Tianhao Ge , Xuzhi Hu , Mingrui Liao , Feng Zhou , Jian Ren Lu
{"title":"Recent advances in the development and application of peptide self-assemblies in infection control","authors":"Tianhao Ge , Xuzhi Hu , Mingrui Liao , Feng Zhou , Jian Ren Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101745","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101745","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span><span>Peptide self-assemblies display distinct physical and structural transitions, ranging from the early small assemblies, or oligomers, to long </span>nanosheets<span>, nanobelts, </span></span>nanotubes<span>, and nanofibers<span> formed into distinct hydrogels. Because of changes in charge distribution and protection of cleavage sites, self-assembled peptides can have high resistance to enzymatic degradation. As potential candidates for biomedical applications, it is important to understand how peptides self-assemble and how the processes can be manipulated. Following the diverse approaches recently reported to control their assembling processes, many </span></span></span><em>de novo</em><span>-designed short peptides can be applied to infection control in various conditions, such as nanocarriers in drug delivery, wound dressings, and postsurgery antimicrobial/antiviral spreads and coatings. Here we present an overview of recent advances in peptide self-assembly mechanisms and the relationship between self-assembly behaviors and their infection-combatting effects. At the end of this review, concluding remarks and future perspectives are provided.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101745"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87784259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-lubricating drops","authors":"Huanshu Tan , Detlef Lohse , Xuehua Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101744","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in the study of multicomponent drops. These drops exhibit unique phenomena, as the interplay between hydrodynamics and the evolving physicochemical properties of the mixture gives rise to distinct and often unregulated behaviors. Of particular interest is the complex dynamic behavior of the drop contact line, which can display self-lubrication effect. The presence of a slipping contact line in self-lubricating multicomponent drops can suppress the coffee-stain effect, conferring valuable technological applications. This review will explain the current understanding of the self-lubrication effect of drops, and cover an analysis of fundamental concepts and recent advances in colloidal assembly. The potential applications of self-lubricating drops across different fields will also be highlighted.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101744"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6713477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olga I. Vinogradova, Elena F. Silkina, Evgeny S. Asmolov
{"title":"Slippery and mobile hydrophobic electrokinetics: From single walls to nanochannels","authors":"Olga I. Vinogradova, Elena F. Silkina, Evgeny S. Asmolov","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101742","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101742","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We discuss how the wettability<span> of solid walls impacts electrokinetic phenomena<span><span> from large systems down to a nanoscale. We show in particular how could the hydrophobic slippage, coupled to confinement effects, be exploited to induce novel electrokinetic properties, such as a salt-dependent giant amplification of </span>zeta potential and conductivity, and a much more efficient energy conversion. However, the impact of slippage is dramatically reduced if adsorbed surface charges would migrate along the hydrophobic wall under an applied field.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101742"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75143823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Damon T. Burrow, Jacob T. Heggestad, David S. Kinnamon, Ashutosh Chilkoti
{"title":"Engineering innovative interfaces for point-of-care diagnostics","authors":"Damon T. Burrow, Jacob T. Heggestad, David S. Kinnamon, Ashutosh Chilkoti","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101718","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ongoing Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic illustrates the need for sensitive and reliable tools to diagnose and monitor diseases. Traditional diagnostic approaches rely on centralized laboratory tests that result in long wait times to results and reduce the number of tests that can be given. Point-of-care tests (POCTs) are a group of technologies that miniaturize clinical assays into portable form factors that can be run both in clinical areas —in place of traditional tests— and outside of traditional clinical settings —to enable new testing paradigms. Hallmark examples of POCTs are the pregnancy test lateral flow assay and the blood glucose meter. Other uses for POCTs include diagnostic assays for diseases like COVID-19, HIV, and malaria but despite some successes, there are still unsolved challenges for fully translating these lower cost and more versatile solutions. To overcome these challenges, researchers have exploited innovations in colloid and interface science to develop various designs of POCTs for clinical applications. Herein, we provide a review of recent advancements in lateral flow assays, other paper based POCTs, protein microarray assays, microbead flow assays, and nucleic acid amplification assays. Features that are desirable to integrate into future POCTs, including simplified sample collection, end-to-end connectivity, and machine learning, are also discussed in this review.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101718"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10247612/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3208431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lori M. Estes Bright, Yi Wu, Elizabeth J. Brisbois, Hitesh Handa
{"title":"Advances in nitric oxide-releasing hydrogels for biomedical applications","authors":"Lori M. Estes Bright, Yi Wu, Elizabeth J. Brisbois, Hitesh Handa","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101704","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hydrogels provide a plethora of advantages to biomedical treatments due to their highly hydrophilic nature and tissue-like mechanical properties<span>. Additionally, the numerous and widespread endogenous roles of nitric oxide<span><span> have led to an eruption in research developing biomimetic solutions to the many challenges the biomedical world faces. Though many design factors and fabrication details must be considered, utilizing hydrogels as nitric oxide delivery vehicles provides promising materials in several applications. Such applications include cardiovascular therapy, vasodilation and </span>angiogenesis, antimicrobial treatments, wound dressings, and stem cell research. Herein, a recent update on the progress of NO-releasing hydrogels is presented in depth. In addition, considerations for the design and fabrication of hydrogels and specific biomedical applications of nitric oxide-releasing hydrogels are discussed.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101704"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10489397/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2889772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Josefine Eilsø Nielsen , Vladimir Rosenov Koynarev , Reidar Lund
{"title":"Peptide meets membrane: Investigating peptide-lipid interactions using small-angle scattering techniques","authors":"Josefine Eilsø Nielsen , Vladimir Rosenov Koynarev , Reidar Lund","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Peptide–lipid interactions play an important role in defining the mode of action of drugs and the molecular mechanism associated with many diseases. Model membranes consisting of simple lipid mixtures mimicking real cell membranes can provide insight into the structural and dynamic aspects associated with these interactions. Small-angle scattering techniques based on X-rays and neutrons (SAXS/SANS) allow <em>in situ</em> determination of peptide partition and structural changes in lipid bilayers in vesicles with relatively high resolution between 1-100 nm. With advanced instrumentation, time-resolved SANS/SAXS can be used to track equilibrium and nonequilibrium processes such as lipid transport and morphological transitions to time scales down to a millisecond. In this review, we provide an overview of recent advances in the understanding of complex peptide–lipid membrane interactions using SAXS/SANS methods and model lipid membrane unilamellar vesicles. Particular attention will be given to the data analysis, possible pitfalls, and how to extract quantitative information using these techniques.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101709"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1625519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pulmonary surfactant-derived antiviral actions at the respiratory surface","authors":"Miriam Isasi-Campillo , Paula Losada-Oliva , Jesús Pérez-Gil, Bárbara Olmeda, Lucía García-Ortega","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101711","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Lung surfactant (LS) is a membrane-based lipid-protein complex that lines the alveoli, reducing the surface tension at the air-liquid interface and thus minimizing the work of breathing. Besides this function, LS is also the first physical barrier between the outside air and the systemic circulation, therefore playing a key role in the defense against harmful particles and microorganisms.</p><p>Viral respiratory tract infections (RTIs), and especially acute lower RTIs, are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. LS participates in the network of interactions between viruses and the immune system to prevent or lessen the effects of the infection, but it is also altered by these pathogens, which can potentially impair its function.</p><p>The aim of this review is to provide an integrated multidisciplinary overview toward understanding the interplay between respiratory viruses and LS and its health impact on the respiratory system. The review is centered on the antiviral mechanisms of both LS proteins and lipids, and their different interactions that lead to varying outcomes. Finally, a summary of the clinical application of surfactant in the scene of lung viral infection is disclosed, including state-of-the-art approaches of the therapeutic use of surfactant components.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101711"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3208430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gold and silver nanoparticles as tools to combat multidrug-resistant pathogens","authors":"Arianna Balestri , Jacopo Cardellini , Debora Berti","doi":"10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101710","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The sudden emergence and rapid spreading of viral, bacterial, and fungal infections and the usual development of resistance against traditional molecular drugs prompt the urgent need for alternative approaches to kill or inactivate pathogenic agents. This motivation has inspired a vast number of research works devoted to the design, synthesis, and application of nanomaterials, specifically inorganic plasmonic </span>nanoparticles<span>, as antimicrobial agents. We will pay special attention to articles from 2019 to 2023 where control of the colloidal properties, i.e., size, morphology, and colloidal stability, are properly considered. Here we will discuss the latest advancement in synthesis, colloidal characterization, and antimicrobial activity of Au and Ag nanoparticles, as well as hybrid systems based on combining metallic NPs with inorganic and organic materials. We will also consider contributions focusing on the green synthesis of plasmonic particles, highlighting the opportunities and the need for better control and predictivity of colloidal and functional properties.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":293,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101710"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3454977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}