Visible-light-mediated modification and manipulation of biomacromolecules

VM Lechner, M Nappi, PJ Deneny, S Folliet… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chemically modified biomacromolecules─ ie, proteins, nucleic acids, glycans, and lipids─
have become crucial tools in chemical biology. They are extensively used not only to …

Covalent and Non‐Covalent DNA–Gold‐Nanoparticle Interactions: New Avenues of Research

JM Carnerero, A Jimenez‐Ruiz, PM Castillo… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The interactions of DNA, whether long, hundred base pair chains or short‐chained
oligonucleotides, with ligands play a key role in the field of structural biology. Its biological …

Density Functional Theory Calculation of pKa's of Thiols in Aqueous Solution Using Explicit Water Molecules and the Polarizable Continuum Model

B Thapa, HB Schlegel - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2016 - ACS Publications
The p K a's of substituted thiols are important for understanding their properties and
reactivities in applications in chemistry, biochemistry, and material chemistry. For a …

DNA-modified polymer pores allow pH-and voltage-gated control of channel flux

SF Buchsbaum, G Nguyen, S Howorka… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Biological channels embedded in cell membranes regulate ionic transport by responding to
external stimuli such as pH, voltage, and molecular binding. Mimicking the gating properties …

Comparison of Nine Programs Predicting pKa Values of Pharmaceutical Substances

C Liao, MC Nicklaus - Journal of chemical information and …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Knowledge of the possible ionization states of a pharmaceutical substance, embodied in the
p K a values (logarithm of the acid dissociation constant), is vital for understanding many …

Calculations of pKa's and Redox Potentials of Nucleobases with Explicit Waters and Polarizable Continuum Solvation

B Thapa, HB Schlegel - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2015 - ACS Publications
The SMD implicit solvation model augmented with one and four explicit water molecules
was used to calculate p K a's and redox potentials of N-methyl-substituted nucleic acid …

Critical evaluation of implicit solvent models for predicting aqueous oxidation potentials of neutral organic compounds

JJ Guerard, JS Arey - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2013 - ACS Publications
Quantum chemical implicit solvent models are used widely to estimate aqueous redox
potentials. We compared the accuracy of several popular implicit solvent models (SM8 …

Arylboronate esters mediated self-healable and biocompatible dynamic G-quadruplex hydrogels as promising 3D-bioinks

A Biswas, S Malferrari, DM Kalaskar… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Extrudable G-quadruplex hydrogels were prepared at physiological pH. Gels with suitable
mechanical properties were explored as 3D-bioinks. The 3D printing process is driven by …

Quantum Chemical Calculation of pKas of Environmentally Relevant Functional Groups: Carboxylic Acids, Amines, and Thiols in Aqueous Solution

P Lian, RC Johnston, JM Parks… - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Develo** accurate quantum chemical approaches for calculating p K as is of broad
interest. Useful accuracy can be obtained by using density functional theory (DFT) in …

Induced self-assembly and Forster resonance energy transfer studies of alkynylplatinum (II) terpyridine complex through interaction with water-soluble poly …

CYS Chung, VWW Yam - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The interaction of conjugated polyelectrolyte, PPE-SO3–, with platinum (II) complexes,[Pt
(tpy)(C CC6H4− CH2NMe3-4)](OTf) 2 (1) and [Pt (tpy)(C C–CH2NMe3)](OTf) 2 (2), has …