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Recent Advances in Molecular Materials and Biomedicine

A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2024 | Viewed by 547

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue highlights the growing interest in recent advances in molecular materials and biomedicine. Biomedicine is an important engineering field related to improving the level of medical diagnosis and human health, and is the base of academic research and innovation of biomedical information, gene chip, nanotechnology, new materials, and other technologies. With the development of materials science and molecular technology, various molecular materials have received more and more attention in biomedical fields such as biosensing, medical imaging, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and targeted drug delivery, including quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, protein nanostructures, gold nanoshells, various inorganic/organic materials, liposomes, and molecular structure composite materials. Although molecular materials have made great progress in the field of biomedicine, further in-depth and comprehensive exploration is still needed, such as natural biological materials (such as cells, viruses, exosomes, protein molecules and other organisms; or shells, coral, bones, insect wings and other natural mineralized materials), a variety of synthetic molecular materials and so on. We welcome the submission of original article, review, and communication.

This Special issue is supervised by Dr. Shijing Wang, who is assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member <wsjwendy2023@163.com> (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China).

Dr. Jiangmin Jiang
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Keywords

  • nanomaterials
  • biomaterials
  • structural/functional/sensor materials
  • self-assembly/macromolecular materials
  • optoelectronic/magnetic materials
  • soft materials
  • molecular diagnostic techniques/methods
  • potential molecular targets
  • functional biological macromolecules
  • biotechnology macromolecules

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Development of Detection Antibody Targeting the Linear Epitope in SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein with Ultra-High Sensitivity
by Feng Wu, Yike Jiang, Hongtian Yang and Lan Ma
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25(8), 4436; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25084436 - 18 Apr 2024
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 highlighted the importance of reliable detection methods for disease control and surveillance. Optimizing detection antibodies by rational screening antigens would improve the sensitivity and specificity of antibody-based detection methods such as colloidal gold immunochromatography. In this study, [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 highlighted the importance of reliable detection methods for disease control and surveillance. Optimizing detection antibodies by rational screening antigens would improve the sensitivity and specificity of antibody-based detection methods such as colloidal gold immunochromatography. In this study, we screened three peptide antigens with conserved sequences in the N protein of SARS-CoV-2 using bioinformatical and structural biological analyses. Antibodies that specifically recognize these peptides were prepared. The epitope of the peptide that had the highest binding affinity with its antibody was located on the surface of the N protein, which was favorable for antibody binding. Using the optimal antibody that can recognize this epitope, we developed colloidal gold immunochromatography, which can detect the N protein at 10 pg/mL. Importantly, this antibody could effectively recognize both the natural peptide antigen and mutated peptide antigen in the N protein, showing the feasibility of being applied in the large-scale population testing of SARS-CoV-2. Our study provides a platform with reference significance for the rational screening of detection antibodies with high sensitivity, specificity, and reliability for SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens. Full article
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