[HTML][HTML] Advances in protein structure prediction and design

B Kuhlman, P Bradley - Nature reviews molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The prediction of protein three-dimensional structure from amino acid sequence has been a
grand challenge problem in computational biophysics for decades, owing to its intrinsic …

Single-molecule analysis and engineering of DNA motors

S Mohapatra, CT Lin, XA Feng, A Basu, T Ha - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular motors are diverse enzymes that transduce chemical energy into mechanical
work and, in doing so, perform critical cellular functions such as DNA replication and …

Split-TurboID enables contact-dependent proximity labeling in cells

KF Cho, TC Branon, S Rajeev… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Proximity labeling catalyzed by promiscuous enzymes, such as TurboID, have enabled the
proteomic analysis of subcellular regions difficult or impossible to access by conventional …

A red light–responsive photoswitch for deep tissue optogenetics

Y Kuwasaki, K Suzuki, G Yu, S Yamamoto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Red light penetrates deep into mammalian tissues and has low phototoxicity, but few
optogenetic tools that use red light have been developed. Here we present MagRed, a red …

Synthetic protein condensates that inducibly recruit and release protein activity in living cells

M Yoshikawa, T Yoshii, M Ikuta… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Compartmentation of proteins into biomolecular condensates or membraneless organelles
formed by phase separation is an emerging principle for the regulation of cellular processes …

Two-input protein logic gate for computation in living cells

YL Vishweshwaraiah, J Chen, VR Chirasani… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Advances in protein design have brought us within reach of developing a nanoscale
programming language, in which molecules serve as operands and their conformational …

Chemical and biological engineering strategies to make and modify next-generation hydrogel biomaterials

R Gharios, RM Francis, CA DeForest - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
There is a growing interest in the development of technologies to probe and direct in vitro
cellular function for fundamental organoid and stem cell biology, functional tissue and …

Computation-guided optimization of split protein systems

TB Dolberg, AT Meger, JD Boucher… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Splitting bioactive proteins into conditionally reconstituting fragments is a powerful strategy
for building tools to study and control biological systems. However, split proteins often …

Comprehensive interrogation of the ADAR2 deaminase domain for engineering enhanced RNA editing activity and specificity

D Katrekar, Y Xiang, N Palmer, A Saha, D Meluzzi… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADARs) can be repurposed to enable
programmable RNA editing, however their exogenous delivery leads to transcriptome-wide …

Optogenetically engineered Septin-7 enhances immune cell infiltration of tumor spheroids

J Chen, B Hnath, CM Sha, L Beidler, TD Schell… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies have achieved great success in eradicating some
liquid tumors, whereas the preclinical results in treating solid tumors have proven less …