“…The ability of PBA to form reversible covalent complexes with 1,2-or 1,3-diols (Cambre and Sumerlin, 2011) is desirable for many medical and pharmaceutical applications such as glucose sensing (Wu et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2013), glucose-sensitive insulin controlled release (Wu et al, 2010), cancer targeting delivery (Wang et al, 2014(Wang et al, , 2013b, liver targeting delivery (Wang et al, 2013a) and gene delivery (Piest et al, 2013). It is worth noticing that recently, PBA moiety has been used to confer biomaterials affinity to mucin, since oligosaccharides in mucin provide plenty of binding sites for PBA (Zheng et al, 2013).…”