2019 / Analytical Chemistry
Developing biosensors for Pb2+ is an important analytical topic. DNA-based Pb2+ sensors have been designed mainly based on RNA-cleaving DNAzymes and Pb2+-induced… Continue reading Efficient DNA-Catalyzed Porphyrin Metalation for Fluorescent Ratiometric Pb2+ Detection
2019 / Advanced Functional Materials
The purple membrane (PM) isolated from the bacteria Halobacterium salinarum (H. salinarum) arranges the transmembrane proton pump bacteriorhodopsin (bR) in a 2D… Continue reading Energy Transfer Induced by Dye Encapsulation in a Hybrid Nanoparticle‐Purple Membrane Reversible Assembly
2019 / Langmuir
Understanding the self-assembly process of amyloidogenic protein is valuable not only to find its pathological implication but also to prepare… Continue reading Alternative Assembly of α-Synuclein Leading to Protein Film Formation and Its Application for Developing Polydiacetylene-Based Sensing Materials
2019 / European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
It is well recognized that the non-canonical DNA structures known as G-quadruplexes (G4s) have a potential anticancer significance and several… Continue reading Targeting multiple G-quadruplex–forming DNA sequences: Design, biophysical and biological evaluations of indolo-naphthyridine scaffold derivatives
2019 / New Journal of Chemistry
We highlight the power of electronic circular dichroism imaging (CDi), a technique developed at Diamond Light Source B23 beamline for… Continue reading Electronic circular dichroism imaging (CDi) maps local aggregation modes in thin films of chiral oligothiophenes
2019 / Journal of Natural Products
Two cysteine residue containing merocytochalasans (cyschalasins A and B, 1 and 2) and two 17,18-seco-aspochalasins (secochalasins A and B, 3 and 4) were isolated from the… Continue reading Cysteine Residue Containing Merocytochalasans and 17,18-seco-Aspochalasins from Aspergillus micronesiensis
2019 / Protein Expression and Purification
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disease marked by the accumulation and deposition of misfolded amyloid beta or Abeta… Continue reading Preparation and characterization of a highly soluble Aβ1-42 peptide variant
2020 / Food Control
Staphylococcal food poisoning – caused by certain enterotoxigenic staphylococci – is one of the most common worldwide foodborne diseases. In… Continue reading Rapid biofilm eradication of the antimicrobial peptide 1018-K6 against Staphylococcus aureus: A new potential tool to fight bacterial biofilms
2019 / Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
Hematopoietic-substrate-1 associated protein X-1 (HAX-1) is a 279 amino acid protein expressed ubiquitously. In cardiac muscle, HAX-1 was found to… Continue reading Intrinsically disordered HAX-1 regulates Ca2+ cycling by interacting with lipid membranes and the phospholamban cytoplasmic region☆
2019 / Nature Communications
The natural DNA double helix consists of two strands of nucleotides that are held together by multiple hydrogen bonds. Here… Continue reading Single-handed supramolecular double helix of homochiral bis(N-amidothiourea) supported by double crossed C−I···S halogen bonds
2019 / New Journal of Chemistry
Inspired by the knowledge that a nonchiral metal nanocrystal could be bestowed with chirality when the metal nanocrystal and the… Continue reading A universal strategy to obtain chiroptical carbon quantum dots through the optically active surface passivation procedure
2019 / Phytochemistry Letters
Four new sesquiterpenes, pterocaullins A−D (1−4), along with ten known compounds were isolated from the whole plants of Inula pterocaula. Structures… Continue reading Pterocaullins A−D, four sesquiterpene lactones from Inula pterocaula
2019 / Materials Science & Engineering: C
Development of biomedical materials for proper collagen deposition is of great importance to accelerate wound healing and thus achieving skin… Continue reading Bio-functional G-molecular hydrogels for accelerated wound healing
2019 / Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Long distance electron transfer (ET) between small ligands and DNA is a much studied phenomenon and is principally believed to… Continue reading Polyethylene glycols affect electron transfer rate in phenosafranin-DNA complex
2019 / Nature Communications
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are essential protein cofactors whose biosynthetic defects lead to severe diseases among which is Friedreich’s ataxia caused… Continue reading Physiologically relevant reconstitution of iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis uncovers persulfide-processing functions of ferredoxin-2 and frataxin
2019 / Nature Communications
The molecular chaperone Hsp90 is an important regulator of proteostasis. It has remained unclear why S. cerevisiae possesses two Hsp90 isoforms, the… Continue reading The Hsp90 isoforms from S. cerevisiae differ in structure, function and client range
2019 / Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces
Staphylococcus aureus is an important opportunistic pathogen that causes a broad range of infections due to the bacteria capacity to… Continue reading A simple surface biofunctionalization strategy to inhibit the biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus on solid substrates
2020 / Biochemistry
SET and MYND domain-containing protein 3 (SMYD3) is a lysine methyltransferase that plays a central role in a variety of… Continue reading Unveiling the Biochemistry of the Epigenetic Regulator SMYD3
2019 / Chirality
We report the hierarchical supramolecular organization of metallosupramolecular homochiral complexes 1‐Λ‐(S,S,S,S)‐M2+/1‐∆‐(R,R,R,R)‐M2+ and 2‐ Λ‐(S,S,S,S)‐M2+/2‐∆‐ (R,R,R,R)‐M2+ of M2+ = Co2+, Fe2+, Zn2+ metal ions with chiral pseudo‐terpyridine‐type… Continue reading Chiral superstructures from homochiral Zn2+, Co2+, Fe2+‐2,6‐bis (aryl ethylimine)pyridine complexes
2019 / Polyhedron
Four new homodinuclear lanthanoid(III) dithiocarbamato (RR′dtc−) complexes bridged by 2,2′-bipyrimidine (bpm) of the form [{Ln(RR′dtc)3}2(µ-bpm)] {Ln = Nd or Eu; RR′ = dimethyl- (Me2) or… Continue reading Homodinuclear lanthanoid(III) dithiocarbamato complexes bridged by 2,2′-bipyrimidine: Syntheses, structures and spectroscopic properties
