Controlling the Self-Assembly of Biomolecules into Functional Nanomaterials through Internal Interactions and External Stimulations: A Review

Wang, Li; Gong, Coucong; Yuan, Xinzhu; Wei, Gang

doi:10.3390/nano9020285

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“…Such an approach of deliberate design of functional biomaterials is gaining importance. An example of a recent review on controlling the self-assembly of biomolecules by adjusting internal interactions of interactions and due to external stimulation was published by Wang et al [61]. There are many more possible applications of such an approach.…”

Section: Oriented Layers Of Bacteriophagesmentioning

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Recent Progress in the Detection of Bacteria Using Bacteriophages: A Review

Paczesny

Richter

Hołyst

2020

Viruses

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Bacteria will likely become our most significant enemies of the 21st century, as we are approaching a post-antibiotic era. Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, allow us to fight infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria and create specific, cheap, and stable sensors for bacteria detection. Here, we summarize the recent developments in the field of phage-based methods for bacteria detection. We focus on works published after mid-2017. We underline the need for further advancements, especially related to lowering the detection (below 1 CFU/mL; CFU stands for colony forming units) and shortening the time of analysis (below one hour). From the application point of view, portable, cheap, and fast devices are needed, even at the expense of sensitivity.

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Section: Oriented Layers Of Bacteriophagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Progress in the Detection of Bacteria Using Bacteriophages: A Review

Paczesny

Richter

Hołyst

2020

Viruses

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“…Non-covalent interaction has been identified as a driving force for crystal packing (Caracelli et al, 2012), self-assembly of (macro)molecules (Voth et al, 2009), stabilization of different systems (Wang et al, 2019;Breugst et al, 2017) and biological recognition (Daze & Hof, 2016). Hydrogen bonds (HBs), a class of non-covalent interaction, are generally the most abundant and the most studied.…”

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confidence: 99%

Supramolecular insight into the substitution of sulfur by selenium, based on crystal structures, quantum-chemical calculations and biosystem recognition

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Popadić

Sarvan

et al. 2020

Acta Crystallogr Sect B

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Statistical analysis of data from crystal structures extracted from the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) has shown that S and Se atoms display a similar tendency towards specific types of interaction if they are part of a fragment that corresponds to the side chains of cysteine (Cys), methionine (Met) selenocysteine (Sec) and selenomethionine (Mse). The most numerous are structures with C-HÁ Á ÁSe and C-HÁ Á ÁS interactions ($80%), notably less numerous are structures with SeÁ Á ÁSe and SÁ Á ÁS interactions ($5%), and SeÁ Á Á and SÁ Á Á interactions are the least numerous. The results of quantum-chemical calculations have indicated that C-HÁ Á ÁSe ($À0.8 kcal mol À1 ) and C-HÁ Á ÁS interactions are weaker than the most stable parallel interaction ($À3.3 kcal mol À1 ) and electrostatic interactions of / type ($À2.6 kcal mol À1 ). Their significant presence can be explained by the abundance of CH groups compared with the numbers of Se and S atoms in the crystal structures, and also by the influence of substituents bonded to the Se or S atom that further reduce their possibilities for interacting with species from the environment. This can also offer an explanation as to why O-HÁ Á ÁSe ($À4.4 kcal mol À1 ) and N-HÁ Á ÁSe interactions ($À2.2 kcal mol À1 ) are less numerous. Docking studies revealed that S and Se rarely participate in interactions with the amino acid residues of target enzymes, mostly because those residues preferentially interact with the substituents bonded to Se and S. The differences between Se and S ligands in the number and positions of their binding sites are more pronounced if the substituents are polar and if there are more Se/S atoms in the ligand.

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“…These problems can be resolved by a bottom-up, self-assembly approach. However, achieving external control over ordered, anisotropic 3D structures using a bottom-up strategy is demanding [17,18].…”

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Size-Dependent Thermo- and Photoresponsive Plasmonic Properties of Liquid Crystalline Gold Nanoparticles

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Achieving remotely controlled, reversibly reconfigurable assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles is a prerequisite for the development of future photonic technologies. Here, we obtained a series of gold-nanoparticle-based materials which exhibit long-range order, and which are controlled with light or thermal stimuli. The influence of the metallic core size and organic shell composition on the switchability is considered, with emphasis on achieving light-responsive behavior at room temperature and high yield production of nanoparticles. The latter translates to a wide size distribution of metallic cores but does not prevent their assembly into various, switchable 3D and 2D long-range ordered structures. These results provide clear guidelines as to the impact of size, size distribution, and organic shell composition on self-assembly, thus enhancing the smart design process of multi-responsive nanomaterials in a condensed state, hardly attainable by other self-assembly methods which usually require solvents.

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Controlling the Self-Assembly of Biomolecules into Functional Nanomaterials through Internal Interactions and External Stimulations: A Review

Cited by 116 publications

References 169 publications

Recent Progress in the Detection of Bacteria Using Bacteriophages: A Review

Recent Progress in the Detection of Bacteria Using Bacteriophages: A Review

Supramolecular insight into the substitution of sulfur by selenium, based on crystal structures, quantum-chemical calculations and biosystem recognition

Size-Dependent Thermo- and Photoresponsive Plasmonic Properties of Liquid Crystalline Gold Nanoparticles

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