2016 / RSC Advances
Polyflavanostilbene B (1), an unusual adduct of epicatechin-3-O-gallate fused to piceid through a carbon–carbon bond, four new dimeric stilbene glycosides… Continue reading A novel adduct of ECG fused to piceid and four new dimeric stilbene glycosides from Polygonum cuspidatum
2016 / Biomaterials Science & Engineering
Low expressions of angiogenic growth factors delay the healing of diabetic wounds by interfering with the process of blood vessel… Continue reading Angiogenic Peptide Nanofibers Improve Wound Healing in STZ-Induced Diabetic Rats
2016 / Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology
Cobalt(III) complexes (1–3) such as [Co(acac)(bpy)(N3)2·H2O] 1, [Co(acac)(en)(N3)2] 2, and [Co(acac)(2-pic)(N3)2] 3 (where, acac = acetylacetone, bpy = 2.2′-bipyridine, en = ethylenediamine, 2-pic = 2-picolylamine and NaN3 = sodium azide) were synthesized and characterized.… Continue reading Cobalt(III) complexes as potential anticancer agents: Physicochemical, structural, cytotoxic activity and DNA/protein interactions
2016 / Scientific Reports
Bioengineered spider silks are a biomaterial with great potential for applications in biomedicine. They are biocompatible,biodegradable and can self-assemble into… Continue reading The method of purifying bioengineered spider silk determines the silk sphere properties
2016 / Food Chemistry
Ara h 2 was purified from peanuts that were thermally treated by various processes, including boiling, glycation, frying and roasting.… Continue reading Thermal processing effects on peanut allergen Ara h 2 allergenicity in mice and its antigenic epitope structure
2016 / Journal of Controlled Release
Peptide based vaccine that incorporates one or several highly conserved CD8+ T cells epitopes to induce potent cytotoxic T lymphocyte… Continue reading Self-assembling peptide for co-delivery of HIV-1 CD8+ T cells epitope and Toll-like receptor 7/8 agonists R848 to induce maturation of monocyte derived dendritic cell and augment polyfunctional cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response
2016 / Food and Bioprocess Technology
High-pressure carbon dioxide (HPCD) is widely used in the food industry, but some scientific issue is still unclear, especially the… Continue reading The Effect of High-Pressure Carbon Dioxide on the Skeletal Muscle Myoglobin
2016 / RSC Advances
To identify the structural and functional roles of Glu9 located at the first loop of sweet-tasting brazzein, two different mutants (E9K… Continue reading The effect of charge alteration and flexibility on the function and structural stability of sweet-tasting brazzein
2016 / Scientific Reports
Conventional conjugated systems are characteristic of only either inherent or induced chirality because of synthetic challenge in combination of chiral… Continue reading Integration of inherent and induced chirality into subphthalocyanine analogue
2016 / Scientific Reports
The decellularized cornea has received considerable attention for use as an artificial cornea. The decellularized cornea is free from cellular… Continue reading Ultrastructural analysis of the decellularized cornea after interlamellar keratoplasty and microkeratome-assisted anterior lamellar keratoplasty in a rabbit model
2016 / Journal of Controlled Release
Developing novel nanotheranostic agent using only clinically approved materials is highly desirable and challenging. In this study, we combined three… Continue reading Prussian blue/serum albumin/indocyanine green as a multifunctional nanotheranostic agent for bimodal imaging guided laser mediated combinatorial phototherapy
2016 / Biophysical Chemistry
We report the changes in the hydration dynamics around a model protein hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) in water–dimethyl sulfoxide… Continue reading Preferential solvation of lysozyme in dimethyl sulfoxide/water binary mixture probed by terahertz spectroscopy
2016 / FEBS Letters
The consequences of crowding derived from relatively small and intrinsically disordered proteins are not clear yet. We report the effect… Continue reading Crowding interactions perturb structure and stability by destabilizing the stable core of the α-subunit of tryptophan synthase
2016 / Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics
The presence of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites is a major pathological hallmark of Parkinson’s disease and is hypothesized to… Continue reading Mechanistic study of the inhibitory activity of Geum urbanumextract against α-Synuclein fibrillation
2016 / Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
The synthesis of nanoparticles of conjugates of caffeic acid-modified chitosan with ruthenium arene complexes is described. The chemical structure and… Continue reading Nanoparticles of chitosan conjugated to organo-ruthenium complexes
2016 / Materials Science and Engineering: C
Development of an oral delivery strategy for insulin therapeutics has drawn much attention in recent years. In this study, a… Continue reading A composite hydrogel system containing glucose-responsive nanocarriers for oral delivery of insulin
2016 / FEBS Letters
Versions of a previously discovered β-hairpin peptide inhibitor of IAPP aggregation that are stabilized in that conformation, or even forced… Continue reading Peptide Inhibitors of the amyloidogenesis of IAPP: verification of the hairpin-binding geometry hypothesis
2016 / Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry
Peptide–polymer conjugates are versatile class of biomaterials composed of a peptide block covalently linked with a synthetic polymer block. This… Continue reading Peptide-poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) conjugate into composite micelles in organic solvents versuspeptide-poly(methacrylic acid) conjugate into spherical and worm-like micelles in water: Synthesis and self-assembly
2016 / Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
In this study, we proposed a loop transplant strategy to improve the thermostability of Penicillium purpurogenum Li-3 β-glucuronidase expressed in Escherichia coli (abbreviated to… Continue reading Engineering the thermostability of β-glucuronidase from Penicillium purpurogenum Li-3 by loop transplant
2016 / Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Fungal GH12 enzymes are classified as xyloglucanases when they specifically target xyloglucans, or promiscuous endoglucanases when they exhibit catalytic activity… Continue reading Molecular basis of substrate recognition and specificity revealed in family 12 glycoside hydrolases
