2016 / Dalton Transactions
Selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) have attracted great attention because of their superior optical properties and wide utilization in biological and biomedical… Continue reading hsDNA groove binding, photocatalytic activity, and in vitro breast and colon cancer cell reducing function of greener SeNPs
2016 / Tetrahedron
2,2′-Bipyridines having two lactoside- or maltoside-appendages were prepared and then, complexed with ferrous ion to afford the corresponding tris-bipyridine ferrous… Continue reading Hexavalent glycoclusters having tris-bipyridine ferrous complex cores as minimum combinatorial libraries for probing carbohydrate–carbohydrate interactions
2016 / Langmuir
Peptide hydrogels with high stability in different media are of great interest in biomedical applications. In this paper, we report… Continue reading Extremely Stable Supramolecular Hydrogels Assembled from Nonionic Peptide Amphiphiles
2016 / Scientific Reports
In this paper, we report a novel surface-tethered DNA nanodevice that may present three states and undergo conformational changes under… Continue reading Controllable Molecule Transport and Release by a Restorable Surface-tethered DNA nanodevice
2016 / PLoS ONE
NOX5 protein, one of the most active generators of reactive oxygen species (ROS), plays an important role in many processes,… Continue reading Oxidation of Са2+-Binding Domain of NADPH Oxidase 5 (NOX5): Toward Understanding the Mechanism of Inactivation of NOX5 by ROS
2016 / Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology
Butachlor is an effective herbicide to deal with undesired weeds selectively and is used at high levels in Asian countries.… Continue reading Comprehensive spectroscopic probing the interaction and conformation impairment of bovine serum albumin (BSA) by herbicide butachlor
2016 / Scientific Reports
Exploiting carbonic anhydrase (CA), an enzyme that rapidly catalyzes carbon dioxide hydration, is an attractive biomimetic route for carbon sequestration… Continue reading Engineering de novo disulfide bond in bacterial α-type carbonic anhydrase for thermostable carbon sequestration
2017 / Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
The imbalance of the calcium homeostasis in the lenticular tissues of diabetic patients is an important risk factor for development… Continue reading The structural alteration and aggregation propensity of glycated lens crystallins in the presence of calcium: Importance of lens calcium homeostasis in development of diabetic cataracts
2016 / Natural Product Research
A new dihydroisocoumarin (1) and a new coumarin (2), along with eight known metabolites (3–10), were isolated from the solid… Continue reading Anti-neuroinflammatory constituents from the fungus Penicillium purpurogenum MHZ 111
2016 / Polymer
Collagen mimetic polypeptides (CMPs) pendanted with linear or dendritic oligoethylene glycols (OEG) via ether linkage were synthesized, and their thermoresponsiveness,… Continue reading OEGylated collagen mimetic polypeptides with enhanced supramolecular assembly
2016 / Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
The present study details the binding process of clofazimine to hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) using spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering… Continue reading Biophysical insights into the interaction of hen egg white lysozyme with therapeutic dye clofazimine: modulation of activity and SDS induced aggregation of model protein
2016 / The Journal of Biological Chemistry
All-trans-retinoic acid may be an important molecular signal in the postnatal control of eye size. The goal of this study… Continue reading Identification of Apolipoprotein A-1 as a Retinoic Acid Binding Protein in the Eye
2016 / A European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemisty
The circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectrum of thioflavin T (ThT) bound to insulin amyloid fibrils has been measured for the first… Continue reading Thioflavin T: Electronic Circular Dichroism and Circularly Polarized Luminescence Induced by Amyloid Fibrils
2016 / Molecules
Arahypin-16 (1), a new prenylated resveratrol with a unique dihydrobenzofuran ring, has been isolated as a microbial metabolite of resveratrol… Continue reading Biotransformation of Resveratrol: New Prenylated trans-Resveratrol Synthesized by Aspergillus sp. SCSIOW2
2016 / Langmuir
Supramolecular self-assembly and the resulting chiral transfer from the molecular level to the nanoscale is a major topic in modern… Continue reading Supramolecular Chirality: Vesicle-to-Chiral Helix Transition of the Micelles Consisting of a Sugar-Bearing Calix[4]arene Surfactant
2016 / Nature Communications
PDZ domain-containing proteins work as intracellular scaffolds to control spatio-temporal aspects of cell signalling. This function is supported by the… Continue reading Frizzled 7 and PIP2 binding by syntenin PDZ2 domain supports Frizzled 7 trafficking and signalling
2016 / Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
There is nowadays an urgent need for developing novel generations of antibiotic agents due to the increased resistance of pathogenic… Continue reading Structure elucidation of anti-methicillin resistantStaphylococcus aureus (MRSA) flavonoids from balsam poplar buds
2016 / Scientific Reports
Gene therapy has long been limited in the clinic, due in part to the lack of safety and efficacy of… Continue reading Self-assembly of c-myc DNA promoted by a single enantiomer ruthenium complex as a potential nuclear targeting gene carrier
2016 / Biomacromolecules
Spider silks are outstanding biomaterials with mechanical properties that outperform synthetic materials. Of the six fibrillar spider silks, aciniform (or… Continue reading Identification of Wet-Spinning and Post-Spin Stretching Methods Amenable to Recombinant Spider Aciniform Silk
2016 / Chemistry A European Journal
: Nine formyl-phloroglucinolmeroterpenoids (FPMs), namely, eucalrobusones A–I (1–9), were isolated from the leaves of Eucalyptus robusta by tracking the phenolic… Continue reading 1H NMR-Guided Isolation of Formyl-Phloroglucinol Meroterpenoids from the Leaves of Eucalyptus robusta
