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ArticleNature communications2018

Mapping the energy landscapes of supramolecular assembly by thermal hysteresis.

Robert W Harkness V, Nicole Avakyan, Hanadi F Sleiman, Anthony K Mittermaier

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Robert W Harkness VDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal Quebec, H3A 0B8, Canada.
Nicole AvakyanDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal Quebec, H3A 0B8, Canada.
Hanadi F SleimanDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal Quebec, H3A 0B8, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5100-0532
Anthony K MittermaierDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal Quebec, H3A 0B8, Canada. anthony.mittermaier@mcgill.ca.

Funding

Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada) 327028-09
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how biological macromolecules assemble into higher-order structures is critical to explaining their function in living organisms and engineered biomaterials. Transient, partly-structured intermediates are essential in many assembly processes and pathway selection, but are challenging to characterize. Here we present a simple thermal hysteresis method based on rapid, non-equilibrium melting and annealing measurements that maps the rate of supramolecular assembly as a function of temperature and concentration. A straightforward analysis of these surfaces provides detailed information on the natures of assembly pathways, offering temperature resolution beyond that accessible with conventional techniques. Validating the approach using a tetrameric guanine quadruplex, we obtain strikingly good agreement with previous kinetics measurements and reveal temperature-dependent changes to the assembly pathway. In an application to the recently discovered co-assembly of polydeoxyadenosine (poly(A)) and cyanuric acid, we show that fiber elongation is initiated when an unstable complex containing three poly(A) monomers acquires a fourth strand.

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PMCPMC6082911

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