2020 / Food Hydrocolloids
Edible insects are a promising source of high-quality proteins and their use to produce protein-rich ingredients for formulated foods has… Continue reading How does the thermal-aggregation behavior of black cricket protein isolate affect its foaming and gelling properties?
2020 / International Journal of Pharmaceutics
The effect of the GlycoPEGylation process used for prolonging the half-life of recombinant factor IX (rFIX) has no impact on… Continue reading Characterisation of recombinant factor IX before and after GlycoPEGylation
2020 / Phytochemistry Letters
The chemical constituents of Gentiana macrophylla Pall. under acidic condition were explored using gentiopicroside-rich secoiridoids extract treated with hydrochloric acid. 2 new… Continue reading The chemical constituents of Gentiana macrophylla pall. under acidic condition using gentiopicroside-rich secoiridoids extract
2020 / Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Glutathione peroxidases (Gpxs) play vital roles in elimination of hydroperoxide and other reactive oxygen species through catalyzing reduced glutathione to… Continue reading In vivo and in vitro studies on inactivation of selenium containing protein- glutathione peroxidase 3 in mice nephrocytes caused by lead
2020 / Acta Biomaterialia
Atopic dermatitis (AD), a common, relapsing, inflammatory disorder of the skin, is associated with T helper type 2 (Th2)-biased immune… Continue reading Poly-γ-Glutamate Microneedles as Transdermal Immunomodulators for Ameliorating Atopic Dermatitis-Like Skin Lesions in Nc/Nga mice
2020 / ACS Nano
We probe the origin of photoluminescence of an atomically precise noble metal cluster, Ag24Au1(DMBT)18, (DMBT = 2,4-dimethylbenzenethiolate) and the origin… Continue reading Chiral Functionalization of an Atomically Precise Noble Metal Cluster: Insights into the Origin of Chirality and Photoluminescence
2020 / Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
Antibiotic residue in food products has aroused considerable public concerns all over the world. It is of great significance to… Continue reading An efficient approach for rapid detection of polymyxins B based on the optically active supramolecular aggregates of water-soluble perylene diimide
2020 / molecular pharmaceutics
The effects of peptide secondary structure on the rate and extent of deuterium incorporation in solid-state hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry… Continue reading Effects of Secondary Structure on Solid-State Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange in Model α-Helix and β-Sheet Peptides
2020 / Acta Biomaterialia
Brachytherapy is considered to be an unparalleled form of conformal radiation therapy, which involves the delivery of radiation directly to… Continue reading Development of Injectable Thermosensitive Polypeptide Hydrogel as Facile Radioisotope and Radiosensitizer Hotspot for Synergistic Brachytherapy
2020 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
The effects of lecithin addition at different concentrations (0–2.0%) on the physicochemical and emulsifying properties of mussel water-soluble proteins (MWP)… Continue reading Physicochemical and emulsifying properties of mussel water-soluble proteins as affected by lecithin concentration
2020 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Disulfide bonds prevent aggregation of globular proteins by stabilizing the native state. However, a disulfide bond within a disordered state… Continue reading Reduction of a disulfide-constrained oligo-glutamate peptide triggers self-assembly of β2-type amyloid fibrils with the chiroptical properties determined by supramolecular chirality
2020 / biomolecules
The coordination of zinc ions by histidine residues of amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ) plays a critical role in the zinc-induced Aβ… Continue reading The English (H6R) Mutation of the Alzheimer’s Disease Amyloid-β Peptide Modulates Its Zinc-Induced Aggregation
2020 / small
Nanoscale protein materials are highly convenient as vehicles for targeted drug delivery because of their structural and functional versatility. Selective… Continue reading Engineering Protein Nanoparticles Out from Components of the Human Microbiome
2020 / RSC Chemical Biology
The allosteric O2 release of haemoglobin (Hb) allows for efficient O2 delivery from the lungs to the tissues. However, allostery is weakened… Continue reading Haemoglobin(βK120C)–albumin trimer as an artificial O2 carrier with sufficient haemoglobin allostery
2020 / Nature Materials
The diversity of DNA duplex structures is limited by a binary pair of hydrogen-bonded motifs. Here we show that poly(thymine)… Continue reading A poly(thymine)–melamine duplex for the assembly of DNA nanomaterials
2020 / Materials Advances
Fluorescent, pH dependent and water soluble copper nanoclusters (CuNCs) were synthesized using lysozyme (lyz) as the stabilizing agent to give… Continue reading Lysozyme coated copper nanoclusters for green fluorescence and their utility in cell imaging
2020 / Journal of Polymer Research
In this work, a kind of chiral helical polymer PDTDH of 9,9-dipropynylfluorene skeleton structure were prepared. The structure and chiral… Continue reading Chiral PDTDH-based electrode modification material for L/D-tartaric acid electrochemical sensing
2020 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Moderately halophilic bacterium, Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM3043, has a gene Csal_2537 encoding thermolysin-like M4 proteinase. This gene was cloned to pET expression vectors,… Continue reading Salt-enhanced processing, proteolytic activity and stability of halophilic thermolysin-like proteinase, salilysin, isolated from a moderate halophile, Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM3043
2020 / Molecular Systems Design & Engineering
Elastin-like polypeptides (ELP) have been widely used in the biomaterials community due to their controllable, thermoresponsive properties and biocompatibility. Motivated… Continue reading Placement of tyrosine residues as a design element for tuning the phase transition of elastin-peptide-containing conjugates: experiments and simulations
2020 / Scientific Reports
A simple approach to synthesize new highly substituted 4H-pyran derivatives is described. Efficient Et3N acts as a readily accessible catalyst… Continue reading Ultrasound-assisted multicomponent synthesis of 4H-pyrans in water and DNA binding studies
