Macromolecular crowding is more than hard-core repulsions

SL Speer, CJ Stewart, L Sapir… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Cells are crowded, but proteins are almost always studied in dilute aqueous buffer. We
review the experimental evidence that crowding affects the equilibrium thermodynamics of …

IgG charge: practical and biological implications

D Yang, R Kroe-Barrett, S Singh, T Laue - Antibodies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Practically, IgG charge can contribute significantly to thermodynamic nonideality, and hence
to solubility and viscosity. Biologically, IgG charge isomers exhibit differences in clearance …

Quo Vadis Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy?

P Selenko - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
In-cell nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy offers the possibility to study
proteins and other biomolecules at atomic resolution directly in cells. As such, it provides …

A fully integrated and handheld electrochemiluminescence device for detection of dopamine in bio-samples

L Zhu, W Fu, J Chen, S Li, X Xie, Z Zhang, J Liu… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is a powerful electroanalytical transduction technique in
biosensing and clinic immunodiagnostics, however its practical applications for point-of-care …

Surface charge modulates protein–protein interactions in physiologically relevant environments

AJ Guseman, SL Speer, GM Perez Goncalves… - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein–protein interactions are fundamental to biology yet are rarely studied under
physiologically relevant conditions where the concentration of macromolecules can exceed …

Tuning protein frameworks via auxiliary supramolecular interactions

S Engilberge, ML Rennie, E Dumont, PB Crowley - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Protein crystals with their precise, periodic array of functional building blocks have potential
applications in biomaterials, sensing, and catalysis. This paper describes how a highly …

Protein dimerization on a phosphonated calix [6] arene disc

ML Rennie, AM Doolan, CL Raston… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Complex formation between cationic cytochrome c and the water‐soluble, poly‐anionic p‐
phosphonatocalix [6] arene (pclx6) was investigated. A crystal structure (at 1.8 Å resolution) …

Single-protein identification by simultaneous size and charge imaging using evanescent scattering microscopy

Z Wan, G Ma, P Zhang, S Wang - ACS sensors, 2022 - ACS Publications
Separation and identification of different proteins is one of the most fundamental tasks in
biochemistry that is typically achieved by electrophoresis and Western blot techniques. Yet …

Danio rerio Oocytes for Eukaryotic In-Cell NMR

JF Thole, TC Fadero, JP Bonin, SS Stadmiller… - Biochemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Understanding how the crowded and complex cellular milieu affects protein stability and
dynamics has only recently become possible by using techniques such as in-cell nuclear …

Short Arginine Motifs Drive Protein Stickiness in the Escherichia coli Cytoplasm

C Kyne, PB Crowley - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Although essential to numerous biotech applications, knowledge of molecular recognition by
arginine-rich motifs in live cells remains limited. 1H, 15N HSQC and 19F NMR …