Programmable DNA switches and their applications

SG Harroun, C Prévost-Tremblay, D Lauzon… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA switches are ideally suited for numerous nanotechnological applications, and
increasing efforts are being directed toward their engineering. In this review, we discuss how …

Biosupramolecular systems: integrating cues into responses

EE Watson, S Angerani, PM Sabale… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Life is orchestrated by biomolecules interacting in complex networks of biological circuitry
with emerging function. Progress in different areas of chemistry has made the design of …

Glow-in-the-dark infectious disease diagnostics using Crispr-Cas9-based Split luciferase complementation

HJ van der Veer, EA van Aalen… - ACS Central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nucleic acid detection methods based on CRISPR and isothermal amplification techniques
show great potential for point-of-care diagnostic applications. However, most current …

Paper‐based antibody detection devices using bioluminescent BRET‐switching sensor proteins

K Tenda, B van Gerven, R Arts, Y Hiruta… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This work reports on fully integrated “sample‐in‐signal‐out” microfluidic paper‐based
analytical devices (μPADs) relying on bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) …

A Semisynthetic Bioluminescence Sensor for Ratiometric Imaging of Metal Ions In Vivo Using DNAzymes Conjugated to An Engineered Nano‐Luciferase

M **ong, Y Wu, G Kong, W Lewis, Z Yang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
DNA‐based probes have gained significant attention as versatile tools for biochemical
analysis, benefiting from their programmability and biocompatibility. However, most existing …

Coelenterazine-dependent luciferases as a powerful analytical tool for research and biomedical applications

VV Krasitskaya, EE Bashmakova, LA Frank - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The functioning of bioluminescent systems in most of the known marine organisms is based
on the oxidation reaction of the same substrate—coelenterazine (CTZ), catalyzed by …

Engineering and exploiting synthetic allostery of NanoLuc luciferase

Z Guo, RD Parakra, Y **ong, WA Johnston… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Allostery enables proteins to interconvert different biochemical signals and form complex
metabolic and signaling networks. We hypothesize that circular permutation of proteins …

Nucleic acid sensors in vivo: Challenges and opportunities

L Liu, M **ong, Q Rong, M Zhang, XB Zhang - View, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acid biosensors, integrated with functional nucleic acids, have drawn extensive
attention for diverse biomedical applications. In particular, many nucleic acid probes have …

Bioluminescence goes dark: boosting the performance of bioluminescent sensor proteins using complementation inhibitors

A Grawe, M Merkx - ACS sensors, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bioluminescent sensor proteins have recently gained popularity in both basic research and
point-of-care diagnostics. Sensor proteins based on intramolecular complementation of split …

Isomeric triazines exhibit unique profiles of bioorthogonal reactivity

DN Kamber, SS Nguyen, F Liu, JS Briggs, HW Shih… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Expanding the scope of bioorthogonal reactivity requires access to new and mutually
compatible reagents. We report here that 1, 2, 4-triazines can be tuned to exhibit unique …