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These discoveries highlight that GaTa4Se8 is a unique material to probe novel quantum phases from a structural, metallicity, magnetism, and superconductivity perspective.A full-dimensional, permutationally invariant polynomial potential energy surface for glycine recently reported (R. Conte et al., J. Chem. Phys. 2020, 153, 244301) is used with the code MULTIMODE to determine the IR absorption spectra for Conformers I and II using a new separable dipole moment function. The calculated spectra agree well with the experimental ones. The full-dimensional nature of the potential allows us also to examine dynamical results, such as tunneling rates. Remarkably, using a one-dimensional path based on the potential energy surface to estimate the tunneling rate from Conformer VI to Conformer I, good agreement is found with the recent experimental measurement. Finally a brief comparison of our potential energy surface with a recently reported sGDML one is made.Papain-like protease (PLpro) from SARS-CoV-2 plays essential roles in the replication cycle of the virus. In particular, it preferentially interacts with and cleaves human interferon-stimulated gene 15 (hISG15) to suppress the innate immune response of the host. We used small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering combined with computational techniques to study the mechanism of interaction of SARS-CoV-2 PLpro with hISG15. We showed that hISG15 undergoes a transition from an extended to a compact state after binding to PLpro, a conformation that has not been previously observed in complexes of SARS-CoV-2 PLpro with ISG15 from other species. Estradiol Benzoate clinical trial Furthermore, computational analysis showed significant conformational flexibility in the ISG15 N-terminal domain, suggesting that it is weakly bound to PLpro and supports a binding mechanism that is dominated by the C-terminal ISG15 domain. This study fundamentally improves our understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 deISGylation complex that will help guide development of COVID-19 therapeutics targeting this complex.We report herein an unprecedented atroposelective dynamic kinetic resolution of Bringmann's lactones with C-nucleophiles. By the use of activated isocyanides as the reagent, a wide range of novel axially chiral oxazole-substituted biaryl phenols were accessed in high yields with high enantioselectivities. Key to the success of this process lies in the tandem atroposelective addition of isocyanides to the lactone substrate followed by a rapid cyclization, overcoming the challenge of stereochemical leakage induced by lactol formation.The ability to rapidly diagnose, track, and disseminate information for SARS-CoV-2 is critical to minimize its spread. Here, we engineered a portable smartphone-based quantum barcode serological assay device for real-time surveillance of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2. Our device achieved a clinical sensitivity of 90% and specificity of 100% for SARS-CoV-2, as compared to 34% and 100%, respectively, for lateral flow assays in a head-to-head comparison. The lateral flow assay misdiagnosed ∼2 out of 3 SARS-CoV-2 positive patients. Our quantum dot barcode device has ∼3 times greater clinical sensitivity because it is ∼140 times more analytically sensitive than lateral flow assays. Our device can diagnose SARS-CoV-2 at different sampling dates and infectious severity. We developed a databasing app to provide instantaneous results to inform patients, physicians, and public health agencies. This assay and device enable real-time surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and potential immunity.An efficient and facile method for the regioselective synthesis of novel dihydrobenzo[a]fluorenes from readily accessible alkynols is presented. The current strategy triggers the formation of a dual C-C bond intramolecularly via Lewis acid catalysis under mild reaction conditions. Notably, secondary as well as tertiary alcohols bearing an alkyne moiety have been smoothly transformed into the corresponding products. As a result, novel tetracyclic dihydrobenzo[a]fluorenes have been accomplished using this approach.If polymer chains could be deposited on a substrate as a fully extended chain, a procedure known as "molecular combing," the chain structure could be characterized by atomic force microscopy in more detail than has been possible with the measurements available today. We show here, for the first time, that flexible polymers can be molecularly combed to fully extended chains by the dipping method. We studied the molecular combing of a series of poly(n-alkyl acrylate)s on mica from a chloroform solution by the dipping method and found that poly(n-alkyl acrylate)s with an alkyl group longer than n-octyl can be molecularly combed into straight chains under optimized conditions. With increasing alkyl lengths, the number of chains deposited decreases by four orders of magnitude, and chains become molecularly combed under a wider range of conditions. The length of the molecularly combed chains is ∼80% for poly(n-octyl acrylate) but ∼100% of the all-trans conformation for poly(n-alkyl acrylate)s with an alkyl length longer than n-nonyl.We use Langevin dynamics simulations to model, at an atomistic resolution, how various natively knotted proteins are unfolded in repeated allosteric translocating cycles of the ClpY ATPase. We consider proteins representative of different topologies, from the simplest knot (trefoil 31), to the three-twist 52 knot, to the most complex stevedore, 61, knot. We harness the atomistic detail of the simulations to address aspects that have so far remained largely unexplored, such as sequence-dependent effects on the ruggedness of the landscape traversed during knot sliding. Our simulations reveal the combined effect on translocation of the knotted protein structure, i.e., backbone topology and geometry, and primary sequence, i.e., side chain size and interactions, and show that the latter can dominate translocation hindrance. In addition, we observe that due to the interplay between the knotted topology and intramolecular contacts the transmission of tension along the polypeptide chain occurs very differently from that of homopolymers.
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