M. Olvera de la Cruz

The paper investigates how removing the vertex protein PduN alters the morphology of the Pdu MCP microcompartment in Salmonella, affecting pathway performance through changes in surface area to volume ratios.

The paper uses computational and experimental methods to control bacterial microcompartment assembly by modifying protein interactions and angles.

This study uses molecular dynamics simulations to show that heterochromatin flexibility influences its distribution in the nucleus, with less flexible heterochromatin segregating toward the interior in the absence of shell interactions.

The paper investigates how distal polybasic cleavage sites on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein enhance ACE2 binding through electrostatic interactions and hydration, and shows that a designed tetrapeptide can reduce this binding by 34%.

This study examines ligand-receptor rebinding kinetics in confined environments, revealing scaling laws and time-dependent behavior under different diffusion and reaction-limited conditions.

This study investigates facilitated dissociation (FD) of transcription factors from DNA binding sites using single-molecule imaging and molecular dynamics simulations, showing FD occurs at the single-binding-site level and is independent of salt concentration.