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David Hoogerheide, Tatiana Rostovtseva, Sergey M. Bezrukov
Regulation of VDAC by α-Synuclein (αSyn) is a rich and instructive example of protein-protein interactions catalyzed by a lipid membrane surface. αSyn, a peripheral membrane protein involved in Parkinson's disease pathology, is known to bind to membranes
Ryan Klein, Hayden Evans, Benjamin Trump, Terrence J. Udovic, Craig Brown
Hydrogen storage presents a significant barrier to the widespread adaptation of hydrogen as an energy source in mobile and stationary applications. The development of new candidate hydrogen storage materials is therefore an outstanding goal in the field of
Michael K. Thorsen, Alex Lai, Michelle W. Lee, David Hoogerheide, Gerard C. Wong, Jack H. Freed, Ekaterina Heldwein
During replication of herpesviruses, capsids escape from the nucleus into the cytoplasm by budding at the inner nuclear membrane. This process is mediated by the viral nuclear egress complex (NEC), but how the NEC interacts with lipids or generates
Studies on magnetic oxyhydrides have been almost limited to perovskite-based lattices with corner-sharing octahedra with a M‒H‒M (M: transition metal) angle of θ 180 °. Using a high-pressure method, we prepared BaCrO 2H with a 6H-type hexagonal perovskite
Michihiro Nagao, Elizabeth Kelley, Antonio Faraone, Makina Saito, Yoshitaka Yoda, Masayuki Kurokuzu, Shinichi Takata, Makoto Seto, Paul Butler
Membrane viscosity is a fundamental property that controls molecular transport and structural rearrangements in lipid membranes. Given its importance in many cell processes, various experimental and computational methods have been developed to measure the
Jian Zheng, Mohammad Wahiduzzman, Dushyant Barpaga, Benjamin Trump, Oliver T. Gutierrez, Praveen Thallapally, Shengqian Ma, B. P. McGrail, Guillaume Maurin, Radha K. Motkuri
We report the first exploration of fluorocarbon adsorption performances using defect-containing covalent–organic frameworks (COFs). Exceptionally high fluorocarbon R134a equilibrium capacities and unique overall linear-shaped isotherms are attributed to
Elizabeth Kelley, Michael H. Nguyen, Drew Marquardt, Brian B. Maranville, Ryan Murphy
This paper presents the use of a stopped-flow small-angle neutron-scattering (SANS) sample environment to quickly mix liquid samples and study nanoscale kinetic processes on time scales of seconds to minutes. The stopped-flow sample environment uses
FePt5P, a new substitutional variant of the CeCoIn5 structure type in space group P4/mmm, was synthesized by high-temperature solid-state method and structurally characterized by X-ray diffraction. FePt5P contains layers of FePt12 clusters formed by
Jakob Grinderslev, Mikael S. Andersson, Benjamin Trump, Wei Zhou, Terrence J. Udovic, Maths Karlsson, Torben Jensen
Complex metal hydrides are a fascinating and continuously expanding class of materials with many properties relevant for solid-state hydrogen and ammonia storage and solid state electrolytes. The crystal structures are often investigated using powder X-ray
Zhi-Cheng Wang, Kulatheepan Thanabalasingam, Jan P. Scheifers, Alenna Streeter, Gregory T. McCandless, Jonathan N. Gaudet, Craig Brown, Carlo U. Segre, Julia Y. Chan, Fazel Tafti
Strongly correlated electrons in layered perovskite structures have been the birthplace of high-temperature superconductivity, spin liquid, and quantum criticality. Specifically, the cuprate materials with layered structures made of corner sharing square
Composition and asymmetry of lipid membranes provide a means for regulation of trans-membrane permeability of ions and small molecules. The pH dependence of these processes plays an important role in the functioning and survival of cells. In this work, we
Mathias Jorgensen, Wei Zhou, Hui Wu, Terrence J. Udovic, Mark Paskevicius, Radovan Cerny, Torben R. Jensen
Metal closo-borates and their derivatives have shown promise in several fields of application from cancer therapy to solid-state electrolytes partly owing to their stability in aqueous solutions and high thermal stability. We report the synthesis and
Tatiana Rostovtseva, Sergey M. Bezrukov, David Hoogerheide
The voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) is the primary regulating transporter of water-soluble metabolites and ions across the mitochondrial outer membrane. When reconstituted into lipid membranes, VDAC responds to sufficiently large transmembrane
Pallavi Kumari, Antonio Faraone, Elizabeth Kelley, Antonio Benedetto
Cell membranes play a crucial role for life. They are involved, for example, in cell migration and recognition. Lipids, organized in a bilayer structure, are one of their major constituents. Alterations in the lipid-bilayer elasticity can lead to cell
Daniel Hussey, Jacob LaManna, David Jacobson, Gary Koenig
Increasing electrode thickness is one route to improve the energy density of lithium-ion battery cells. However, restricted Li+ transport in the electrolyte phase through the porous microstructure of thick electrodes limits the ability to achieve high
Peng Luo, Abhishek Jaiswal, Yanqin Zhai, Zhikun Cai, Nathan P. Walter, Long Zhou, Dawei Ding, Ming Liu, Rebecca Mills, Andrey Podlesnyak, Georg Ehlers, Antonio Faraone, Haiyang Bai, Weihua Wang, Y. Z.
By employing quasi-elastic neutron scattering, we studied the atomic-scale relaxation dynamics and transport mechanism of La 50Ni 15Al 35 and Ce 69Cu 20Al 10Nb 1 Studied by Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering metallic glass melts in the temperature range of
Biological membranes are composed of complex mixtures of lipids and proteins that influence each other's structure and function. The biological activities of many channel-forming peptides and proteins are known to depend on the material properties of the
Fatih Comert, Frank N. Heinrich, Ananda Chowdhury, Mason Schoeneck, Caitlin Darling, Kyle Anderson, M. Daben J. Libardo, Alfredo Angeles-Boza, Vitalii I. Silin, Myriam Cotten, Mihaela Mihailescu
In the search for novel broad‑spectrum therapeutics to fight chronic infections, inflammation, and cancer, host defense peptides (HDPs) have garnered increasing interest. Characterizing their biologically‑active conformations and minimum motifs for
Mary Burdette-Trofimov, Beth Armstrong, Ryan Murphy, Luke Heroux, Mathieu Doucet, Alexander Rogers, Gabriel Veith
This work explores the complex interplay between slurry aggregation, agglomeration, and conformation (i.e. shape) of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) and lithiated poly(acrylic acid) (LiPAA) based silicon slurries as a function of shear rate, and the resulting
Amir Erfani, Abanoub Hanna, Payam Zarrintaj, Saeed Manouchehri, Katie Weigandt, Clint P. Aichele, Joshua D. Ramsey
Many recent innovative treatments are based on monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and other protein therapies. Nevertheless, sustained subcutaneous, oral or pulmonary delivery of such therapeutics are limited by the poor stability, short half-life, and non