Backscattering silicon spectrometer (BASIS): sixteen years in advanced materials characterization

NC Osti, N Jalarvo, E Mamontov - Materials Horizons, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) is an experimental technique that can measure
parameters of mobility, such as diffusion jump rate and jump length, as well as localized …

Effective patchiness from critical points of a coarse-grained protein model with explicit shape and charge anisotropy

J Weimar, F Hirschmann, M Oettel - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal model systems are successful in rationalizing emergent phenomena like
aggregation, rheology and phase behaviour of protein solutions. Colloidal theory in …

Short-time transport properties of bidisperse suspensions of immunoglobulins and serum albumins consistent with a colloid physics picture

C Beck, M Grimaldo, H Lopez, S Da Vela… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The crowded environment of biological systems such as the interior of living cells is
occupied by macromolecules with a broad size distribution. This situation of polydispersity …

Continuity of Short-Time Dynamics Crossing the Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation in Charge-Tuned Protein Solutions

I Mosca, C Beck, NH Jalarvo… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) constitutes a crucial phenomenon in biological self-
organization, not only intervening in the formation of membraneless organelles but also …

Role of water structural properties in interaction of amino acids with metal ions of varying size and electrons in d-block or main group elements: Quantitative …

E Judy, N Kishore - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2023 - Elsevier
Interactions of a homologous series of amino acids (glycine, l-alanine, DL-α-amino-n-butyric
acid, l-valine and l-leucine) with salts (LiCl, NaCl, KCl, CaCl 2, MnCl 2, CoCl 2) having …

Combined Effects of Pressure and Ionic Strength on Protein–Protein Interactions: An Empirical Approach

B Paul, EM Furst, AM Lenhoff, NJ Wagner… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Proteins are exposed to hydrostatic pressure (HP) in a variety of ecosystems as well as in
processing steps such as freeze–thaw, cell disruption, sterilization, and homogenization, yet …

Thermodynamic Signatures of Structural Transitions and Dissociation of Charged Colloidal Clusters: A Parallel Tempering Monte Carlo Study

FV Prudente, JMC Marques - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Computational simulation of colloidal systems make use of empirical interaction potentials
that are founded in well-established theory. In this work, we have performed parallel …

Effects of flexibility in coarse-grained models for bovine serum albumin and immunoglobulin G

F Hirschmann, H Lopez, F Roosen-Runge… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We construct a coarse-grained, structure-based, low-resolution, 6-bead flexible model of
bovine serum albumin (BSA, PDB: 4F5S), which is a popular example of a globular protein …

Notes on Fitting and Analysis Frameworks for QENS Spectra of (Soft) Colloid Suspensions

C Beck, K Pounot, I Mosca, NH Jalarvo… - EPJ Web of …, 2022 - epj-conferences.org
With continuously improving signal-to-noise ratios, a statistically sound analysis of quasi-
elastic neutron scattering (QENS) spectra requires to fit increasingly complex models which …

Energy Transport along α-Helix Protein Chains: External Drives and Multifractal Analysis

N Sefidkar, S Fathizadeh, F Nemati, C Simserides - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Energy transport within biological systems is critical for biological functions in living cells and
for technological applications in molecular motors. Biological systems have very complex …