Probing orientations and conformations of peptides and proteins at buried interfaces

W Guo, T Lu, Z Gandhi, Z Chen - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular structures of peptides/proteins at interfaces determine their interfacial properties,
which play important roles in many applications. It is difficult to probe interfacial …

Molecular interactions between graphene and biological molecules

X Zou, S Wei, J Jasensky, M **ao, Q Wang… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Applications of graphene have extended into areas of nanobio-technology such as nanobio-
medicine, nanobio-sensing, as well as nanoelectronics with biomolecules. These …

Control of protein conformation and orientation on graphene

S Wei, X Zou, J Tian, H Huang, W Guo… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Graphene-based biosensors have attracted considerable attention due to their advantages
of label-free detection and high sensitivity. Many such biosensors utilize noncovalent van …

Investigating the effect of two-point surface attachment on enzyme stability and activity

X Zou, S Wei, S Badieyan, MK Schroeder… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Immobilization on solid supports provides an effective way to improve enzyme stability and
simplify downstream processing for biotechnological applications, which has been widely …

Molecular structure of the surface-immobilized super uranyl binding protein

W Guo, X Zou, H Jiang, KJ Koebke… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recently, a super uranyl binding protein (SUP) was developed, which exhibits excellent
sensitivity/selectivity to bind uranyl ions. It can be immobilized onto a surface in sensing …

Chemically immobilized antimicrobial peptide on polymer and self-assembled monolayer substrates

M **ao, J Jasensky, J Gerszberg, J Chen, J Tian, T Lin… - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
Surfaces with chemically immobilized antimicrobial peptides have been shown to have great
potential in various applications such as biosensors and antimicrobial coatings. This …

Effect of immobilization site on the orientation and activity of surface-tethered enzymes

Y Li, TL Ogorzalek, S Wei, X Zhang, P Yang… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Tethering peptides and proteins to abiotic surfaces has the potential to create biomolecule-
functionalized surfaces with useful properties. Commonly used methods of immobilization …

Early sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopic studies on peptides and proteins at interfaces

Z Chen - Biointerphases, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This paper summarizes the early research results on studying proteins and peptides at
interfaces using sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy. SFG studies in …

Monitoring antimicrobial mechanisms of surface-immobilized peptides in situ

M **ao, J Jasensky, L Foster, K Kuroda, Z Chen - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in free solution can kill bacteria by disrupting bacterial cell
membranes. Their modes of action have been extensively studied, and various models …

Probing Molecular Interactions between Surface-Immobilized Antimicrobial Peptides and Lipopolysaccharides In Situ

W Guo, S Xu, TM Reichart, M **ao, T Lu, C Mello… - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a component of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria.
Recently, a label-free immobilized antimicrobial peptide (AMP) surface plasmon resonance …