Digital models in biotechnology: towards multi-scale integration and implementation

FSF Hartmann, IA Udugama, GM Seibold… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Industrial biotechnology encompasses a large area of multi-scale and multi-disciplinary
research activities. With the recent megatrend of digitalization sweeping across all …

[HTML][HTML] Probing interdomain linkers and protein supertertiary structure in vitro and in live cells with fluorescent protein resonance energy transfer

S Basak, N Saikia, L Dougherty, Z Guo, F Wu… - Journal of molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many proteins are composed of independently-folded domains connected by flexible linkers.
The primary sequence and length of such linkers can set the effective concentration for the …

Correlating viscosity and molecular crowding with fluorescent nanobeads and molecular probes: in vitro and in vivo

S Lecinski, JW Shepherd, K Bunting… - Interface …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In eukaryotes, intracellular physico-chemical properties like macromolecular crowding and
cytoplasmic viscoelasticity influence key processes such as metabolic activities, molecular …

Quantification of FRET-induced angular displacement by monitoring sensitized acceptor anisotropy using a dim fluorescent donor

D Laskaratou, GS Fernández, Q Coucke, E Fron… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between fluorescent proteins has become a
common platform for designing genetically encoded biosensors. For live cell imaging, the …

FRET Analysis of ionic strength sensors in the hofmeister series of salt solutions using fluorescence lifetime measurements

RC Miller, CP Aplin, TM Kay, R Leighton… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Living cells are complex, crowded, and dynamic and continually respond to environmental
and intracellular stimuli. They also have heterogeneous ionic strength with …

Förster resonance energy transfer from Hoechst 33258 to SYBR Green I in cholesteric liquid-crystalline DNA

VN Morozov, MA Klimovich, AA Kostyukov… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present work Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between DNA-specific
fluorescent dyes Hoechst 33258 (Ht58; donor) and SYBR Green I (SG; acceptor) is …

Two-photon excited-state dynamics of mEGFP-linker-mScarlet-I crowding biosensor in controlled environments

SA Mersch, S Bergman, ED Sheets… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Macromolecular crowding affects many cellular processes such as diffusion, biochemical
reaction kinetics, protein–protein interactions, and protein folding. Mapping the …

Protein dynamics as a sensor for macromolecular crowding: Insights into mixed crowding

M Gupta, PK Chowdhury - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the effect of mixed crowding is of prime importance with regards to
addressing the manner in which the crowded cellular interior influences the structure …

Translational diffusion, molecular brightness, and energy transfer analysis of mEGFP-linker-mScarlet–I crowding biosensor using fluorescence correlation …

SA Mersch, C McCue, A Aristidou, ED Sheets… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, we have investigated the sensitivity of an mEGFP-linker-mScarlet-I construct (GE2.
3) in response to macromolecular crowding using ensemble time-resolved two-photon (2P) …

Fluorescence depolarization dynamics of ionic strength sensors using time-resolved anisotropy

CP Aplin, RC Miller, TM Kay, AA Heikal, AJ Boersma… - Biophysical journal, 2021 - cell.com
Eukaryotic cells exploit dynamic and compartmentalized ionic strength to impact a myriad of
biological functions such as enzyme activities, protein-protein interactions, and catalytic …