Metal–organic frameworks for enzyme immobilization: beyond host matrix materials

X Wang, PC Lan, S Ma - ACS Central Science, 2020 - ACS Publications
Enzyme immobilization in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) as a promising strategy is
attracting the interest of scientists from different disciplines with the expansion of MOFs' …

Effects of Crowding and Cosolutes on Biomolecular Function at Extreme Environmental Conditions

J Peters, R Oliva, A Caliò, P Oger, R Winter - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The extent of the effect of cellular crowding and cosolutes on the functioning of proteins and
cells is manifold and includes the stabilization of the biomolecular systems, the excluded …

Spatially confined protein assembly in hierarchical mesoporous metal-organic framework

X Wang, L He, J Sumner, S Qian, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Immobilization of biomolecules into porous materials could lead to significantly enhanced
performance in terms of stability towards harsh reaction conditions and easier separation for …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of contact ultrasound coupled with infrared radiation on drying kinetics, water migration and physical properties of beef during hot air drying

J Gao, S Cheng, X Zeng, X Sun, Y Bai, S Hu… - Ultrasonics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Drying, as a critical step in the production of air-dried beef, has a direct impact on the quality
of the final product. Innovatively, a composite system incorporating contact ultrasound (CU) …

Effect of osmolytes on water mobility correlates with their stabilizing effect on proteins

M Hishida, R Anjum, T Anada… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There is a long, ongoing debate on how small molecules (osmolytes) affect the stability of
proteins. The present study found that change in collective rotational dynamics of water in …

Contrasting changes in strongly and weakly bound hydration water of a protein upon denaturation

M Hishida, A Kaneko, Y Yamamura… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Water is considered integral for the stabilization and function of proteins, which has recently
attracted significant attention. However, the microscopic aspects of water ranging up to the …

Dynamics of water bound to crystalline cellulose

H O'Neill, SV **ali, L Petridis, J He, E Mamontov… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Interactions of water with cellulose are of both fundamental and technological importance.
Here, we characterize the properties of water associated with cellulose using deuterium …

The synergic effect of water and biomolecules in intracellular phase separation

SS Ribeiro, N Samanta, S Ebbinghaus… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Phase separation has long been observed within aqueous mixtures of two or more different
compounds, such as proteins, salts, polysaccharides and synthetic polymers. A growing …

New insights into the protein stabilizing effects of trehalose by comparing with sucrose

K Ahlgren, C Olsson, I Ermilova… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Disaccharides are well known to be efficient stabilizers of proteins, for example in the case
of lyophilization or cryopreservation. However, although all disaccharides seem to exhibit …

Gradual crossover from subdiffusion to normal diffusion: a many-body effect in protein surface water

P Tan, Y Liang, Q Xu, E Mamontov, J Li, X **ng… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Dynamics of hydration water is essential for the function of biomacromolecules. Previous
studies have demonstrated that water molecules exhibit subdiffusion on the surface of …