Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has been fabricated into thin-film composite (TFC) membranes for dye desalination due to its excellent underwater stability and tunable interlay spacing. However, it remains challenging to synthesize thin layers of MoS2 with high water permeance and high dye rejection due to the difficulty in fabricating large crystallin...
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
The limited number of methods to directly polymerize ionic monomers currently hinders rapid diversification and production of ionic polymeric materials, namely anion exchange membranes (AEMs) which are essential components in emerging alkaline fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. Herein, we report a direct coordination-insertion polymerization ...
Published in Nature Communications
EPAC1 is a cAMP-activated guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for Rap GTPases and a major transducer of cAMP signaling. Here, the authors show anionic membranes can activate EPAC1 independently of cAMP, increase its affinity for cAMP by two orders of magnitude, and synergize with cAMP to yield maximal GEF activity.
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Metal-organic framework (MOF) glass is an easy to process and self-supported amorphous material that is suitable for fabricating gas separation membranes. However, MOF glasses, such as ZIF-62 and ZIF-4 have low porosity, which makes it difficult to obtain membranes with high permeance. Here, a self-supported MOF crystal-glass composite (CGC) membra...
Membrane curvature is essential to diverse cellular functions. While classically attributed to structured domains, recent work illustrates that intrinsically disordered proteins are also potent drivers of membrane bending. Specifically, repulsive interactions among disordered domains drive convex bending, while attractive interactions drive concave...
[ES] En este TFG se presenta una alternativa al tratamiento biológico convencional de los lixiviados de vertedero. La solución propuesta consiste en aplicar un tratamiento físico-químico seguido de un tratamiento con membranas. Este tratamiento combinado permite obtener agua de calidad para diferentes usos industriales y/o agrícolas. En este TFG se...
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Here, we report a new class of peptidomimetic macrocycles with well-defined three-dimensional structures and low conformational flexibility. They are assembled from fused-ring spiro-ladder oligomers (spiroligomers) by modular solid-phase synthesis. Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance confirms their shape persistency. Triangular macrocycles o...
Published in iScience
Membranes; Biophysics; Proteomics
BACKGROUND: BFSP1 (beaded filament structural protein 1) is a plasma membrane, Aquaporin 0 (AQP0/MIP)-associated intermediate filament protein expressed in the eye lens. BFSP1 is myristoylated, a post-translation modification that requires caspase cleavage at D433. Bioinformatic analyses suggested that the sequences 434-452 were α-helical and amphi...
