Photoluminescent and chromic nanomaterials for anticounterfeiting technologies: recent advances and future challenges

A Abdollahi, H Roghani-Mamaqani, B Razavi… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Counterfeiting and inverse engineering of security and confidential documents, such as
banknotes, passports, national cards, certificates, and valuable products, has significantly …

[HTML][HTML] Smartphone-based mobile biosensors for the point-of-care testing of human metabolites

M Zhang, X Cui, N Li - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid, accurate, portable and quantitative profiling of metabolic biomarkers is of great
importance for disease diagnosis and prognosis. The recent development in the optical and …

Structure of the processive human Pol δ holoenzyme

C Lancey, M Tehseen, VS Raducanu, F Rashid… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, DNA polymerase δ (Pol δ) bound to the proliferating cell nuclear antigen
(PCNA) replicates the lagging strand and cooperates with flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) to …

Dynamic elements of replication protein A at the crossroads of DNA replication, recombination, and repair

CC Caldwell, M Spies - Critical reviews in biochemistry and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The heterotrimeric eukaryotic Replication protein A (RPA) is a master regulator of numerous
DNA metabolic processes. For a long time, it has been viewed as an inert protector of …

Cucurbit [7] uril macrocyclic sensors for optical fingerprinting: predicting protein structural changes to identifying disease-specific amyloid assemblies

N Das Saha, S Pradhan, R Sasmal… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In a three-dimensional (3D) representation, each protein molecule displays a specific
pattern of chemical and topological features, which are altered during its misfolding and …

Rho-dependent transcription termination proceeds via three routes

E Song, H Uhm, PR Munasingha, S Hwang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rho is a general transcription termination factor in bacteria, but many aspects of its
mechanism of action are unclear. Diverse models have been proposed for the initial …

Monitoring protein conformational changes using fluorescent nanoantennas

SG Harroun, D Lauzon, MC Ebert, A Desrosiers… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding the relationship between protein structural dynamics and function is crucial
for both basic research and biotechnology. However, methods for studying the fast dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated transport mechanism of the maltose ABC importer

R Mächtel, A Narducci, DA Griffith, T Cordes… - Research in …, 2019 - Elsevier
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters use the energy of ATP hydrolysis to transport a
large diversity of molecules actively across biological membranes. A combination of …

Mechanism of human Lig1 regulation by PCNA in Okazaki fragment sealing

K Blair, M Tehseen, VS Raducanu, T Shahid… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
During lagging strand synthesis, DNA Ligase 1 (Lig1) cooperates with the sliding clamp
PCNA to seal the nicks between Okazaki fragments generated by Pol δ and Flap …

Molecular and spectroscopic characterization of green and red cyanine fluorophores from the Alexa Fluor and AF series

C Gebhardt, M Lehmann, MM Reif… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The use of fluorescence techniques has an enormous impact on various research fields
including imaging, biochemical assays, DNA‐sequencing and medical technologies. This …