Methane emissions from livestock contribute to global warming. Seaweeds used as food additive offer a promising emission mitigation strategy because seaweeds are enriched in bromoform─a methanogenesis inhibitor. Therefore, understanding bromoform sto...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jun 28, 2024
The optimal interaction of drugs with plasma membranes and membranes of subcellular organelles is a prerequisite for desirable pharmacology. Importantly, for drugs targeting the transmembrane lipid-facing sites of integral membrane proteins, the rela...
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Jun 26, 2024
Membrane-disrupting and pore-forming peptides (PFPs) play a substantial role in bionanotechnology and can determine the life and death of cells. The control of chemical and ion transport through cell membranes is essential to maintaining concentratio...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jun 24, 2024
Biological membranes play key roles in cellular compartmentalization, structure, and its signaling pathways. At varying temperatures, individual membrane lipids sample from different configurations, a process that frequently leads to higher-order pha...
Lateral lipid heterogeneity (i.e., raft formation) in biomembranes plays a functional role in living cells. Three-component mixtures of low- and high-melting lipids plus cholesterol offer a simplified experimental model for raft domains in which a li...
Bioelectronic devices that are tetherless and soft are promising developments in medicine, robotics and chemical computing. Here, we describe bioinspired synthetic neurons, composed entirely of soft, flexible biomaterials, capable of rapid electroche...
Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes
May 11, 2020
The plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells is commonly believed to contain ordered lipid domains. The interest in understanding the origin of such domains has led to extensive studies on the phase behavior of mixed lipid systems. Three-component phase d...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Oct 7, 2019
Phase separation in mixed lipid systems has been extensively studied both experimentally and theoretically because of its biological importance. A detailed description of such complex systems undoubtedly requires novel mathematical frameworks that ar...
Design of therapeutically viable antimicrobial peptides with cell selectivity against microorganisms is an important step towards the development of new antimicrobial agents. Here, we report four de novo designed, short amphipathic sequences based on...
Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry
Dec 8, 2017
A molecular robot is a next-generation biochemical machine that imitates the actions of microorganisms. It is made of biomaterials such as DNA, proteins, and lipids. Three prerequisites have been proposed for the construction of such a robot: sensors...
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