Osmotic Pressure and Its Biological Implications

S Zheng, Y Li, Y Shao, L Li, F Song - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Gaining insight into osmotic pressure and its biological implications is pivotal for revealing
mechanisms underlying numerous fundamental biological processes across scales and will …

Effects of crowding on the diffusivity of membrane adhered particles

P Liu, PJ Beltramo - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The lateral diffusion of cell membrane inclusions, such as integral membrane proteins and
bound receptors, drives critical biological processes, including the formation of complexes …

Molecular crowding in single eukaryotic cells: Using cell environment biosensing and single-molecule optical microscopy to probe dependence on extracellular ionic …

JW Shepherd, S Lecinski, J Wragg, S Shashkova… - Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
The physical and chemical environment inside cells is of fundamental importance to all life
but has traditionally been difficult to determine on a subcellular basis. Here we combine …

Infrared spectroscopy reveals metal-independent carbonic anhydrase activity in crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase

A Gomez, M Tinzl, G Stoffel, H Westedt… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The conversion of CO2 by enzymes such as carbonic anhydrase or carboxylases plays a
crucial role in many biological processes. However, in situ methods following the …

Inflammation Control and Tumor Growth Inhibition of Ovarian Cancer by Targeting Adhesion Molecules of E-Selectin

B Yang, S Yin, Z Zhou, L Huang, M Xi - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The aim of our study is to use E-selectin-binding peptide (ESBP) to actively
recognize E-selectin, so allowing a drug delivery system to actively recognize the cells and …

Intracellular Macromolecular Crowding within Individual Stress Fibers Analyzed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

A Buenaventura, T Saito, T Kanao… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Methods Here we investigate the diffusion rate in three distinct locations in mesenchymal
cell types, namely the open cytoplasm, the stress fibers in the open cytoplasm, and those …

Investigating molecular crowding during cell division and hyperosmotic stress in budding yeast with FRET

S Lecinski, JW Shepherd, L Frame, I Hayton… - Current topics in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cell division, aging, and stress recovery triggers spatial reorganization of cellular
components in the cytoplasm, including membrane bound organelles, with molecular …

Melting of dsDNA attached with AuNPs

N Mathur, N Singh - The European Physical Journal E, 2023 - Springer
DNA-linked gold nanoparticles (DNA-AuNPs) are combined nanomaterials that contain the
optical and electronic properties of AuNPs with the unique functions of DNA. These hybrid …

Physiological models to study the effect of molecular crowding on multi-drug bound proteins: insights from SARS-CoV-2 main protease

BS Sanjeev, D Chitara… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Molecular Dynamics simulations are often used in drug design. However, such simulations
do not account for the physiological environment of the receptor; hence overlook its impact …

EV Fingerprinting: Resolving extracellular vesicle heterogeneity using multi-parametric flow cytometry

AK von Lersner, FCL Fernandes, PMM Ozawa… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Mammalian cells release a heterogeneous array of extracellular vesicles (EVs) that impact
human biology by contributing to intercellular communication. To resolve EV heterogeneity …