Publications by Alice Comberlato

DNA-based biomaterials for nanoscale controlled modulation of immune cells

Recent advances in the field of nanomaterials demonstrated how their use for vaccination can drastically improve immune responses, mainly by enhancing delivery and uptake of vaccine components. However, our understanding of the connections between presenta ...

EPFL2022

Spatially Controlled Activation of Toll-like Receptor 9 with DNA-Based Nanomaterials

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Alice Comberlato, Marianna Mainardi Koga

First evidence of geometrical patterns and defined distances of biomolecules as fundamental parameters to regulate receptor binding and cell signaling have emerged recently. Here, we demonstrate the importance of controlled nanospacing of immunostimulatory ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Strategic Insights into Engineering Parameters Affecting Cell Type-Specific Uptake of DNA-Based Nanomaterials

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Alice Comberlato, Hugo José Rodriguez Franco, Marianna Mainardi Koga

DNA-based nanomaterials are gaining popularity as uniform and programmable bioengineering tools as a result of recent solutions to their weak stability under biological conditions. The DNA nanotechnology platform uniquely allows decoupling of engineering p ...

American Chemical Society2022

Generation of a 100-billion cyclic peptide phage display library having a high skeletal diversity

Christian Heinis, Xudong Kong, Alice Comberlato, Vanessa Carle, Cristina Diaz Perlas

Phage display is a powerful technique routinely used for the generation of peptide- or protein-based ligands. The success of phage display selections critically depends on the size and structural diversity of the libraries, but the generation of large libr ...

2021

Quantification of Strand Accessibility in Biostable DNA Origami with Single-Staple Resolution

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Alice Comberlato

DNA-based nanostructures are actively gaining interest as tools for biomedical and therapeutic applications following the recent development of protective coating strategies prolonging structural integrity in physiological conditions. For tailored biologic ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Probing the importance of valency and spatial organization of immune regulator PD-1 with DNA-based nanomaterials

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Kaltrina Paloja, Alice Comberlato, Jorieke Weiden, Cem Tekin

WILEY2021

Nucleic acids presenting polymer nanomaterials as vaccine adjuvants

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Kaltrina Paloja, Alice Comberlato

Most vaccines developed today include only the antigens that best stimulate the immune system rather than the entire virus or microbe, which makes vaccine production and use safer and easier, though they lack potency to induce acceptable immunity and long- ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019