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2017 / Scientific Reports
Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are a subfamily of phytochrome photoreceptors found exclusively in photosynthetic cyanobacteria. Four CBCRs containing a second Cys in… Continue reading Hydrophobic Residues near the Bilin Chromophore-Binding Pocket Modulate Spectral Tuning of Insert-Cys Subfamily Cyanobacteriochromes
2017 / Food Chemistry
The hunt for anti-browning agents in the food and agricultural industries aims to minimize nutritional loss and prolong post harvest… Continue reading Unraveling the inhibition mechanism of cyanidin-3-sophoroside on polyphenol oxidase and its effect on enzymatic browning of apples
2017 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Recently, we had published that urea-induced denaturation curves of optical properties of sheep serum albumin (SSA) are biphasic with a… Continue reading Effect of mammalian kidney osmolytes on the folding pathway of sheep serum albumin
2017 / Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Effect of gold nanoclusters (Au-NCs) on the circular dichroism (CD) spectra and enzymatic activity of α-chymotrypsin (ChT) (towards hydrolysis of… Continue reading Enzyme activity of α-chymotrypsin: Deactivation by gold nano-cluster and reactivation by glutathione
2017 / Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
New series of water soluble Schiff base complexes by conjugating the lipophilic triphenylphosphonium cation to aromatic moiety of Schiff base… Continue reading Substitution of PPh3+ as a lipophilic cation on new water-soluble Co(II) and Zn(II) Schiff base complexes: effect of central metal and substitutional group of ligand on DNA-complex interaction
2017 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
The purpose of this study was to determine how lomefloxacin (LMF) interacts with human holo-transferrin (HTF) in the presence of… Continue reading Study on effect of lomefloxacin on human holo-transferrin in the presence of essential and nonessential amino acids: Spectroscopic and molecular modeling approaches
2017 / Journal of Immunological Methods
Immunoassay formats, in which antibodies provide sensitivity and specificity, are often utilized to provide rapid and simple diagnostic tests. Surface… Continue reading Label free checkerboard assay to determine overlapping epitopes of Ebola virus VP-40 antibodies using surface plasmon resonance
2017 / Journal of Molecular Liquids
Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) is a food additive and used as an antioxidant in food products. BHT also concerning several health… Continue reading Exploring the mode of binding between food additive “butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)” and human serum albumin: Spectroscopic as well as molecular docking study
2017 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Fibronectin (FN) is a multifunctional glycoprotein of the extracellular matrix (ECM) playing critical roles in physiological and pathological cell processes… Continue reading Amyloid-like aggregates formation by blood plasma fibronectin
2017 / International Journal of Medical Microbiology
Tuberculosis, one of the leading cause of death from infectious diseases, is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The genome of M. tuberculosis has been… Continue reading Rv0774c, an iron stress inducible, extracellular esterase is involved in immune-suppression associated with altered cytokine and TLR2 expression
2017 / Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
The reduction and binding of copper ions to the Cys/Trp motif, which is characterized by two cysteines and two tryptophans,… Continue reading Comparison of extracellular Cys/Trp motif between Schizosaccharomyces pombe Ctr4 and Ctr5
2017 / Phytochemistry
Eleven highly halogenated chamigrane sesquiterpenoids, compositacins A–K, including one unusual rearranged chamigrane sesquiterpenoid, compositacin A, were isolated from the red… Continue reading Compositacins A–K: Bioactive chamigrane-type halosesquiterpenoids from the red alga Laurencia composita Yamada
2017 / Tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), tuberculosis (TB) causing bacteria, employs several mechanisms to maintain iron homeostasis which is critical for its survival and… Continue reading Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv1474c is a TetR-like transcriptional repressor that regulates aconitase, an essential enzyme and RNA-binding protein, in an iron-responsive manner
2017 / Cellular Signalling
Src homology 3 or SH3 domains constitute one of the most common protein domains in signal transduction, generally characterized by… Continue reading The SH3 domain of Caskin1 binds to lysophosphatidic acid suggesting a direct role for the lipid in intracellular signaling
2017 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Interaction of pharmacological important phenolic, ferulic acid, with Aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) at the simulative pH condition, was studied using spectroscopic… Continue reading Spectroscopic Characterisation of Interaction of Ferulic acid with Aldehyde Dehydrogenase (ALDH)
2017 / Developmental & Comparative Immunology
Alligator mississippiensis (American alligator), a member of order Crocodilia, lives in bacteria-laden environments but is not often known to succumb to… Continue reading Cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide from Alligator mississippiensis has antibacterial activity against multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumanii and Klebsiella pneumoniae
2017 / Biophysical Journal
GsMTx4 is a spider venom peptide that inhibits cationic mechanosensitive channels (MSCs). It has six lysine residues that have been… Continue reading GsMTx4: Mechanism of Inhibiting Mechanosensitive Ion Channels
2017 / Phytochemistry Letters
Two new benzoyl glucuronosyl glycerols, (2R)-1-O-4-hydroxy-benzoyl-3-O-α-d-glucuronosyl glycerol (1) and (2S)-1-O-4-hydroxy-3-methoxy-benzoyl-3-O-α-d-glucuronosyl glycerol (2), together with helicioside (3), quercetin-6-C-β-d-glucopyranoside (4), apigenin-8-C-β-d-glucopyranosyl-2″-O-L-rhamnopyranoside (5),… Continue reading Two new benzoyl glucuronosyl glycerols from the leaves of Garcinia buchananii Baker
2017 / Acta Biomaterialia
Self-assembling (SAPs) and co-assembling peptides (CAPs) are driving increasing enthusiasm as synthetic but biologically inspired biomaterials amenable of easy functionalization… Continue reading Fabrication of nanofibrous electrospun scaffolds from a heterogeneous library of co- and self-assembling peptides
2017 / Chemistry and Physics of Lipids
HIV-1, like other enveloped viruses, undergoes fusion with the cell membrane to infect it. Viral coat proteins are thought to… Continue reading Changes in lipid bilayer structure caused by the helix-to-sheet transition of an HIV-1 gp41 fusion peptide derivative ☆
