2020 / Scientific Reports
The properties of cytosine- and guanine-rich oligonucleotides contributed to employing them as sensing elements in various biosensors. In this paper,… Continue reading Development of fluorescence oligonucleotide probes based on cytosine- and guanine-rich sequences
2020 / Scientific Reports
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising alternatives to classical antibiotics for the treatment of drug-resistant infections. Due to their versatility and… Continue reading A novel, rationally designed, hybrid antimicrobial peptide, inspired by cathelicidin and aurein, exhibits membrane-active mechanisms against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
2020 / Nature Communications
Biological membranes play pivotal roles in the cellular activities. Transmembrane proteins are the central molecules that conduct membrane-mediated biochemical functions… Continue reading A synthetic ion channel with anisotropic ligand response
2020 / Nature Communications
The discovery of atomically precise nanoclusters is generally unpredictable, and the rational synthesis of nanoclusters guided by the theoretical design… Continue reading De novo design of Au36(SR)24 nanoclusters
2020 / Scientific Reports
Antimicrobial peptides have attracted attention as alternatives to conventional antibiotics. Previously, a novel antimicrobial peptide, melectin, consisting of 18 amino… Continue reading Bee venom-derived antimicrobial peptide melectin has broad-spectrum potency, cell selectivity, and salt-resistant properties
2020 / Scientific Reports
Stromal interaction molecule−1 and −2 (STIM1/2) are endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane-inserted calcium (Ca2+) sensing proteins that, together with Orai1-composed Ca2+ channels… Continue reading Synergistic stabilization by nitrosoglutathione-induced thiol modifications in the stromal interaction molecule-2 luminal domain suppresses basal and store operated calcium entry
2020 / Nature Communications
Light-dependent or light-stimulated catalysis provides a multitude of perspectives for implementation in technological or biomedical applications. Despite substantial progress made… Continue reading Photoinduced monooxygenation involving NAD(P)H-FAD sequential single-electron transfer
2020 / JACS
The effect of chemical-composition modification on the chiroptical property of chiral organic ammonium cation-containing organic inorganic hybrid perovskite (chiral OIHP)… Continue reading Chiral 2D Organic Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite with Circular Dichroism Tunable Over Wide Wavelength Range
2020 / Bulletin of Materials Science
Peptide-amphiphile (PA)-based supramolecular thixotropic hydrogels are useful in medical sciences due to multiple advantageous features along with its biocompatibility and… Continue reading pH and secondary structure instructed aggregation to a thixotropic hydrogel by a peptide amphiphile
2020 / Phytochemistry
The chemical formation of terpenes in nature is carried out by terpene synthases as the main biocatalysts to guide the… Continue reading Site-directed mutagenesis of β sesquiphellandrene synthase enhances enzyme promiscuity
2020 / Biochemistry
The second messenger bis(3′,5′)-cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) regulates numerous important physiological functions in bacteria. In this study, we identified… Continue reading Identification and Characterization of a Redox Sensor Phosphodiesterase from Ferrovum sp. PN-J185 Containing Bacterial Hemerythrin and HD-GYP Domains
2020 / Nature Communications
Bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes (Bio-HLEDs) based on color down-converting filters with fluorescent proteins (FPs) have achieved moderate efficiencies (50 lm/W) and… Continue reading Long-living and highly efficient bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes with zero-thermal-quenching biophosphors
2020 / Scientific Reports
The relationship of i-motif DNAs with cancer has prompted the development of specific ligands to detect and regulate their formation.… Continue reading Preferential targeting cancer-related i-motif DNAs by the plant flavonol fisetin for theranostics applications
2020 / Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
The LAH4 family of amphipathic peptides exhibits pronounced antimicrobial, cell penetrating and nucleic acid transfection activities. Furthermore, variants were designed… Continue reading Membrane pore-formation correlates with the hydrophilic angle of histidine-rich amphipathic peptides with multiple biological activities
2020 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
β-Glucosidases (BGL) are key members of the cellulase enzyme complex that determine efficiency of lignocellulosic biomass degradation, which have shown… Continue reading Tyr320 is a molecular determinant of the catalytic activity of β-glucosidase from Neosartorya fischeri
2020 / Langmuir
The development of a strategy for the assembly of nanoscale building blocks, in particular, anisotropic nanoparticles, into desired structures is… Continue reading Strategy for Finely Aligned Gold Nanorod Arrays Using Polymer Brushes as a Template
2020 / Food Research International
The effect of heat and equivalent thermal effect () on discolouration of Spirulina algae extracts in water, sucrose and trehalose… Continue reading Role of saccharides on thermal stability of phycocyanin in aqueous solutions
2020 / The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Insulin, which is a small protein hormone consisting of 51 amino acids, rapidly fibrillates under stressogenic conditions. This biotechnological/medical problematic… Continue reading Mechanistic Assessment of Functionalized Mesoporous Silica-Mediated Insulin Fibrillation
2014 / Chemical Communications
The fluorescent modes and signs of the circularly polarized luminescence of an axially chiral binaphthyl–pyrene organic fluorophore were successfully controlled… Continue reading Nonclassical dual control of circularly polarized luminescence modes of binaphthyl–pyrene organic fluorophores in fluidic and glassy media†
2019 / RSC Advances
Solid-state organic fluorescent materials are important for the development of electroluminescent sensing devices. Herein, we report that N,N′-bis((R)-1-phenylethyl)perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide [(R,R)-BPP] and… Continue reading Solid-state AIEnh-circularly polarized luminescence of chiral perylene diimide fluorophores
