Induction of protein body formation in plant leaves by elastin-like polypeptide fusions
BMC Biology, 2009 Background Elastin-like polypeptides are synthetic biopolymers composed of a repeating pentapeptide 'VPGXG' sequence that are valuable for the simple non-chromatographic purification of recombinant proteins.
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Multifunctional elastin-like polypeptide nanocarriers for efficient miRNA delivery in cancer therapy [PDF]
Journal of NanobiotechnologyBackground The exogenous delivery of miRNA to mimic and restore miRNA-34a activity in various cancer models holds significant promise in cancer treatment.
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Application of bioengineered elastin-like polypeptide-based system for targeted gene delivery in tumor cells [PDF]
Biomaterials and Biosystems, 2022 Successful gene delivery depends on the entry of negatively charged DNAs and oligonucleotides across the various barriers of the tumor cells and localization into the nucleus for its transcription and protein translation. Here, we have reported a thermal
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A highly-sensitive genetically encoded temperature indicator exploiting a temperature-responsive elastin-like polypeptide [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Genetically encoded temperature indicators (GETIs) allow for real-time measurement of subcellular temperature dynamics in live cells. However, GETIs have suffered from poor temperature sensitivity, which may not be sufficient to resolve small heat ...
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Development of elastin-like polypeptide for targeted specific gene delivery in vivo [PDF]
Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2020 Background The successful deliveries of siRNA depend on their stabilities under physiological conditions because greater in vivo stability enhances cellular uptake and enables endosomal escape. Viral-based systems appears as most efficient approaches for
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Targeting prostate cancer cells with hybrid elastin-like polypeptide/liposome nanoparticles
International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2018 Wei Zhang,1 Yunmei Song,1 Preethi Eldi,1 Xiuli Guo,2 John D Hayball,1,3 Sanjay Garg,1 Hugo Albrecht1 1Centre for Pharmaceutical Innovation and Development, Centre for Drug Discovery and Development, Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Sansom Institute
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Investigation of characteristics as endodontic sealer of novel experimental elastin-like polypeptide-based mineral trioxide aggregate [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Although mineral trioxide aggregates (MTA) have been adopted as an endodontic sealer because of excellent sealing effect and bioactive property and been modified with improvement of its characteristics, the developed MTA sealers have not yet satisfied ...
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Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 2016 Jeremy WD McGowan,1 Qingmei Shao,1 Parminder JS Vig,1,2 Gene L Bidwell III1,2 1Department of Neurology, 2Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA Abstract: Bypassing the blood–brain barrier is one of ...
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Targeted paclitaxel delivery in ovarian cancer via AP1-functionalized elastin-like polypeptide nanocarriers: development and characterization [PDF]
BMC CancerPaclitaxel has been a cornerstone of ovarian cancer chemotherapy for over two decades. However, its clinical application is constrained by poor solubility and non-specific delivery, resulting in systemic toxicity and inconsistent therapeutic outcomes ...
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An Elastin-like Polypeptide-fusion peptide targeting capsid-tegument interface as an antiviral against cytomegalovirus infection [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe tegument protein pp150 of Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is known to be essential for the final stages of virus maturation and mediates its functions by interacting with capsid proteins.
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