Publications: 2011-2015

174. Jie. Zhou; Bing. Xu "Enzyme-Instructed Self-Assembly: A Multistep Process for Potential Cancer Therapy". Bioconjugate Chemistry 2015, 26, 987-999.

173. Jie Zhou; Xuewen Du; Jie Li; Natsuko Yamagata; Bing Xu* “Taurine Boosts Cellular Uptake of Small D-Peptides for Enzyme-Instructed Intracellular Molecular Self-Assembly". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137, 10040-10043.

172. Jie Zhou; Xuewen. Du; Bing Xu* “Prion-Like Nanofibrils of Small Molecules (Prism): A New Frontier at the Intersection of Supramolecular Chemistry and Cell Biology". Prion 2015, 9, 110- 118.

171. Ye Zhang; Ning Zhou; Junfeng Shi; Susan Sondej Pochapsky; Thomas C. Pochapsky; Bei Zhang; Xixiang Zhang; Bing Xu* “Unfolding a Molecular Trefoil Derived from a Zwitterionic Metallopeptide to Form Self-Assembled Nanostructures". Nature Communications 2015, 6, 6165.

170. Dan Yuan; Junfeng Shi; Xuewen Du; Ning Zhou; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Glycosylation Accelerates Proteolytic Degradation of Peptide Nanofibrils". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137, 10092-10095.

169. Dan Yuan; Xuewen Du; Junfeng Shi; Ning Zhou; Jie Zhou; Bing Xu* “Mixing Biomimetic Heterodimers of Nucleopeptides to Generate Biocompatible and Biostable Supramolecular Hydrogels". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 54, 5705-5708.

168. Junfeng Shi; Xuewen Du; Yibing Huang; Jie Zhou; Dan Yuan; Dongdong Wu; Ye Zhang; Richard Haburcak; Irving R. Epstein; Bing Xu* “Ligand-Receptor Interaction Catalyzes the Aggregation of Small Molecules to Induce Cell Necroptosis". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137, 26-29.

167. Jie Li; Yi Kuang; Junfeng Shi; Jie Zhou; Jamie E. Medina; Rong Zhou; Dan Yuan; Cuihong Yang; Huaimin Wang; Zhimou Yang; Jianfeng Liu; Daniela M. Dinulescu; Bing Xu* “Enzyme- Instructed Intracellular Molecular Self-Assembly to Boost Activity of Cisplatin against Drug- Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 54, 13307- 13311.

166. Dan Yuan; Xuewen Du; Junfeng Shi; Ning Zhou; Abdulgader Ahmed Baoum; Khalid Omar Al Footy; Khadija Omar Badahdah; Bing Xu* “Synthesis and Evaluation of the Biostability and Cell Compatibility of Novel Conjugates of Nucleobase, Peptidic Epitope, and Saccharide". Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015, 11, 1352-1359.

165. Dongdong Wu; Xuewen Du; Junfeng Shi; Jie Zhou; Ning Zhou; Bing Xu* “The First CD73- Instructed Supramolecular Hydrogel". Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2015, 447, 269- 272.

164. Junfeng Shi; Xuewen Du; Dan Yuan; Richard Haburcak; Ning Zhou; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Detoxification of Neurotoxic Nanofibrils of Small Molecules Via Morphological Switch". Bioconjugate Chemistry 2015, 26, 1879-1883.

163. Junfeng Shi; Xuewen Du; Dan Yuan; Richard Haburcak; Dongdong Wu; Ning Zhou; Bing Xu* “Enzyme Transformation to Modulate the Ligand-Receptor Interactions between Small Molecules". Chemical Communications 2015, 51, 4899-4901.

162. Xuwen Du; Jie Zhou; Bing Xu* “Ectoenzyme Switches the Surface of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Selective Binding of Cancer Cells". Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2015, 447, 273- 277.

161. Xuewen Du; Jie Zhou; Junfeng Shi; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Hydrogelators and Hydrogels: From Soft Matter to Molecular Biomaterials". Chemical Reviews 2015, 115, 13165-13307

160. Rong Zhou; Bing Xu* “Insight of the Cytotoxicity of the Aggregates of Peptides or Aberrant Proteins: A Meta-Analysis". PLoS One 2014, 9, e95759.

159. Jie Zhou; Xuewen Du; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Bing Xu* “Aromatic-Aromatic Interactions Enhance Interfiber Contacts for Enzymatic Formation of a Spontaneously Aligned Supramolecular Hydrogel". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 2970-2973.

158. Ye Zhang; Ning Zhou; Ning Li; Megan Sun; Dongshin Kim; Seth Fraden; Irving R. Epstein; Bing Xu* “Giant Volume Change of Active Gels under Continuous Flow". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 7341-7347.

157. Yi Kuang; Junfeng Shi; Jie Li; Dan Yuan; Kyle A. Alberti; Qiaobing Xu; Bing Xu* “Pericellular Hydrogel/Nanonets Inhibit Cancer Cells". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 8104-8107.

156. Fan Zhao; Jingyu Li; Ning Zhou; Jiro Sakai; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Bronia Goldman; Hayley M. Browdy; Hongbo R. Luo; Bing Xu* “De Novo Chemoattractants Form Supramolecular Hydrogels for Immunomodulating Neutrophils in Vivo". Bioconjugate Chemistry 2014, 25, 2116- 2122.

155. Fan Zhao; Balthasar A. Heesters; Isaac Chiu; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Ning Zhou; Michael C. Carroll; Bing Xu* “L-Rhamnose-Containing Supramolecular Nanofibrils as Potential Immunosuppressive Materials". Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2014, 12, 6816-6819.

153. Dan Yuan; Xuewen Du; Junfeng Shi; Ning Zhou; Abdulgader Ahmed Baoum; Bing Xu* “Synthesis of Novel Conjugates of a Saccharide, Amino Acids, Nucleobase and the Evaluation of Their Cell Compatibility". Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 2014, 10, 2406-2413.

152. Dongdong Wu; Jie Zhou; Junfeng Shi; Xuewen Du; Bing Xu* “A Naphthalene-Containing Amino Acid Enables Hydrogelation of a Conjugate of Nucleobase-Saccharide-Amino Acids". Chemical Communications 2014, 50, 1992-1994.

151. Dongdong Wu; Xuewen Du; Junfeng Shi; Jie Zhou; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Nanofibers/Hydrogels of the Conjugates of Nucleobase, Saccharide, and Amino Acids". Chinese Journal of Chemistry 2014, 32, 313-318.

150. Junfeng Shi; Xuewen Du; Dan Yuan; Jie Zhou; Ning Zhou; Yibing Huang; Bing Xu* “D-Amino Acids Modulate the Cellular Response of Enzymatic-Instructed Supramolecular Nanofibers of Small Peptides". Biomacromolecules 2014, 15, 3559-3568.

149. Sukho Park; Dongshin Kim; Seong Young Ko; Jong-Oh Park; Sathish Akella; Bing Xu; Ye Zhang; Seth Fraden "Controlling Uniformity of Photopolymerized Microscopic Hydrogels". Lab on a Chip 2014, 14, 1551-1563.

148. Garry Laverty*; Alice P. Mccloskey; Brendan F. Gilmore; David S. Jones; Jie Zhou; Bing Xu “Ultrashort Cationic Naphthalene-Derived Self-Assembled Peptides as Antimicrobial Nanomaterials". Biomacromolecules 2014, 15, 3429-3439.

147. Yi Kuang; Marcus J. C. Long; Jie Zhou; Junfeng Shi; Yuan Gao; Chen Xu; Lizbeth Hedstrom; Bing Xu* “Prion-Like Nanofibrils of Small Molecules (Prism) Selectively Inhibit Cancer Cells by Impeding Cytoskeleton Dynamics". Journal of Biological Chemistry 2014, 289, 29208-29218.

146. Yi Kuang; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Jie Li; Bing Xu* “The First Supramolecular Peptidic Hydrogelator Containing Taurine". Chemical Communications 2014, 50, 2772-2774.

145. Yi Kuang; Xuewen Du; Jie Zhou; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Nanofibrils Inhibit Cancer Progression in Vitro and in Vivo". Advanced Healthcare Materials 2014, 3, 1217-1221.

144. Xuewen Du; Jie Zhou; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Hydrogels Made of Basic Biological Building Blocks". Chemistry-an Asian Journal 2014, 9, 1446-1472.

143. Xuewen Du; Jie Zhou; Liheng Wu; Shouheng Sun; Bing Xu* “Enzymatic Transformation of Phosphate Decorated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Selectively Sorting and Inhibiting Cancer Cells". Bioconjugate Chemistry 2014, 25, 2129-2133.

142. Ye Zhang; Rong Zhou; Junfeng Shi; Ning Zhou; Ivring. R. Epstein; Bing Xu* “Post-Self- Assembly Cross-Linking to Integrate Molecular Nanofibers with Copolymers in Oscillatory Hydrogels". Journal of Physical Chemistry. B 2013, 117, 6566-6573.

141. Ye Zhang; Ning Zhou; Sathish Akella; Yi Kuang; Dongshin Kim; Alyssa Schwartz; Marc Bezpalko; Bruce M. Foxman; Seth Fraden; Irving R. Epstein; Bing Xu* “Active Cross-Linkers That Lead to Active Gels". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2013, 52, 11494-11498.

140. Ye Zhang; Bei Zhang; Yi Kuang; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Xi Xiang Zhang; Bing Xu* “A Redox Responsive, Fluorescent Supramolecular Metallohydrogel Consists of Nanofibers with Single- Molecule Width". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135, 5008-5011.

139. Jiayang Li; Yi Kuang; Yuan Gao; Xuewen Du; Junfeng Shi; Bing Xu* “D-Amino Acids Boost the Selectivity and Confer Supramolecular Hydrogels of a Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID)". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135, 542-545.

138. Jiayang Li; Yuan Gao; Yi Kuang; Junfeng Shi; Xuewen Du; Jie Zhou; Huaimin Wang; Zhimou Yang; Bing Xu* “Dephosphorylation of D-Peptide Derivatives to Form Biofunctional, Supramolecular Nanofibers/Hydrogels and Their Potential Applications for Intracellular Imaging and Intratumoral Chemotherapy". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135, 9907- 9914.

137. Yi Kuang; Bing Xu* “Disruption of the Dynamics of Microtubules and Selective Inhibition of Glioblastoma Cells by Nanofibers of Small Hydrophobic Molecules". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2013, 52, 6944-6948.

136. Jiayang Li; Xinming Li; Yi Kuang; Yuan Gao; Xuewen Du; Junfeng Shi; Bing Xu* “Self-Delivery Multifunctional Anti-Hiv Hydrogels for Sustained Release". Advanced Healthcare Materials 2013, 2, 1586-1590.

135. Jiayang Li; Yi Kuang; Junfeng Shi; Yuan Gao; Jie Zhou; Bing Xu* “The Conjugation of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID) to Small Peptides for Generating Multifunctional Supramolecular Nanofibers/Hydrogels". Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 2013, 9, 908- 917.

134. Yi Kuang; Dan Yuan; Ye Zhang; Anita Kao; Xuewen Du; Bing Xu* “Interactions between Cellular Proteins and Morphologically Different Nanoscale Aggregates of Small Molecules". RSC Advances 2013, 3, 7704-7707.

133. Yibing Huang; Junfeng Shi; Dan Yuan; Ning Zhou; Bing Xu* “Length-Dependent Proteolytic Cleavage of Short Oligopeptides Catalyzed by Matrix Metalloprotease-9". Biopolymers 2013, 100, 790-795.

132. Yuan Gao; Yi Kuang; Xuewen Du; Jie Zhou; Preethi Chandran; Ferenc Horkay; Bing Xu* “Imaging Self-Assembly Dependent Spatial Distribution of Small Molecules in a Cellular Environment". Langmuir 2013, 29, 15191-15200.

131. Yuan Gao; Cristina Berciu; Yi Kuang; Junfeng Shi; Daniela Nicastro; Bing Xu* “Probing Nanoscale Self-Assembly of Nonfluorescent Small Molecules inside Live Mammalian Cells". ACS Nano 2013, 7, 9055-9063.

130. Ye Zhang; Ning Li; Jorge Delgado; Ning Zhou; Ryo Yoshida; Seth Fraden; Irving R. Epstein; Bing Xu* “Structural Modulation of Self-Oscillating Gels: Changing the Proximity of the Catalyst to the Polymer Backbone to Tailor Chemomechanical Oscillation". Soft Matter 2012, 8, 7056- 7061.

129. Ye Zhang; Ning Li; Jorge Delgado; Yuan Gao; Yi Kuang; Seth Fraden; Irving R. Epstein; Bing Xu* “Post-Self-Assembly Cross-Linking of Molecular Nanofibers for Oscillatory Hydrogels". Langmuir 2012, 28, 3063-3066.

128. Zhimou Yang; Yi Kuang; Xinming Li; Ning Zhou; Ye Zhang; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Hydrogel of Kanamycin Selectively Sequesters 16s rRNA". Chemical Communications 2012, 48, 9257-9259.

127. Yue Pan; Marcus J. C. Long; Hsin-Chieh Lin; Lizbeth Hedstrom; Bing Xu* “Magnetic Nanoparticles for Direct Protein Sorting inside Live Cells". Chemical Science 2012, 3, 3495- 3499.

126. Yue Pan; Xuewen Du; Fan Zhao; Bing Xu* “Magnetic Nanoparticles for the Manipulation of Proteins and Cells". Chemical Society Reviews 2012, 41, 2912-2942.

125. Xinming Li; Yi Kuang; Bing Xu* “"Molecular Trinity" for Soft Nanomaterials: Integrating Nucleobases, Amino Acids, and Glycosides to Construct Multifunctional Hydrogelators". Soft Matter 2012, 8, 2801-2806.

124. Xinming Li; Xuewen Du; Jiayang Li; Yuan Gao; Yue Pan; Junfeng Shi; Ning Zhou; Bing Xu* “Introducing D-Amino Acid or Simple Glycoside into Small Peptides to Enable Supramolecular Hydrogelators to Resist Proteolysis". Langmuir 2012, 28, 13512-13517.

123. Xinming Li; Xuewen Du; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Yi Kuang; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Hydrogels Formed by the Conjugates of Nucleobases, Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) Peptides, and Glucosamine". Soft Matter 2012, 8, 7402-7407.

122. Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Dan Yuan; Bing Xu* “Imaging Enzyme-Triggered Self-Assembly of Small Molecules inside Live Cells". Nature Communications 2012, 3, 1033.

121. Yuan Gao; Marcus J. C. Long; Junfeng Shi; Lizbeth Hedstrom; Bing Xu* “Using Supramolecular Hydrogels to Discover the Interactions between Proteins and Molecular Nanofibers of Small Molecules". Chemical Communications 2012, 48, 8404-8406.

119. Guoqina Chen; Chunhuab Ren; Ling Wang; Bing Xu*; Zhimou Yang* "Orthogonal Enzymatic Reactions to Control Supramolecular Hydrogelations". Chinese Journal of Chemistry 2012, 30, 53-58.

118. Fan Zhao; Christopher S. Weitzel; Yuan Gao; Hayley M. Browd; Junfeng Shi; Hsin-Chieh Lin; Susan T. Lovett; Bing Xu* “Beta-Galactosidase-Instructed Formation of Molecular Nanofibers and a Hydrogel". Nanoscale 2011, 3, 2859-2861.

117. Fan Zhao; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Hayley M. Browdy; Bing Xu* “Novel Anisotropic Supramolecular Hydrogel with High Stability over a Wide Ph Range". Langmuir 2011, 27, 1510- 1512.

116. Ye Zhang; Yi Kuang; Yuan Gao; Bing Xu* “Versatile Small-Molecule Motifs for Self-Assembly in Water and the Formation of Biofunctional Supramolecular Hydrogels". Langmuir 2011, 27, 529-537.

115. Bengang Xing*; Tingting Jiang; Wuguo Bi; Yanmei Yang; Lihua Li; Manlun Ma; Chi-Kwong Chang; Bing Xu; Edwin Kok Lee Yeow. "Multifunctional Divalent Vancomycin: The Fluorescent Imaging and Photodynamic Antimicrobial Properties for Drug Resistant Bacteria". Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 1601-1603.

114. Junfeng Shi; Yuan Gao; Ye Zhang; Yue Pan; Bing Xu* “Calcium Ions to Cross-Link Supramolecular Nanofibers to Tune the Elasticity of Hydrogels over Orders of Magnitude". Langmuir 2011, 27, 14425-14431.

113. Junfeng Shi; Yuan Gao; Zhimou Yang; Bing Xu* “Exceptionally Small Supramolecular Hydrogelators Based on Aromatic-Aromatic Interactions". Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 2011, 7, 167-172.

112. Yue Pan; Marcus J. C. Long; Xinming Li; Junfeng Shi; Lizbeth Hedstrom; Bing Xu* “Glutathione (GSH)-Decorated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Binding Glutathione-S-Transferase (GST) Fusion Protein and Manipulating Live Cells". Chemical Science 2011, 2, 945-948.

111. Yue Pan; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Ling Wang; Bing Xu* “A Versatile Supramolecular Hydrogel of Nitrilotriacetic Acid (NTA) for Binding Metal Ions and Magnetorheological Response". Journal of Materials Chemistry 2011, 21, 6804-6806.

110. Marcus J. C. Long; Yue Pan; Hsin-Chieh Lin; Lizbeth Hedstrom; Bing Xu* “Cell Compatible Trimethoprim-Decorated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Bind Dihydrofolate Reductase for Magnetically Modulating Focal Adhesion of Mammalian Cells". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011, 133, 10006-10009.

109. Xinming Li; Yi Kuang; Junfeng Shi; Yuan Gao; Hsin-Chieh Lin; Bing Xu* “Multifunctional, Biocompatible Supramolecular Hydrogelators Consist Only of Nucleobase, Amino Acid, and Glycoside". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011, 133, 17513-17518.

108. Xinming Li; Yi Kuang; Hsin-Chieh Lin; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Nanofibers and Hydrogels of Nucleopeptides". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2011, 50, 9365-9369.

107. Yi Kuang; Yuan Gao; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Hydrogelators of N-Terminated Dipeptides Selectively Inhibit Cancer Cells". Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 12625-12627.

106. Yi Kuang; Yuan Gao; Junfeng Shi; Hsin-Chieh Lin; Bing Xu* “Supramolecular Hydrogels Based on the Epitope of Potassium Ion Channels". Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 8772-8774.

105. J. Delgado; Ye Zhang; Bing Xu; Irving R. Epstein* "Terpyridine- and Bipyridine-Based Ruthenium Complexes as Catalysts for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction". Journal of Physical Chemistry. A 2011, 115, 2208-2215.