[HTML][HTML] Pursuing excitonic energy transfer with programmable DNA-based optical breadboards

D Mathur, SA Díaz, N Hildebrandt… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA nanotechnology has now enabled the self-assembly of almost any prescribed 3-
dimensional nanoscale structure in large numbers and with high fidelity. These structures …

In-cell structural biology by NMR: the benefits of the atomic scale

FX Theillet - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In-cell structural biology aims at extracting structural information about proteins or nucleic
acids in their native, cellular environment. This emerging field holds great promise and is …

Extreme dynamics in a biomolecular condensate

N Galvanetto, MT Ivanović, A Chowdhury, A Sottini… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Proteins and nucleic acids can phase-separate in the cell to form concentrated biomolecular
condensates,,–. The functions of condensates span many length scales: they modulate …

Reliability and accuracy of single-molecule FRET studies for characterization of structural dynamics and distances in proteins

G Agam, C Gebhardt, M Popara, R Mächtel, J Folz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-molecule Förster-resonance energy transfer (smFRET) experiments allow the study
of biomolecular structure and dynamics in vitro and in vivo. We performed an international …

Application of computational biology and artificial intelligence in drug design

Y Zhang, M Luo, P Wu, S Wu, TY Lee, C Bai - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Traditional drug design requires a great amount of research time and developmental
expense. Booming computational approaches, including computational biology, computer …

Visualizing the disordered nuclear transport machinery in situ

M Yu, M Heidari, S Mikhaleva, PS Tan, S Mingu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The approximately 120 MDa mammalian nuclear pore complex (NPC) acts as a gatekeeper
for the transport between the nucleus and cytosol. The central channel of the NPC is filled …

Thermal stability enhancement: Fundamental concepts of protein engineering strategies to manipulate the flexible structure

M Rahban, S Zolghadri, N Salehi, F Ahmad… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing the temperature by just a few degrees may lead to structural perturbation or
unfolding of the protein and consequent loss of function. The concepts of flexibility and …

Interaction dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins from single-molecule spectroscopy

A Chowdhury, D Nettels… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Many proteins contain large structurally disordered regions or are entirely disordered under
physiological conditions. The functions of these intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) often …

A blind benchmark of analysis tools to infer kinetic rate constants from single-molecule FRET trajectories

M Götz, A Barth, SSR Bohr, R Börner, J Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-molecule FRET (smFRET) is a versatile technique to study the dynamics and function
of biomolecules since it makes nanoscale movements detectable as fluorescence signals …

The cytoplasmic synthesis and coupled membrane translocation of eukaryotic polyphosphate by signal-activated VTC complex

Z Guan, J Chen, R Liu, Y Chen, Q **ng, Z Du… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) is an ancient energy metabolite and phosphate store that
occurs ubiquitously in all organisms. The vacuolar transporter chaperone (VTC) complex …