Biophysics

Solubility product constant directs the formation of biomolecular condensates

1. Aniruddha Chattaraj
2. Michael L. Blinov
3. Leslie M. Loew

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  Evaluation Summary:

  Recent experiments have raised questions regarding concentration buffering provided by the formation of multicomponent biomolecular condensates via phase separation driven by heterotypic interactions. In this work, Chattaraja et al., demonstrate that the concept of a solubility product, used to describe the solubility limits of ionic solutions, sets an upper limit on concentration thresholds, even in systems where the driving forces for phase separation are primarily heterotypic in nature. Their work suggests that the concept of a solubility product rescues the concept of buffering via phase separation.

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Python-Microscope: A new open source Python library for the control of microscopes

1. David Miguel Susano Pinto
2. Mick A Phillips
3. Nicholas Hall
4. Julio Mateos–Langerak
5. Danail Stoychev
6. Tiago Susano Pinto
7. Martin J Booth
8. Ilan Davis
9. Ian M Dobbie

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Ca ²⁺ -dependent mechanism of membrane insertion and destabilization by the SARS-CoV-2 fusion peptide

1. George Khelashvili
2. Ambrose Plante
3. Milka Doktorova
4. Harel Weinstein

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Exploring dynamics and network analysis of spike glycoprotein of SARS-COV-2

1. Mahdi Ghorbani
2. Bernard R. Brooks
3. Jeffery B. Klauda

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Binding Mode of SARS-CoV2 Fusion Peptide to Human Cellular Membrane

1. Defne Gorgun
2. Muyun Lihan
3. Karan Kapoor
4. Emad Tajkhorshid

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Distant residues modulate conformational opening in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

1. Dhiman Ray
2. Ly Le
3. Ioan Andricioaei

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The flexibility of ACE2 in the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection

1. Emilia P. Barros
2. Lorenzo Casalino
3. Zied Gaieb
4. Abigail C. Dommer
5. Yuzhang Wang
6. Lucy Fallon
7. Lauren Raguette
8. Kellon Belfon
9. Carlos Simmerling
10. Rommie E. Amaro

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Microsecond simulations and CD spectroscopy reveals the intrinsically disordered nature of SARS-CoV-2 Spike-C-terminal cytoplasmic tail (residues 1242-1273) in isolation

1. Prateek Kumar
2. Taniya Bhardwaj
3. Neha Garg
4. Rajanish Giri

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Dynamic competition between SARS-CoV-2 NSP1 and mRNA on the human ribosome inhibits translation initiation

1. Christopher P. Lapointe
2. Rosslyn Grosely
3. Alex G. Johnson
4. Jinfan Wang
5. Israel S. Fernández
6. Joseph D. Puglisi

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Neuropilin-1 Assists SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Stimulating the Separation of Spike Protein Domains S1 and S2

1. Zhen-lu Li
2. Matthias Buck

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