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- Title
- The recognition of and reactions to nucleic acid nanoparticles by human immune cells
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Bila, Dominika, Panigaj, Martin
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- The relatively straightforward methods of designing and assembling various functional nucleic acids into nanoparticles offer advantages for applications in diverse diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. However, due to the novelty of this approach...
- Title
- Structure and composition define immunorecognition of nucleic acid nanoparticles
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A.
- Date Created
- 2022, 2022, 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Immune system, Interferon, Nucleic acids
- Title
- Special issue nanotechnology to overcome the world's most critical health issues: liposomes and beyond-a themed issue dedicated to Professor Yechezkel Barenholz
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Dobrovolskaia, Marina
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Title
- Smart-responsive nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) with the potential to modulate immune behavior
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Nucleic acids are programmable and biocompatible polymers that have beneficial uses in nanotechnology with broad applications in biosensing and therapeutics. In some cases, however, the development of the latter has been impeded by the unknown imm...
- Title
- Induction of cytokines by nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) depends on the type of delivery carrier
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Avila, Yelixza I.
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Recent insights into the immunostimulatory properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) have demonstrated that variations in the shape, size, and composition lead to distinct patterns in their immunostimulatory properties. While most of these ...
- Title
- Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
- Author
- Halman, Justin, Khisamutdinov, Emil F., Afonin, Kirill A., Satterwhite, Emily, Roark, Brandon, Chandler, Morgan, Ivanina, Anna, Viard, Mathias, Bindewald, Eckart, Kasprzak, Wojciech K., Panigaj, Martin, Bui, My N., Lu, Jacob S., Miller, Johann, Shapiro, Bruce A., Dobrovolskaia, Marina A.
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Nanotechnology
- Description
- We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...
- Title
- Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin, Chandler, Morgan
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...
- Title
- First step towards larger DNA-based assemblies of fluorescent silver nanoclusters: template design and detailed characterization of optical properties
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Shevchenko, Oleg
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Besides being a passive carrier of genetic information, DNA can also serve as an architecture template for the synthesis of novel fluorescent nanomaterials that are arranged in a highly organized network of functional entities such as fluorescent ...
- Title
- Expanding structural space for immunomodulatory nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) via spatial arrangement of their therapeutic moieties
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Rolband, Lewis
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Different therapeutic nucleic acids (TNAs) can be unified in a single structure by their elongation with short oligonucleotides designed to self-assemble into nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs). With this approach, therapeutic cocktails with preci...
- Title
- Exosome mediated delivery of functional nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs)
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Ke, Weina
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- RNAi-based technologies have shown biomedical potential; however, safe and efficient delivery of RNA remains a barrier for their broader clinical applications. Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) programmed to self-assemble and organize multiple th...
- Title
- Editorial for the special issue on nucleic acid architectures for therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and materials
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Title
- Demonstrating the synthesis and antibacterial properties of nanostructured silver
- Author
- Rolband, Lewis, Godakhindi, Varsha, Vivero-Escoto, Juan L., Afonin, Kirill A.
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Antibacterial agents, Silver
- Description
- Investigating and understanding novel antibacterial agents is a necessary task as there is a constant increase in the number of multidrug-resistant bacterial species. The use of nanotechnology to combat drug-resistant bacteria is an important rese...
- Title
- DNA-templated fluorescent silver nanoclusters inhibit bacterial growth while being non-toxic to mammalian cells
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Rolband, Lewis
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Silver has a long history of antibacterial effectiveness. The combination of atomically precise metal nanoclusters with the field of nucleic acid nanotechnology has given rise to DNA-templated silver nanoclusters (DNA-AgNCs) which can be engineere...
- Title
- Characterization of cationic bolaamphiphile vesicles for sirna delivery into tumors and brain
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Kim, Taejin, Gupta, Kshitij
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are potential therapeutic substances due to their gene silencing capability as exemplified by the recent approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the first siRNA therapeutic agent (patisiran). Howeve...
- Title
- Change in lipofectamine carrier as a tool to fine-tune immunostimulation of nucleic acid nanoparticles
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Newton, Hannah S., Xu, Jie
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) require a carrier to allow for their intracellular delivery to immune cells. Cytokine production, specifically type I and III interferons, allows for reliable monitoring of the carrier effect on NANP immunostimul...
- Title
- Broccoli fluorets : split aptamers as a user-friendly fluorescent toolkit for dynamic RNA nanotechnology
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Halman, Justin
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- RNA aptamers selected to bind fluorophores and activate their fluorescence offer a simple and modular way to visualize native RNAs in cells. Split aptamers which are inactive until the halves are brought within close proximity can become useful fo...
- Title
- Break to build : isothermal assembly of nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) via enzymatic degradation
- Author
- Beasock, Damian, Ha, Anh, Halman, Justin, Afonin, Kirill A.
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Genetics, Peptides
- Description
- The intrinsic properties of RNA and DNA biopolymers emphasized by engineered nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) offer accelerated development of next-generation therapies. The rational design of NANPs facilitates programmable architectures intende...
- Title
- Biomotors, viral assembly, and rna nanobiotechnology: current achievements and future directions
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Rolband, Lewis
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- The International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISRNN) serves to further the development of a wide variety of functional nucleic acids and other related nanotechnology platforms. To aid in the dissemination of the most recent adv...
- Title
- Biomotors, viral assembly, and RNA nanobiotechnology : current achievements and future directions
- Author
- Robland, Lewis, Beasock, Damian, Afonin, Kirill A., Schlick, Tamar
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Viruses, Nanotechnology
- Description
- The International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISRNN) serves to further the development of a wide variety of functional nucleic acids and other related nanotechnology platforms. To aid in the dissemination of the most recent adv...
- Title
- Artificial immune cell, AI-cell, a new tool to predict interferon production by peripheral blood monocytes in response to nucleic acid nanoparticles
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Halman, Justin
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- Nucleic acid nanoparticles, or NANPs, rationally designed to communicate with the human immune system, can offer innovative therapeutic strategies to overcome the limitations of traditional nucleic acid therapies. Each set of NANPs is unique in th...