Search Results - "Law, Robert"
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Vesicle-based artificial cells as chemical microreactors with spatially segregated reaction pathways
Published in Nature communications (29-10-2014)“…In the discipline of bottom-up synthetic biology, vesicles define the boundaries of artificial cells and are increasingly being used as biochemical…”
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Protein synthesis in artificial cells: using compartmentalisation for spatial organisation in vesicle bioreactors
Published in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (28-06-2015)“…Whereas spatial organisation of function is ubiquitous in biology, it has been lacking in artificial cells. We rectify this by using multi-compartment vesicles…”
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Engineering Compartmentalized Biomimetic Micro- and Nanocontainers
Published in ACS nano (25-07-2017)“…Compartmentalization of biological content and function is a key architectural feature in biology, where membrane bound micro- and nanocompartments are used…”
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Constructing vesicle-based artificial cells with embedded living cells as organelle-like modules
Published in Scientific reports (14-03-2018)“…There is increasing interest in constructing artificial cells by functionalising lipid vesicles with biological and synthetic machinery. Due to their reduced…”
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Light-triggered enzymatic reactions in nested vesicle reactors
Published in Nature communications (15-03-2018)“…Cell-sized vesicles have tremendous potential both as miniaturised pL reaction vessels and in bottom-up synthetic biology as chassis for artificial cells. In…”
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Biomimetic behaviors in hydrogel artificial cells through embedded organelles
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (29-08-2023)“…Artificial cells are biomimetic structures formed from molecular building blocks that replicate biological processes, behaviors, and architectures. Of these…”
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Building a synthetic mechanosensitive signaling pathway in compartmentalized artificial cells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-08-2019)“…To date, reconstitution of one of the fundamental methods of cell communication, the signaling pathway, has been unaddressed in the bottom-up construction of…”
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The rate of transient beta frequency events predicts behavior across tasks and species
Published in eLife (06-11-2017)“…Beta oscillations (15-29Hz) are among the most prominent signatures of brain activity. Beta power is predictive of healthy and abnormal behaviors, including…”
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Chan–Evans–Lam Amination of Boronic Acid Pinacol (BPin) Esters: Overcoming the Aryl Amine Problem
Published in Journal of organic chemistry (06-05-2016)“…The Chan–Evans–Lam reaction is a valuable C–N bond forming process. However, aryl boronic acid pinacol (BPin) ester reagents can be difficult coupling partners…”
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Thalamocortical Mechanisms Regulating the Relationship between Transient Beta Events and Human Tactile Perception
Published in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) (08-02-2022)“…Abstract Transient neocortical events with high spectral power in the 15–29 Hz beta band are among the most reliable predictors of sensory perception…”
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Activating mechanosensitive channels embedded in droplet interface bilayers using membrane asymmetry
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (18-02-2021)“…Droplet microcompartments linked by lipid bilayers show great promise in the construction of synthetic minimal tissues. Central to controlling the flow of…”
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A Direct Podocalyxin-Dynamin-2 Interaction Regulates Cytoskeletal Dynamics to Promote Migration and Metastasis in Pancreatic Cancer Cells
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (01-06-2019)“…The sialoglycoprotein podocalyxin is absent in normal pancreas but is overexpressed in pancreatic cancer and is associated with poor clinical outcome. Here, we…”
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Fluoride-containing bioactive glasses: Effect of glass design and structure on degradation, pH and apatite formation in simulated body fluid
Published in Acta biomaterialia (01-08-2010)“…Bioactive glasses are able to bond to bone through formation of carbonated hydroxyapatite in body fluids, and fluoride-releasing bioactive glasses are of…”
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Confinement hinders motility by inducing RhoA-mediated nuclear influx, volume expansion, and blebbing
Published in The Journal of cell biology (02-12-2019)“…Cells migrate in vivo through complex confining microenvironments, which induce significant nuclear deformation that may lead to nuclear blebbing and nuclear…”
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Measurements of the effect of membrane asymmetry on the mechanical properties of lipid bilayers
Published in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (25-04-2015)“…We detail an approach for constructing asymmetric membranes and characterising their mechanical properties, leading to the first measurement of the effect of…”
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Discovery of Tetrahydroquinoxalines as Bromodomain and Extra-Terminal Domain (BET) Inhibitors with Selectivity for the Second Bromodomain
Published in Journal of medicinal chemistry (24-05-2018)“…The bromodomain and extra-terminal domain (BET) family of proteins bind acetylated lysine residues on histone proteins. The four BET bromodomainsBRD2, BRD3,…”
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Discovery and Characterisation of Highly Cooperative FAK‐Degrading PROTACs
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (18-10-2021)“…Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a key mediator of tumour progression and metastasis. To date, clinical trials of FAK inhibitors have reported disappointing…”
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Microtubules tune mechanotransduction through NOX2 and TRPV4 to decrease sclerostin abundance in osteocytes
Published in Science signaling (21-11-2017)“…The adaptation of the skeleton to its mechanical environment is orchestrated by mechanosensitive osteocytes, largely by regulating the abundance of sclerostin,…”
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UV-DIB: label-free permeability determination using droplet interface bilayers
Published in Lab on a chip (01-03-2022)“…Simple diffusion of molecular entities through a phospholipid bilayer, is a phenomenon of great importance to the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries…”
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Drug interactions with lipid membranes
Published in Chemical Society reviews (01-09-2009)“…The field of drug-membrane interactions is one that spans a wide range of scientific disciplines, from synthetic chemistry, through biophysics to pharmacology…”
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