Protein folding and mechanisms of proteostasis

JF Díaz-Villanueva, R Díaz-Molina… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Highly sophisticated mechanisms that modulate protein structure and function, which involve
synthesis and degradation, have evolved to maintain cellular homeostasis. Perturbations in …

Aptasensors as promising new tools in bisphenol A detection-An invisible pollution in food and environment

SH Rajabnejad, H Badibostan, A Verdian… - Microchemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Owing to the endocrine disrupting effect, the detection of bisphenol A (BPA) is essential. Up
to now, different chromatographic and spectroscopic analytical techniques have been …

A low-cost paper-based aptasensor for simultaneous trace-level monitoring of mercury (II) and silver (I) ions

Z Khoshbin, MR Housaindokht, A Verdian - Analytical biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Mercury (Hg 2+) and silver (Ag+) ions possess the harmful effects on public health
and environment that makes it essential to develop the sensing techniques with great …

[HTML][HTML] Seaweed polysaccharides as macromolecular crowding agents

A De Pieri, S Rana, S Korntner, DI Zeugolis - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of mesenchymal stem cell-based tissue engineered implantable
devices requires prolonged in vitro culture for the development of a three-dimensional …

Making microenvironments: A look into incorporating macromolecular crowding into in vitro experiments, to generate biomimetic microenvironments which are …

P Benny, M Raghunath - Journal of tissue engineering, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Biomimetic microenvironments are key components to successful cell culture and tissue
engineering in vitro. One of the most accurate biomimetic microenvironments is that made by …

New insights into the functions of nucleic acids controlled by cellular microenvironments

S Matsumoto, N Sugimoto - Topics in Current Chemistry, 2021 - Springer
The right-handed double-helical B-form structure (B-form duplex) has been widely
recognized as the canonical structure of nucleic acids since it was first proposed by James …

The Molecular Tête‐à‐Tête between G‐Quadruplexes and the i‐motif in the Human Genome

P Sengupta, D Bose, S Chatterjee - ChemBioChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
G‐Quadruplex (GQ) and i‐motif structures are the paradigmatic examples of nonclassical
tetrastranded nucleic acids having multifarious biological functions and widespread …

Basket-type G-quadruplex with two tetrads in the presence of TMAO and urea: A molecular dynamics study

EA Oprzeska-Zingrebe, J Smiatek - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2023 - Elsevier
DNA G-quadruplexes are non-canonical DNA structures, which have been proved to play an
important role in key biological processes, such as gene expression, replication, regulation …

Demixing of water and ethanol causes conformational redistribution and gelation of the cationic GAG tripeptide

B Milorey, S Farrell, SE Toal… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The cationic tripeptide GAG undergoes three conformational changes in binary mixtures of
water and ethanol. At 17 mol% of ethanol conformational sampling is shifted from pPII …

DNA size in confined environments

M Zoli - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
For short DNA molecules in crowded environments, we evaluate macroscopic parameters
such as the average end-to-end distance and the twist conformation by tuning the strength of …