Aptamers are short oligonucleotides isolated in vitro from randomized libraries that can bind
to specific molecules with high affinity, and offer a number of advantages relative to …

Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) has become the gold standard for studying molecular
interactions in solution. Although it is increasingly being used in the soft matter and synthetic …

Antibiotics that target Gram-negative bacteria in new ways are needed to resolve the
antimicrobial resistance crisis,–. Gram-negative bacteria are protected by an additional outer …

Bioengineering of plant immune receptors has emerged as a key strategy for generating
novel disease resistance traits to counteract the expanding threat of plant pathogens to …

Exocytosis plays an important role in plant–microbe interactions, in both pathogenesis and
symbiosis. Exo70 proteins are integral components of the exocyst, an octameric complex …

Plants use intracellular nucleotide-binding domain (NBD) and leucine-rich repeat (LRR)–
containing immune receptors (NLRs) to detect pathogen-derived effector proteins. The …

Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) involves accurately measuring the heat that is released
or absorbed in real time when one solution is titrated into another. This technique is usually …

Equilibrium constants for the associations of 17 diaryliodonium salts Ar2I+ X–with 11
different Lewis bases (halide ions, carboxylates, p-nitrophenolate, amines, and tris (p-anisyl) …

Aptamers are promising biorecognition elements with a wide applicability from therapeutics
to biosensing. However, to successfully use these biomolecules, a complete …

A quantitative Lewis acidity/basicity scale toward boron‐centered Lewis acids has been
developed based on a set of 90 experimental equilibrium constants for the reactions of …