Publication

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (selected. See the full list at Google Scholar) (*corresponding author, # contributed equally)

Biomaterials & Polymer Materials:

7.  AlloBench: A Data Set Pipeline for the Development and Benchmarking of Allosteric Site Prediction Tools

     D. Maity, and B. Qiao* ACS Omega  2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.5c01263.

6.  Allosteric Regulation in SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein

     Y. Wei, A. Chen, Y. Lin, T. Wei,* and B. Qiao*, PCCP 2024, 26, 6582.  2024 HOT PCCP article

5.  Inhibiting the Keap1/Nrf2 Protein-Protein Interaction with Protein-Like Polymers

K. Carrow, H. Hamilton, M. Hopps,Y. Li, B. Qiao, C. Payne, M. Thompson, X. Zhang, A. Magassa, M. Fattah, S. Agarwal, M. Vincent, M. Buyanova, P. Bertin, R. Mazitscheck, M. Olvera de la Cruz, D. Johnson*, J. Johnson*, and N. Gianneschi*, Adv. Mater. 2024, 2311467.

4.  Controlled Adsorption of Multiple Bioactive Proteins Enables Targeted Mast Cell Nanotherapy

F. Du, C. Rische, Y. Li, M. Vincent, R. Krier-Burris, Y. Qian, S. Yuk, S. Almunif, B. Bochner, B. Qiao, and E. Scott, Nature Nanotechnology 2024, 19, 698.

3.  Origin of Proteolytic Stability of Peptide-Brush Polymers as Globular Proteomimetics

H. Sun,# B. Qiao,# W. Choi,# N. Hampu, N. McCallum, M. Thompson, J. Oktawiec, S. Weigand, O. Ebrahim, M.  Olvera de la Cruz, and N. Gianneschi, ACS Cent. Sci. 2021, 7, 2063. 

2.  Enhanced Binding of SARS-CoV‑2 Spike Protein to Receptor by Distal Polybasic Cleavage Sites

B. Qiao and M. Olvera de la Cruz, ACS Nano 2020, 14, 10616.

1.   Water Follows Polar and Nonpolar Protein Surface Domains     

B. Qiao, F. Jiménez-Ángeles, T. Nguyen, and M. Olvera de la Cruz, PNAS 2019, 116, 19274.

Rare Earth Elements and Separation:

5.  The Role of Asparagine as a Gatekeeper Residue in the Selective Binding of Rare Earth Elements by Lanthanide-Binding Peptides

    S. KT†, B. Qiao*,†, J. Marmorstein, Y. Wang, D. Favaro, K. Stebe, E. Petersson, R. Radhakrishnan, C. de la Fuente-Nunez, R. Tu, C. Maldarelli, M. Olvera de la Cruz*, R. Messinger*, Chem. Eur. J. 2025, DOI: 10.1002/chem.202501318. 

4. Comparative CHARMM and AMOEBA Simulations of Lanthanide Hydration Energetics and Experimental Aqueous-Solution Structures

B. Qiao,* S. Skanthakumar, and L. Solderholm,* J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2018, 14, 1781. 

3.  Ion Transport Mechanisms in Liquid-Liquid Interface

 B. Qiao,* J. V. Muntean, M. Olvera de la Cruz, and R. J. Ellis,* Langmuir 2017, 33, 6135. 

2.  Molecular Origins of Mesoscale Ordering in a Metalloamphiphile Phase

B. Qiao,* G. Ferru, M. Olvera de la Cruz, and R. J. Ellis,* ACS Cent. Sci. 2015, 1, 493. 

1.  How Hydrogen Bonds Affect the Growth of Reverse Micelles Around Coordinating Metal Ions

     B. Qiao, T. Demars, M. Olvera de la Cruz, and R. J. Ellis, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 1440.

PATENT:

1.  Molecular Entrapment via Homopolymer Self-Assembly

    E. Scott, F. Du, B. Qiao, and M. Olvera de la Cruz

    Application No: US16/942,228

2. Peptide Sequences And Compositions At Air-Aqueous Interfaces For Lanthanide Recovery

   K. Stebe, D. Lee, R. Radhakrishnan, C. de la Fuente-Nunez, I. Dmochowski, J. Petersson, J. Marmorstein, S. Crane, E. Hummingbird, Y. Wang, E. Biddinger, C. Maldarelli, R. Messinger, R. Tu, L. Macias, M. Schlossman, B. Sapkota, P. Sun, M. Olvera de la Cruz, F. Jiménez-Ángeles, B. Qiao

   Application No: US18/448,427