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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,752 Views
30 Pages

On Effect of Chloroform on Electrical Activity of Proteinoids

  • Panagiotis Mougkogiannis and
  • Andrew Adamatzky

Proteinoids, or thermal proteins, produce hollow microspheres in aqueous solutions. Ensembles of the microspheres produce endogenous spikes of electrical activity, similar to that of neurons. To make the first step toward the evaluation of the mechan...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomimetics of Materials and Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,444 Views
35 Pages

Polymorphism in Glu-Phe-Asp Proteinoids

  • Panagiotis Mougkogiannis and
  • Andrew Adamatzky

Glu-Phe-Asp (GFD) proteinoids represent a class of synthetic polypeptides capable of self-assembling into microspheres, fibres, or combinations thereof, with morphology dramatically influencing their electrical properties. Extended recordings and det...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomimetic Surfaces and Interfaces)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,422 Views
18 Pages

Proteinoid Polymers and Nanocapsules for Cancer Diagnostics, Therapy and Theranostics: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies

  • Ella Itzhaki,
  • Yuval Elias,
  • Neta Moskovits,
  • Salomon M. Stemmer and
  • Shlomo Margel

Proteinoids—simple polymers composed of amino acids—were suggested decades ago by Fox and coworkers to form spontaneously by heat. These special polymers may self-assemble in micrometer structures called proteinoid microspheres, presented...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Active Biomedical Materials and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,381 Views
24 Pages

4 October 2024

This study examines a new approach to hybrid neuromorphic devices by studying the impact of omeprazole–proteinoid complexes on Izhikevich neuron models. We investigate the influence of these metabolic structures on five specific patterns of neu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Recent Advances in Chemical Artificial Intelligence)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,420 Views
16 Pages

Proteinoid Nanocapsules as Drug Delivery System for Improving Antipsychotic Activity of Risperidone

  • Liroy Lugasi,
  • Igor Grinberg,
  • Rivka Sabag,
  • Ravit Madar,
  • Haim Einat and
  • Shlomo Margel

2 September 2020

Risperidone (RSP) is an atypical antipsychotic drug widely used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Nanoparticles (NPs) are being developed as in vivo targeted drug delivery systems, which cross the blood-brain barrier and improve pharmacoki...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanotechnology-Drug Delivery Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,599 Views
14 Pages

Engineering of Doxorubicin-Encapsulating and TRAIL-Conjugated Poly(RGD) Proteinoid Nanocapsules for Drug Delivery Applications

  • Elad Hadad,
  • Safra Rudnick-Glick,
  • Ella Itzhaki,
  • Matan Y. Avivi,
  • Igor Grinberg,
  • Yuval Elias and
  • Shlomo Margel

16 December 2020

Proteinoids are non-toxic biodegradable polymers prepared by thermal step-growth polymerization of amino acids. Here, P(RGD) proteinoids and proteinoid nanocapsules (NCs) based on D-arginine, glycine, and L-aspartic acid were synthesized and characte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polymers and Drug Delivery Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,071 Views
21 Pages

Antimicrobial Proteinoid Nanostructures via Thermal Condensation of L-Glutamic Acid and L-Tyrosine

  • Marta Cadeddu,
  • James R. G. Adams,
  • Roberto La Ragione,
  • Daniel K. Whelligan,
  • Vlad Stolojan,
  • Nadia Bernardi,
  • Ioannis Smyrnias,
  • Barbara Poddesu,
  • Giulia Cugia and
  • Plinio Innocenzi
  • + 4 authors

8 December 2025

The synthesis of biocidal peptide materials using simple, low-cost, solvent-free methods is a crucial challenge for developing new antimicrobial approaches. In this study, we produced proteinoid nanostructures through simple, inexpensive, and environ...

(This article belongs to the Section Biology and Medicines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,472 Views
19 Pages

Tumor-Targeted Fluorescent Proteinoid Nanocapsules Encapsulating Synergistic Drugs for Personalized Cancer Therapy

  • Ella Itzhaki,
  • Elad Hadad,
  • Neta Moskovits,
  • Salomon M. Stemmer and
  • Shlomo Margel

Personalized cancer treatment based on specific mutations offers targeted therapy and is preferred over “standard” chemotherapy. Proteinoid polymers produced by thermal step-growth polymerization of amino acids may form nanocapsules (NCs) that encaps...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanoparticle-Mediated Drug Delivery, Imaging, and Control of Cellular Functions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,602 Views
22 Pages

1 February 2025

Recurrence resonance (RR), in which external noise is utilized to enhance the behaviour of hidden attractors in a system, is a phenomenon often observed in biological systems and is expected to adjust between chaos and order to increase computational...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,097 Views
32 Pages

Proto-Neurons from Abiotic Polypeptides

  • Panagiotis Mougkogiannis and
  • Andrew Adamatzky

To understand the origins of life, we must first gain a grasp of the unresolved emergence of the first informational polymers and cell-like assemblies that developed into living systems. Heating amino acid mixtures to their boiling point produces the...

(This article belongs to the Section Biology & Life Sciences)