Uranium extraction from seawater: material design, emerging technologies and marine engineering

Y Xie, Z Liu, Y Geng, H Li, N Wang, Y Song… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Uranium extraction from seawater (UES), a potential approach to securing the long-term
uranium supply and sustainability of nuclear energy, has experienced significant progress in …

Putting precision and elegance in enzyme immobilisation with bio-orthogonal chemistry

X Pei, Z Luo, L Qiao, Q Xiao, P Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The covalent immobilisation of enzymes generally involves the use of highly reactive
crosslinkers, such as glutaraldehyde, to couple enzyme molecules to each other or to …

Power to the protein: enhancing and combining activities using the Spy toolbox

AH Keeble, M Howarth - Chemical Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteins span an extraordinary range of shapes, sizes and functionalities. Therefore generic
approaches are needed to overcome this diversity and stream-line protein analysis or …

Atom transfer radical polymerization for biorelated hybrid materials

SL Baker, B Kaupbayeva, S Lathwal, SR Das… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Proteins, nucleic acids, lipid vesicles, and carbohydrates are the major classes of
biomacromolecules that function to sustain life. Biology also uses post-translation …

Living fabrication of functional semi-interpenetrating polymeric materials

Z Dai, X Yang, F Wu, L Wang, K Xiang, P Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cell-mediated living fabrication has great promise for generating materials with versatile,
programmable functions. Here, we demonstrate the engineering of living materials …

Uranyl binding to proteins and structural-functional impacts

YW Lin - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The widespread use of uranium for civilian purposes causes a worldwide concern of its
threat to human health due to the long-lived radioactivity of uranium and the high toxicity of …

Molecular design of protein-based materials–state of the art, opportunities and challenges at the interface between materials engineering and synthetic biology

E Shire, AAB Coimbra, CB Ostria… - … Systems Design & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Structural proteins like silk, squid ring teeth, elastin, collagen, or resilin, among others, are
inspiring the development of new sustainable biopolymeric materials for applications …

Encrypting Chemical Reactivity in Protein Sequences toward Information‐Coded Reactions

F Zhang, WB Zhang - Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Controlling chemical reactivity has been the central theme in chemistry. Herein, we review
the recent progress on the development of genetically encoded protein coupling reactions …

Recent advances in the engineering and application of streptavidin-like molecules

Q Le, V Nguyen, S Park - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2019 - Springer
Streptavidin (SA), and other related proteins, has been isolated from a wide range of
organisms, including bacteria, fungi, frogs, fish, and birds. Although their original function is …

A genetically encoded approach for breaking chromatin symmetry

BJ Lukasak, RE Thompson, MM Mitchener… - ACS Central …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nucleosomes frequently exist as asymmetric species in native chromatin contexts. Current
methods for the traceless generation of these heterotypic chromatin substrates are inefficient …