Search Results - "PLANQUÉ, R."

Disruptive selection as a driver of evolutionary branching and caste evolution in social insects by Planqué, R., Powell, S., Franks, N. R., Berg, J. B.

“…Theory suggests that evolutionary branching via disruptive selection may be a relatively common and powerful force driving phenotypic divergence. Here, we…”
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Evolution of defence portfolios in exploiter-victim systems by Britton, N F, Planqué, R, Franks, N R

“…Some organisms maintain a battery of defensive strategies against their exploiters (predators, parasites or parasitoids), while others fail to employ a defence…”
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Lipid bilayer platforms for parallel ion channel recordings by de Planque, Maurits R. R.

“…Abstract The ion flow through channel proteins embedded in a lipid bilayer membrane can be recorded as an electrical current, enabling biophysical…”
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Self-contact for rods on cylinders by VAN DER HEIJDEN, G. H. M, PELETIER, M. A, PLANQUE, R

“…We study self-contact phenomena in elastic rods that are constrained to lie on a cylinder. By choosing a particular set of variables to describe the rod…”
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Salt Gradient Modulation of MicroRNA Translocation through a Biological Nanopore by Ivica, Josip, Williamson, Philip T. F, de Planque, Maurits R. R

“…In resistive pulse sensing of microRNA biomarkers, selectivity is achieved with polynucleotide-extended DNA probes, with the unzipping of a miRNA–DNA duplex in…”
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Thin Film Polycrystalline Silicon Nanowire Biosensors by Hakim, Mohammad M. A, Lombardini, Marta, Sun, Kai, Giustiniano, Francesco, Roach, Peter L, Davies, Donna E, Howarth, Peter H, de Planque, Maurits R. R, Morgan, Hywel, Ashburn, Peter

“…Polysilicon nanowire biosensors have been fabricated using a top-down process and were used to determine the binding constant of two inflammatory biomarkers. A…”
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Electrophysiological Characterization of Membrane Disruption by Nanoparticles by de Planque, Maurits R. R, Aghdaei, Sara, Roose, Tiina, Morgan, Hywel

“…Direct contact of nanoparticles with the plasma membrane is essential for biomedical applications such as intracellular drug delivery and imaging, but the…”
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Native silica nanoparticles are powerful membrane disruptors by Alkhammash, Hend I, Li, Nan, Berthier, Rémy, de Planque, Maurits R R

“…Silica nanoparticles are under development for intracellular drug delivery applications but can also have cytotoxic effects including cell membrane damage. In…”
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Towards Functional Droplet Architectures: a Belousov-Zhabotinsky Medium for Networks by Chang, Kai Ming, de Planque, Maurits R. R., Zauner, Klaus-Peter

“…The confluence of droplet-compartmentalised chemical systems and architectures composed of interacting droplets points towards a novel technology mimicking…”
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Interfacial Anchor Properties of Tryptophan Residues in Transmembrane Peptides Can Dominate over Hydrophobic Matching Effects in Peptide−Lipid Interactions by de Planque, Maurits R. R, Bonev, Boyan B, Demmers, Jeroen A. A, Greathouse, Denise V, Koeppe, Roger E, Separovic, Frances, Watts, Anthony, Killian, J. Antoinette

“…Membrane model systems consisting of phosphatidylcholines and hydrophobic α-helical peptides with tryptophan flanking residues, a characteristic motif for…”
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Characterization of the Prokaryotic Sodium Channel NavSp Pore with a Microfluidic Bilayer Platform by Saha, Shimul Chandra, Henderson, Alexander J, Powl, Andrew M, Wallace, B A, de Planque, Maurits R R, Morgan, Hywel

“…This paper describes the use of a newly-developed micro-chip bilayer platform to examine the electrophysiological properties of the prokaryotic voltage-gated…”
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Dual-gate polysilicon nanoribbon biosensors enable high sensitivity detection of proteins by Zeimpekis, I, Sun, K, Hu, C, Ditshego, N M J, Thomas, O, de Planque, M R R, Chong, H M H, Morgan, H, Ashburn, P

“…We demonstrate the advantages of dual-gate polysilicon nanoribbon biosensors with a comprehensive evaluation of different measurement schemes for pH and…”
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Single-channel electrophysiology of cell-free expressed ion channels by direct incorporation in lipid bilayers by Friddin, Mark S, Smithers, Natalie P, Beaugrand, Maïwenn, Marcotte, Isabelle, Williamson, Philip T F, Morgan, Hywel, de Planque, Maurits R R

“…Single-channel electrophysiology with lipid bilayer systems requires ion channel expression, purification from cell culture, and reconstitution in…”
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Tuning of salt separation efficiency by flow rate control in microfluidic dynamic dialysis by Kalikavunkal, Prameen C., Green, Nicolas G., de Planque, Maurits R. R.

“…Microliter-scale separation processes are important for biomedical research and point-of-care diagnostics with small-volume clinical samples. Analytical assays…”
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Recognition Pliability Is Coupled to Structural Heterogeneity: A Calmodulin Intrinsically Disordered Binding Region Complex by Nagulapalli, Malini, Parigi, Giacomo, Yuan, Jing, Gsponer, Joerg, Deraos, George, Bamm, Vladimir V., Harauz, George, Matsoukas, John, de Planque, Maurits R.R., Gerothanassis, Ioannis P., Babu, M. Madan, Luchinat, Claudio, Tzakos, Andreas G.

“…Protein interactions within regulatory networks should adapt in a spatiotemporal-dependent dynamic environment, in order to process and respond to diverse and…”
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Probing the interaction of lipids with the non-annular binding sites of the potassium channel KcsA by magic-angle spinning NMR by Marius, Phedra, de Planque, Maurits R.R., Williamson, Philip T.F.

“…The activity of the potassium channel KcsA is tightly regulated through the interactions of anionic lipids with high-affinity non-annular lipid binding sites…”
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Study of parasitic resistance effects in nanowire and nanoribbon biosensors by Zeimpekis, Ioannis, Sun, Kai, Hu, Chunxiao, Thomas, Owain, de Planque, Maurits RR, Chong, Harold MH, Morgan, Hywel, Ashburn, Peter

“…In this work, we investigate sensor design approaches for eliminating the effects of parasitic resistance in nanowire and nanoribbon biosensors. Measurements…”
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Three-Mask Polysilicon Thin-Film Transistor Biosensor by Kai Sun, Zeimpekis, Ioannis, Lombardini, Marta, Ditshego, Nonofo M. Jack, Pearce, Stuart J., Kiang, Kian S., Thomas, Owain, de Planque, Maurits R. R., Chong, Harold M. H., Morgan, Hywel, Ashburn, Peter

“…Biosensors are commonly produced using a siliconon-insulator (SOI) CMOS process and advanced lithography to define nanowires. In this paper, a simpler and…”
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Characterisation of cell membrane interaction mechanisms of antimicrobial peptides by electrical bilayer recording by Priyadarshini, Diana, Ivica, Josip, Separovic, Frances, de Planque, Maurits R.R.

“…Many antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are cationic host defence peptides (HDPs) that interact with microbial membranes. This ability may lead to implementation of…”
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Screening ion-channel ligand interactions with passive pumping in a microfluidic bilayer lipid membrane chip by Saha, Shimul C, Powl, Andrew M, Wallace, B A, de Planque, Maurits R R, Morgan, Hywel

“…We describe a scalable artificial bilayer lipid membrane platform for rapid electrophysiological screening of ion channels and transporters. A passive pumping…”
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