Addition of Lauryldimethylamine -Oxide (LDAO) to a Copper-Free Click Chemistry Reaction Improves the Conjugation Efficiency of a Cell-Free Generated CRM197 Variant to Clinically Important Serotypes.

Strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition (SPAAC) reactions like click chemistry have the potential to be highly scalable, robust, and cost-effective methods for generating small- and large-molecule conjugates for a variety of applications. However, despite method improvements, the rates of copper-based click chemistry reactions continue to be much faster than the rates of copper-free click chemistry reactions, which makes broader deployment of click chemistry challenging from a safety and compatibility standpoint. In this study, we used a zwitterionic detergent, namely, lauryldimethylamine -oxide (LDAO), in a copper-free click chemistry reaction to investigate its impact on the generation of conjugate vaccines (CVs).

Diagnosis of Zika virus infection on a nanotechnology platform.

We developed a multiplexed assay on a plasmonic-gold platform for measuring IgG and IgA antibodies and IgG avidity against both Zika virus (ZIKV) and dengue virus (DENV) infections. In contrast to IgM cross-reactivity, IgG and IgA antibodies against ZIKV nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) antigen were specific to ZIKV infection, and IgG avidity revealed recent ZIKV infection and past DENV-2 infection in patients in dengue-endemic regions. This assay could enable specific diagnosis of ZIKV infection over other flaviviral infections.

Validation of IgG, IgM multiplex plasmonic gold platform in French clinical cohorts for the serodiagnosis and follow-up of Toxoplasma gondii infection.

We report the use of the multiplexed T. gondii IgG, IgM test on plasmonic gold (pGOLD) platform in the setting of T. gondii infection by analyzing 244 sera from Nice, France (seroconversion, chronically infected, non-infected and newborns serum samples).

Advances in stimuli responsive nanobiomaterials for cancer therapy.

Cancer has become one of the major reasons for disease mortality with drastic increase of death rate in recent years. The reason for most of these deaths is due to the inefficacy and failure of the current methods of treatments or due to the unavailability of treatment options. Even after extensive research that has been carried out in the field, there is no gold standard in cancer therapy.