A central role for amyloid fibrin microclots in long COVID/PASC: origins and therapeutic implications

DB Kell, GJ Laubscher, E Pretorius - Biochemical Journal, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Post-acute sequelae of COVID (PASC), usually referred to as 'Long COVID'(a phenotype of
COVID-19), is a relatively frequent consequence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, in which …

Enzyme mimics based upon supramolecular coordination chemistry

MJ Wiester, PA Ulmann… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in supramolecular coordination chemistry have allowed chemists to
synthesize macromolecular complexes that exhibit various properties intrinsic to enzymes …

Engineering an allosteric transcription factor to respond to new ligands

ND Taylor, AS Garruss, R Moretti, S Chan, MA Arbing… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Genetic regulatory proteins inducible by small molecules are useful synthetic biology tools
as sensors and switches. Bacterial allosteric transcription factors (aTFs) are a major class of …

Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline

E Andrianantoandro, S Basu, DK Karig… - Molecular systems …, 2006 - embopress.org
Synthetic biologists engineer complex artificial biological systems to investigate natural
biological phenomena and for a variety of applications. We outline the basic features of …

[HTML][HTML] Insertions and deletions in protein evolution and engineering

S Savino, T Desmet, J Franceus - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein evolution or engineering studies are traditionally focused on amino acid
substitutions and the way these contribute to fitness. Meanwhile, the insertion and deletion …

Integrating biological redesign: where synthetic biology came from and where it needs to go

JC Way, JJ Collins, JD Keasling, PA Silver - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Synthetic biology seeks to extend approaches from engineering and computation to
redesign of biology, with goals such as generating new chemicals, improving human health …

DCEO biotechnology: tools to design, construct, evaluate, and optimize the metabolic pathway for biosynthesis of chemicals

X Chen, C Gao, L Guo, G Hu, Q Luo, J Liu… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Chemical synthesis is a well established route for producing many chemicals on a large
scale, but some drawbacks still exist in this process, such as unstable intermediates …

Controlling allosteric networks in proteins

NV Dokholyan - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Allosteric transition, defined as conformational changes induced by ligand binding, is one of
the fundamental properties of proteins. Allostery has been observed and characterized in …

Development of epistatic YES and AND protein logic gates and their assembly into signalling cascades

Z Guo, O Smutok, CE Ayva, P Walden, J Parker… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The construction and assembly of artificial allosteric protein switches into information and
energy processing networks connected to both biological and non-biological systems is a …

Light-activated DNA binding in a designed allosteric protein

D Strickland, K Moffat… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
An understanding of how allostery, the conformational coupling of distant functional sites,
arises in highly evolvable systems is of considerable interest in areas ranging from cell …