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Synthetic biology

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Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Alkenes: Hypervalent Iodine Meets High-Valent Copper

Jérôme Waser, Tobias Michael Milzarek

The first trifluoromethylation of vinylbenziodoxolones (VBX) is reported herein. The synthetic method is based on the use of bench-stable, high-valent copper(III) species, and the reaction can be initiated under thermal conditions and/or irradiation (365 n ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Structural Insights into Electrophiles and Electrophilic Metabolites Sensing and Signaling: The Missing Information

Yimon Aye, Chloé Rogg

Native reactive electrophilic species (RES) are long-recognized regulators of pathophysiology; yet, knowledge surrounding how RES regulate context-specific biology remains limited. The latest technological advances in profiling and precision decoding of RE ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

De novo design of protein interactions with learned surface fingerprints

Didier Trono, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Beat Fierz, Priscilla Turelli, Elisa Oricchio, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Dongchun Ni, Sandrine Madeleine Suzanne Georgeon, Stéphane Rosset, Michael Bronstein, Zander Harteveld, Andreas Scheck, Sarah Wehrle, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Anthony Marchand, Alexandra Krina Van Hall-Beauvais, Casper Alexander Goverde, Freyr Sverrisson, Alexandra Teslenko, Aaron Simone Petruzzella, Martin Pacesa, Stephen Michael Buckley, Jane Marsden

Physical interactions between proteins are essential for most biological processes governing life. However, the molecular determinants of such interactions have been challenging to understand, even as genomic, proteomic and structural data increase. This k ...

2023

Development of Hetero-Vinylbenziodoxolone Reagents for Applications in Synthetic Methodology and Biomolecule Functionalization

Nina Declas

Among the numerous existing chemical motifs, alkenes, alkynes, enol ethers and enamides, with an unsaturated carbon-carbon bond, are versatile functional groups that are found in many natural products and bioactive compounds. They are widely used as valuab ...

EPFL2023

Liquid Metal-Based Sensor Skin Enabling Haptic Perception of Softness

Stéphanie Lacour, Ivan Furfaro, Haotian Chen, Emilio Fernández Lavado

Haptic perception of softness is a unique feature of the human skin that relies on the concurrent measurements of the lateral deformation and compression of the skin during object manipulation. This is challenging to implement in robotics because of combin ...

2023

Deciphering the molecular events leading to the global restoration of the chromatin landscape during mitotic exit

Silja Michelle Placzek

Two fundamental properties of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are their ability to self-renew and differentiate into all somatic cell types. Maintenance of their identity faces major challenges when transitioning through mitosis, as most DNA-binding proteins a ...

EPFL2023

Improved Cell-Free Transcription-Translation Reactions in Microfluidic Chemostats Augmented with Hydrogel Membranes for Continuous Small Molecule Dialysis

Sebastian Maerkl, Barbora Lavickova, Laura Sophie Grasemann

Increasing the protein production capacity of the PURE cell-free transcription-translation (TX-TL) system will be key to implementing complex synthetic biological circuits, and to establishing a fully self-regenerating system as a basis for the development ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Engineering synthetic adhesins for biophysical investigation and rewiring of host-microbe interactions

Xavier Jean-Yves Pierrat

Host attachment is often a critical step in the onset of pathogenesis. To attach to host cells, bacteria have evolved a range of adhesins that bind to specific receptors. Some of these adhesins have been thoroughly characterized using biochemical technique ...

EPFL2022

p High-Throughput Single-Cell TCR-pMHC Dissociation Rate Measurements Performed by an Autonomous Microfluidic Cellular Processing Unit

Sebastian Maerkl, George Coukos, Fabien Louis Claude Robert Jammes

We developed an integrated microfluidic cellular processing unit (mCPU) capable of autonomously isolating single cells and performing measurements and on-the-fly analysis of cell- surface dissociation rates, followed by recovery of selected cells. We perfo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Rational design of protein switches: applications in synthetic biology and cancer immunotherapy

Sailan Shui

Synthetic biology aims to engineer cells as miniature biological devices to sense, process, and respond to exogenous stimuli. Protein switches are designed to sense and respond to various molecular queues in a fast and specific manner, which fits the requi ...

EPFL2022