[HTML][HTML] Successful amphiphiles as the key to crystallization of membrane proteins: Bridging theory and practice

J Breibeck, A Rompel - Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Membrane proteins constitute a major group of proteins and are of great
significance as pharmaceutical targets, but underrepresented in the Protein Data Bank …

Rapid and accurate determination of nanopore ionic current using a steric exclusion model

J Wilson, K Sarthak, W Si, L Gao, A Aksimentiev - Acs Sensors, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanopore sensing has emerged as a versatile approach to detection and identification of
biomolecules. Presently, researchers rely on experience and intuition for choosing or …

Protein unfolding by SDS: the microscopic mechanisms and the properties of the SDS-protein assembly

D Winogradoff, S John, A Aksimentiev - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The effects of detergent sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) on protein structure and dynamics are
fundamental to the most common laboratory technique used to separate proteins and …

Single-molecule protein detection in a biofluid using a quantitative nanopore sensor

AK Thakur, L Movileanu - ACS sensors, 2019 - ACS Publications
Protein detection in complex biological fluids has wide-ranging significance across
proteomics and molecular medicine. Existing detectors cannot readily distinguish between …

All-in-One Fusogenic Nanoreactor for the Rapid Detection of Exosomal MicroRNAs for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

C Park, S Chung, H Kim, N Kim, HY Son, R Kim… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular-profiling-based cancer diagnosis has significant implications for predicting
disease prognosis and selecting targeted therapeutic interventions. The analysis of cancer …

Real-Time Measurement of a Weak Interaction of a Transcription Factor Motif with a Protein Hub at Single-Molecule Precision

LA Mayse, Y Wang, M Ahmad, L Movileanu - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Transcription factors often interact with other protein cofactors, regulating gene expression.
Direct detection of these brief events using existing technologies remains challenging due to …

Detergent‐assisted braking of peptide translocation through a single‐layer molybdenum disulfide nanopore

W Si, Q Sun, C Chen, M Yu, J Sha, Y Zhang… - Small …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protein sequencing holds the key to unveiling protein dynamics, which is significant for
molecular diagnostics and drug design. Single‐molecule sensing based on 2D nanopores …

Protein Ligand-Induced Amplification in the 1/f Noise of a Protein-Selective Nanopore

J Sun, AK Thakur, L Movileanu - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Previous studies of transmembrane protein channels have employed noise analysis to
examine their statistical current fluctuations. In general, these explorations determined a …

Structural and functional stability of DNA nanopores in biological media

JR Burns, S Howorka - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
DNA nanopores offer a unique nano-scale foothold at the membrane interface that can help
advance the life sciences as biophysical research tools or gate-keepers for drug delivery …

CryoEM reconstructions of membrane proteins solved in several amphipathic solvents, nanodisc, amphipol and detergents, yield amphipathic belts of similar sizes …

V Zampieri, A Gobet, X Robert, P Falson… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
To maintain membrane proteins soluble in aqueous solution, amphipathic compounds are
used to shield the hydrophobic patch of their membrane insertion, which forms a belt around …