Protein-based biological materials: Molecular design and artificial production

A Miserez, J Yu, P Mohammadi - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymeric materials produced from fossil fuels have been intimately linked to the
development of industrial activities in the 20th century and, consequently, to the …

Role of liquid–liquid phase separation in assembly of elastin and other extracellular matrix proteins

LD Muiznieks, S Sharpe, R Pomès… - Journal of molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Liquid–liquid phase separation resulting in formation of colloidal droplets has recently
attracted attention as a mechanism for rapid and transient assembly of intracellular …

Direct observation of structure and dynamics during phase separation of an elastomeric protein

SE Reichheld, LD Muiznieks… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Despite its growing importance in biology and in biomaterials development, liquid–liquid
phase separation of proteins remains poorly understood. In particular, the molecular …

The liquid structure of elastin

S Rauscher, R Pomès - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The protein elastin imparts extensibility, elastic recoil, and resilience to tissues including
arterial walls, skin, lung alveoli, and the uterus. Elastin and elastin-like peptides are …

The past, present and future of protein-based materials

NC Abascal, L Regan - Royal Society Open Biology, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Protein-based materials are finding new uses and applications after millennia of impacting
the daily life of humans. Some of the earliest uses of protein-based materials are still evident …

Protein‐based functional nanomaterial design for bioengineering applications

MS Desai, SW Lee - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this review article, we describe recent progress in the field of protein‐based
bionanomaterial design with focus on the four well‐characterized proteins: mammalian …

Conformational transitions of the cross-linking domains of elastin during self-assembly

SE Reichheld, LD Muiznieks, R Stahl… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Elastin is the intrinsically disordered polymeric protein imparting the exceptional properties
of extension and elastic recoil to the extracellular matrix of most vertebrates. The monomeric …

Which DFT factors influence the accuracy of 1 H, 13 C and 195 Pt NMR chemical shift predictions in organopolymetallic square-planar complexes? New scaling …

G Bella, M Milone, G Bruno, A Santoro - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Because of their chemical heterogeneity, stereochemical complexity and the presence of
heavy atoms involving orbitals with high quantum number L, organopolymetallic complexes …

Solid-state NMR study of structural heterogeneity of the apo WT mouse TSPO reconstituted in liposomes

L Duma, L Senicourt, B Rigaud, V Papadopoulos… - Biochimie, 2023 - Elsevier
In the last decades, ligand binding to human TSPO has been largely used in clinical
neuroimaging, but little is known about the interaction mechanism. Protein conformational …

Order, disorder, and temperature-driven compaction in a designed elastin protein

KN Greenland, MFCA Carvajal… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Artificial minielastin constructs have been designed that replicate the structure and function
of natural elastins in a simpler context, allowing the NMR observation of structure and …