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A DNAzyme Catalytic Beacon Sensor for Paramagnetic Cu2+Ions in Aqueous Solution with High Sensitivity and Selectivity

scientific article published in 2007

A DNAzyme-gold nanoparticle probe for uranyl ion in living cells

scientific article

A Designed Functional Metalloenzyme that Reduces O2 to H2O with Over One Thousand Turnovers

scientific article

A Designed Metalloenzyme Achieving the Catalytic Rate of a Native Enzyme

scientific article

A Highly Efficient Single-Chain Metal-Organic Nanoparticle Catalyst for Alkyne-Azide "Click" Reactions in Water and in Cells

scientific article published on 16 August 2016

A Highly Sensitive and Selective Catalytic DNA Biosensor for Lead Ions

scientific article published in 2000

A NIR Light Gated DNA Nanodevice for Spatiotemporally Controlled Imaging of MicroRNA in Cells and Animals

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

A Purple Cupredoxin from Nitrosopumilus maritimus Containing a Mononuclear Type 1 Copper Center with an Open Binding Site

scientific article

A biosynthetic model of cytochrome c oxidase as an electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction

scientific article

A catalytic beacon sensor for uranium with parts-per-trillion sensitivity and millionfold selectivity

scientific article (publication date: 13 February 2007)

A colorimetric lead biosensor using DNAzyme-directed assembly of gold nanoparticles

scientific article published in June 2003

A density functional theory protocol for the calculation of redox potentials of copper complexes

scientific article published in February 2016

A designed heme-[4Fe-4S] metalloenzyme catalyzes sulfite reduction like the native enzyme

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

A highly selective lead sensor based on a classic lead DNAzyme

scientific article

A lead-dependent DNAzyme with a two-step mechanism

scientific article

A modular microfluidic architecture for integrated biochemical analysis

scientific article

A new ratiometric and colorimetric chemosensor for cyanide anion based on Coumarin–hemicyanine hybrid

A novel terpyridine/benzofurazan hybrid fluorophore: metal sensing behavior and application

article published in 2011

A quantitative description of the ground-state wave function of Cu(A) by X-ray absorption spectroscopy: comparison to plastocyanin and relevance to electron transfer

scientific article published in June 2001

A simple and sensitive "dipstick" test in serum based on lateral flow separation of aptamer-linked nanostructures

scientific article published in December 2006

A site-selective dual anchoring strategy for artificial metalloprotein design

scientific article published in September 2004

A smart T(1)-weighted MRI contrast agent for uranyl cations based on a DNAzyme-gadolinium conjugate

scientific article

A smart magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent responsive to adenosine based on a DNA aptamer-conjugated gadolinium complex

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

A temperature independent pH (TIP) buffer for biomedical biophysical applications at low temperatures

scientific article published on 19 December 2007

A vitamin-responsive mesoporous nanocarrier with DNA aptamer-mediated cell targeting

scientific article published on 15 April 2013

Abasic site-containing DNAzyme and aptamer for label-free fluorescent detection of Pb(2+) and adenosine with high sensitivity, selectivity, and tunable dynamic range

scientific article published on October 2009

Accelerated Color Change of Gold Nanoparticles Assembled by DNAzymes for Simple and Fast Colorimetric Pb2+Detection

article by Juewen Liu & Yi Lu published October 2004 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Activity, folding and Z-DNA formation of the 8-17 DNAzyme in the presence of monovalent ions

scientific article published on April 2009

Adenosine-dependent assembly of aptazyme-functionalized gold nanoparticles and its application as a colorimetric biosensor

scientific article published in March 2004

An Engineered Glutamate in Biosynthetic Models of Heme-Copper Oxidases Drives Complete Product Selectivity by Tuning the Hydrogen-Bonding Network

scientific article published on 19 January 2021

An asymmetric dizinc phosphodiesterase model with phenolate and carboxylate bridges

scientific article published in May 2005

An engineered azurin variant containing a selenocysteine copper ligand

scientific article published in March 2002

An exceptionally simple strategy for DNA-functionalized up-conversion nanoparticles as biocompatible agents for nanoassembly, DNA delivery, and imaging

scientific article published on 7 February 2013

An invasive DNA approach toward a general method for portable quantification of metal ions using a personal glucose meter

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

Applications of synchrotron-based spectroscopic techniques in studying nucleic acids and nucleic acid-functionalized nanomaterials

scientific article

Aptamer-based origami paper analytical device for electrochemical detection of adenosine

scientific article

Axial interactions in the mixed-valent CuA active site and role of the axial methionine in electron transfer

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

Axial methionine has much less influence on reduction potentials in a CuA center than in a blue copper center

scientific article published in May 2005

Binuclear Cu(A) Formation in Biosynthetic Models of Cu(A) in Azurin Proceeds via a Novel Cu(Cys)2His Mononuclear Copper Intermediate

scientific article published on 09 September 2015

Biochemical and Biophysical Understanding of Metal Ion Selectivity of DNAzymes

scientific article published on 23 April 2016

Biochemical characterization of a uranyl ion-specific DNAzyme.

scientific article published in February 2009

Biocomputing for portable, resettable and quantitative point-of-care diagnostics: making glucose meter a logic-gate responsive device to many targets in clinical care.

scientific article

Biomimetic surface engineering of lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles as versatile bioprobes

scientific article

Biosynthetic approach to modeling and understanding metalloproteins using unnatural amino acids

Biosynthetic inorganic chemistry

scientific article published on August 2006

Blue ferrocenium azurin: an organometalloprotein with tunable redox properties

scientific article published in November 2005

Branched silica nanostructures oriented by dynamic G-quadruplex transformation

Catalysis of Gold Nanoparticles within Lysozyme Single Crystals

article

Catalytic and molecular beacons for amplified detection of metal ions and organic molecules with high sensitivity.

scientific article

Catalytic reduction of NO to N2O by a designed heme copper center in myoglobin: implications for the role of metal ions

scientific article published on May 2006

Cell Surface Engineering Using DNAzymes: Metal Ion Mediated Control of Cell-Cell Interactions

scientific article published on 22 March 2021

Chemical Control over Cellular Uptake of Organic Nanoparticles by Fine Tuning Surface Functional Groups

scientific article published in September 2015

Colorimetric Cu2+ detection with a ligation DNAzyme and nanoparticles.

scientific article

Colorimetric and Fluorescent Biosensors Based on Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials with Functional DNA

Competencies: A Cure for Pre-Med Curriculum

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Controlled alignment of multiple proteins and nanoparticles with nanometer resolution via backbone-modified phosphorothioate DNA and bifunctional linkers

scientific article published on July 2010

Coordination chemistry in the ocean

Copper-sulfenate complex from oxidation of a cavity mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin

scientific article

Correlating nuclear frequencies by two-dimensional ELDOR-detected NMR spectroscopy

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Covalent Anchor Positions Play an Important Role in Tuning Catalytic Properties of a Rationally Designed MnSalen-containing Metalloenzyme

scientific article

Cu(A) centers and their biosynthetic models in azurin

scientific article published on 19 February 2010

DNA Aptamer Technology for Personalized Medicine

scientific article

DNA Aptamer-Based Activatable Probes for Photoacoustic Imaging in Living Mice.

scientific article

DNA and DNAzyme-mediated 2D colloidal assembly

scientific article

DNA aptamer functionalized nanomaterials for intracellular analysis, cancer cell imaging and drug delivery

scientific article

DNA as a powerful tool for morphology control, spatial positioning, and dynamic assembly of nanoparticles

scientific article

DNA as sensors and imaging agents for metal ions

scientific article

DNA cross-linking patterns induced by an antitumor-active trinuclear platinum complex and comparison with its dinuclear analogue

scientific article published on January 2009

DNA detection using plasmonic enhanced near-infrared photoluminescence of gallium arsenide.

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

DNA sequence-dependent morphological evolution of silver nanoparticles and their optical and hybridization properties

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

DNA-Encoded Tuning of Geometric and Plasmonic Properties of Nanoparticles Growing from Gold Nanorod Seeds.

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

DNA-Mediated Morphological Control of Pd-Au Bimetallic Nanoparticles

scientific article

DNA-directed assembly of asymmetric nanoclusters using Janus nanoparticles

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

DNA-mediated control of metal nanoparticle shape: one-pot synthesis and cellular uptake of highly stable and functional gold nanoflowers.

scientific article published in May 2010

DNAzyme catalytic beacon sensors that resist temperature-dependent variations

scientific article

DNAzyme sensors for detection of metal ions in the environment and imaging them in living cells

scientific article

DNAzyme-Based Lithium-Selective Imaging Reveals Higher Lithium Accumulation in Bipolar Disorder Patient-Derived Neurons

scientific article published on 03 November 2021

DNAzyme-Mediated Genetically Encoded Sensors for Ratiometric Imaging of Metal Ions in Living Cells

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

DNAzyme-functionalized gold nanoparticles for biosensing

scientific article published on January 2014

DNAzymes as Activity-Based Sensors for Metal Ions: Recent Applications, Demonstrated Advantages, Current Challenges, and Future Directions

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Defining the role of tyrosine and rational tuning of oxidase activity by genetic incorporation of unnatural tyrosine analogs

scientific article

Design and engineering of metalloproteins containing unnatural amino acids or non-native metal-containing cofactors

scientific article

Design and fine-tuning redox potentials of metalloproteins involved in electron transfer in bioenergetics

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Design of Heteronuclear Metalloenzymes

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Design of a single protein that spans the entire 2-V range of physiological redox potentials

scientific article

Design of asymmetric DNAzymes for dynamic control of nanoparticle aggregation states in response to chemical stimuli

scientific article published on 3 July 2006

Design of functional metalloproteins

scientific article

Designed azurins show lower reorganization free energies for intraprotein electron transfer

scientific article published on 12 June 2013

Designing Artificial Metalloenzymes by Tuning of the Environment beyond the Primary Coordination Sphere

scientific article published in 2022

Determination of reduction potential of an engineered Cu(A) azurin by cyclic voltammetry and spectrochemical titrations

scientific article

Digital-resolution detection of microRNA with single-base selectivity by photonic resonator absorption microscopy

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Direct EPR observation of a tyrosyl radical in a functional oxidase model in myoglobin during both H2O2 and O2 reactions

scientific article published on 14 January 2014

Direct detection of adenosine in undiluted serum using a luminescent aptamer sensor attached to a terbium complex

scientific article

Direct detection of human adenovirus or SARS-CoV-2 with ability to inform infectivity using DNA aptamer-nanopore sensors

scientific article published on 22 September 2021

Direct, Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction by Laccase on Anthracene-2-methanethiol Modified Gold

scientific article

Discovery of and Insights into DNA "Codes" for Tunable Morphologies of Metal Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Discovery of the DNA “Genetic Code” for Abiological Gold Nanoparticle Morphologies

scholarly article by Zidong Wang et al published 2 August 2012 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Dissecting metal ion-dependent folding and catalysis of a single DNAzyme

scientific article

Disulfide bond cleavage induced by a platinum(II) methionine complex

scientific article published in August 2005

Dose-Dependent Response of Personal Glucose Meters to Nicotinamide Coenzymes: Applications to Point-of-Care Diagnostics of Many Non-Glucose Targets in a Single Step

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

EXAFS studies of catalytic DNA sensors for mercury contamination of water

Easy-to-use dipstick tests for detection of lead in paints using non-cross-linked gold nanoparticle-DNAzyme conjugates

scientific article

Editorial overview: Bioinorganic chemistry: Bioinorganic catalysis for renewable energy

scholarly article by Mi Hee Lim & Yi Lu published April 2015 in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Effect of Outer-Sphere Side Chain Substitutions on the Fate of the trans Iron-Nitrosyl Dimer in Heme/Nonheme Engineered Myoglobins (Fe(B)Mbs): Insights into the Mechanism of Denitrifying NO Reductases

scientific article

Effects of metal ions in the CuB center on the redox properties of heme in heme-copper oxidases: spectroelectrochemical studies of an engineered heme-copper center in myoglobin

scientific article published in February 2005

Electron-mediating Cu(A) centers in proteins: a comparative high field (1)H ENDOR study

scientific article published in July 2002

Engineering novel metalloproteins: design of metal-binding sites into native protein scaffolds.

scientific article

Enhanced and tunable fluorescent quantum dots within a single crystal of protein

Enhancing Mn(II)-Binding and Manganese Peroxidase Activity in a Designed Cytochrome c Peroxidase through Fine-Tuning Secondary-Sphere Interactions

scientific article

Enzyme-Mediated Endogenous and Bioorthogonal Control of a DNAzyme Fluorescent Sensor for Imaging Metal Ions in Living Cells

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Enzyme‐Mediated Endogenous and Bioorthogonal Control of a DNAzyme Fluorescent Sensor for Imaging Metal Ions in Living Cells

scientific article published in 2019

Evidence of a General Acid/Base Catalysis Mechanism in the 8-17 DNAzyme

scientific article

Expanding DNAzyme Functionality through Enzyme Cascades with Applications in Single Nucleotide Repair and Tunable DNA-Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials

scientific article

Expanding targets of DNAzyme-based sensors through deactivation and activation of DNAzymes by single uracil removal: sensitive fluorescent assay of uracil-DNA glycosylase

scientific article

Experimental evidence for a link among cupredoxins: red, blue, and purple copper transformations in nitrous oxide reductase

scholarly article

Expressed protein ligation for metalloprotein design and engineering

scientific article published on January 2009

FRET Study of a Trifluorophore-Labeled DNAzyme

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Facile and efficient preparation of anisotropic DNA-functionalized gold nanoparticles and their regioselective assembly

scientific article

Fast Screening of Ligand-Protein Interactions based on Ligand-Induced Protein Stabilization of Gold Nanoparticles

article published in 2014

Fast colorimetric sensing of adenosine and cocaine based on a general sensor design involving aptamers and nanoparticles

scientific article

Fluorescent nanoprobes for sensing and imaging of metal ions: recent advances and future perspectives

scientific article published on 11 June 2016

From Myoglobin to Heme-Copper Oxidase: Design and Engineering of a CuBCenter into Sperm Whale Myoglobin

scholarly article by Jeffrey A. Sigman et al published August 2000 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Functional DNA Molecules Enable Selective and Stimuli-Responsive Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Functional DNA Regulated CRISPR-Cas12a Sensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics of Non-Nucleic-Acid Targets

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Functional DNA directed assembly of nanomaterials for biosensing

scientific article published on April 2009

Functional DNA nanomaterials for sensing and imaging in living cells

scientific article

Functional DNA nanotechnology: emerging applications of DNAzymes and aptamers

scientific article

Functional Nucleic Acid-Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials and Their Applications as Colorimetric and Fluorescent Sensors for Trace Contaminants in Water

Functional nucleic acid sensors

scientific article

Functional protein microarrays by electrohydrodynamic jet printing

scientific article

Functional tuning and expanding of myoglobin by rational protein design

article by YingWu Lin et al published 23 January 2014 in Science China. Chemistry

Graphene-DNAzyme Junctions: A Platform for Direct Metal Ion Detection with Ultrahigh Sensitivity

scientific article

HYSCORE Insights into the Distribution of the Unpaired Spin Density in an Engineered CuA Site in Azurin and Its His120Gly Variant

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Heme redox potentials hold the key to reactivity differences between nitric oxide reductase and heme-copper oxidase

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Highly active and stable DNAzyme-carbon nanotube hybrids

scientific article published in September 2005

Highly sensitive "turn-on" fluorescent sensor for Hg2+ in aqueous solution based on structure-switching DNA.

scientific article

Highly sensitive and selective colorimetric sensors for uranyl (UO2(2+)): development and comparison of labeled and label-free DNAzyme-gold nanoparticle systems

scientific article published on 07 October 2008

Hopping in the electron-transfer photocycle of the 1:1 complex of Zn-cytochrome c peroxidase with cytochrome c.

scientific article

Identification of the Same Na(+)-Specific DNAzyme Motif from Two In Vitro Selections Under Different Conditions.

scientific article

Identifying the elusive sites of tyrosyl radicals in cytochrome c peroxidase: implications for oxidation of substrates bound at a site remote from the heme

scientific article

Imaging Endogenous Metal Ions in Living Cells Using a DNAzyme-Catalytic Hairpin Assembly Probe

scientific article published on 29 May 2017

Immobilization of DNAzyme catalytic beacons on PMMA for Pb2+ detection

scientific article

Immobilization of a catalytic DNA molecular beacon on Au for Pb(II) detection

scientific article published in January 2005

Improving Fluorescent DNAzyme Biosensors by Combining Inter- and Intramolecular Quenchers

scientific article published in 2003

In vitro selection of a sodium-specific DNAzyme and its application in intracellular sensing

scientific article

In vitro selection of high temperature Zn(2+)-dependent DNAzymes

scientific article published on 4 August 2005

In vitro selection of metal ion-selective DNAzymes

scientific article

Incorporation of a DNAzyme into Au-coated nanocapillary array membranes with an internal standard for Pb(ii) sensing

scientific article published on 24 November 2005

Inorganic mercury detection and controlled release of chelating agents from ion-responsive liposomes

scientific article published in September 2009

Insights Into How Heme Reduction Potentials Modulate Enzymatic Activities of a Myoglobin-based Functional Oxidase

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

Insights into the Competition between K+ and Pb2+ Binding to a G-Quadruplex and Discovery of a Novel K+-Pb2+-Quadruplex Intermediate

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Introducing a 2-His-1-Glu Nonheme Iron Center into Myoglobin Confers Nitric Oxide Reductase Activity

scientific article

Kinetic and crystallographic studies of a redesigned manganese-binding site in cytochrome c peroxidase

article published in 2006

Kinetics of copper incorporation into a biosynthetic purple Cu(A) azurin: characterization of red, blue, and a new intermediate species

scientific article published on 2 December 2011

Label-Free Colorimetric Detection of Lead Ions with a Nanomolar Detection Limit and Tunable Dynamic Range by using Gold Nanoparticles and DNAzyme

scholarly article by Zidong Wang et al published 3 September 2008 in Advanced Materials

Label-free catalytic and molecular beacon containing an abasic site for sensitive fluorescent detection of small inorganic and organic molecules

scientific article published on 7 March 2012

Label-free fluorescent aptamer sensor based on regulation of malachite green fluorescence

scientific article

Label-free fluorescent functional DNA sensors using unmodified DNA: a vacant site approach

scientific article

Long-Range Electron Transfer in Engineered Azurins Exhibits Marcus Inverted Region Behavior

scientific article

Lysozyme-stabilized gold fluorescent cluster: Synthesis and application as Hg(2+) sensor

scientific article

MRI Detection of Thrombin with Aptamer Functionalized Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

article published in 2008

Manganese and Cobalt in the Nonheme-Metal-Binding Site of a Biosynthetic Model of Heme-Copper Oxidase Superfamily Confer Oxidase Activity through Redox-Inactive Mechanism.

scientific article published on 3 August 2017

Mechanistic Insight into DNA-Guided Control of Nanoparticle Morphologies.

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Mentoring. Linking student interests to science curricula

scientific article published in December 2007

Metal ion as both a cofactor and a probe of metal-binding sites in a uranyl-specific DNAzyme: a uranyl photocleavage study

scientific article published on 11 August 2013

Metal ion sensors based on DNAzymes and related DNA molecules

scientific article

Metal ion-dependent DNAzymes and their applications as biosensors

scientific article published on January 2012

Metal-Dependent DNAzymes for the Quantitative Detection of Metal Ions in Living Cells: Recent Progress, Current Challenges, and Latest Results on FRET Ratiometric Sensors

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Metal-dependent global folding and activity of the 8-17 DNAzyme studied by fluorescence resonance energy transfer.

scientific article

Metal-ion-dependent folding of a uranyl-specific DNAzyme: insight into function from fluorescence resonance energy transfer studies

scientific article published on 3 November 2011

Metalloproteins containing cytochrome, iron-sulfur, or copper redox centers

scientific article published on April 2014

Miniaturized lead sensor based on lead-specific DNAzyme in a nanocapillary interconnected microfluidic device

scientific article

Molecular Engineering of Functional Nucleic Acid Nanomaterials toward In Vivo Applications

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Molecular diagnostic and drug delivery agents based on aptamer-nanomaterial conjugates

scientific article

Molecular interactions of monosulfonate tetraphenylporphyrin (TPPS1) and meso-tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin (TPPS) with dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP).

scientific article published on 16 June 2009

Monooxygenation of an aromatic ring by F43W/H64D/V68I myoglobin mutant and hydrogen peroxide. Myoglobin mutants as a model for P450 hydroxylation chemistry

scientific article

Motor domain phosphorylation modulates kinesin-1 transport

scientific article (publication date: 8 November 2013)

Multimodal Detection of a Small Molecule Target Using Stimuli-Responsive Liposome Triggered by Aptamer-Enzyme Conjugate

scientific article

Nano-encrypted Morse code: a versatile approach to programmable and reversible nanoscale assembly and disassembly

scientific article published on 19 February 2013

Nanomaterial-based biosensors using dual transducing elements for solution phase detection

scientific article

Nanoparticles/Dip stick

scientific article

Nanoscale patterns of oligonucleotides formed by electrohydrodynamic jet printing with applications in biosensing and nanomaterials assembly.

scientific article published in December 2008

Near-Infrared Photothermally Activated DNAzyme-Gold Nanoshells for Imaging Metal Ions in Living Cells

scientific article

Neutral thiol as a proximal ligand to ferrous heme iron: implications for heme proteins that lose cysteine thiolate ligation on reduction

scholarly article

New highly sensitive and selective catalytic DNA biosensors for metal ions.

scientific article published in May 2003

Nitric Oxide Reductase Activity in Heme-Nonheme Binuclear Engineered Myoglobins through a One-Electron Reduction Cycle

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Non-Base Pairing DNA Provides a New Dimension for Controlling Aptamer-Linked Nanoparticles and Sensors

scientific article published in 2007

Noncovalent modulation of pH-dependent reactivity of a Mn-salen cofactor in myoglobin with hydrogen peroxide

scientific article published on July 2009

Optical Control of Metal Ion Probes in Cells and Zebrafish Using Highly Selective DNAzymes Conjugated to Upconversion Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

Optimization of a Pb2+-Directed Gold Nanoparticle/DNAzyme Assembly and Its Application as a Colorimetric Biosensor for Pb2+

Perturbations to the geometric and electronic structure of the CuA site: factors that influence delocalization and their contributions to electron transfer

scientific article

Photocaged DNAzymes as a general method for sensing metal ions in living cells

scientific article

Polyvalent Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle-Aptamer Bioconjugates Target Breast Cancer Cells

scholarly article by Le-Le Li et al published 8 June 2012 in Advanced Healthcare Materials

Portable Detection of Melamine in Milk Using a Personal Glucose Meter Based on an in Vitro Selected Structure-Switching Aptamer

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Portable and quantitative detection of protein biomarkers and small molecular toxins using antibodies and ubiquitous personal glucose meters

scientific article published on 16 April 2012

Practical synthesis of water-soluble organic nanoparticles with a single reactive group and a functional carrier scaffold

article

Precision-Guided Missile-Like DNA Nanostructure Containing Warhead and Guidance Control for Aptamer-Based Targeted Drug Delivery into Cancer Cells in Vitro and in Vivo

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Preparation of aptamer-linked gold nanoparticle purple aggregates for colorimetric sensing of analytes

scientific article published on January 2006

Probing metal binding in the 8-17 DNAzyme by TbIII luminescence spectroscopy.

scientific article

Probing the role of axial methionine in the blue copper center of azurin with unnatural amino acids

scientific article published in July 2003

Proofreading and Error Removal in a Nanomaterial Assembly

scholarly article by Juewen Liu et al published 11 November 2005 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Protein scaffold of a designed metalloenzyme enhances the chemoselectivity in sulfoxidation of thioanisole

scientific article published on 04 February 2008

Quantitative Analysis of DNA-Mediated Formation of Metal Nanocrystals

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Quantum dot encoding of aptamer-linked nanostructures for one-pot simultaneous detection of multiple analytes

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Rapid determination of enantiomeric ratio using fluorescent DNA or RNA aptamers

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Rational Design of “Turn-On” Allosteric DNAzyme Catalytic Beacons for Aqueous Mercury Ions with Ultrahigh Sensitivity and Selectivity

article by Juewen Liu & Yi Lu published 8 October 2007 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Rational design of a structural and functional nitric oxide reductase

scientific article

Rationally tuning the reduction potential of a single cupredoxin beyond the natural range

scientific article

Reactivity of platinum-based antitumor drugs towards a Met- and His-rich 20mer peptide corresponding to the N-terminal domain of human copper transporter 1.

scientific article published on 8 August 2009

Recent Developments of Liposomes as Nanocarriers for Theranostic Applications

scientific article

Recent advances in DNAzyme-based gene silencing

article

Recent advances in biosynthetic modeling of nitric oxide reductases and insights gained from nuclear resonance vibrational and other spectroscopic studies

scientific article

Redesigning the blue copper azurin into a redox-active mononuclear nonheme iron protein: preparation and study of Fe(II)-M121E azurin

scientific article

Redox tuning of two biological copper centers through non-covalent interactions: same trend but different magnitude

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

Redox-dependent structural changes in an engineered heme-copper center in myoglobin: insights into chloride binding to CuB in heme copper oxidases

scientific article published in May 2005

Reduction potential tuning of the blue copper center in Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin by the axial methionine as probed by unnatural amino acids

scientific article published in December 2006

Regiospecific Hetero-Assembly of DNA-Functionalized Plasmonic Upconversion Superstructures

scientific article

Reorganization energy of the CuA center in purple azurin: impact of the mixed valence-to-trapped valence state transition

scientific article published on 3 February 2007

Resonance Raman spectroscopy of cytochrome c peroxidase variants that mimic manganese peroxidase

scientific article published on 9 July 2003

Reversible S-nitrosylation in an engineered azurin

scientific article

Reversible cell-specific drug delivery with aptamer-functionalized liposomes

scientific article

Role of copper ion in regulating ligand binding in a myoglobin-based cytochrome C oxidase model

scientific article published on February 2010

Role of heme types in heme-copper oxidases: effects of replacing a heme b with a heme o mimic in an engineered heme-copper center in myoglobin

scientific article published in November 2005

Roles of glutamates and metal ions in a rationally designed nitric oxide reductase based on myoglobin

scientific article

Selective Delivery of an Anticancer Drug with Aptamer-Functionalized Liposomes to Breast Cancer Cells in Vitro and in Vivo.

scientific article published on October 2013

Significant Improvement of Oxidase Activity through the Genetic Incorporation of a Redox-active Unnatural Amino Acid

scientific article

Significant expansion of fluorescent protein sensing ability through the genetic incorporation of superior photo-induced electron-transfer quenchers

scientific article

Significant increase of oxidase activity through the genetic incorporation of a tyrosine-histidine cross-link in a myoglobin model of heme-copper oxidase

scientific article

Simple and efficient method to purify DNA-protein conjugates and its sensing applications

scientific article published on 28 March 2014

Site-specific attachment of proteins onto a 3D DNA tetrahedron through backbone-modified phosphorothioate DNA.

scientific article

Site-specific control of distances between gold nanoparticles using phosphorothioate anchors on DNA and a short bifunctional molecular fastener

scientific article published in January 2007

Size-dependent modulation of graphene oxide-aptamer interactions for an amplified fluorescence-based detection of aflatoxin B1 with a tunable dynamic range

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Small-molecule diagnostics based on functional DNA nanotechnology: a dipstick test for mercury

scientific article

Smart Nanomaterials Responsive to Multiple Chemical Stimuli with Controllable Cooperativity

article by J. Liu & Yi Lu published 4 July 2006 in Advanced Materials

Smart nanomaterials inspired by biology: dynamic assembly of error-free nanomaterials in response to multiple chemical and biological stimuli

scientific article published on 3 May 2007

Smart “Turn-on” Magnetic Resonance Contrast Agents Based on Aptamer-Functionalized Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

scholarly article by Mehmet Veysel Yigit published in September 2007

Spectroscopic and Computational Study of a Nonheme Iron Nitrosyl Center in a Biosynthetic Model of Nitric Oxide Reductase

scientific article

Spectroscopic and Crystallographic Evidence for the Role of a Water-Containing H-Bond Network in Oxidase Activity of an Engineered Myoglobin

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Spectroscopic and DFT studies of second-sphere variants of the type 1 copper site in azurin: covalent and nonlocal electrostatic contributions to reduction potentials

scientific article

Spectroscopic and density functional theory studies of the blue-copper site in M121SeM and C112SeC azurin: Cu-Se versus Cu-S bonding

scientific article published on 04 March 2008

Spectroscopic characterization of mononitrosyl complexes in heme--nonheme diiron centers within the myoglobin scaffold (Fe(B)Mbs): relevance to denitrifying NO reductase

scientific article

Spectroscopic characterizations of bridging cysteine ligand variants of an engineered Cu2(Scys)2 CuA azurin

scientific article published in January 2006

Spectroscopic evidence for interactions between hexacyanoiron(II/III) and an engineered purple CuA azurin

scientific article

Stimuli-Responsive Disassembly of Nanoparticle Aggregates for Light-Up Colorimetric Sensing

article by Juewen Liu & Yi Lu published September 2005 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Stopped-Flow Studies of the Reduction of the Copper Centers Suggest a Bifurcated Electron Transfer Pathway in Peptidylglycine Monooxygenase

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Structural Basis for a Quadratic Relationship between Electronic Absorption and Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance Parameters of Type 1 Copper Proteins

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Surface Immobilization of Catalytic Beacons Based on Ratiometric Fluorescent DNAzyme Sensors: A Systematic Study

article by Daryl P. Wernette et al published August 2007 in Langmuir

Systematic Tuning of Heme Redox Potentials and Its Effects on O 2 Reduction Rates in a Designed Oxidase in Myoglobin

scientific article

The "OK, Molly" Chemistry

scientific article published in March 2017

The Effects of Spacer Length and Composition on Aptamer-Mediated Cell-Specific Targeting with Nanoscale PEGylated Liposomal Doxorubicin.

scientific article

The Q, Compound Q is Finally Deciphered

scientific article

The importance of peripheral sequences in determining the metal selectivity of an in vitro-selected Co(2+) -dependent DNAzyme

scientific article published on 17 January 2012

The production of nitrous oxide by the heme/nonheme diiron center of engineered myoglobins (Fe(B)Mbs) proceeds through a trans-iron-nitrosyl dimer

scientific article published on 03 February 2014

The role of bridging ligands in determining DNA-binding ability and cross-linking patterns of dinuclear platinum(II) antitumour complexes

scientific article

The role of copper and protons in heme-copper oxidases: kinetic study of an engineered heme-copper center in myoglobin

scholarly article

The role of redox-active amino acids on compound I stability, substrate oxidation, and protein cross-linking in yeast cytochrome C peroxidase

scientific article published in December 2001

Thiolate Spin Population of Type I Copper in Azurin Derived from 33S Hyperfine Coupling

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Time-dependent, protein-directed growth of gold nanoparticles within a single crystal of lysozyme

scientific article

Transforming a blue copper into a red copper protein: engineering cysteine and homocysteine into the axial position of azurin using site-directed mutagenesis and expressed protein ligation

scientific article

Transforming the blood glucose meter into a general healthcare meter for in vitro diagnostics in mobile health

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Translating molecular detections into a simple temperature test using a target-responsive smart thermometer.

scientific article

Understanding and Modulating Metalloenzymes with Unnatural Amino Acids, Non-Native Metal Ions, and Non-Native Metallocofactors

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Understanding copper-thiolate containing electron transfer centers by incorporation of unnatural amino acids and the CuA center into the type 1 copper protein azurin

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