Block copolymers for protein ordering

J Malmström, J Travas‐Sejdic - Journal of applied polymer …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Large scale production of sub‐micrometer features aids vital understanding of the
interactions present at that scale in the biological world as well as the interactions with …

Human hair-derived hollow carbon microfibers for electrochemical sensing

B Pramanick, LB Cadenas, DM Kim, W Lee, YB Shim… - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
Glassy carbon has been widely used for various applications including electrochemical
sensors and energy storage devices. Here we introduce a novel way to fabricate glassy …

Amyloid fibrils from hemoglobin

N Jayawardena, M Kaur, S Nair, J Malmstrom… - Biomolecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Amyloid fibrils are a class of insoluble protein nanofibers that are formed via the self-
assembly of a wide range of peptides and proteins. They are increasingly exploited for a …

Conformational dynamics and aggregation behavior of piezoelectric diphenylalanine peptides in an external electric field

CM Kelly, T Northey, K Ryan, BR Brooks, AL Kholkin… - Biophysical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Aromatic peptides including diphenylalanine (FF) have the capacity to self-assemble into
ordered, biocompatible nanostructures with piezoelectric properties relevant to a variety of …

Long-time methods for molecular dynamics simulations: Markov State Models and Milestoning

B Narayan, Y Yuan, A Fathizadeh, R Elber… - Progress in Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) studies of biomolecules require the ability to simulate complex
biochemical systems with an increasingly larger number of particles and for longer time …

Stability and cytotoxicity of crystallin amyloid nanofibrils

M Kaur, J Healy, M Vasudevamurthy, M Lassé… - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Previous work has identified crystallin proteins extracted from fish eye lenses as a cheap
and readily available source for the self-assembly of amyloid nanofibrils. However, before …

Replica exchange molecular dynamics of diphenylalanine amyloid peptides in electric fields

B Narayan, C Herbert, BJ Rodriguez… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The self-assembling propensity of amyloid peptides such as diphenylalanine (FF) allows
them to form ordered, nanoscale structures, with biocompatible properties important for …

Dielectrophoresis of amyloid-beta proteins as a microfluidic template for Alzheimer's research

SA Al-Ahdal, AB Ahmad Kayani, MA Md Ali… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
We employed dielectrophoresis to a yeast cell suspension containing amyloid-beta proteins
(Aβ) in a microfluidic environment. The Aβ was separated from the cells and characterized …

Crystallin nanofibrils: a functionalizable nanoscaffold with broad applications manufactured from waste

M Kaur, S Roberts, J Healy, L Domigan… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Protein nanofibrils self‐assembled from crystallin proteins, a waste material from the fishing
industry, have been identified as a suitable material to be used as a bionanoscaffold. In this …

Self-Assembled Biological Nanofibers for Biosensor Applications

L Sasso, JA Gerrard - Micro and Nanofabrication Using Self-Assembled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Self-assembled biological nanofibers, such as protein amyloid fibrils or peptide nanotubes,
have the potential of making an enormous impact in future biosensor technologies because …