Recent advances in recombinant production of soluble proteins in E. coli

A De Marco - Microbial cell factories, 2025 - Springer
E. coli still remains the most commonly used organism to produce recombinant proteins in
research labs. This condition is mirrored by the attention that researchers dedicate to …

Understanding the impacts of molecular and macromolecular crowding agents on protein–polymer complex coacervates

S Biswas, AL Hecht, SA Noble, Q Huang… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Complex coacervation refers to the liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) process occurring
between charged macromolecules. The study of complex coacervation is of great interest …

Peptides as Targeting Agents and Therapeutics: A Brief Overview

JL Warthen, MJ Lueckheide - Biomacromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
The controllability and specificity of peptides make them ideal for targeting therapeutic
delivery systems and as therapeutic agents that interfere with the essential functions of …

Quantifying charge state heterogeneity for proteins with multiple ionizable residues

MJ Fossat, AE Posey, RV Pappu - Biophysical Journal, 2021 - cell.com
Ionizable residues can release and take up protons and this has an influence on protein
structure and function. The extent of protonation is linked to the overall pH of the solution …

Charge-Patterned Disordered Peptides Tune Intracellular Phase Separation in Bacteria

J Liao, V Yeong, AC Obermeyer - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Subcellular phase-separated compartments, known as biomolecular condensates, play an
important role in the spatiotemporal organization of cells. To understand the sequence …

De novo designed YK peptides forming reversible amyloid for synthetic protein condensates in mammalian cells

T Miki, M Hashimoto, H Takahashi, M Shimizu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In mammalian cells, protein condensates underlie diverse cell functions. Intensive synthetic
biological research has been devoted to fabricating liquid droplets using de novo …

Glycation regulates phase separation by attenuating electrostatic interactions and increasing hydrophobic interactions

YY Luo, JJ Hu, YJ Lim, PY He, YM Li - New Journal of Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) was recently discovered to be a ubiquitous method
of substance organization in living organisms, which plays an important regulatory role in …

Liquid–liquid phase separation induced auto-confinement

A Rizvi, JP Patterson - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Confinement allows macromolecules and biomacromolecules to attain arrangements
typically unachievable through conventional self-assembly processes. In the field of block …

Repurposing peptide nanomaterials as synthetic biomolecular condensates in bacteria

DT Tomares, S Whitlock, M Mann… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Peptide nanomaterials exhibit diverse applications in vitro, such as drug delivery. Here, we
consider the utility of de novo peptide nanomaterials to organize biochemistry within the …

[HTML][HTML] Selectivity of Complex Coacervation in Multi-Protein Mixtures

SY Ahn, AC Obermeyer - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Liquid-liquid phase separation of biomolecules is increasingly recognized as relevant to
various cellular functions, and complex coacervation of biomacromolecules, particularly …