21W.730-2 Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture, Fall 2005 by Boiko, Karen

“…Food is at once the stuff of life and a potent symbol; it binds us to the earth, to our families, and to our cultures. …”
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Enzymatic preparation of diacylglycerols: lipase screening, immobilization, characterization and glycerolysis performance by Xie, Rui, Peng, Xianwu, Lee, Yee-Ying, Xie, Pengkai, Tan, Chin-Ping, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Zhen

“…Backgrounds: Glycerolysis, with its advantages of readily available raw materials, simple operation, and mild reaction conditions, is a primary method for producing diacylglycerol (DAG). …”

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced biosensors by Zhang, Jinling

“…The point-of care device based on grating Au film for the detection of endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) was demonstrated, which displayed excellent portability and good sensitivity. …”
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Anisotropic protein diffusion on nanosurface by Liu, Yang, Song, Xiaohan, Yang, Yanmei, Li, Yong-Qiang, Zhao, Mingwen, Mu, Yuguang, Li, Weifeng

“…On the MBP surface, HP35 migrates mainly along the zigzag direction but can also easily stride over the ridges and grooves along the armchair direction. Moreover, the mild binding strength between α-PC and HP35 does not cause distortion in the protein structure. …”
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Bifunctional diazirine reagent for covalent dyeing of Kevlar and inert polymer materials by Liu, Richard Y., Luo, Shao-Xiong Lennon, Hirst, Elizabeth S., Doona, Christopher J., Swager, Timothy M.

“…The reagent's structure features a trifluoromethyl diazirine group as a precursor to a carbene that binds the textile surface. On the reagent's other terminus, a benzyl bromide group acts as a site accessible for substitution reactions. …”
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Elucidating the mechanism of mRNA transport using novel imaging technologies by Stoychev, D

“…The MS2-MCP system is used to insert into mRNAs of interest special structures to which RNA-binding proteins, fused to a fluorescent protein such as GFP, can then bind. …”

Resonance modes of tall plasmonic nanostructures and their applications for biosensing by Soehartono, Alana M., Tobing, Landobasa Y. M., Mueller, Aaron D., Yong, Ken-Tye, Zhang, Dao Hua

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Methods for the Study of Galactofuranose in Mycobacteria by Taylor, Katherine I.

“…Finally, we characterized the kinetics of a mild electrophile, the squaric ester, and assessed its utility in selectively binding and modifying a key galactofuranosyl transferase involved in mycobacterial cell wall biosynthesis. …”
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Vypal2: a versatile peptide ligase for precision tailoring of proteins by Zhang, Dingpeng, Wang, Zhen, Hu, Side, Lescar, Julien, Tam, James P., Liu, Chuan-Fa

“…The last two decades have seen an increasing demand for new protein-modification methods from the biotech industry and biomedical research communities. Owing to their mild aqueous reaction conditions, enzymatic methods based on the use of peptide ligases are particularly desirable. …”
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents by Ratcliffe, H

“…</p> <br> <p>The findings of ‘STORY’ confirm that SARS-CoV-2 infections in children are generally asymptomatic or mild and rarely progress to severe disease and hospitalisation. …”

Methyl and dimethyl o-xylenyl-substituted fullerene acceptors for polymer solar cells by Kim, Hee Un, Park, Jong Baek, Grimsdale, Andrew Clive, Hwang, Do-Hoon

“…These values correlate with the binding affinities of the fluorophore and quencher. …”
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Using an ER-specific optogenetic mechanostimulator to understand the mechanosensitivity of the endoplasmic reticulum by Song, Yutong, Zhao, Zhihao, Xu, Linyu, Huang, Peiyuan, Gao, Jiayang, Li, Jingxuan, Wang, Xuejie, Zhou, Yiren, Wang, Jinhui, Zhao, Wenting, Wang, Likun, Zheng, Chaogu, Gao, Bo, Jiang, Liwen, Liu, Kai, Guo, Yusong, Yao, Xiaoqiang, Duan, Liting

“…Sustained mechanostimuli increase the levels of binding-immunoglobulin protein (BiP) expression and phosphorylated eIF2α, two markers for ER stress. …”
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Structural studies of PfEMP1 bound to human cluster of differentiation 36 and of an unusual human antibody by Hsieh, F

“…<p>In <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>-infected humans, parasites escape from splenic clearance and cause severe or chronic symptoms partly through the action of the variable surface antigens expressed on the surfaces of infected erythrocytes, called <em>P. falciparum</em> erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (<em>Pf</em>EMP1). …”

Narrowing the gap between machine learning scoring functions and free energy perturbation using augmented data by Valsson, Í, Warren, MT, Deane, CM, Magarkar, A, Morris, GM, Biggin, PC

“…Machine learning offers great promise for fast and accurate binding affinity predictions. However, current models lack robust evaluation and fail on tasks encountered in (hit-to-) lead optimisation, such as ranking the binding affinity of a congeneric series of ligands, thereby limiting their application in drug discovery. …”

Hodge theory and its applications to molecular data analysis by Koh, Ronald Joon Wei

“…Nevertheless, there are currently many methods to call TADs, all of which are not based on a rigorous topological mathematical model. …”
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Conformational landscape of the epidermal growth factor receptor kinase reveals a mutant specific allosteric pocket by Kannan, Srinivasaraghavan, Venkatachalam, Gireedhar, Lim, Hong Hwa, Surana, Uttam, Verma, Chandra

“…[Nature, 2016, 534, 129–132] reported a small molecule inhibitor (called EAI045) that binds at an allosteric pocket, does not compete with ATP and displays high potency and selectivity towards certain activating mutants (L858R, T790M, L858R/T790M) of EGFR, with IC50 values ranging from 3 nM to 49 nM. …”
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Structural and mechanistic insights into the Rel protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Singal, Bharti

“…The NMR spectroscopy titration experiments with branched chain amino acids revealed the specific binding of valine to the MtRel ACT and showed structural rearrangement upon valine binding. …”
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Targeting NAPE-PLD: assessing its potential in the fight against malaria by Goh, Xiu Ling

“…Malaria remains a major global challenge with increasing artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum. This calls for an increased need for discovering novel ring-stage drug targets. …”
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Crack healing in reactive MgO-slag system via bacteria induced carbonate precipitation by Zheng, Yanying

“…In the Concrete industry, the most widely used binding ingredient for concrete, portland cement (PC), is accountable for around 8% of global anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. …”
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Conformational changes involved in signal transduction in avian cryptochromes by Gehrckens, AS

“…</p> <p>Finally, by mapping conformational changes found in molecular dynamics simulations onto changes observed in a previous HDX-MS data set on the <em>Drosophila</em> cryptochrome, a few gaps left by the incomplete coverage of the current experimental data were filled by acquiring information on the phosphate-binding loop and the protrusion motif, two regions which have also been found to undergo light-induced structural changes for the avian cryptochromes investigated. …”