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Moreover, ulvan disaggregates preformed mature fibrils into off-pathway oligomers and greatly decreases their associated cytotoxicity, as revealed using ThT fluorescence, AFM, MTT, and dot-blotting assays. The above results not only fully describe the inhibitory effect of ulvan on Aβ fibrillation and its related cytotoxicity but also provide novel ideas for the development of functional food ingredients from seaweed to treat AD.Accumulation of secondary metabolites in the young shoots of tea plants is developmentally modulated, especially flavonoids. Here, we investigate the developmental regulation mechanism of secondary metabolism in the developing leaves of tea plants using an integrated multiomic approach. For the pair of Leaf2/Bud, the correlation coefficient of the fold change of mRNA and RPFs abundances involved in flavonoid biosynthesis was 0.9359, being higher than that of RPFs and protein (R2 = 0.6941). These correlations were higher than the corresponding correlation coefficients for secondary metabolisms and genome-wide scale. Metabolomic analysis demonstrates that the developmental modulations of the structural genes for flavonoid biosynthesis-related pathways align with the concentration changes of catechin and flavonol glycoside groups. Relatively high translational efficiency (TE > 2) was observed in the four flavonoid structural genes (chalcone isomerase, dihydroflavonol 4-reductase, anthocyanidin synthase, and flavonol synthase). In addition, we originally provided the information on identified small open reading frames (small ORFs) and main ORFs in tea leaves and elaborated that the presence of upstream ORFs may have a repressive effect on the translation of downstream ORFs. Our data suggest that transcriptional regulation coordinates with translational regulation and may contribute to the elevation of translational efficiencies for the structural genes involved in the flavonoid biosynthesis pathways during tea leaf development.A variety of chemicals can be produced in a living host cell via optimized and engineered biosynthetic pathways. Despite the successes, pathway engineering remains demanding because of the lack of specific functions or substrates in the host cell, the cell's sensitivity in vital physiological processes to the heterologous components, or constrained mass transfer across the membrane. In this study, we show that complex multidomain proteins involved in natural compound biosynthesis can be produced from encoding DNA in vitro in a minimal complex PURE system to directly run multistep reactions. Specifically, we synthesize indigoidine and rhabdopeptides with the in vitro produced multidomain nonribosomal peptide synthetases BpsA and KJ12ABC from the organisms Streptomyces lavendulae and Xenorhabdus KJ12.1, respectively. These in vitro produced proteins are analyzed in yield, post-translational modification and in their ability to synthesize the natural compounds, and compared to recombinantly produced proteins. Our study highlights cell-free PURE system as suitable setting for the characterization of biosynthetic gene clusters that can potentially be harnessed for the rapid engineering of biosynthetic pathways.ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters constitute one of the largest protein superfamilies, and they mediate the transport of diverse substrates across the membrane. The molecular mechanism for transducing the energy from ATP binding and hydrolysis into the conformational changes remains elusive. Here, we determined the thermodynamics underlying the ATP-induced global conformational switching for the ABC exporter TmrAB using temperature-resolved pulsed electron-electron double resonance (PELDOR or DEER) spectroscopy. We show that a strong entropy-enthalpy compensation mechanism enables the closure of the nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs) over a wide temperature range. This is mechanically coupled with an outward opening of the transmembrane domains (TMDs) accompanied by an entropy gain. The conserved catalytic glutamate plays a key role in the overall energetics. Our results reveal the thermodynamic basis for the chemomechanical energy coupling in an ABC exporter and present a new strategy to explore the energetics of similar membrane protein complexes.High-throughput computational screening of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) enables the discovery of new promising materials for CO2 capture and H2 purification. The number of synthesized MOFs is increasing very rapidly, and computation-ready, experimental MOF databases are being updated. Screening the most recent MOF database is essential to identify the best performing materials among several thousands. In this work, we performed molecular simulations of the most recent MOF database and described both the adsorbent and membrane-based separation performances of 10 221 MOFs for CO2 capture and H2 purification. The best materials identified for pressure swing adsorption, vacuum swing adsorption, and temperature swing adsorption processes outperformed commercial zeolites and previously studied MOFs in terms of CO2 selectivity and adsorbent performance score. We then discussed the applicability of Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory (IAST), effects of inaccessible local pores and catenation in the frameworks and the presence of impurities in CO2/H2 mixture on the adsorbent performance metrics of MOFs. Very large numbers of MOF membranes were found to outperform traditional polymer and porous membranes in terms of H2 permeability. Our results show that MOFs that are recently added into the updated MOF database have higher CO2/H2 separation potentials than the previously reported MOFs. MOFs with small pores were identified as potential adsorbents for selective capture of CO2 from H2, whereas MOFs with high porosities were the promising membranes for selective separation of H2 from CO2. This study reveals the importance of enriching the number of MOFs in high-throughput computational screening studies for the discovery of new promising materials for CO2/H2 separation.Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are copper-dependent enzymes that cleave polysaccharide substrates oxidatively. First discovered because of their action on recalcitrant crystalline substrates (chitin and cellulose), a number of LPMOs are now reported to act on soluble substrates, including oligosaccharides. However, crystallographic complexes with oligosaccharides have been reported for only a single LPMO so far, an enzyme from the basidiomycete fungus Lentinus similis (LsAA9_A). Here we present a more detailed comparative study of LsAA9_A and an LPMO from the ascomycete fungus Collariella virescens (CvAA9_A) with which it shares 41.5% sequence identity. LsAA9_A is considerably more thermostable than CvAA9_A, and the structural basis for the difference has been investigated. We have compared the patterns of oligosaccharide cleavage and the patterns of binding in several new crystal structures explaining the basis for the product preferences of the two enzymes. Obtaining structural information about complexes of LPMOs with carbohydrates has proven to be very difficult in general judging from the structures reported in the literature thus far, and this can be attributed only partly to the low affinity for small substrates. We have thus evaluated the use of differential scanning fluorimetry as a guide to obtaining complex structures. Furthermore, an analysis of crystal packing of LPMOs and glycoside hydrolases corroborates the hypothesis that active site occlusion is a very significant problem for LPMO-substrate interaction analysis by crystallography, due to their relatively flat and extended substrate binding sites.Functional antitumor vaccine constructs are the basis for active tumor immunotherapy, which is useful in the treatment of many types of cancers. MUC1 is one key glycoprotein for targeting and designing new strategies for multicomponent vaccines. Two self-adjuvant tetravalent vaccine candidates were prepared by clustering four or eight PDTRP MUC1 core epitope sequences on calixarene scaffolds. In this work, the different activities of two molecules with calix[4]arene and calix[8]arene skeleton are rationalized. Quantum mechanics, docking, and molecular dynamics structural optimization were first carried out followed by metadynamics to calculate the energy profiles. Further insights were obtained by complementarity studies of molecular fields. The molecular modeling results are in strong agreement with the experimental in vivo immunogenicity data. In conclusion, the overall data shows that, in the designing of anticancer vaccines, scaffold flexibility has a pivotal role in obtaining a suitable electrostatic, hydrophobic, and steric complementarity with the biological target.Recent advances in our mechanistic understanding of dye-sensitized electron transfer reactions occurring at metal oxide interfaces are described. These advances were enabled by the advent of mesoporous thin films, comprised of anatase TiO2 nanocrystallites, that are amenable to spectroscopic and electrochemical characterization in unprecedented molecular-level detail. The metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) excited states of Ru polypyridyl compounds serve as the dye sensitizers. Excited-state injection often occurs on ultrafast time scales with yields that can be tuned from unity to near zero through modification of the sensitizer or the electrolyte composition. Transport of the injected electron and the oxidized sensitizer (hole hopping) are both operative in the composite mechanism for charge recombination between the injected electron and the oxidized sensitizer. Sensitizers that contain a pendant electron donor, as well as core/shell SnO2/TiO2 nanostructures, often prolong the lifetime of the injected electron and provide fundamental insights into adiabatic and nonadiabatic electron transfer mechanisms. TrichostatinA Regeneration of the oxidized sensitizer by iodide is enhanced through halogen bonding, orbital pathways, and ion pairing. A substantial ∼10 MV cm-1 electric field is created by electron injection into TiO2 nanocrystallites that induces ion migration, reports on the sensitizer dipole orientation, and (in some cases) reorients or flips the sensitizer. Dye-sensitized conductive oxides also promote long-lived charge separation with bias dependent kinetics that provide insights into the reorganization energies associated with electron and proton-coupled electron transfer in the electric double layer.The goal of the present manuscript is to succinctly trace the key technological steps in the evolution of alchemical free energy methods (AFEMs) from a purely theoretical construct to a method that is now widely used in the biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries. More specifically, we focus on relative binding free energy (RBFE) computations which are more routinely applied in computer aided drug design (CADD) campaigns rather than the more computationally intensive absolute binding free energy (ABFE) computations. We have not been exhaustive in the development of our timeline but rather try to weave a story about how theoretical ideas were ultimately converted into contemporary free energy capabilities. Necessarily this story-telling approach limits us from citing all work on AFEMs, and we apologize for this shortcoming. However, for those interested in a broad delineation of all the work done in this area they are directed to the many excellent reviews that are extant.
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