{"title":"","authors":"Pradeep Valekar, and , Ira S. Buckner*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Pharmaceutics","volume":"22 8","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5c00709","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144766264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nanomedicine for Treating Major Brain Diseases: Advances and Future Directions.","authors":"Girisha Sagar, Barnabas Wilson, Geetha Kannoth Mukundan, Kalpana Divekar, Josephine Leno Jenita","doi":"10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5c00277","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5c00277","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traditional drug delivery systems lack target specificity. Various macromolecules, which are useful to treat central nervous system (CNS) diseases, have failed in clinical trials. This is because the molecules fail to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) effectively. The diseases of the brain are a major cause of disability and death. Various brain diseases affect 3.4 billion people worldwide. Nanomedicine, the medical application of nanotechnology for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, improves drugs' solubility, stability, bioavailability, safety, and therapeutic efficacy. Site-specific ligand conjugated nanomedicine increases the target-specificity of nanomedicine toward specific receptors or determinants and delivers the drugs to the target organ. Nanomedicine provides better patient care while minimizing side effects and treatment cost. Further, it has the ability to change the traditional way of diagnosing and treating diseases. This review discusses recent advances in the usefulness of nanomedicine to treat major brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and stroke. The article also addresses the challenges in the development of nanoformulation and associated nanotoxicity.</p>","PeriodicalId":52,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Pharmaceutics","volume":" ","pages":"4413-4434"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144525498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water Mobility and Clustering in Lyophilized Human Serum Albumin.","authors":"Yunhua Chen, Xiaoda Yuan, Shaoxin Feng, Zhiyi Lin, Ehab Moussa, Evgenyi Y Shalaev","doi":"10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5c00317","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5c00317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Water plays a critical role in the stability of lyophilized protein therapeutics by stabilizing protein structures while also contributing to degradation processes like deamidation. Previous studies suggest a critical water threshold where degradation rates change, possibly due to shifts in water distribution between bound and free forms. However, the use of human serum albumin (HSA) as a model to understand the role of water clustering in protein stability has not been systematically explored. Our study examines water distribution, mobility, and clustering in lyophilized HSA using dynamic vapor sorption (DVS), solid-state NMR (ssNMR) spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The water sorption isotherm follows Type II behavior, with Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis indicating a monolayer water content of 6 wt %. MD simulations also show water clusters forming at a similar threshold (∼5.5%). ssNMR analysis reveals increased water mobility between 7.4 and 11.5% water content, marking the transition from bound to free water. Our findings suggest that there is a critical water threshold for lyophilized HSA at 5-6%, where initial clustering occurs, leading to free water with increased mobility (7.4-11.5%). This indicates progressive water interactions and dynamics. This alignment of experimental and modeling data provides a useful insight into the role of water distribution in protein stability in lyophiles. In addition, these results offer a basis for further studies to explore the relationship between water thresholds and protein degradation, with potential applications for optimizing the stability of lyophilized pharmaceutical products.</p>","PeriodicalId":52,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Pharmaceutics","volume":" ","pages":"4731-4737"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144697114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Hassan Shahfar*, and , Christopher J. Roberts, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Pharmaceutics","volume":"22 8","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5c00673","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144766272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher I. Williams, Farbod Mahmoudinobar, David C. Thompson, J. Wade Davis and Sandeep Kumar*,
{"title":"","authors":"Christopher I. Williams, Farbod Mahmoudinobar, David C. Thompson, J. Wade Davis and Sandeep Kumar*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Pharmaceutics","volume":"22 8","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5c00250","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144766325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karolina Krautforst, Julita Kulbacka, Marco Fornasier, Rita Mocci, Andrea Porcheddu, Antonio Pusceddu, Davide Moccia, Sergio Murgia* and Urszula Bazylińska*,