2019 / ACS Nano
Overexpression and activation of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is associated with multiple diseases and can serve as a stimulus to activate… Continue reading Customizing Morphology, Size, and Response Kinetics of Matrix Metalloproteinase-Responsive Nanostructures by Systematic Peptide Design
2019 / Inorganic Chemistry
Two proton-conductive and phosphorescent porous coordination polymers, La3-[H5.5RuP]2 and Pr3-[H5.5RuP]2 (H12RuP = [Ru(H4dpbpy)3]2+, H4dpbpy = 2,2′-bipyridine-4,4′-bis(phosphonic acid), composed of Ru(bpy)3-type metalloligands (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine) functionalized… Continue reading Two-Step Vapochromic Luminescence of Proton-Conductive Coordination Polymers Composed of Ru(II)-Metalloligands and Lanthanide Cations
2019 / Scientific Reports
A xanthene derivative, Granada Green dinitrobenzene sulfonate (GGDNBS), has been synthesized to assay cellular oxidative stress based on changes in… Continue reading New Thiol-Sensitive Dye Application for Measuring Oxidative Stress in Cell Cultures
2019 / RSC Advances
Toxic aggregation of tau protein to neurofibrillary tangles (NFTS) is a central pathological event involved in tauopathies. Inhibition of tau… Continue reading Modulation of aggregation with an electric field; scientific roadmap for a potential non-invasive therapy against tauopathies
2018 / molecules
We report experimental tests of whether non-rigid, π-conjugated luminophores in the photoexcited (S1) and ground (S0) states dissolved in achiral liquids… Continue reading Questions of Mirror Symmetry at the Photoexcited and Ground States of Non-Rigid Luminophores Raised by Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy: Part 1. Oligofluorenes, Oligophenylenes, Binaphthyls and Fused Aromatics
2018 / Polymer Chemistry
Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) from well-organized structures of aggregates has been intensely investigated, while rational design of π-conjugated polymers with… Continue reading Control of circularly polarized luminescence from a boron ketoiminate-based π-conjugated polymer via conformational locks
2019 / Nanoscale Advances
In this work, water-soluble semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) showing induced circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) in an organic-inorganic coassembled hydrogel were… Continue reading Optically active quantum dots with induced circularly polarized luminescence in amphiphilic peptide dendron hydrogel
2018 / Langmuir
We designed glutamide-derived amphiphilic Schiff bases containing three different aldehyde moieties for the fabrication of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) emitting… Continue reading Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Schiff Base and Selectively Turn on Circularly Polarized Luminescence by Al3+
2018 / Scientific Reports
A novel mechanism for chiroptical activity inversion based on the electronic structure of metal complexes without Λ- or Δ-type structure… Continue reading Electronic chirality inversion of lanthanide complex induced by achiral molecules
2019 / PLoS Pathogens
Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) dramatically improves survival of HIV-infected patients, but lifelong treatment can ultimately result in cumulative toxicities and… Continue reading Monotherapy with a low-dose lipopeptide HIV fusion inhibitor maintains long-term viral suppression in rhesus macaques
2019 / Bioconjugate Chemistry
RNAs play critical roles in diverse catalytic and regulatory biological processes and are emerging as important disease biomarkers and therapeutic… Continue reading A Short Chemically Modified dsRNA-Binding PNA (dbPNA) Inhibits Influenza Viral Replication by Targeting Viral RNA Panhandle Structure
2019 / ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
The development of novel methods to detect mercury is of paramount importance owing to the impact of this metal on… Continue reading Helical Assembly of Flavin Mononucleotides on Carbon Nanotubes as Multimodal Near-IR Hg(II)-Selective Probes
2019 / PNAS
The rice SUB1A-1 gene, which encodes a group VII ethylene response factor (ERFVII), plays a pivotal role in rice survival under flooding… Continue reading Regulatory cascade involving transcriptional and N-end rule pathways in rice under submergence
2019 / Scientific Reports
The structure of the individual peptides of the two-peptide bacteriocin plantaricin S, an antimicrobial peptide produced by a Lactobacillus plantarum strain, has… Continue reading NMR structures and mutational analysis of the two peptides constituting the bacteriocin plantaricin S
2019 / Scientific Reports
Microtubules are filamentous structures necessary for cell division, motility and morphology, with dynamics critically regulated by microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). Here… Continue reading The companion of cellulose synthase 1 confers salt tolerance through a Tau-like mechanism in plants
2019 / Scientific Reports
Seven pairs of new oxygenated aplysinopsin-type enantiomers, (+)- and (−)-oxoaplysinopsins A‒G (1‒7), two new bromotyrosine-derived alkaloids, subereamollines C and D… Continue reading Aplysinopsin-type and Bromotyrosine-derived Alkaloids from the South China Sea Sponge Fascaplysinopsis reticulata
2018 / Nanomaterials
This work is a proof of concept for the design of active packaging materials based on the anchorage of gated… Continue reading Anchoring Gated Mesoporous Silica Particles to Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol Films for Smart Packaging Applications
2018 / JACS
Coherent control of single quantum systems in complex environments has great potential to manipulate and understand photoinduced chemical and biological… Continue reading Visualising Hidden Ultrafast Processes in Individual Molecules by Single-Pulse Coherent Control
2018 / Langmuir
Two ZnO materials of spherical hierarchical morphologies, with hollow (ZnOHS) and solid cores (ZnOSS), were obtained through the hydrolysis of… Continue reading Zinc oxide spherical-shaped nanostructures: investigation of surface reactivity and interactions with microbial and mammalian cells
2018 / Molecules
To systematically investigate the influence of the positional isomeric effect on the structures of polymer complexes, we prepared two new… Continue reading The Positional Isomeric Effect on the Structural Diversity of Cd(II) Coordination Polymers, Using Flexible Positional Isomeric Ligands Containing Pyridyl, Triazole, and Carboxylate Fragments
