2016 / Chemistry A European Journal
Racemic mixtures of aminomethylenehelicene (P)- and (M)-pentamers exhibited deterministic and stochastic chiral symmetry breaking during hetero-double-helix formation and self-assembly in… Continue reading Deterministic and Stochastic Chiral Symmetry Breaking Exhibited by Racemic Aminomethylenehelicene Oligomers
2016 / Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology
The screening and characterization of cancer cells has been challenging due to sample insufficiency and extravagant. In this article, we… Continue reading Green synthesis of anticancerous honeycomb PtNPs clusters: Their alteration effect on BSA and HsDNA using fluorescence probe
2016 / Biochemical Journal
cAMP‐dependent protein kinase (PKA) is an archetypal biological signaling module and a model for understanding the regulation of protein kinases.… Continue reading cAMP‐dependent protein kinase (PKA) complexes probed by complementary Differential Scanning Fluorimetry and Ion Mobility‐Mass Spectrometry
2016 / Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
In this study, lafutidine (LAF) was used as a model compound to investigate the binding mechanism between antiulcer drugs and… Continue reading Interaction of lafutidine in binding to human serum albumin in gastric ulcer therapy: STD-NMR, WaterLOGSY-NMR, NMR relaxation times, Tr-NOESY, molecule docking, and spectroscopic studies
2016 / Cell Chemical Biology
Energy coupling factor (ECF) transporters are responsible for the uptake of essential scarce nutrients in prokaryotes. This ATP-binding cassette transporter… Continue reading Crystal Structure of a Group I Energy Coupling Factor Vitamin Transporter S Component in Complex with Its Cognate Substrate
2016 / Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications
Zinc finger proteins are associated with hereditary diseases and cancers. To obtain an adequate amount of zinc finger proteins for… Continue reading Effect of His-Tag on Expression, Purification, and Structure of Zinc Finger Protein, ZNF191(243-368)
2016 / European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
We investigated the influence of pH and sodium choride concentration on aggregation kinetics of a monoclonal antibody. Aggregation was induced… Continue reading Reversible NaCl-Induced Aggregation of a Monoclonal Antibody at low pH: Characterization of Aggregates and Factors Affecting Aggregation
2016 / Journal of Peptide Science
A,D-substituted cyclodextrin (CDX) substituted on their primary rim side are ideal scaffolds for the macromolecular assembly and formation of templated… Continue reading On the synthesis of cyclodextrin–peptide conjugates by the Huisgen reaction
2016 / Phytochemistry Letters
A new lignan glycoside, 1-[3,6-(4,4′-dihydroxy-3,3′-dimethoxy-δ-truxinyl)-β-fructofuranosyl]-α-glucopyranoside (1), named coixlachryside A, together with nine known simple phenolic compounds (3–11) were isolated from… Continue reading Coixlachryside A: A new lignan glycoside from the roots of Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf.
2016 / Biophysical Chemistry
This report focuses on the molecular-level processes and thermodynamics of unfolding of a series of helical peptides using a coarse-grained… Continue reading Predicting unfolding thermodynamics and stable intermediates for alanine-rich helical peptides with the aid of coarse-grained molecular simulation
2016 / Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Ca2 + affinity of cardiac troponin C (cTnC) from rainbow trout is significantly greater than that of cTnC from mammalian species.… Continue reading A functional comparison of cardiac troponin C from representatives of three vertebrate taxa: Linking phylogeny and protein function
2016 / PNAS
Intracellular α-synuclein deposits, known as Lewy bodies, have been linked to a range of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease. α-Synuclein… Continue reading Chemical properties of lipids strongly affect the kinetics of the membrane-induced aggregation of α-synuclein
2016 / RSC Advances
The interactions between nanoparticles and proteins have prime importance in nanomedicine and nanotoxicology. L-Cysteine capped copper sulfide (Cy-CuS) nanoparticles having average… Continue reading Exploring the interaction of L-cysteine capped CuS nanoparticles with bovine serum albumin (BSA): a spectroscopic study
2016 / Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis
Interaction between bovine serum albumin (BSA) and phosphorus heterocycles (PHs) was studied using multi-spectroscopic techniques. The results indicated the high… Continue reading Binding interaction of phosphorus heterocycles with bovine serum albumin: A biochemical study
2016 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Reactive oxygen species, the byproducts of oxygenases reaction, when in excess, promote degenerative diseases like cardiovascular, cancer and arthritis. Sesame… Continue reading Inhibition of lipoxygenase by sesamol corroborates its potential anti-inflammatory activity
2016 / RSC Advances
Five new phthalide derivatives, chuanxiongnolides L1–L5 (1–5), together with three known phthalide dimers (6–8), were isolated from the rhizomes of Ligusticum… Continue reading Novel phthalide derivatives from the rhizomes of Ligusticum chuanxiong and their inhibitory effect against lipopolysaccharide-induced nitric oxide production in RAW 264.7 macrophage cells
2016 / Scientific Reports
Clavanins is a class of peptides (23aa) histidine-rich, free of post-translational modifications. Clavanins have been studied largely for their ability… Continue reading Structural Studies of a Lipid-Binding Peptide from Tunicate Hemocytes with Anti-Biofilm Activity
2016 / Nucleic Acids Research
The long terminal repeat (LTR) of the proviral human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 genome is integral to virus transcription and host… Continue reading Structure and possible function of a G-quadruplex in the long terminal repeat of the proviral HIV-1 genome
2016 / Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology
The use of nanoparticles in food or pharma requires a molecular-level perceptive of how NPs interact with protein corona once… Continue reading A spectroscopic study on interaction between bovine serum albumin and titanium dioxide nanoparticle synthesized from microwave-assisted hybrid chemical approach
2016 / Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Poly(vinylamine-co-N-vinylisobutylamide) or poly(VAm-co-NVIBA) was evaluated for its ability to stabilize double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) with the controlled formation or dissociation of… Continue reading Controlled DNA interpolyelectrolyte complex formation or dissociation via stimuli-responsive poly(vinylamine-co-N-vinylisobutylamide)
