Affinity-based drug delivery systems for tissue repair and regeneration

K Vulic, MS Shoichet - Biomacromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
Affinity-based release systems use transient interactions to sustain and control the release of
a therapeutic from a polymeric matrix. The most common affinity-based systems use heparin …

Tunable growth factor delivery from injectable hydrogels for tissue engineering

K Vulic, MS Shoichet - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012 - ACS Publications
Current sustained delivery strategies of protein therapeutics are limited by the fragility of the
protein, resulting in minimal quantities of bioactive protein delivered. In order to achieve …

Exploiting conformational dynamics to modulate the function of designed proteins

E Rennella, DD Sahtoe, D Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
With the recent success in calculating protein structures from amino acid sequences using
artificial intelligence-based algorithms, an important next step is to decipher how dynamics …

Bayesian modeling of the yeast SH3 domain interactome predicts spatiotemporal dynamics of endocytosis proteins

R Tonikian, X **n, CP Toret, D Gfeller, C Landgraf… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
SH3 domains are peptide recognition modules that mediate the assembly of diverse
biological complexes. We scanned billions of phage-displayed peptides to map the binding …

Protein context shapes the specificity of SH3 domain-mediated interactions in vivo

U Dionne, É Bourgault, AK Dubé, D Bradley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) between modular binding domains and their target
peptide motifs are thought to largely depend on the intrinsic binding specificities of the …

Discovering molecular features of intrinsically disordered regions by using evolution for contrastive learning

AX Lu, AX Lu, I Pritišanac, T Zarin… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
A major challenge to the characterization of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), which
are widespread in the proteome, but relatively poorly understood, is the identification of …

Affinity-based release of chondroitinase ABC from a modified methylcellulose hydrogel

MM Pakulska, K Vulic, MS Shoichet - Journal of Controlled Release, 2013 - Elsevier
Chondroitinase ABC (ChABC) is a promising therapeutic for spinal cord injury as it can
degrade the glial scar that is detrimental to regrowth and repair. However, the sustained …

Phage tail fibre assembly proteins employ a modular structure to drive the correct folding of diverse fibres

OI North, K Sakai, E Yamashita, A Nakagawa… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Phage tail fibres are elongated protein assemblies capable of specific recognition of
bacterial surfaces during the first step of viral infection,,–. The folding of these complex …

Activation of caspase-9 on the apoptosome as studied by methyl-TROSY NMR

AIM Sever, TR Alderson, E Rennella… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Mitochondrial apoptotic signaling cascades lead to the formation of the apoptosome, a 1.1-
MDa heptameric protein scaffold that recruits and activates the caspase-9 protease. Once …

Dynamic remodeling of actin networks by cyclase-associated protein and CAP-Abp1 complexes

S Guo, GJ Hoeprich, JO Magliozzi, J Gelles, BL Goode - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
How actin filaments are spatially organized and remodeled into diverse higher-order
networks in vivo is still not well understood. Here, we report an unexpected F-actin" …