Faraday Discussions,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Aug. 23, 2024
Ion
transport
through
biological
channels
is
influenced
not
only
by
the
structural
properties
of
themselves
but
also
composition
phospholipid
membrane,
which
acts
as
a
scaffold
for
these
nanochannels.
Drawing
inspiration
from
how
lipid
membrane
modulates
ion
currents,
seen
in
activation
K
ACS Nano,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
18(52), P. 35429 - 35442
Published: Dec. 17, 2024
Multivalency
as
an
interaction
principle
is
widely
utilized
in
nature.
It
enables
specific
and
strong
binding
by
multiple
weak
interactions
through
enhanced
avidity
a
core
process
immune
recognition
cellular
signaling,
which
also
current
concept
drug
design.
Here,
we
use
the
high
signals
from
plasmon-enhanced
fluorescence
of
nanoparticles
to
extract
kinetics
dynamics
multivalent
on
single-molecule
level
real
time.
We
study
mono-,
bi-,
trivalent
using
DNA
Holliday
Junction
model
construct
with
programmable
valency
introduce
step-binding
for
relevant
structured
macromolecules
including
experimentally
extractable
restriction
term
ω
quantify
effects
conformation,
steric
effects,
rigidity.
used
this
approach
explore
how
length
flexibility
ligands
affect
strength,
where
overall
strength
decreased
spacer
length.
For
systems,
increasing
additionally
activated
state,
giving
insight
into
design
or
targeting
moieties.
By
systematically
changing
receptor
density,
explored
super
selectivity
HJ
at
level.
find
polynomial
behavior
that
clearly
shows
receptor-density-dependent
selective
binding.
Interestingly,
could
exploit
rapidly
decaying
near
fields
plasmon
induce
dependence
signal
position
dye
observe
during
single
events.
Faraday Discussions,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Aug. 23, 2024
Ion
transport
through
biological
channels
is
influenced
not
only
by
the
structural
properties
of
themselves
but
also
composition
phospholipid
membrane,
which
acts
as
a
scaffold
for
these
nanochannels.
Drawing
inspiration
from
how
lipid
membrane
modulates
ion
currents,
seen
in
activation
K