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Engineering Pendant Group Chemistry to Control Hydrophilicity and Oxidative Degradation of Thioketal‐Based Biomaterials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thioketal (TK) polymers are promising biomaterials due to their selective biodegradation by reactive oxygen species (ROS), but they respond slowly to physiologic doses of ROS. Here, the TK bond's pendant groups are modified to enhance the degradation of TK‐based implants both in vitro and in vivo.
Karina A. Bruce, Dylan W. Marques, Alan J. Fullenkamp, Emma‐Louise Lowell, Rais B. Fataki, Jake D. Ryan, John R. Martin   +6 more
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Nanoengineered Binetworks in Multifunctional Anionic Block Polymer Mesoblends for Improved Mechanical Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoblends consist of a nanostructured polymer into which a second polymer is imbibed with a selective solvent. In this work, a solvent‐templatable pentablock terpolymer possessing a sulfonated midblock is modified with a hydrophilic polymer that is photocrosslinked in situ, yielding a hierarchical binetwork.
Kacie M. Wells, Ivan Kuzmenko, Reza A. Ghiladi, Richard J. Spontak   +3 more
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Designed Lewis Acid–Base Passivation for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Silicon's high cost and long energy payback time remain major barriers to the global expansion of solar power. In contrast, metal–halide perovskites offer abundant, solution‐processable absorbers, and have achieved efficiencies of 25%–30%, positioning them as strong competitors to silicon.
Afna Manaf, Hiba Shahulhameed, Bhabani Sankar Swain, Shengzhong (Frank) Liu, Adel Najar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstitution of Pure Chaperonin Hetero-Oligomer Preparations in Vitro by Temperature Modulation

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2018
Chaperonins are large, essential, oligomers that facilitate protein folding in chloroplasts, mitochondria, and eubacteria. Plant chloroplast chaperonins are comprised of multiple homologous subunits that exhibit unique properties.
Anna Vitlin Gruber, Milena Vugman, Abdussalam Azem, Celeste E. Weiss   +3 more
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Unique residues involved in activation of the multitasking protease/chaperone HtrA from Chlamydia trachomatis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
DegP, a member of the HtrA family of proteins, conducts critical bacterial protein quality control by both chaperone and proteolysis activities. The regulatory mechanisms controlling these two distinct activities, however, are unknown. DegP activation is
Wilhelmina M Huston, Joel D A Tyndall, William B Lott, Scott H Stansfield, Peter Timms   +4 more
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Changes in the C-terminal, N-terminal, and histidine regions of amelogenin reveal the role of oligomer quaternary structure on adsorption and hydroxyapatite mineralization

Frontiers in Physiology, 2022
Adsorption interactions between amelogenin and calcium phosphate minerals are believed to be important to amelogenin’s function in enamel formation, however, the role of specific amino acid residues and domains within the protein in controlling ...
Jinhui Tao, Emma Hanson, Alice C. Dohnalkova, Garry W. Buchko, Garry W. Buchko, Biao Jin, Wendy J. Shaw, Barbara J. Tarasevich   +7 more
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Bioinspired Mechanically Robust Organic–Inorganic Hybridized Bio‐Adhesives With up to 50% Inorganic Components by Bi‐Continuous Phase Engineering

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A robust plant protein adhesive was prepared by fabricating a bi‐continuous organic–inorganic hybrid structure. Compared with traditional organic–inorganic hybrid adhesives, the addition amount of inorganic phase is increased from 0.2%–3.0% to 50%, and the strength and toughness are increased by 6 and 121 times, respectively.
Zheng Liu, Wenlong Luo, Xu Yang, Xin Zhang, Yuru Zhu, Jingchao Li, Jianzhang Li, Jing Luo, Zhezhe Zhou, Pingan Song, Qiang Gao   +10 more
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Atomized Oxidative Polymerization as a 3D Printing Platform for Binder‐Free, Bulk Conductive Polymer Architectures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Co‐delivery of electrosprayed EDOT and oxidant enables bulk oxidative polymerization during layer‐by‐layer fabrication, creating stable, highly conductive 3D PEDOT structures. This Atomized Oxidative Polymerization (AOP) overcomes the surface deposition‐only and matrix‐limited conductivity of conventional Vapor Phase Polymerization (VPP) and PEDOT:PSS ...
Tazdik Patwary Plateau, Hiep Pham, Jonghyun Park   +2 more
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Fructose‐Based Single‐Chain Polymer Nanoparticles for GLUT1–Mediated Delivery: Impact of Polymer Design on Uptake and In Vivo Performance

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Single‐chain nanoparticles have been proposed as drug delivery carriers, but adding a tail can significantly enhance their performance. This was demonstrated using a tadpole‐like structure comprising a head prepared from a UV‐crosslinked fructose‐based glycopolymer capable of targeting GLUT receptors, combined with a PEG‐based tail. Compared with other
Hoang Yen Vo, Linqing Tian, Qiaoyun Wang, Evelyn Szabo, Rebecca Y. Lai, Fariba Dehghani, Martina H. Stenzel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Somatostatin binds to the human amyloid β peptide and favors the formation of distinct oligomers

eLife, 2017
The amyloid β peptide (Aβ) is a key player in the etiology of Alzheimer disease (AD), yet a systematic investigation of its molecular interactions has not been reported. Here we identified by quantitative mass spectrometry proteins in human brain extract
Hansen Wang, Lisa D Muiznieks, Punam Ghosh, Declan Williams, Michael Solarski, Andrew Fang, Alejandro Ruiz-Riquelme, Régis Pomès, Joel C Watts, Avi Chakrabartty, Holger Wille, Simon Sharpe, Gerold Schmitt-Ulms   +12 more
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