Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-03-12eCollection Date: 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01183-9
Natacha Gillet, Elise Dumont, Emmanuelle Bignon
{"title":"DNA damage and repair in the nucleosome: insights from computational methods.","authors":"Natacha Gillet, Elise Dumont, Emmanuelle Bignon","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01183-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12551-024-01183-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cellular DNA is constantly exposed to endogenous or exogenous factors that can induce lesions. Several types of lesions have been described that can result from UV/ionizing irradiations, oxidative stress, or free radicals, among others. In order to overcome the deleterious effects of such damages, i.e., mutagenicity or cytotoxicity, cells possess a highly complex DNA repair machinery, involving repair enzymes targeting specific types of lesions through dedicated cellular pathways. In addition, DNA is highly compacted in the nucleus, the first level of compaction consisting of ~ 147 DNA base pairs wrapped around a core of histones, the so-called nucleosome core particle. In this complex environment, the DNA structure is highly constrained, and fine-tuned mechanisms involving remodeling processes are required to expose the DNA to repair enzymes and to facilitate the damage removal. However, these nucleosome-specific mechanisms remain poorly understood, and computational methods emerged only recently as powerful tools to investigate DNA damages in such complex systems as the nucleosome. In this mini-review, we summarize the latest advances brought out by computational approaches in the field, opening new exciting perspectives for the study of DNA damage and repair in the nucleosome context.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 3","pages":"345-356"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11297232/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141888435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-02-20eCollection Date: 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01182-w
Damien Hall
{"title":"Biophysical Reviews: peering into 2024.","authors":"Damien Hall","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01182-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12551-024-01182-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After introducing the winner of this year's Michèle Auger Award for Young Scientists' Independent Research, this Editorial for Volume 16 Issue 1 then describes the Issue contents. The Editorial concludes by providing a look into what lies ahead for 2024.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10937855/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140142761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-02-19eCollection Date: 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01181-x
Wilma K Olson, Damien Hall
{"title":"<i>Biophysical reviews</i> Special issue call: The 21st IUPAB Congress 2024 Kyoto Japan.","authors":"Wilma K Olson, Damien Hall","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01181-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-024-01181-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This commentary describes an open call for submissions to the upcoming <i>Biophysical Reviews</i>' Special Issue: The 21st IUPAB Congress 2024 Kyoto Japan. The submission deadline is July 1st of 2024. Interested parties are requested to make contact with the Special Issue editors prior to submission.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 1","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10937856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140142759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-01-30eCollection Date: 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01180-y
Xi Chen, Angela Ruohao Wu
{"title":"<i>Special Mini-Issue</i>: Quantitative methods to decipher cellular heterogeneity - from single-cell to spatial omic methods.","authors":"Xi Chen, Angela Ruohao Wu","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01180-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12551-024-01180-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this mini-issue, we have a collection of eight reviews that discuss various advanced topics on the investigation of cellular heterogeneity. These reviews highlight the latest developments in technologies that capture and assess biology at single cell resolution, as well as approaches for cellular measurements with spatial information. Challenges and opportunities to develop future innovations and approaches are also presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 1","pages":"11-12"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10937863/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140142760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging tools for uncovering genetic and transcriptomic heterogeneities in bacteria","authors":"Yi Liao","doi":"10.1007/s12551-023-01178-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-023-01178-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"51 7","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139390199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-01-02eCollection Date: 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-023-01173-3
Antonio Benedetto
{"title":"Ionic liquids meet lipid bilayers: a state-of-the-art review.","authors":"Antonio Benedetto","doi":"10.1007/s12551-023-01173-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12551-023-01173-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the past 25 years, a vast family of complex organic salts known as room-temperature ionic liquids (ILs) has received increasing attention due to their potential applications. ILs are composed by an organic cation and either an organic or inorganic anion, and possess several intriguing properties such as low vapor pressure and being liquid around room temperature. Several biological studies flagged their moderate-to-high (cyto)-toxicity. Toxicity is, however, also a synonym of affinity, and this boosted a series of biophysical and chemical-physical investigations aimed at exploiting ILs in bio-nanomedicine, drug-delivery, pharmacology, and bio-nanotechnology. Several of these investigations focused on the interaction between ILs and lipid membranes, aimed at determining the microscopic mechanisms behind their interaction. This is the focus of this review work. These studies have been carried out on a variety of different lipid bilayer systems ranging from 1-lipid to 5-lipids systems, and also on cell-extracted membranes. They have been carried out at different chemical-physical conditions and by the use of a number of different approaches, including atomic force microscopy, neutron and X-ray scattering, dynamic light scattering, differential scanning calorimetry, surface quartz microbalance, nuclear magnetic resonance, confocal fluorescence microscopy, and molecular dynamics simulations. The aim of this \"2023 Michèle Auger Award\" review work is to provide the reader with an <i>up-to-date</i> overview of this fascinating research field where \"ILs meet lipid bilayers (aka biomembranes),\" with the aim to boost it further and expand its cross-disciplinary edges towards novel high-impact ideas/applications in pharmacology, drug delivery, biomedicine, and bio-nanotechnology.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"15 6","pages":"1909-1939"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10771448/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139401823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biophysical Reviews: A goodbye to 2023","authors":"Damien Hall","doi":"10.1007/s12551-023-01177-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-023-01177-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"8 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139155517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biophysical Reviews’ “Meet the Editors Series”: a profile of Damien Hall","authors":"Damien Hall","doi":"10.1007/s12551-023-01176-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-023-01176-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"18 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138946975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}