Coiled coils: attractive protein folding motifs for the fabrication of self-assembled, responsive and bioactive materials

B Apostolovic, M Danial, HA Klok - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The coiled coil is a superhelical protein structural motif that consists of two or more α-helical
peptides that are wrapped around each other in superhelical fashion. Coiled coils are …

Biomaterials via peptide assembly: Design, characterization, and application in tissue engineering

VP Gray, CD Amelung, IJ Duti, EG Laudermilch… - Acta biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
A core challenge in biomaterials, with both fundamental significance and technological
relevance, concerns the rational design of bioactive microenvironments. Designed properly …

The centrosome is a selective condensate that nucleates microtubules by concentrating tubulin

JB Woodruff, BF Gomes, PO Widlund, J Mahamid… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Centrosomes are non-membrane-bound compartments that nucleate microtubule arrays.
They consist of nanometer-scale centrioles surrounded by a micron-scale, dynamic …

Bacterial nanobioreactors–directing enzyme packaging into bacterial outer membrane vesicles

NJ Alves, KB Turner, MA Daniele, E Oh… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
All bacteria shed outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) loaded with a diverse array of small
molecules, proteins, and genetic cargo. In this study we sought to hijack the bacterial cell …

Peptide-PAINT super-resolution imaging using transient coiled coil interactions

AS Eklund, M Ganji, G Gavins, O Seitz… - Nano letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Super-resolution microscopy is transforming research in the life sciences by enabling the
visualization of structures and interactions on the nanoscale. DNA-PAINT is a relatively easy …

Covalent diabodies and uses thereof

LS Johnson, L Huang - US Patent 9,284,375, 2016 - Google Patents
C07K16/283—Immunoglobulins [IGs], eg monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies against
material from animals or humans against receptors, cell surface antigens or cell surface …

De novo design of orthogonal peptide pairs forming parallel coiled‐coil heterodimers

H Gradišar, R Jerala - Journal of Peptide Science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We used the principles governing the selectivity and stability of coiled‐coil segments to
design and experimentally test a set of four pairs of parallel coiled‐coil‐forming peptides …

A near-infrared BiFC reporter for in vivo imaging of protein-protein interactions

GS Filonov, VV Verkhusha - Chemistry & biology, 2013 - cell.com
Studies of protein-protein interactions deep in organs and in whole mammals have been
hindered by a lack of genetically encoded fluorescent probes in near-infrared region for …

Immobilization of growth factors for cell therapy manufacturing

D Enriquez-Ochoa, P Robles-Ovalle… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cell therapy products exhibit great therapeutic potential but come with a deterring price tag
partly caused by their costly manufacturing processes. The development of strategies that …

Molecular mechanics of coiled coils loaded in the shear geometry

M Goktas, C Luo, RMA Sullan, AE Bergues-Pupo… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Coiled coils are important nanomechanical building blocks in biological and biomimetic
materials. A mechanistic molecular understanding of their structural response to mechanical …