The synthesis and conformational preferences of a novel chiral macrocyclic polyimine possessing spiro carbon atoms is described. The key feature… Continue reading Axial chirality inversion at a spiro carbon leads to efficient synthesis of polyimine macrocycle
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Conformational equilibria in the protein denatured state have key roles regulating folding, stability, and function. The extent of conformational bias… Continue reading Impact of Heat on Coil Hydrodynamic Size Yields the Energetics of Denatured State Conformational Bias
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
An ethanolic extract of Anneslea fragrans leaves showed potent preferential cytotoxicity against PANC-1 human pancreatic cancer cells under a nutrient-deprived condition, with… Continue reading Chemical Constituents of Anneslea fragrans and Their Antiausterity Activity against the PANC-1 Human Pancreatic Cancer Cell Line
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Switching the macromolecular helicity of poly(phenylacetylene)s (PPAs) through external achiral stimuli provides convenient possibilities in designing smart chiral materials. Herein,… Continue reading Thermoresponsive Dendronized Poly(phenylacetylene)s Showing Tunable Helicity
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Novel tetracyanidonitridorhenium(V) complexes with five-membered N-heteroaromatic ligands, (PPh4)2[ReN(CN)4L] [L = imidazole (Him) (2), 1-methylimidazole (Mim) (3), and pyrazole (pyz) (4)]… Continue reading Synthesis and Photoluminescence of Tetracyanidonitridorhenium(V) Complexes with Five-Membered N-Heteroaromatic Ligands and Photoluminescence-Intensity Change
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Supramolecular hydrogel delivery systems have attracted widely attention owing to incorporating various therapeutic agents in carriers to decrease unpredictable toxicities,… Continue reading Dual-functional guanosine-based hydrogel integrating localized delivery and anticancer activities for cancer therapy
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Amyloids represent protein fibrils with a highly ordered spatial structure, which not only cause dozens of incurable human and animal… Continue reading [PDF] Two Novel Amyloid Proteins, RopA and RopB, from the Root Nodule Bacterium Rhizobium leguminosarum
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
The advantage of using Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) method in assembling thin films is mainly the effective controlling the orientation of the… Continue reading Pyrene-based amphiphile regulated C60 aggregation in monolayers and Langmuir–Blodgett films
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Organic chiral materials have brought attention due to their potential application in the area of spin-optics and optoelectronics. Compared with… Continue reading Spin–Photon Coupling in Organic Chiral Crystals
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
We have studied the excited-state dynamics for the i-motif form of cytosine chains (dC)10, using the ultrafast fluorescence up-conversion technique.… Continue reading Exciton Absorption and Luminescence in i-Motif DNA
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Bacillus subtilis PdaC (BsPdaC) is a membrane-bound, multidomain peptidoglycan N-deacetylase acting on N-acetylmuramic (Mur-NAc) residues and conferring lysozyme resistance to… Continue reading Structure-function relationships underlying the dual N-acetylmuramic and N-acetylglucosamine specificities of the bacterial peptidoglycan deacetylase PdaC
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) facilitates the formation of functional membraneless organelles and recent reports have linked this phenomenon to protein… Continue reading Low-complexity domain of U1-70K modulates phase separation and aggregation through distinctive basic-acidic motif
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Acyl carrier proteins (ACPs) are essential to the production of fatty acids. In some species of marine bacteria, ACPs are… Continue reading Artificial covalent linkage of bacterial acyl carrier proteins for fatty acid production
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
A new isoiphionane sesquiterpene, named (3S, 5S, 7S, 10R)-3, 11-dihydroxyisoiphion-4-one (1), two new phloroglucinol glycosides, named eucalglobuside A (2) and… Continue reading Tyrosinase inhibitors from the leaves of Eucalyptus globulus
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Host defense peptides selectively kill bacterial and cancer cells (including those that are drug-resistant) by perturbing the permeability of their… Continue reading Aggregation determines the selectivity of membrane-active anticancer and antimicrobial peptides: The case of killerFLIP
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
March 24, 2020