Engineering tunable catch bonds with DNA

M Yang, DR Bakker, ITS Li - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Unlike most adhesive bonds, biological catch bonds strengthen with increased tension. This
characteristic is essential to specific receptor-ligand interactions, underpinning biological …

Engineering the Mechanical Stability of a Therapeutic Complex between Affibody and Programmed Death-Ligand 1 by Anchor Point Selection

B Yang, DEB Gomes, Z Liu, MS Santos, J Li… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Protein–protein complexes can vary in mechanical stability depending on the direction from
which force is applied. Here, we investigated the mechanical stability of a complex between …

Engineering the Mechanical Stability of a Therapeutic Affibody/PD-L1 Complex by Anchor Point Selection

B Yang, DEB Gomes, Z Liu, MS Santos, J Li… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Protein-protein complexes can vary in mechanical stability depending on the direction from
which force is applied. Here we investigated the anisotropic mechanical stability of a …

Fine-Tuning of Material Properties via Catch Bonds

MF Rabbi, G Koenderink, Y Mulla, T Kim - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Semiflexible polymer networks are ubiquitous in biological systems, including a scaffolding
structure within cells called the actin cytoskeleton. The polymers in these networks are often …