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Organizing the interface—Plasma membrane architecture and receptor dynamics in virus‐cell interactions

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Plasma membranes contain dynamic nanoscale domains that organize lipids and receptors. Because viruses operate at similar scales, this architecture shapes early infection steps, including attachment, receptor engagement, and entry. Using influenza A virus and HIV‐1 as examples, we highlight how receptor nanoclusters, multivalent glycan interactions ...
Jan Schlegel, Christian Sieben
wiley   +1 more source

Single-Molecule Sizing through Nanocavity Confinement

open access: yes, 2023
An approach relying on nanocavity confinement is developed in this paper for the sizing of nanoscale particles and single biomolecules in solution.
Ulrich F. Keyser (131654)   +21 more
core   +1 more source

Biophysical approaches for studying viral entry

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Viruses infect all living organisms and have been responsible for major epidemics and pandemics. Their ongoing evolutionary battle with host defenses creates a constant need for improved tools to study viral behavior. Advancing methods to probe viral attachment, fusion, and genome release deepen our understanding of how infections begin and support the
Inbar Yosibash, Raya Sorkin
wiley   +1 more source

New tools to study biophysical properties of single molecules and single cells [PDF]

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2007
We present a review on two new tools to study biophysical properties of single molecules and single cells. A laser incident through a high numerical aperture microscope objective can trap small dielectric particles near the focus. This arrangement is named optical tweezers.
Rocha, Márcio S., Mesquita, Oscar N.
openaire   +5 more sources

The ubiquitin‐proteasome system and autophagy as guardians of the cellular proteome

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This Perspective covers the three principles governing the crosstalk between the ubiquitin‐proteasome system and autophagy in cellular proteostasis: (1) a shared ubiquitin code routing substrates via shuttle factors or autophagy receptors; (2) spatial compartmentalization into phase‐separated degradation hubs and organelle‐specific modules (exemplified
Ivan Dikic
wiley   +1 more source

Nucleic Acid Thermodynamics Derived from Mechanical Unzipping Experiments

open access: yesLife, 2022
Force-spectroscopy techniques have led to significant progress in studying the physicochemical properties of biomolecules that are not accessible in bulk assays. The application of piconewton forces with laser optical tweezers to single nucleic acids has
Paolo Rissone, Felix Ritort
doaj   +1 more source

Making connections — strategies for single molecule fluorescence biophysics

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2013
Fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy carried out on the single molecule level are elegant methods to decipher complex biological systems; it can provide a wealth of information that frequently is obscured in the averaging of ensemble measurements.
Grohmann, D, Werner, F, Tinnefeld, P
openaire   +3 more sources

Circulating tumor cell viability during and after radiotherapy mirrors treatment response in cancer patients

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Radiotherapy (RT) response depends on the DNA repair capacity of tumor and host cells. We show that circulating tumor cell (CTC) counts and apoptosis rates before and after RT predict treatment response and outcome, which can be accessed via easily accessible liquid biopsy approaches. Created in BioRender. Wikman, H.
Yvonne Goy   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Single-molecule techniques in biophysics: a review of the progress in methods and applications [PDF]

open access: yesReports on Progress in Physics, 2017
Abstract Single-molecule biophysics has transformed our understanding of biology, but also of the physics of life. More exotic than simple soft matter, biomatter lives far from thermal equilibrium, covering multiple lengths from the nanoscale of single molecules to up to several orders of magnitude higher in cells,
Miller, Helen Louise   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Single‐molecule DNA flow‐stretch assays for high‐throughput DNA–protein interaction studies

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We describe an optimised single‐molecule DNA flow‐stretch assay that visualises DNA–protein interactions in real time. Linear DNA fragments are tethered to a surface and stretched by buffer flow for fluorescence imaging. Using λ and φX174 DNA, this protocol enhances reproducibility and accessibility, providing a versatile approach for studying diverse ...
Ayush Kumar Ganguli   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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