Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, making the development of effective TB vaccines a global… Continue reading Tuberculosis vaccine candidate: Characterization of H4-IC31 formulation and H4 antigen conformation
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Sugars play key roles in many molecular and cellular communication processes involving a family of proteins named lectins. The low… Continue reading May heterocyclic γ‐peptides provide polyfunctional platforms for synthetic glycocluster construction?
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
The synthesis and surface functionalization of ZnO nanoparticles were performed, with attention being paid to the possible bio-related applications in… Continue reading The role of L-cysteine and introduced surface defects in reactive oxygen species generation by ZnO nanoparticles
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Tachyplesin I is a potent antimicrobial peptide with broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity. It has 2 disulfide bonds and can… Continue reading Influences of disulfide connectivity on structure and antimicrobial activity of tachyplesin I
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
The supramolecular chirality of aggregates consisting of achiral trans‐bis(salicylaldiminato)Ni(II) complex 1 bearing long alkyl chains can be generated and controlled… Continue reading Helicity Control of Supramolecular Gel Fiber Consisting of Achiral Ni(II) Complex in Chiral Nematic Solvent
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Chiral compounds/materials have important effects on the growth of plants. Chiral carbon dots (CDs), as an emerging chiral carbon nanomaterial,… Continue reading One-step hydrothermal synthesis of chiral carbon dots and their effects on mung bean plant growth
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Security issues of nanoparticles on biological toxicity and potential environmental risk have attracted more and more attention with the rapid… Continue reading The effect of nano-TiO2 photocatalysis on the antioxidant activities of Cu, Zn-SOD at physiological pH
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Interactions of Cr species with nucleic acids in living organisms depend strongly on Cr oxidation state and the environmental conditions. As the… Continue reading Charge-transfer interactions of Cr species with DNA
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
In light of the biomedical interest for self-assembling amphiphiles bearing the tripeptide Arg-Gly-Gly (RGD), a cholic acid derivative was synthesized… Continue reading Twisted nanoribbons from a RGD-bearing cholic acid derivative
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Combination of β-lactoglobulin (β-Lg) and lactoferrin (Lf), biomacromolecules derived from bovine whey, was used in the formation of supramolecular structures by thermal… Continue reading Formation and characterization of supramolecular structures of β-lactoglobulin and lactoferrin proteins
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Ferritinophagy is the process of autophagic degradation of ferritin that participates in the regulation of cellular iron homeostasis. This process was shown to be mediated… Continue reading Expression and characterization of the ferritin binding domain of Nuclear Receptor Coactivator-4 (NCOA4)
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
A thorough understanding of the molecular mechanisms of protein-nanoparticle associations facilitates the development of novel applications in nanoscience and nanotechnology.… Continue reading Understanding the graphene quantum dots-ubiquitin interaction by identifying the interaction sites
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Skeletal muscle cells are terminally differentiated and require the activation of muscle progenitor (satellite) cells for their regeneration. There is a clinical need… Continue reading Laminin mimetic peptide nanofibers regenerate acute muscle defect
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
The folding and aggregation of proteins has been studied extensively, using multiple probes. To facilitate such experiments, introduction of spectroscopically-active moieties… Continue reading Expression and purification of single cysteine-containing mutant variants of the mouse prion protein by oxidative refolding
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
The parasite Schistosoma mansoni possess all pathways for pyrimidine biosynthesis, whereby deaminases play an essential role in the thymidylate cycle, a crucial step to controlling the ratio… Continue reading Spectroscopic and calorimetric assays reveal dependence on dCTP and two metals (Zn2 + + Mg2 +) for enzymatic activity of Schistosoma mansoni deoxycytidylate (dCMP) deaminase
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
A new salicylaldehyde derived 2,4-diiodo-6-((2-phenylaminoethylimino)methyl)phenol Schiff base(L) and its transition metal complexes of the type MLCl where, M = Cu(II), Ni(II), Co(II),… Continue reading Synthesis, structure, DNA/BSA binding and antibacterial studies of NNO tridentate Schiff base metal complexes
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
A sequence alignment of horse cytochrome c (cyt c) with all known cyts c shows that Leu at position 94 is conserved, except in 14… Continue reading Effect of conservative mutations (L94V and L94I) on the structure and stability of horse cytochrome c
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018