Protein cages: from fundamentals to advanced applications

TGW Edwardson, MD Levasseur, S Tetter… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins that self-assemble into polyhedral shell-like structures are useful molecular
containers both in nature and in the laboratory. Here we review efforts to repurpose diverse …

Antimicrobial activity of photocatalysts: fundamentals, mechanisms, kinetics and recent advances

P Ganguly, C Byrne, A Breen, SC Pillai - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis has recently been emerged as an effective green solution for antimicrobial
disinfection applications. Photocatalytic disinfection has been observed to be efficient in …

Applications of charge detection mass spectrometry in molecular biology and biotechnology

MF Jarrold - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Charge detection mass spectrometry (CDMS) is a single-particle technique where the
masses of individual ions are determined from simultaneous measurement of their mass-to …

Mechanisms of virus assembly

JD Perlmutter, MF Hagan - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Viruses are nanoscale entities containing a nucleic acid genome encased in a protein shell
called a capsid and in some cases are surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane. This review …

Core protein: A pleiotropic keystone in the HBV lifecycle

A Zlotnick, B Venkatakrishnan, Z Tan, E Lewellyn… - Antiviral research, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) is a small virus whose genome has only four open reading
frames. We argue that the simplicity of the virion correlates with a complexity of functions for …

Rapid and automated design of two-component protein nanomaterials using ProteinMPNN

RJ de Haas, N Brunette, A Goodson… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The design of protein–protein interfaces using physics-based design methods such as
Rosetta requires substantial computational resources and manual refinement by expert …

Physical virology

WH Roos, R Bruinsma, GJL Wuite - Nature physics, 2010 - nature.com
Viruses are nanosized, genome-filled protein containers with remarkable thermodynamic
and mechanical properties. They form by spontaneous self-assembly inside the crowded …

Physics of viral dynamics

RF Bruinsma, GJL Wuite, WH Roos - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Viral capsids are often regarded as inert structural units, but in actuality they display
fascinating dynamics during different stages of their life cycle. With the advent of single …

Targeting the multifunctional HBV core protein as a potential cure for chronic hepatitis B

U Viswanathan, N Mani, Z Hu, H Ban, Y Du, J Hu… - Antiviral research, 2020 - Elsevier
The core (capsid) protein of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the building block of nucleocapsids
where viral DNA reverse transcriptional replication takes place and mediates virus-host cell …

Equilibrium mechanisms of self-limiting assembly

MF Hagan, GM Grason - Reviews of modern physics, 2021 - APS
Self-assembly is a ubiquitous process in synthetic and biological systems, broadly defined
as the spontaneous organization of multiple subunits (macromolecules, particles, etc.) into …