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Chromatin Packing Domain Engineering Through the Manipulation of Nuclear Cationic States

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Manipulation of intranuclear divalent cation concentrations rapidly and reversibly remodels chromatin packing domains in living cells. Magnesium depletion disrupts domain compaction, heterochromatin organization, and transcriptional regulation, whereas magnesium loading promotes more compact and stable domains.
Cody L. Dunton, Carrillo Paola Gonzalez, Luay Almassalha, Wing Shun Li, Ruyi Gong, Nicolas Acosta, I Chae Ye, Jane Frederick, Christopher Hogg, Saira John, J. A. Gareth Williams, Rikkert J. Nap, Igal Szleifer, Vadim Backman   +13 more
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Protein Diffusion and Macromolecular Crowding [PDF]

Biophysical Journal, 2010
Having recently quantified how crowding can affect equilibrium protein stability (1), we have turned our attention to diffusion. Our test molecule is the small globular protein, chymotrypsin inhibitor 2. Our crowding molecules are both the synthetic polymer polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and several globular proteins.
Pielak, Gary, Wang, Yaqiang, Li, Conggang   +2 more
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Making microenvironments: A look into incorporating macromolecular crowding into in vitro experiments, to generate biomimetic microenvironments which are capable of directing cell function for tissue engineering applications

Journal of Tissue Engineering, 2017
Biomimetic microenvironments are key components to successful cell culture and tissue engineering in vitro. One of the most accurate biomimetic microenvironments is that made by the cells themselves. Cell-made microenvironments are most similar to the in
Paula Benny, Michael Raghunath
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Sticker Valence Governs Chain Collapse and Liquid‐Liquid Phase Separation in Peptide‐Inspired Associative Polymers

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Peptide‐inspired associative polymers with arginine‐like guanidinium stickers and lysine‐like ammonium spacers undergo chain collapse and liquid‐liquid phase separation induced by reversible sticker associations. Sticker valence and tunable association strength jointly control the phase behavior, chain conformation, and interfacial cohesion of these ...
Seung‐Hwan Oh, Jinhoon Lee, Seunghyun Lee, Raehyun Jung, Sangyeop Lee, Su‐Mi Hur, Dong Woog Lee, Soo‐Hyung Choi   +7 more
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RNA Promotes Synapsin Condensates That Organize Synaptic Vesicles in Live Neurons and Enable Localized Translation in Reconstituted System

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Condensates at synapses organize synaptic vesicles (SVs) and are crucial for efficient neurotransmitter release, yet how RNA contributes to this mesoscale architecture remains poorly understood. Here we uncover that RNA modulates synapsin–driven condensates.
Branislava Rankovic, Zachary M. Geisterfer, Akshita Chhabra, Vladimir M. Jovanovic, Ian Seim, Christian Hoffmann, Antonela Condric, Gerard Aguilar Pérez, Rinse de Boer, Lars T. Hofstede, Jingao Sun, Kiara Freitag, Katja Nowick, Marina Jendrach, Frank L. Heppner, Vladimir Despic, Michaela Müller‐McNicoll, Stephan Sigrist, Geert van den Bogaart, Sofiia Reshetniak, Amy S. Gladfelter, Dragomir Milovanovic   +21 more
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Single-molecule identification of the entropy/enthalpy contributions in macromolecule crowding induced by Carboxylated chitosan

Polymer Testing
Macromolecular crowding effects frequently drive phase separation and have a significant impact on a series of biochemical processes in the cell. Owing to the significant differences in the physical mechanisms of the macromolecular crowding effects ...
Xiaogang Zhu, Shijian Chen, Yuyu Feng, Rongri Tan, Junhua Yuan, Hu Chen, Yanhui Liu   +6 more
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Highly Sensitive Spatial Host‐Microbiome Transcriptomics in FFPE Tissues via Iterative Hydrogel Expansion

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Ex‐spRandom is a spatial transcriptomics platform that synergizes random‐primed chemistry with iterative hydrogel expansion. By physically decrowding the dense FFPE matrix, this scalable technology shatters the traditional resolution‐sensitivity barrier.
Shunji Zhang, Mengyuan Wang, Jiaye Chen, Yuyi Zhu, Bin Zhu, Ziye Xu, Yuan Liao, Yongcheng Wang   +7 more
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Prophage Activation Triggers Extracellular Synthesis of DNA in Bacterial Biofilms via Rolling Circle Replication

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
Shewanella oneidensis and Bacillus subtilis, both harboring prophages, reveal a novel biosynthetic route to scalable and programmable DNA superstructures in flower‐ and wire‐like shapes, respectively. Activation of prophages is achieved via 3‐hour starvation and monitored using reporter strains.
Gabriel Antonio S. Minero, Line Mørkholt Lund, Lasse Hyldgaard Klausen, Obinna Markraphael Ajunwa, Mingdong Dong, Rikke Louise Meyer, Victoria Birkedal, Kai Thormann   +7 more
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Macromolecular crowding [PDF]

Current Biology, 2006
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Polymer Concepts in Cellular Function

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Miao Yu, Shikha Dhiman, Dorothee Dormann, Frauke Gräter, Katja Luck, Friederike Schmid, Andreas Walther, Edward A. Lemke   +7 more
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