Towards realizing nano-enabled precision delivery in plants

GV Lowry, JP Giraldo, NF Steinmetz, A Avellan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nanocarriers (NCs) that can precisely deliver active agents, nutrients and genetic materials
into plants will make crop agriculture more resilient to climate change and sustainable. As a …

Thermal shift assay for protein–ligand dissociation constant determination

V Petrauskas, E Kazlauskas, M Gedgaudas… - TrAC Trends in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate determination of protein-ligand affinity is essential for drug design when new
compounds should be ranked according to their dissociation constants K d. The thermal shift …

Antiviral activity of natural phenolic compounds in complex at an allosteric site of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

V Srinivasan, H Brognaro, PR Prabhu… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease (PLpro) covers multiple functions. Beside the
cysteine-protease activity, facilitating cleavage of the viral polypeptide chain, PLpro has the …

Rapid Protein–Ligand Affinity Determination by Photoinduced Hyperpolarized NMR

M Bütikofer, GR Stadler, H Kadavath… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The binding affinity determination of protein–ligand complexes is a cornerstone of drug
design. State-of-the-art techniques are limited by lengthy and expensive processes. Building …

Thermott: a comprehensive online tool for protein–ligand binding constant determination

M Gedgaudas, D Baronas, E Kazlauskas… - Drug Discovery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•An online tool for the protein–compound binding constant from thermal shift
data.•Provides estimates of the thermodynamic data on target proteins.•Thermott: free, user …

Identification of a novel pseudo‐natural product type IV IDO1 inhibitor chemotype

C Davies, L Dötsch, MG Ciulla, E Hennes… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Natural product (NP)‐inspired design principles provide invaluable guidance for bioactive
compound discovery. Pseudo‐natural products (PNPs) are de novo combinations of NP …

eSPC: an online data-analysis platform for molecular biophysics

O Burastero, S Niebling, LA Defelipe… - Biological …, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
All biological processes rely on the formation of protein–ligand, protein–peptide and protein–
protein complexes. Studying the affinity, kinetics and thermodynamics of binding between …

Subtleties in Clathrin heavy chain binding boxes provide selectivity among adaptor proteins of budding yeast

LA Defelipe, K Veith, O Burastero… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Clathrin forms a triskelion, or three-legged, network that regulates cellular processes by
facilitating cargo internalization and trafficking in eukaryotes. Its N-terminal domain is crucial …

The Acinetobacter baumannii disinfectant resistance protein, AmvA, is a spermidine and spermine efflux pump

FL Short, Q Liu, B Shah, HE Clift, V Naidu, L Li… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance genes, including multidrug efflux pumps, evolved long before the
ubiquitous use of antimicrobials in medicine and infection control. Multidrug efflux pumps …

Caprin-1 binding to the critical stress granule protein G3BP1 is influenced by pH

T Schulte, MD Panas, X Han, L Williams… - Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
G3BP is the central node within stress-induced protein–RNA interaction networks known as
stress granules (SGs). The SG-associated proteins Caprin-1 and USP10 bind mutually …