Herein, the preparation of gold nanoparticles-silk fibroin (SF-AuNPs) dispersion and its label-free colorimetric detection of the organophosphate pesticide, namely chlorpyrifos,… Continue reading Highly sensitive label-free bio-interfacial colorimetric sensor based on silk fibroin-gold nanocomposite for facile detection of chlorpyrifos pesticide
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The silicon surface texture significantly affects the current density and efficiency of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. However, only a few… Continue reading Perovskites fabricated on textured silicon surfaces for tandem solar cells
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Bacterial and archaeal CRISPR-Cas systems provide RNA-guided immunity against genetic invaders such as bacteriophages and plasmids. Upon target RNA recognition,… Continue reading Activation and self-inactivation mechanisms of the cyclic oligoadenylate-dependent CRISPR ribonuclease Csm6
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Fucoxanthin and its derivatives are the main light-harvesting pigments in the photosynthetic apparatus of many chromalveolate algae and represent the… Continue reading An algal enzyme required for biosynthesis of the most abundant marine carotenoids
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Although growth factors have great therapeutic potential because of their regenerative functions, they often have intrinsic drawbacks, such as low… Continue reading A chemically unmodified agonistic DNA with growth factor functionality for in vivo therapeutic application
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
To be optimally effective, peptide-based vaccines need to be administered with adjuvants. Many currently available adjuvants are toxic, not biodegradable;… Continue reading Poly(amino acids) as a potent self-adjuvanting delivery system for peptide-based nanovaccines
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Zinc finger protein Zscan4 is selectively expressed in mouse two-cell (2C) embryos undergoing zygotic genome activation (ZGA) and in a… Continue reading Zscan4 binds nucleosomal microsatellite DNA and protects mouse two-cell embryos from DNA damage
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
In the current clinical boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), p-boronophenylalanine (BPA) has been the most powerful drug owing to its ability… Continue reading Poly(vinyl alcohol) boosting therapeutic potential of p-boronophenylalanine in neutron capture therapy by modulating metabolism
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
A newly identified microbial rhodopsin, NM-R3, from the marine flavobacterium Nonlabens marinus, was recently shown to drive chloride ion uptake, extending… Continue reading Pumping mechanism of NM-R3, a light-driven bacterial chloride importer in the rhodopsin family
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Spin and valley degrees of freedom in materials without inversion symmetry promise previously unknown device functionalities, such as spin-valleytronics. Control… Continue reading A chiral switchable photovoltaic ferroelectric 1D perovskite
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
The largest CPL activity ever measured was observed for cesium tetrakis(3-heptafluoro-butylryl-(+)-camphorato) Eu(III) complexes in EtOH and CHCl3 solutions substantiating the stereospecific… Continue reading Extraordinary Circularly Polarized Luminescence Activity Exhibited by Cesium Tetrakis(3-heptafluoro-butylryl-(+)-camphorato) Eu(III) Complexes in EtOH and CHCl3 Solutions
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Diesters of (1R,2R)- and (1S,2S)-cyclohexanediols and diamides of (1R,2R)- and (1S,2S)-diaminocyclohexane with p-hydroxycinnamic acid have been known for some time to… Continue reading pH Dependent Chiroptical Properties of (1R,2R)- and (1S,2S)-trans-Cyclohexane Diesters and Diamides from VCD, ECD, and CPL Spectroscopy
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Chiroptical signs in circularly polarised luminescence (CPL) of Eu(III) luminophores coordinated to C2‐symmetric binaphthyl ring carrying carboxylic acids, (R)‐1 (and (S)‐1)) and… Continue reading Swapping Circularly Polarised Luminescence of Eu(III)‐Binaphthyl Hybridized Luminophore with and without Oxymethylene Spacer
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
We report the functional and structural characterization of trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (TPP), from the Gram-negative bacterium B. pseudomallei that causes melioidosis,… Continue reading Functional and structural analysis of trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase from Burkholderia pseudomallei: Insights into the catalytic mechanism
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020
We report the interaction between a well-known antibiotic chloramphenicol (Clp) and the protein, bovine pancreatic trypsin. Both steady-state and time-resolved… Continue reading On the role of hydrophobic interactions between chloramphenicol and bovine pancreatic trypsin: The effect of a strong electrolyte
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
June 29, 2020