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Dmitri D. Toptygin

Johns Hopkins UniversityORCID 0000-0001-5800-861XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:fluorescence / live-cell microscopy· 1 Approach:microscopy & imaging analysis· 1 Research Focus:protein folding & dynamics· 1

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BiophysicsbioRxivPreprintMar 10, 2026

Multivalent weak contacts shape chaperone-nascent protein interactions

Nandakumar Rajasekaran, Dmitri D. Toptygin, Ting‐Wei Liao…·Christian Kaiser

This study uses single-molecule techniques to show that trigger factor interacts with nascent proteins via multiple weak, dynamic contacts that evolve during elongation.

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