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The exploitation of low-affinity molecular interactions in protein labeling is an emerging topic in optical microscopy. Such non-covalent and low-affinity interactions can be realized with various concepts from chemistry and for different molecule classes, and lead to a constant renewal of fluorescence signals at target sites. Further benefits are a versatile use across microscopy methods, in 3D, live and many-target applications. In recent years, several classes of low-affinity labels were developed and a variety of powerful applications demonstrated. Still, this research field is underdeveloped, while the potential is huge.
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J Med Chem
September 2025
Repare Therapeutics, 7171 Frederick-Banting, Building 2, H4S 1Z9 Montréal, Québec, Canada.
DNA polymerase theta (Polθ) plays a critical role in repairing DNA double-strand breaks through microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) and has emerged as a key synthetic lethal drug target in cancers with homologous recombination (HR) deficiencies. Its inhibition has shown a strong potential to synergize with PARP inhibitors, particularly in tumors with deleterious or mutations. Here, we describe the discovery and preclinical development of RP-2119, a selective, potent, and bioavailable Polθ ATPase inhibitor.
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September 2025
Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu P. R. China.
Advances in molecular analysis and characterization techniques should revolutionize the methods for scientific exploration across physics, chemistry, and biology, fundamentally overturning our understanding of interactions and processes that govern molecular behavior at the microscopic level. Currently, the absence of a molecular analysis method that can both quantify molecules and achieve single-molecule spatial resolution hinders our study of complex molecular systems in sorption and catalysis. Here, we propose a quantitative analysis strategy for small molecules confined in ZSM-5, a zeolite material extensively used in catalysis and gas separation, based on low-dose transmission electron microscopy.
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September 2025
Evolutionary Dynamics Group, Centre for Cancer Evolution, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Unlabelled: Oncogenes amplified on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) contribute to treatment resistance and poor survival across cancers. Currently, the spatiotemporal evolution of ecDNA remains poorly understood. In this study, we integrate computational modeling with samples from 94 treatment-naive human glioblastomas (GBM) to investigate the spatiotemporal evolution of ecDNA.
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September 2025
Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels/Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials (CQMF/QCAM), Chemistry Department, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Québec H3A 0B8, Canada.
Poly(γ-stearyl-l-glutamate) (PSLG) is a semiflexible synthetic polypeptide that forms both thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystal (LC) phases. We previously showed that spherical nanoparticles (NPs) decorated with another semiflexible helical polymer, poly(hexyl isocyanate), form lyotropic nematic rather than cubic LC phases. In this work, PSLG ligands for functionalizing 4 nm ZrO NPs were prepared via N-carboxyanhydride ring-opening polymerization.
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September 2025
Center of Materials and Nanotechnologies (CEMNAT), Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, nam. Cs legii 565, 530 02 Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Joint direct microscopy-calorimetry measurements of crystal growth were performed for a 60 nm amorphous Sb2S3 film deposited either on a Kapton foil or on a soda-lime glass. Calorimetric crystallization proceeded in two steps, originating either from mechanical and stress-induced defects (230-275 °C) or from homogeneously formed nuclei (255-310 °C); both processes exhibited an identical activation energy of 200 kJ mol-1. At temperatures <230 °C, a Sb2O3 crystalline phase formed along the rhombohedral Sb2S3 structure.
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