Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

PC Ke, R Zhou, LC Serpell, R Riek… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic
implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the …

Applications of tannic acid in membrane technologies: A review

W Yan, M Shi, C Dong, L Liu, C Gao - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Today, membrane technologies play a big role in chemical industry, especially in separation
engineering. Tannic acid, one of the most famous polyphenols, has attracted widespread …

Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions

G Krainer, TJ Welsh, JA Joseph, P St George-Hyslop… - Biophysical …, 2021 - cell.com
Many cellular proteins demix spontaneously from solution to form liquid condensates. These
phase-separated structures have wide-ranging roles in health and disease. Elucidating the …

Antimicrobial mechanisms and effectiveness of graphene and graphene-functionalized biomaterials. A scope review

H Mohammed, A Kumar, E Bekyarova… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial infections represent nowadays the major reason of biomaterials implant failure,
however, most of the available implantable materials do not hold antimicrobial properties …

Atomic Resolution Structure of Monomorphic Aβ42 Amyloid Fibrils

MT Colvin, R Silvers, QZ Ni, TV Can… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Amyloid-β (Aβ) is a 39–42 residue protein produced by the cleavage of the amyloid
precursor protein (APP), which subsequently aggregates to form cross-β amyloid fibrils that …

How water's properties are encoded in its molecular structure and energies

E Brini, CJ Fennell, M Fernandez-Serra… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
How are water's material properties encoded within the structure of the water molecule? This
is pertinent to understanding Earth's living systems, its materials, its geochemistry and …

Mechanisms of the antimicrobial activities of graphene materials

X Zou, L Zhang, Z Wang, Y Luo - Journal of the american chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A thorough understanding of the antimicrobial mechanisms of graphene materials (GMs) is
critical to the manipulation of highly efficient antimicrobial nanomaterials for future …

Destructive extraction of phospholipids from Escherichia coli membranes by graphene nanosheets

Y Tu, M Lv, P **u, T Huynh, M Zhang, M Castelli… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Understanding how nanomaterials interact with cell membranes is related to how they cause
cytotoxicity and is therefore critical for designing safer biomedical applications. Recently …

Water in nanopores and biological channels: a molecular simulation perspective

CI Lynch, S Rao, MSP Sansom - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
This Review explores the dynamic behavior of water within nanopores and biological
channels in lipid bilayer membranes. We focus on molecular simulation studies, alongside …

A medicinal chemist's guide to molecular interactions

C Bissantz, B Kuhn, M Stahl - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
Molecular recognition in biological systems relies on the existence of specific attractive
interactions between two partner molecules. Structure-based drug design seeks to identify …