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Development of tools and methods for protein identification: From single molecules to in vivo applications

As the fundamental machinery orchestrating cellular functions, proteins influence the state of every cell profoundly. As cells exhibit significant variations from one to another, analyzing the proteome on a single-cell level is imperative to unravel their ...

EPFL2024

A fluorescent multi-domain protein reveals the unfolding mechanism of Hsp70

Paolo De Los Rios, Satyam Tiwari, Pierre Goloubinoff, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet, Salvatore Assenza

Detailed understanding of the mechanism by which Hsp70 chaperones protect cells against protein aggregation is hampered by the lack of a comprehensive characterization of the aggregates, which are typically heterogeneous. Here we designed a reporter chaper ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

A releasable disulfide-linked peptide tag facilitates the synthesis and purification of short peptides

Christian Heinis, Alessandro Zorzi, Yu Teng Wu, Jack Peter Christopher Williams

Combinatorial cyclization of hundreds to thousands of random linear peptides by structurally diverse chemical linkers offers access to large macrocyclic compound libraries. A bottleneck in the development of such libraries is the preparation of large numbe ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Exploring the Molecular Conformation Space by Soft Molecule- Surface Collision

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb

Biomolecules function by adopting multiple conformations. Such dynamics are governed by the conformation landscape whose study requires characterization of the ground and excited conformation states. Here, the conformational landscape of a molecule is samp ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Structural and Photophysical Templating of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes with Single-Stranded DNA

Ursula Röthlisberger, Polydefkis Diamantis, Natalie Renuka Banerji

A promising approach to influence and control the photophysical properties of conjugated polymers is directing their molecular conformation by templating. We explore here the templating effect of single-stranded DNA oligomers (ssDNAs) on cationic polythiop ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Molecular Bases of the Membrane Association Mechanism Potentiating Antibiotic Resistance by New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase 1

Matteo Dal Peraro, Alessio Prunotto, Guillermo Bahr

Resistance to last-resort carbapenem antibiotics is an increasing threat to human health, as it critically limits therapeutic options. Metallo-beta-lactamases (MBLs) are the largest family of carbapenemases, enzymes that inactivate these drugs. Among MBLs, ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Broad-Band Ultraviolet CD Spectroscopy of Ultrafast Peptide Backbone Conformational Dynamics

Majed Chergui, Malte Oppermann, Benjamin Bauer

The far-UV spectral window widely used for the conformational analysis of biomolecules is not easily covered with broad-band lasers. This has made it difficult to use circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy to directly follow fast structure changes. By combin ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Active Site-Induced Evolutionary Constraints Follow Fold Polarity Principles in Soluble Globular Enzymes

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Alexander Mayorov

A recent analysis of evolutionary rates in >500 globular soluble enzymes revealed pervasive conservation gradients toward catalytic residues. By looking at amino acid preference profiles rather than evolutionary rates in the same data set, we quantified th ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

Tuning Interaction Parameters of Thermoplastic Polyurethanes in a Binary Solvent To Achieve Precise Control over Microphase Separation

Oguzhan Oguz

Thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) are designed using a large variety of basic building blocks but are only synthesized in a limited number of solvent systems. Understanding the behavior of the copolymers in a selected solvent system is of particular inter ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Rapid Structure Determination of Molecular Solids Using Chemical Shifts Directed by Unambiguous Prior Constraints

David Lyndon Emsley, Arthur César Pinon, Albert Hofstetter, Federico Maria Paruzzo, Martins Balodis

NMR-based crystallography approaches involving the combination of crystal structure prediction methods, ab initio calculated chemical shifts and solid-state NMR experiments are powerful methods for crystal structure determination of microcrystalline powder ...

2019

Mid-Infrared plasmonic nanoantennas for ultrasensitive detection of proteins and their secondary structure

Dordaneh Etezadi

Engineered plasmonic nanostructures have emerged as powerful sensing platforms and are promoting novel applications in various fields. By providing extreme field confinement down to molecular dimensions and enhancing light-matter interaction at the nanosca ...

EPFL2018

Salt-induced thermochromism of a conjugated polyelectrolyte

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Yauhen Sheima

We report here the photophysical properties of a water-soluble conjugated polythiophene with cationic side-chains. When dissolved in aqueous buffer solution (PBS, phosphate buffered saline), there is ordering of the polymer chains due to the presence of th ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

High-temperature copolyamides obtained by the efficient transamidation of crystalline-crystalline polyamide blends

Véronique Michaud, John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Sylvain Cyril Claude Galland

High-performance thermoplastic composites based on semiaromatic polyamides are prime candidates for metal replacement in lightweight structural applications. However, the low ductility and toughness of semiaromatic polyamides remain major obstacles to thei ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Chiral expression of adsorbed (MP) 5-amino[6] helicenes: from random structures to dense racemic crystals by surface alloying

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder

The chiral expression of a molecule on a surface is driven from a random solid solution on Cu(100) to a racemic crystal on a Sn/Cu(100) alloy. Density functional theory simulations reveal how the growth of the racemate is influenced by the underlying surfa ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Conformations of prolyl-peptide bonds in the bradykinin 1-5 fragment in solution and in the gas phase

Thomas Rizzo, Antoine Louis Claude Masson, Michael Zachary Kamrath, Liudmila Voronina, Carsten Baldauf

The dynamic nature of intrinsically disordered peptides makes them a challenge to characterize by solution-phase techniques. In order to gain insight into the relation between the disordered state and the environment, we explore the conformational space of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Design and manufacturing of high inductance planar coils for small scale sensing applications

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jasha Poliakine

This work addresses the design and fabrication of small scale planar coils with high number of turns (> 100) and self inductances up to 32 H suitable for the enhancement of inductive sensors performances. First, the modified Wheeler’s formula is used to de ...

Elsevier Ltd.2016

Influence of Block versus Random Monomer Distribution on the Cellular Uptake of Hydrophilic Copolymers

Harm-Anton Klok, John Moraes, Muriel Blum, Raoul Peltier

The use of polymers has revolutionized the field of drug delivery in the past two decades. Properties such as polymer size, charge, hydrophilicity, or branching have all been shown to play an important role in the cellular internalization of polymeric syst ...

2016

Screening of structurally diverse bicyclic peptide libraries by phage display

Davide Bertoldo

Bicyclic peptides are an attractive molecule format for the development of therapeutics and research tools. Our laboratory is specialized on the development of bicyclic peptide ligands by phage display. In brief, libraries of randompeptides each containing ...

EPFL2016

Accuracy of Current All-Atom Force-Fields in Modeling Protein Disordered States

Alessandro Barducci

Molecular Dynamics (MD) plays a fundamental role in characterizing protein disordered states that are emerging as crucial actors in many biological processes. Here we assess the accuracy of three current force-fields in modeling disordered peptides by comb ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Sequence-dependent mechanical, photophysical and electrical properties of pi-conjugated peptide hydrogelators

Matteo Togninalli

The ability to modulate intermolecular interactions in such a way as to impact nano-, micro- and even macroscale properties is an attractive aspect of self-assembling systems. We present an investigation of sequence-dependent rheological, photophysical and ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015