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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2021

Accelerating Reaction Rates of Biomolecules by Using Shear Stress in Artificial Capillary Systems.

Tuuli A Hakala, Emma V Yates, Pavan K Challa, Zenon Toprakcioglu, Karthik Nadendla, Dijana Matak-Vinkovic, Christopher M Dobson, Rodrigo Martínez, Francisco Corzana, Tuomas P J Knowles and 1 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Tuuli A HakalaYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2075-3451
Emma V YatesYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
Pavan K ChallaYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0863-381X
Zenon ToprakciogluYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1964-8432
Karthik NadendlaYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
Dijana Matak-VinkovicYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
Christopher M DobsonYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
Rodrigo MartínezDepartamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5850-8494
Francisco CorzanaDepartamento de Química, Centro de Investigación en Síntesis Química, Universidad de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5597-8127
Tuomas P J KnowlesYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7879-0140
Gonçalo J L BernardesYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6594-8917
University of Cambridge · GBUniversidad de La Rioja · ESUniversity of Lisbon · PT

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilWellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomimetics is a design principle within chemistry, biology, and engineering, but chemistry biomimetic approaches have been generally limited to emulating nature's chemical toolkit while emulation of nature's physical toolkit has remained largely unexplored. To begin to explore this, we designed biophysically mimetic microfluidic reactors with characteristic length scales and shear stresses observed within capillaries. We modeled the effect of shear with molecular dynamics studies and showed that this induces specific normally buried residues to become solvent accessible. We then showed using kinetics experiments that rates of reaction of these specific residues in fact increase in a shear-dependent fashion. We applied our results in the creation of a new microfluidic approach for the multidimensional study of cysteine biomarkers. Finally, we used our approach to establish dissociation of the therapeutic antibody trastuzumab in a reducing environment. Our results have implications for the efficacy of existing therapeutic antibodies in blood plasma as well as suggesting in general that biophysically mimetic chemistry is exploited in biology and should be explored as a research area.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationTrastuzumabBiomimeticsCysteineKineticsMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesShear StrengthStress, MechanicalCysteineTrastuzumab

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PMID34606279
PMCPMC8517977
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