Publications

  1. Uday Chintapula, Shazeed-UI Karim, Priyanka Raghunathan Lyer, Biswas Neupane, Haritha Asokan-Sheeja, He Dong, Fengwei Bai*, Kytai T. Nguyen*, “Novel Nanocomposite Drug Delivery System for SARS-CoV-2 Infections”, Nanoscale Advances, submitted, 2024.
  2. Haritha Asokan-Sheeja, Kamal Awad, Jiazhu Xu, Myan Le, Jenny N. Nguyen, Yi Hong, Venu G. Varanasi, Xiaohua Liu*, He Dong*, “In-situ Synthesis and Self-assembly of Peptide-PEG Conjugates: A Facile Method for the Construction of Fibrous Hydrogels”, Biomacromolecules, 2024, in press.
  3. Neelam Ahuja, Kamal Awad, Su Yang, He Dong, Antonios Mikos, Pranesh B. Aswath, Simon Young, Marco Brotto, Venu Varanasi, “SiONx Coating Regulates Mesenchymal Stem Cell Antioxidant Capacity via NRF2 Activity Under Toxic Oxidative Stress Condition”, Antioxidants, 2024, 13, 189.
  4. Nico König, Josefine Eilsø Nielsen, Martha Dunbar, Su Yang, Weike Chen, Ari Benjamin, Aurel Radulescu, Najet Mahmoudi, Lutz Willner, Sinan Keten, He Dong, Reidar Lund*, “On the Stability of Nanopeptides: Structure and Molecular Exchange of Self-assembled Peptide Fibers”, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 12934-12408.
  5. Qian Li, Bei Chang, He Dong, Xiaohua Liu*, “Multifunctional Microspheres for Tissue Regeneration”, Bioactive Materials, 2023, 25, 485-499.
  6. Uday Chintapula (co-first author), Su Yang (co-first author), Trinh Nguyen, Justyn Jaworski, He Dong*, Kytai T. Nguyen*, “Supramolecular Peptide Nanofiber/PLGA Nanocomposites for Enhancing Pulmonary Drug Delivery”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2022, 14, 56498-56509. (Front cover)
  7. Weike Chen, Shan Hazoor, Ryan Madigan, Ashley A. Adones#, Uday K. Chintapula, Kytai T. Nguyen, Liping Tang, Frank W. Foss Jr., He Dong*, “Alkaline-Responsive Polydiacetylene-Peptide Hydrogel for pH-Sensing and On-Demand Antimicrobial Release”, Materials Today Advances, 2022, 16, 100288.
  8. Haritha Asokan-Sheeja, Su Yang, Ashley A. Adones#, Weike Chen, Brandon B. Fulton, Uday K. Chintapula, Kytai T. Nguyen, Carl J. Lovely, Chad A. Brautigam, Kwangho Nam, He Dong*, “Self-assembling Peptides with Internal Ionizable Unnatural Amino Acids: A New and General Approach to pH-responsive Peptide Materials”, Chemistry – An Asian Journal, 2022, 17, e202200724.
  9. Aditi, Mulgaonkar, Paul Renick, Cheng-Yang Wu, Ning Zhou, Arthuro Velazquez, Jenelle Pennington, Amber Sherwood, He Dong, Laila Castellino, Orhan Oz, Liping Tang*, Xiankai Sun*, “Utility of D-[5-11C]-Glutamine for Bacteria Targeted PET Imaging of Infections”, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2021, 62 (suppl), 1392.
  10. Su Yang, Yan Chang, Shan Hazoor, Chad A. Brautigam, Frank W. Foss Jr., Zui Pan, He Dong*, “Modular Design of Supramolecular Ionic Peptides with Cell-Selective Membrane Activity”, ChemBioChem, 2021, 22, 3164-3168.
  11. Paul Renick, Aditi, Mulgaonkar, Cheng-Yang Wu, Cynthia Co, Ning Zhou, Arthuro Velazquez, Jenelle Pennington, Amber Sherwood, He Dong, Laila Castellino, Orhan Oz, Liping Tang*, Xiankai Sun*, “Imaging of Actively Proliferating Bacterial Infections by Targeting the Bacterial Metabolic Footprint With D-[5-11C]-Glutamine”, ACS Infectious Diseases, 2021, 7, 347-361.
  12. Marc Lim, Benson T Jung, Katherine Jung, Michael Li, He Dong, Nikhil Dube, Ting Xu*, “Designing Sub-20 nm Nanocarriers for Small Molecule Delivery: Interplay among Structural Geometry, Assembly Energetics, and Cargo Release Kinetics”, Journal of Controlled Release, 2021, 329, 538-551. 
  13. Josefine Eilsø Nielsen, Nico König, Su Yang, Maximilian WA Skoda, Armando Maestro, He Dong, Marité Cárdenas, Reidar Lund*, “Lipid Membrane Interactions of Self-assembling Antimicrobial Nanofibers: Effect of PEGylation”, RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 35329-35340.
  14. Su Yang, He Dong*, “Modular Design and Self-assembly of Multi-domain Peptides Towards Supramolecular Cell Penetrating Nanofibers”, RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 29469-29474. (Feature Interview with RSC Advances; 2020 RSC Advances HOT Article; Featured as an outstanding advance of Materials Chemistry in the Year in Review in RSC Advances)
  15. Weike Chen, Shuxin Li, John Lang, Yan Chang, Zui Pan, Peter Kroll, Xiankai Sun, Liping Tang, He Dong*, “Combined Tumor Environment Triggered Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofibers and Inducible Multivalent Ligand Display for Cancer Cell Targeting with Enhanced Sensitivity and Specificity”, Small, 2020, 16, 2002780.
  16. Xiushuang Yuan, Linhai Jiang, Weike Chen, Bo Song, Wei Chen, Xiaobing Zuo, Xiankai Sun, Xiaopeng Li, Kent Kirshenbaum, Shizhong Luo, He Dong*, “Self-assembly of Chimeric Peptides Toward Molecularly Defined Hexamers with Controlled Multivalent Ligand Presentation”, Chemical Communications, 2020, 56, 7128-7131.
  17. He Dong, “Editorial to the Themed Issue of Recent Advances in Self-assembled Peptides”, Molecules, 2019, 24, 3089-3092.
  18. Weike Chen, Su Yang, Shuxin Li, John C. Lang, Chuanbin Mao, Peter Kroll, Liping Tang, He Dong*, “Self-Assembled Peptide Nanofibers Display Natural Antimicrobial Peptides to Selectively Kill Bacteria without Compromising Cytocompatibility”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2019, 11, 28681-28689.
  19. Weike Chen, Shuxin Li, Paul Renick, Su Yang, Nikhil Pandy, Cara Boutte, Kytai T. Nguyen, Liping Tang, and He Dong*, “Bacterial Acidity-Triggered Antimicrobial Activity of Self-assembling Peptide Nanofibers”, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2019, 7, 2915-2919.
  20. Dawei Xu, Louise DeRidder#, Brendan Elmore#, He Dong*, “Self-assembly of Filamentous Cell Penetrating Peptides for Gene Delivery”, Methods in Molecular Biology, 2018, 1777, 271-281.
  21. Dawei Xu, Weike Chen, Yuto J. Tobin-Miyaji#, Carolyn Sturge, Su Yang, Brendan Elmore#, Anju, Singh, Christine Pybus#, David Greenberg, Timothy J. Sellati*, Wei Qiang*, He Dong*, “Fabrication and Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Cytocompatible Self-Assembling Antimicrobial Nanofibers”, ACS Infectious Diseases, 2018, 4, 1327-1335.
  22. Su Yang, Dawei Xu, He Dong*, “Design and Fabrication of Reduction-Sensitive Cell Penetrating Nanofibers for Enhanced Drug Efficacy”, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2018, 6, 7179-7184. (2018 Emerging Investigator Themed Issue)
  23. Linhai Jiang, Su Yang, Reidar Lund, He Dong*, “Shape-specific Nanostructured Protein Mimics From de novo Designed Chimeric Peptides”, Biomaterials Science, 2018, 6, 272-279. (Front Cover)
  24. Dawei Xu, Damien S. K. Samways, He Dong*, “Self-assembling Peptides for Optimal Cell Uptake and Therapeutic Delivery”, Bioactive Materials, 2017, 2, 260-268.
  25. Xi-Rui Zhou, Yimeng Cao, Qiang Zhang, Xi-Bo Tian, He Dong, Long Chen, Shi-Zhong Luo, “Self-assembly Nanostructure Controlled Sustained Release, Activity and Stability of Peptide Drugs”, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2017, 528, 723-731.
  26. JooChuan Ang, Benson T. Jung, He Dong, Ting Xu, “Kinetic Pathway of 3-Helix Micelle Formation”, Biomacromolecules, 2017, 18, 976-984.
  27. Linhai Jiang, Dawei Xu, Ling Liu, Reidar Lund*, He Dong*, “Protein-like Nanoparticles Based on Orthogonal Self-assembly of Chimeric Peptides”, Small, 2016, 12, 5126-5131.
  28. Dawei Xu,Linhai Jiang, Louis DeRidder#,Brendan Elmore#, Maurish Bukhari, Qiang Wei, Damien S. K. Samways*,He Dong*, “Membrane Activity of a Supramolecular Peptide-based Chemotherapeutic Enhancer”, Molecular Biosystems, 2016, 12, 2695-2699.
  29. DeDennis A. Delgado, Katelynne Doherty, Qinghui Cheng, Hyeongeun Kim, Dawei Xu, He Dong, Christof Grewer, Wei Qiang, “Distinct Membrane Disruption Pathways Induced by the 40-residue Beta Amyloid Peptides”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016, 291, 12233-12244.
  30. Dawei Xu, Qian Ran, Yang Xiang, Linhai Jiang, Britannia M. Smith#, Fadi Bou-Abdallah, Reidar Lund, Zhongjun Li*, He Dong*, “Toward Hemocompatible Self-Assembling Antimicrobial Nanofibers: Understanding the Synergistic Effect of Supramolecular Structure and PEGylation on Hemocompatibility”, RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 15911-15919.
  31. Xiaobo Liu, Mouna Marrakchi, Dawei Xu, He Dong*, Silvana Andreescu*, Label-Free Detection and Differentiation of Pathogenic Bacteria using Synthetic Antimicrobial Peptides, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2016, 80, 9-16.
  32. Linhai Jiang, Dawei Xu, Timothy Sellati, He Dong*, “Self-Assembly of Cationic Multidomain Peptide Hydrogels: Supramolecular Nanostructure and Rheological Property Dictate Antimicrobial Activity”, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 19160-19169.
  33. Dawei Xu, Derek Dustin#, Linhai Jiang, Damien, S. K. Samways, He Dong*, “Designed Filamentous Cell Penetrating Peptides: Probing Supramolecular Structure-Dependent Membrane Activity and Transfection Efficiency”, Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 11757-11760. (Front Cover)
  34. He Dong, Reider Lund, Ting Xu, “Micelle Stabilization via Entropic Repulsion: Balance of Force Directionality and Geometric Packing of Subunit”, Biomacromolecules, 2015, 16, 743-747.
  35. Dawei Xu, Linhai, Jiang, Anju Singh, Miao Yang, Derek Dustin#, Ling, Liu, Reidar Lund, Timothy Sellati, He Dong*, “Designed Supramolecular Filamentous Peptides: Balance of Nanostructure, Cytotoxicity and Antimicrobial Activity”, Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 1289-1292.
  36. Nikhil Dube, Jai Seo, He Dong, Jessica Shu, Reidar Lund, Lisa Mahakian, Katherine Ferrara, Ting Xu, “Effect of Core Composition of 3-Helix Micelles on Cargo Encapsulation Stability and Pharmacokinetics”, Biomacromolecules, 2014, 15, 2963-2970.
  37. Geng Li, Jun Wu, Xu Qin, Jianhui Zhu, Kodandaraman Viswanathan, He Dong, P. Somasundaran, Richard A. Gross, “Chemo-enzymatic Routes to Lipopeptides and Their Colloidal Properties”, Langmuir, 2014, 30, 6889-6896.
  38. Miao Yang, Dawei Xu, Linhai Jiang, Lin Zhang, Derek Dustin#, Reidar Lund, Ling Liu, He Dong*, “Filamentous Supramolecular Peptide-Drug Conjugates as Highly Efficient Drug Delivery Vehicles”, Chemical Communications, 2014, 50, 4827-4830.
  39. Bin Cao, Linlin Li, Haiyan Wu, Qiong Tang, Bingbing Su, He Dong, Zhe Jiang, Gang Cheng, “Zwitteration of Dextran: A Facile Route to Integrate Antifouling, Switchability and Optical Transparency into Natural Polymers”, Chemical Communications, 2014, 50, 3234-3237.
  40. Nikhil Dube, Jessica Y. Shu, He Dong, Jai W. Seo, Elizabeth Ingham, Azadeh Kheirolomoom, Pin-Yuan Chen, John Forsayeth, Krystof Bankiewicz, Katherine W. Ferrara, Ting Xu, “Evaluation of DOX-Loaded 3-Helix Micelles as Nanocarriers”, Biomacromolecules, 2013, 14, 3697–3705.

    M.S., Ph.D. and postdoctoral work

  41. He Dong, Jessica Y. Shu, Nikhil Dube, Yufei Ma, Matthew V. Tirrell, Kenneth H. Downing, Ting Xu, “3-Helix Micelles Stabilized by Polymer Springs”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 11807-11814.
  42. He Dong, Nikhil Dube, Jessica Y. Shu, Jai W. Seo, Lisa M. Mahakian, Katherine W. Ferrara, Ting Xu, “Long Circulating Micelles Based on Helix-Bundle Forming Peptide-Polymer Conjugates”. ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 5320-5329.
  43. He Dong, Xuezheng Song, Yi Lasanajak, Richard D. Cummings, Elliot L. Chaikof, “Facile Construction of Fluorescent Peptide Microarrays: One-step Fluorescent Derivatization of Sub-Microscale Peptide Aldehydes for Selective Terminal Immobilization”. Analytical Biochemistry, 2010, 398, 132-134.
  44. Lorenzo Aulisa, He Dong, Jeffrey D. Hartgerink. “Self-assembly of Multidomain Peptides: Sequence Variation Allows Control Over Crosslinking and Viscoelasticity”. Biomacromolecules 2009, 10, 2694-2698.
  45. He Dong, Sergey E. Paramonov, Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, “Self-assembly of Alpha-Helical Coiled Coil Nanofibers”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 130, 13691-13695.
  46. Hoo-Wok Jun, Sergey, E. Paramonov, He Dong, Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, “Enzyme-Mediated Degradation of Peptide-Amphiphile Nanofiber Networks”, Journal of Biomaterial Research, Polymer Ed., 2008, 19, 665-676.
  47. Kerstin M. Galler, Adriana Caverder, Virany Yuwono, He Dong, Songtao Shi, Gottfried Schmalz, Jeffrey D. Hartgerin, Rena N D’Souza, “Self-assembling Peptide Amphiphile Nanofibers as a Scaffold for Dental Stem Cells”, Tissue Engineering, 2008, 14, 2051-2058.
  48. He Dong, Sergey, E. Paramonov, Lorenzo, Aulisa, Erica Bakota, Jeffrey, D. Hartgerink “Self-Assembly of Multi-Domain Peptides: Balancing Molecular Frustration Controls Conformation and Nanostructure”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007, 129, 12468-12471.
  49. He Dong, Jeffrey, D. Hartgerink, “Investigation of Role of Hydrophobic Clusters on Coiled Coils in Inducing Alpha to Beta Secondary Structural Conversion”, Biomacromolecules, 2007, 8, 617-623.
  50. He Dong, Jeffrey, D. Hartgerink, “Short Helical Coiled Coil Homodimer and Heterodimer”, Biomacromolecules, 2006, 7, 691-695.
  51. He Dong, Aijun Tong, “Syntheses of Steroid-Based Molecularly Imprinted Polymers and Their Molecular Recognition Study”, Spectrochimica Acta A, 2003, 59, 279-284.
  52. He Dong, Aijun Tong, Longdi Li, “A Molecular Imprinting-Based Fluorescent Chemosensor for Histamine Using Zinc (II)-Protoporphyrin As a Functional Monomer”, Analytical Chimica Acta., 2002, 456, 31-37.
  53. He Dong, Aijun Tong, Longdi Li, “Synthesis of a Fluorescent Molecularly Imprinted Polymer and Its Recognition Property for Histamine”, Chemical Journal of Chinese University, 2002, 23, 1081-1021.
  54. He Dong, Aijun Tong, “A New Fluorescent Molecularly Imprinted Polymer for the Selective Binding of Histamine”, Analytical Science, 2002, 17, a295-a298.
  55. YuHui Zhang, He Dong, Aijun Tong, “Molecular Design and Molecular Recognition with Fluorescent Receptors”, Analytical Lab, 2002, 21, 93-99.
  56. Aijun Tong, Qingyi Yang, He Dong, Longdi Li, “Recognition of Amine, Amino acids by Zinc Protoporphyrin in Water”, Analytical Science, 2002, 17, a207-a210.

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