Vitamin lipid nanoparticles enable adoptive macrophage transfer for the treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial sepsis

X Hou, X Zhang, W Zhao, C Zeng, B Deng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Sepsis, a condition caused by severe infections, affects more than 30 million people
worldwide every year and remains the leading cause of death in hospitals 1 , 2 . Moreover, …

Multifunctional oncolytic nanoparticles deliver self-replicating IL-12 RNA to eliminate established tumors and prime systemic immunity

Y Li, Z Su, W Zhao, X Zhang, N Momin, C Zhang… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Therapies that synergistically stimulate immunogenic cancer cell death (ICD), inflammation
and immune priming are of great interest for cancer immunotherapy. However, even multi-…

Biodegradable amino-ester nanomaterials for Cas9 mRNA delivery in vitro and in vivo

X Zhang, B Li, X Luo, W Zhao, J Jiang… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Efficient and safe delivery of the CRISPR/Cas system is one of the key challenges for
genome-editing applications in humans. Herein, we designed and synthesized a series of …

Intratumoral delivery of IL-12 and IL-27 mRNA using lipid nanoparticles for cancer immunotherapy

JQ Liu, C Zhang, X Zhang, J Yan, C Zeng… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokines are important immunotherapeutics with approved drugs for the treatment of human
cancers. However, systemic administration of cytokines often fails to achieve adequate …

Tailored engineering of novel xanthonium polymethine dyes for synergetic PDT and PTT triggered by 1064 nm laser toward deep‐seated tumors

H Bian, D Ma, X Zhang, K Xin, Y Yang, X Peng, Y Xiao - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Small molecular dye that simultaneously exerts dual PDT/PTT effects as well as florescence
imaging triggered by a single NIR‐II light has never been reported to date. Apart from the …

Functionalized lipid-like nanoparticles for in vivo mRNA delivery and base editing

X Zhang, W Zhao, GN Nguyen, C Zhang, C Zeng… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics have been explored to treat various genetic disorders.
Lipid-derived nanomaterials are currently one of the most promising biomaterials that …

Long-wavelength, photostable, two-photon excitable BODIPY fluorophores readily modifiable for molecular probes

X Zhang, Y Xiao, J Qi, J Qu, B Kim, X Yue… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent probes are increasingly popular in biological imaging and
sensing, as long-wavelength (650–900 nm) excitation and emission have the advantages of …

[HTML][HTML] Biomimetic nanoparticles deliver mRNAs encoding costimulatory receptors and enhance T cell mediated cancer immunotherapy

W Li, X Zhang, C Zhang, J Yan, X Hou, S Du… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Antibodies targeting costimulatory receptors of T cells have been developed for the activation
of T cell immunity in cancer immunotherapy. However, costimulatory molecule expression …

Cardiolipin-targeted NIR-II fluorophore causes “Avalanche effects” for re-engaging cancer apoptosis and inhibiting metastasis

…, D Ma, F Pan, X Zhang, K Xin, X Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Restoring innate apoptosis and simultaneously inhibiting metastasis by a molecular drug is
an effective cancer therapeutic approach. Herein, a large rigid and V-shaped NIR-II dye, …

Long-wavelength photoconvertible dimeric BODIPYs for super-resolution single-molecule localization imaging in near-infrared emission

Q Gong, X Zhang, W Li, X Guo, Q Wu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sulfoxide-bridged dimeric BODIPYs were developed as a new class of long-wavelength
photoconvertible fluorophores. Upon visible-light irradiation, a sulfoxide moiety was released to …