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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.Tetra‐ortho‐Azobenzenes (TOABs) in broad daylight: in recent years, TOAB photoswitches became indispensable tools for all‐visible‐light manipulation of chemistry, biology and materials. This review explores their unique photochemical properties, design and synthetic approaches, offering support in choosing a TOAB for a given application.
Francesca Cardano +2 more
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A Global Nucleic Acid Observatory for Biodefense and Planetary Health [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The spread of pandemic viruses and invasive species can be catastrophic for human societies and natural ecosystems. SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated that the speed of our response is critical, as each day of delay permitted exponential growth and dispersion of the virus.
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A Bio‐Inspired Perspective on Materials Sustainability
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This perspective discusses natural materials as inspiration for sustainable engineering designs and the processing of materials. First, circularity, longevity, parsimony, and activity are presented as essential material paradigms. The perspective then uses many examples of natural and technical materials to introduce principles such as oligo ...
Wolfgang Wagermaier +2 more
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Rigid Base Biasing in Molecular Dynamics enables enhanced sampling of DNA conformations [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 All-atom simulations have become increasingly popular to study conformational and dynamical properties of nucleic acids as they are accurate and provide high spatial and time resolutions. This high resolution however comes at a heavy computational cost and within the time scales of simulations nucleic acids weakly fluctuate around their ideal structure
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The effects of mismatches on hybridization in DNA microarrays: determination of nearest neighbor parameters [PDF]
Nucleic Acid Research 37, e53 (2009), 2010 Quantifying interactions in DNA microarrays is of central importance for a better understanding of their functioning. Hybridization thermodynamics for nucleic acid strands in aqueous solution can be described by the so-called nearest-neighbor model, which estimates the hybridization free energy of a given sequence as a sum of dinucleotide terms ...
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Protein can undergo liquid–liquid phase separation and liquid‐to‐solid transition to form liquid condensates and solid aggregates. These phase transitions can be influenced by post‐translational modifications, mutations, and various environmental factors.
Tianchen Li +3 more
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Velocity and processivity of helicase unwinding of double-stranded nucleic acids [PDF]
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17 (2005) S3851--S3869, 2005 Helicases are molecular motors which unwind double-stranded nucleic acids (dsNA) in cells. Many helicases move with directional bias on single-stranded (ss) nucleic acids, and couple their directional translocation to strand separation. A model of the coupling between translocation and unwinding uses an interaction potential to represent passive and ...
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DNA‑Directed Assembly of Photonic Nanomaterials for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.DNA‐directed assembly offers a powerful strategy for constructing structured photonic nanomaterials with precise spatial control. This review provides a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in DNA‐assembled photonic nanomaterials for diagnostics and therapeutics, highlighting key design principles, functionalization strategies, and optical ...
Longjiang Ding +5 more
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Halogen Bonding in Nucleic Acid Complexes [PDF]
, 2017 Halogen bonding (X-bonding) has attracted notable attention among noncovalent interactions. This highly directional attraction between a halogen atom and an electron donor has been exploited in knowledge-based drug design. A great deal of information has been gathered about X-bonds in protein-ligand complexes, as opposed to nucleic acid complexes. Here
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Causal Discovery for Gene Regulatory Network Prediction [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Biological systems and processes are networks of complex nonlinear regulatory interactions between nucleic acids, proteins, and metabolites. A natural way in which to represent these interaction networks is through the use of a graph. In this formulation, each node represents a nucleic acid, protein, or metabolite and edges represent intermolecular ...
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