mPEG-PLA and PLA-PEG-PLA copolymeric nanoparticles with three different PLA to PEG ratios are synthesized and used for encapsulation of recombinant… Continue reading mPEG-PLA and PLA-PEG-PLA nanoparticles as new carriers for delivery of recombinant human Growth Hormone (rhGH)
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregation and neuroinflammation are consistent features in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and strong candidates for the initiation of neurodegeneration.… Continue reading The neuronal S100B protein is a calcium-tuned suppressor of amyloid-β aggregation
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
The unfolding of human serum albumin (HSA), a multidomain protein, by urea was followed by far‐UV circular dichroism (CD), intrinsic… Continue reading Anion-Induced Stabilization of Human Serum Albumin Prevents the Formation of Intermediate During Urea Denaturation
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
We report the visible-light circular dichroism (CD) of colourless organic compounds based on interfacial charge-transfer (ICT) transitions with TiO2 nanoparticles. We… Continue reading Visible-light circular dichroism of colourless chiral organic compounds enabled by interfacial charge-transfer transitions
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) is commonly used as a protein fusion domain to facilitate expression and purification of recombinant proteins,… Continue reading Discovery and engineering of enhanced SUMO protease enzymes
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) has great potential for sterilization in the food industry, by deactivation of thermophilic bacteria, but the… Continue reading CAP modifies the structure of a model protein from thermophilic bacteria: mechanisms of CAP-mediated inactivation
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Stimuli-responsive polypeptides have practical applications in devices and therapeutic delivery. Here we report that coordination to Cd2+ metal species can be… Continue reading Cd2+ coordination: an efficient structuring switch for polypeptide polymers
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Hemoproteins have recently emerged as promising biocatalysts for promoting a variety of carbene transfer reactions including cyclopropanation and Y—H insertion… Continue reading Chemoselective Cyclopropanation over Carbene Y-H insertion Catalyzed by an Engineered Carbene Transferase
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Nascent polypeptide chains fold co‐translationally but the atomic‐level details of this process remain unknown. Here we report crystallographic, de novo modeling and… Continue reading Co‐translational folding of α‐helical proteins: structural studies of intermediate‐length variants of the λ repressor
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
α-Synuclein (α-Syn) aggregation and amyloid formation are associated with loss of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson’s disease (PD). In addition, familial… Continue reading Parkinson’s disease associated α-synuclein familial mutants promote dopaminergic neuronal death in Drosophila melanogaster
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen, and the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide. We have… Continue reading The Chlamydia trachomatis PmpD adhesin forms higher order structures through disulphide-mediated covalent interactions
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Massive expansion of a DNA hexanucleotide sequence repeat (C2G4) within the human C9orf72 gene has been linked to a number of neurodegenerative… Continue reading (C2G4)n repeat expansion sequences from the C9orf72 gene form an unusual DNA higher-order structure in the pH range of 5-6
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
For the purpose towards engineering the magnetic anisotropy, chiral binaphthyl substituents with slight electron-withdrawing ability and dibutylamino substituents with intense… Continue reading Heteroleptic Chiral Bis(phthalocyaninato) Terbium Double-Decker Single-Ion Magnets
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
The fabrication of supramolecular chiral nanostructures from achiral materials without the need of pre-existing chirality is a major chal-lenge associated… Continue reading Controllable supramolecular chiral twisted nanoribbons from achiral conjugated oligoaniline derivatives
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018
Emergence of endogenous nanoparticles in thermally processed food has aroused much attention due to their unique properties and potential biological… Continue reading Characterization of endogenous nanoparticles from roasted chicken breasts
Leah Pandiscia, PhD
August 13, 2018