Nuclear capsid uncoating and reverse transcription of HIV-1

TG Müller, V Zila, B Müller… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
After cell entry, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication involves reverse
transcription of the RNA genome, nuclear import of the subviral complex without nuclear …

Translation initiation by cap‐dependent ribosome recruitment: Recent insights and open questions

NE Shirokikh, T Preiss - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Gene expression universally relies on protein synthesis, where ribosomes recognize and
decode the messenger RNA template by cycling through translation initiation, elongation …

RNA force field with accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art protein force fields

D Tan, S Piana, RM Dirks… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has become a powerful tool for characterizing at an
atomic level of detail the conformational changes undergone by proteins. The application of …

Multi-enzyme complexes on DNA scaffolds capable of substrate channelling with an artificial swinging arm

J Fu, YR Yang, A Johnson-Buck, M Liu, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Swinging arms are a key functional component of multistep catalytic transformations in many
naturally occurring multi-enzyme complexes. This arm is typically a prosthetic chemical …

Do aptamers always bind? The need for a multifaceted analytical approach when demonstrating binding affinity between aptamer and low molecular weight …

F Bottari, E Daems, AM de Vries… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In this manuscript, we compare different analytical methodologies to validate or disprove the
binding capabilities of aptamer sequences. This was prompted by the lack of a universally …

Nanomanufacturing: a perspective

JA Liddle, GM Gallatin - ACS nano, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nanomanufacturing, the commercially scalable and economically sustainable mass
production of nanoscale materials and devices, represents the tangible outcome of the …

Immobilization strategies for enhancing sensitivity of electrochemical aptamer-based sensors

Y Liu, J Canoura, O Alkhamis… - ACS applied materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical aptamer-based (E-AB) sensors are a versatile sensing platform that can
achieve rapid and robust target detection in complex matrices. However, the limited …

Condensates in RNA repeat sequences are heterogeneously organized and exhibit reptation dynamics

HT Nguyen, N Hori, D Thirumalai - Nature chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Although it is known that RNA undergoes liquid–liquid phase separation, the interplay
between the molecular driving forces and the emergent features of the condensates, such as …

Development of force field parameters for the simulation of single-and double-stranded DNA molecules and DNA–protein complexes

MR Tucker, S Piana, D Tan, MV LeVine… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used extensively to study the
structural dynamics of proteins, the role of MD simulation in studies of nucleic acid based …

The SARS-CoV-2 programmed− 1 ribosomal frameshifting element crystal structure solved to 2.09 Å using chaperone-assisted RNA crystallography

C Roman, A Lewicka, D Koirala, NS Li… - ACS Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The programmed− 1 ribosomal frameshifting element (PFSE) of SARS-CoV-2 is a well
conserved structured RNA found in all coronaviruses' genomes. By adopting a pseudoknot …