolutionize vaccination. However, the lack of clear structure-property relationships in relevant biological models mean there is no clear consensus on the chemical motifs necessary to improve RNA delivery. In thi... Read More about The In Vitro, Ex Vivo, and In Vivo Effect of Polymer Hydrophobicity on Charge-Reversible Vectors for Self-Amplifying RNA.

Nanoformulation-by-design: an experimental and molecular dynamics study for polymer coated drug nanoparticles (2020)
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Styliari, I. D., Taresco, V., Theophilus, A., Alexander, C., Garnett, M., & Laughton, C. (2020). Nanoformulation-by-design: an experimental and molecular dynamics study for polymer coated drug nanoparticles. RSC Advances, 10(33), 19521-19533. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ra00408a

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020. The formulation of drug compounds into nanoparticles has many potential advantages in enhancing bioavailability and improving therapeutic efficacy. However, few drug molecules will assemble into stable, well-def... Read More about Nanoformulation-by-design: an experimental and molecular dynamics study for polymer coated drug nanoparticles.

Ornithine-derived oligomers and dendrimers forin vitrodelivery of DNA andex vivotransfection of skin cellsviasaRNA (2020)
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Saviano, F., Lovato, T., Russo, A., Russo, G., Bouton, C. R., Shattock, R. J., …Conte, C. (2020). Ornithine-derived oligomers and dendrimers forin vitrodelivery of DNA andex vivotransfection of skin cellsviasaRNA. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 8(22), 4940-4949. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0tb00942c

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020. Gene therapies are undergoing a renaissance, primarily due to their potential for applications in vaccination for infectious diseases and cancers. Although the biology of these technologies is rapidly evolving,... Read More about Ornithine-derived oligomers and dendrimers forin vitrodelivery of DNA andex vivotransfection of skin cellsviasaRNA.

Surface polymer imprinted optical fibre sensor for dose detection of dabrafenib (2020)
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He, C., Ledezma, U. H., Gurnani, P., Albelha, T., Thurecht, K. J., Correia, R., …Korposh, S. (2020). Surface polymer imprinted optical fibre sensor for dose detection of dabrafenib. Analyst, 145(13), 4504-4511. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0an00434k

© 2020 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Dabrafenib is one of the most widely used of the new generation of targeted anti-cancer drugs. However, its therapeutic window varies for different patients and so there is an unmet need for methods to monitor t... Read More about Surface polymer imprinted optical fibre sensor for dose detection of dabrafenib.

Synthesis of micellar-like terpolymer nanoparticles with reductively-cleavable cross-links and evaluation of efficacy in 2D and 3D models of triple negative breast cancer (2020)
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Monteiro, P. F., Gulfam, M., Monteiro, C. J., Travanut, A., Abelha, T. F., Pearce, A. K., …Alexander, C. (2020). Synthesis of micellar-like terpolymer nanoparticles with reductively-cleavable cross-links and evaluation of efficacy in 2D and 3D models of triple negative breast cancer. Journal of Controlled Release, 323, 549-564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.04.049

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Triple negative or basal-like breast cancer (TNBC) is characterised by aggressive progression, lack of standard therapies and poorer overall survival rates for patients. The bad prognosis, high rate of relapse and resistance agai... Read More about Synthesis of micellar-like terpolymer nanoparticles with reductively-cleavable cross-links and evaluation of efficacy in 2D and 3D models of triple negative breast cancer.

The electrospinning of a thermo-responsive polymer with peptide conjugates for phenotype support and extracellular matrix production of therapeutically relevant mammalian cells (2020)
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Ruiter, F. A., Sidney, L. E., Kiick, K. L., Segal, J. I., Alexander, C., & Rose, F. R. A. J. (2020). The electrospinning of a thermo-responsive polymer with peptide conjugates for phenotype support and extracellular matrix production of therapeutically relevant mammalian cells. Biomaterials Science, 8(9), 2611-2626. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9bm01965k

Current cell expansion methods for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications rely on the use of enzymatic digestion passaging and 2D platforms. However, this enzymatic treatment significantly reduces cell quality, due to the destructi... Read More about The electrospinning of a thermo-responsive polymer with peptide conjugates for phenotype support and extracellular matrix production of therapeutically relevant mammalian cells.

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