Publications

Yamin Li _ Google Scholar 

 

# equal contribution    * corresponding author        

SUNY Upstate

Monovalent SARS-COV-2 mRNA Vaccine Using Optimal UTRs and LNPs Is Highly Immunogenic and Broadly Protective Against Omicron Variants

Z Ye, S Bonam, L McKay, J Plante, J Walker, Y Zhao, C Huang, J Chen, C Xu, Y Li, L Liu, J Harmon, S Gao, D Song, Z Zhang, K Plante, A Griffiths, J Chen, H Hu*, Q Xu*

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (52), e2311752120 (2023)   [LINK]

The mRNA Vaccine Revolution: COVID-19 Has Launched the Future of Vaccinology

Z Ye, J Harmon, W Ni, Y Li, D Wich, Q Xu*

ACS Nano 17 (16), 15231–15253 (2023)   [LINK]

Adaptive c-Met-PLXDC2 Signaling Axis Mediates Cancer Stem Cell Plasticity to Confer Radioresistance-associated Aggressiveness in Head and Neck Cancer

L Lang, F Chen, Y Li, C Shay, F Yang, H Dan, Z Chen, N Saba, Y Teng*

Cancer Research Communications 3 (4), 659-671 (2023)   [LINK]

Clinical Progress in Genome-Editing Technology and In Vivo Delivery Techniques

J Khirallah, M Eimbinder, Y Li*, Q Xu*

Trends in Genetics, 39, 208-216 (2023)   [LINK]

Invited Review Article

 

Patterns of Toxicity Burden for FDA-approved Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in the United States

F Yang, C Shay, M Abousaud, C Tang, Y Li, Z Qin, N Saba, Y Teng*

Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, 42, 4 (2023)   [LINK]

 

In Vivo Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Components for Therapeutic Applications

K Huang, D Zapata, Y Tang, Y Teng*, Y Li*

Biomaterials, 291, 121876 (2022)   [LINK]

 

Tailoring Combinatorial Lipid Nanoparticles for Intracellular Delivery of Nucleic Acids, Proteins, and Drugs

Y Li, Z Ye, G Yang, Q Xu*

Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 12 (6), 2624-2639 (2022)   [LINK]

Invited Review Article for the A New Era of Nanobiomaterial-based Drug Delivery Special Issue

 

Tufts 

Investigating the Cytosolic Delivery of Proteins by Lipid Nanoparticles Using the Chloroalkane Penetration Assay

J Wang, S Zhang, Y Li, Q Xu, J Kritzer*

Biochemistry (2024)   [LINK] 

Published as part of Biochemistry virtual special issue “Drug Delivery”. 

 

CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Genome and Epigenome Editing in Mammalian Cells

H Bloomer, J Khirallah, Y Li*, Q Xu*

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 181, 114087 (2022)   [LINK] 

Invited Review Article for the RNA-Binding Proteins as Molecular Targets for Cancer Therapy Special Issue

 

Lipid Nanoparticle-mediated Lymph Node-Targeting Delivery of mRNA Cancer Vaccine Elicits Robust CD8+ T Cell Response 

J Chen#, Z Ye#, C Huang, M Qiu, D Song, Y Li, Q Xu*

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (34), e2207841119   [LINK]

 

Challenges in Delivering Therapeutic Peptides and Proteins: A Silk-based Solution

J Wu, J Sahoo, Y Li, Q Xu*, D Kaplan*

Journal of Controlled Release, 345, 176-189 (2022)   [LINK]  

Featured on Front Cover   [LINK]

2021 JCR

In Vitro Engineering Chimeric Antigen Receptor Macrophages and T Cells by Lipid Nanoparticle-Mediated mRNA Delivery

Z Ye, J Chen, X Zhao, Y Li, J Harmon, C Huang, J Chen, Q Xu*

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 8 (2), 722-733 (2022)   [LINK]

 

Intracellular Delivery of Antibodies for Selective Cell Signaling Interference

R Hershman, Y Li, F Ma, Q Xu, J Van Deventer*

ChemMedChem, 17 (6), e202100678 (2021)   [LINK]

Preprint on bioRxiv, DOI:10.1101/2021.10.05.463275   [LINK] 

 

Developing Biodegradable Lipid Nanoparticles for Intracellular mRNA Delivery and Genome Editing

M Qiu#, Y Li#, H Bloomer, Q Xu*

Accounts of Chemical Research, 54 (21), 4001-4011 (2021)   [LINK]

Invited Review Article for the mRNA Therapeutics Special Issue  

 

Study the Lipidoid Nanoparticle Mediated Genome Editing Protein Delivery Using 3D Intestinal Tissue Model

T Yang, H Han, Y Chen, L Yang, R Parker, Y Li, D Kaplan*, Q Xu*

Bioactive Materials, 6 (11), 3671-3677 (2021)    [LINK] 

Editor-in-Chief Invited Research Article

 

Scaffold-Mediated CRISPR/Cas9 Delivery System for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Therapy

T Ho, H Kim, Y Chen, Y Li, M LaMere, C Chen, H Wang, J Gong, C Palumbo, J Ashton, H Kim, Q Xu, M Becker*, K Leong*

Sciences Advances, 7 (21), eabg3217 (2021)   [LINK]

 

In Situ Cancer Vaccination Using Lipidoid Nanoparticles

J Chen, M Qiu, Z Ye, T Nyalile, Y Li, Z Glass, X Zhao, L Yang, J Chen, Q Xu*

Science Advances, 7, eabf1244 (2021)   [LINK]

 

Lipid Nanoparticle-Mediated Co-delivery of Cas9 mRNA and Single-guide RNA Achieves Liver-Specific In Vivo Genome Editing of Angptl3

M Qiu#, Z Glass#, J Chen, X Zhao, X Rui, Z Ye, Y Li, F Zhang, Q Xu*

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2020401118 (2021)   [LINK]

 

Intracellular Antibody Delivery Mediated by Lipids, Polymers, and Inorganic Nanomaterials for Therapeutic Applications

Y Li, P Li, R Li, Q Xu*

Advanced Therapeutics, 3 (12), 2000178 (2020)   [LINK]

 

Imidazole-Based Synthetic Lipidoids for In Vivo mRNA Delivery into Primary T Lymphocytes

X Zhao#, J Chen#, M Qiu, Y Li, Z Glass, Q Xu*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59 (45), 20083-20089 (2020)   [LINK]

 

Combinatorial Library of Cyclic Benzylidene Acetal-Containing pH-Responsive Lipidoid Nanoparticles for Intracellular mRNA Delivery

Y Li, R Li, A Chakraborty, R Ogurlu, X Zhao, J Chen, Q Xu*

Bioconjugate Chemistry, 31 (7), 1835-1843 (2020)   [LINK]

 

Protein and mRNA Delivery Enabled by Cholesteryl-Based Biodegradable Lipidoid Nanoparticles

Y Li, R Jarvis, K Zhu, Z Glass, R Ogurlu, P Gao, P Li, J Chen, Y Yu, Y Yang, Q Xu*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59 (35), 14957-14964 (2020)    [LINK]

 

In Vitro and In Vivo Study of an Amphotericin B Formulation with Quaternized Bioreducible Lipidoids

F Liu#, L Yang#, Y Li#, A Junier, F Ma, J Chen, H Han, Z Glass, X Zhao, C Kumamoto, H Song*, Q Xu*

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 6 (2), 1064-1073 (2020)   [LINK]

 

Ex vivo Cell-Based CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing for Therapeutic Applications

Y Li, Z Glass, Q Xu*

Biomaterials, 234, 119711 (2020)   [LINK]

Editor-in-Chief Invited Review Article

 

Intracellular Delivery of Genome Editing Proteins Enabled by Nitrilotriacetic Acid-Containing Lipidoid Nanoparticles

Y Li, A Li, Q Xu*

Advanced Healthcare Materials, 8 (6), 180996 (2019)  [LINK]

Invited Research Article for the Molecular Engineering, from Molecule to Medicine Special Issue 

Featured on Front Cover   [LINK]   

 

Combinatorial Library of Light-Cleavable Lipidoid Nanoparticles for Intracellular Drug Delivery

Y Li, A Chakraborty, J Chen, Q Xu*

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 5, 2391-2398 (2019)   [LINK]

 

Intracellular Delivery and Biodistribution Study of CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Loaded Bioreducible Lipidoid Nanoparticles

Y Li, J Bolinger, Y Yu, Z Glass, N Shi, L Yang, M Wang, Q Xu*

Biomaterials Science, 7, 597-606 (2019)   [LINK] 

Invited Research Article for the Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators Special Issue 

 

A Novel Non-Surgical Method to Reduce Fertility Using The Rat as A Model

K Meadows*, Y Li, Q Xu, S Ayres

Clinical Theriogenology, 11, 31-41 (2019)   [LINK]

 

3D Printing of Silk Protein Structures by Aqueous Solvent-Directed Molecular Assembly

X Mu, Y Wang, C Guo, Y Li, S Ling, W Huang, P Cebe, H Hsu, F Ferrari, X Jiang, Q Xu, A Balduini, F Omenetto, D Kaplan*

Macromolecular Bioscience, e1900191 (2019)   [LINK]

Preprint on ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.8206469   [LINK]

 

A Novel Xenograft Mouse Model for Testing Approaches Targeting Human Kappa Light-Chain Diseases

X Ma, P Zhou, A Kugelmass, D Toskic, M Warner, L Lee, T Fogaren, A Godara, M Wang, Y Li, L Yang, Q Xu, R Comenzo*

Gene Therapy, 26, 187-197 (2019)   [LINK]

 

Combinatorial Library of Chalcogen-Containing Lipidoids for Intracellular Delivery of Genome-Editing Proteins

Y Li#, T Yang#, Y Yu, N Shi, L Yang, Z Glass, J Bolinger, I Finkel, W Li, Q Xu*

Biomaterials, 178, 652-662 (2018)   [LINK]   

Invited Research Article for the Chemistry of Biomaterials Special Issue  


Rescued from the Fate of Neurological Disorder

Y Li, Z Glass, Q Xu*

Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2, 469-470 (2018)   [LINK] 

Invited News & Views 

 

Treatment of Autosomal Dominant Hearing Loss by In Vivo Delivery of Genome Editing Agents

X Gao, Y Tao, V Lamas, M Huang, W Yeh, B Pan, Y Hu, J Hu, D Thompson, Y Shu, Y Li, H Wang, S Yang, Q Xu, D Polley, M Liberman, W Kong, J Holt, Z Chen*, D Liu*

Nature, 553, 217-221 (2018)   [LINK]

 

Engineering the Delivery Systems for CRISPR-Based Genome Editing

Z Glass, M Lee, Y Li, Q Xu*

Trends in Biotechnology, 36, 173-185 (2018)   [LINK]

 

Effective Lipidoid Nanoparticle Delivery In Vivo of siRNA Targeting Kappa Light Chain Production in a Murine Xenograft Model

X Ma, P Zhou, A Kugelmass, D Toskic, M Warner, L Lee, T Fogaren, M Wang, Y Li, L Yang, Q Xu, R Comenzo*

Blood, 132, 3208 (2018)   [LINK]

 

Hyaluronic Acid Modification of RNase A and Its Intracellular Delivery Using Lipid-Like Nanoparticles

X Wang#, Y Li#, Q Li, C Neufeld, D Pouli, S Sun, L Yang, P Deng, M Wang, I Georgakoudi, S Tang, Q Xu*

Journal of Controlled Release, 263, 39-45 (2017)   [LINK]

Invited Research Article for the Nano Drug Delivery Systems Special Issue

 

Nanoparticles for CRISPR-Cas9 Delivery

Z Glass, Y Li, Q Xu*

Nature Biomedical Engineering, 1, 854-855 (2017)   [LINK] 

Invited News & Views

Book Chapter

Non-Viral Genome Editing in Cancer Immunotherapy

Y Li, Q Xu

Systemic Drug Delivery Strategies (Elsevier Press), 2, 257-272 (2022)   [LINK]

 

Chemical Modification of Proteins and Their Intracellular Delivery Using Lipidoid Nanoparticles

Y Li, Z Glass, Q Xu

Biomedical Engineering Technologies (Humana Press), 2394, 555-573 (2020)   [LINK]

 

USTC

Cytosolic NQO1 Enzyme-Activated Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy with Polymeric Vesicles

C Yao, Y Li, Z Wang, C Song, X Hu, S Liu*

ACS Nano, 14, 1919-1935 (2020)   [LINK]

 

Enzyme-Triggered Transition from Polymeric Vesicles to Core Cross-Linked Micelles for Selective Release of Antimicrobial Agents

Y Li, S Liu*

Acta Polymerica Sinica, 7, 1178-1190 (2017)   [LINK] 

Invited Research Article for the 60th Journal Anniversary Special Issue

 

Enzyme-Responsive Polymeric Vesicles for Bacterial Strain-Selective Delivery of Antimicrobial Agents

Y Li, G Liu, X Wang, J Hu, S Liu*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 55, 1760-1764 (2016)   [LINK]

 

Amphiphilic Star Copolymer-Based Bimodal Fluorogenic/Magnetic Resonance Probes for Concomitant Bacteria Detection and Inhibition

Y Li, H Yu, Y Qian, J Hu, S Liu*

Advanced Materials, 26, 6734-6741 (2014)   [LINK]

 

Polyion Complex Micellar Nanoparticles for Integrated Fluorometric Detection and Bacteria Inhibition in Aqueous Media

Y Li, X Hu, S Tian, Y Li, G Zhang, G Zhang*, S Liu*

Biomaterials, 35, 1618-1626 (2014)   [LINK]

 

Light-Triggered Concomitant Enhancement of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Performance and Drug Release Rate of Functionalized Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymer Micelles

Y Li, Y Qian, T Liu, G Zhang, S Liu*

Biomacromolecules, 13, 3877-3886 (2012)   [LINK]