Coacervate droplets for synthetic cells

Z Lin, T Beneyton, JC Baret, N Martin - Small Methods, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The design and construction of synthetic cells–human‐made microcompartments that mimic
features of living cells–have experienced a real boom in the past decade. While many efforts …

Integrating Computation, Experiment, and Machine Learning in the Design of Peptide‐Based Supramolecular Materials and Systems

M Ramakrishnan, A van Teijlingen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Interest in peptide‐based supramolecular materials has grown extensively since the 1980s
and the application of computational methods has paralleled this. These methods contribute …

Protein misfolding and amyloid nucleation through liquid–liquid phase separation

S Mukherjee, M Poudyal, K Dave, P Kadu… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is an emerging phenomenon in cell physiology and
diseases. The weak multivalent interaction prerequisite for LLPS is believed to be facilitated …

Liquid-droplet-mediated ATP-triggered amyloidogenic pathway of insulin-derived chimeric peptides: unraveling the microscopic and molecular processes

R Dec, MW Jaworek, W Dzwolak… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Disease-associated progression of protein dysfunction is typically determined by an
interplay of transition pathways leading to liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) and …

Supramolecular fibrillation in coacervates and other confined systems towards biomimetic function

A Sanchez-Fernandez, I Insua… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
As in natural cytoskeletons, the cooperative assembly of fibrillar networks can be hosted
inside compartments to engineer biomimetic functions, such as mechanical actuation …

Exploring Peptido‐Nanocomposites in the Context of Amyloid Diseases

N Andrikopoulos, H Tang, Y Wang, X Liang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Therapeutic peptides are a major class of pharmaceutical drugs owing to their target‐
binding specificity as well as their versatility in inhibiting aberrant protein‐protein …

Visualizing formation and dynamics of a three-dimensional sponge-like network of a coacervate in real time

R Kubota, T Hiroi, Y Ikuta, Y Liu… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Coacervates, which are formed by liquid–liquid phase separation, have been extensively
explored as models for synthetic cells and membraneless organelles, so their in-depth …

Modulating Phase Behavior in Fatty Acid-Modified Elastin-like Polypeptides (FAMEs): Insights into the Impact of Lipid Length on Thermodynamics and Kinetics of …

Z Zhang, CJ Lynch, Y Huo, S Chakraborty… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Although post-translational lipidation is prevalent in eukaryotes, its impact on the liquid–
liquid phase separation of disordered proteins is still poorly understood. Here, we examined …

Bridging Biocondensation and Biomimetic Fibrillation by Regulating Intra-And Interchain Hydrogen Bonds in Artificial Biomacromolecular Condensates

J Hong, Q Lin, Z Shao - ACS Macro Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Utilizing biocondensates as feedstocks can be a state-of-the-art strategy for emulating
natural silk spinning. Although current biocondensates can form solid fibers using a …

Liquid–liquid phase separation (llps)-driven fibrilization of amyloid-β protein

S Sudhakar, A Manohar, E Mani - ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amyloid-β [Aβ (1–40)] aggregation into a fibrillar network is one of the major hallmarks of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recently, a few studies reported that polyphosphate (polyP), an …