2019 / Organic Chemistry Frontiers
This paper reports the synthesis of a planar-chiral monohydroxy-functionalized pillar[5]arene amenable to a wide variety of chemical modifications. Chiral resolution… Continue reading Chiral discrimination of 2-heptlyaminium salt by planar-chiral monohydroxy-functionalized pillar[5]arenes
2019 / molecules
A metabolic conversion study on microbes is known as one of the most useful tools to predict the xenobiotic metabolism… Continue reading Biotransformed Metabolites of the Hop Prenylflavanone Isoxanthohumol
2019 / Nanomaterials
Dye wastewater is one of the most important problems to be faced and solved in wastewater treatment. However, the treatment… Continue reading Fabrication and Highly Efficient Dye Removal Characterization of Beta-Cyclodextrin-Based Composite Polymer Fibers by Electrospinning
2019 / Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
In this work, we have studied the effect of Crotalus basiliscus snake venom on the redox reaction of myoglobin (Mb), and by… Continue reading Effect of Crotalus basiliscus snake venom on the redox reaction of myoglobin
2019 / Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics
Amyloid aggregation has been associated with numerous human pathological diseases. A recent study has demonstrated that silk fibroin intermittently endorses amyloidogenesis in vivo. In… Continue reading Modulation of aggregation of silk fibroin by synergistic effect of the complex of curcumin and β-cyclodextrin
2019 / New Journal of Chemistry
Lyotropic bicontinuous cubic (QII) phases have attracted increasing attention as nanostructured fluidic matrices for some bio-polymers including enzymes and DNA.… Continue reading Improvement of lipidic bicontinuous cubic phases by the addition of a zwitterion with strong hydration ability and kosmotropicity
2019 / Journal of Materials Chemistry B
Protein misfolding plays a critical role in the manifestation of amyloidosis type diseases. Therefore, understanding protein unfolding and the ability… Continue reading Detecting lysozyme unfolding via the fluorescence of lysozyme encapsulated gold nanoclusters
2019 / Scientific Reports
The mouse Major Urinary Proteins (MUPs) contain a conserved β-barrel structure with a characteristic central hydrophobic pocket that binds a… Continue reading Effects of point mutations in the binding pocket of the mouse major urinary protein MUP20 on ligand affinity and specificity
2019 / Advanced Functional Materials
The alteration in protein conformation not only affects the performance of its biological functions, but also leads to a variety… Continue reading Plasmon‐Enhanced Fluorescent Sensor based on Aggregation‐Induced Emission for the Study of Protein Conformational Transformation
2019 / mBio
A wide range of bacterial pathogens have been shown to form biofilms, which significantly increase their resistance to environmental stresses,… Continue reading Physical Determinants of Amyloid Assembly in Biofilm Formation
2019 / Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
The G-quadruplex-forming telomeric sequence (TTAGGG)4TT was investigated by polarized Ultraviolet Resonance Raman Scattering (UVRR) at 266 nm. The presence of… Continue reading Crowding and conformation interplay on human DNA G-quadruplex by ultraviolet resonant Raman scattering
2019 / ACS Chemical Neuroscience
The aggregation of α-synuclein (α-Syn) has been implicated strongly in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The intrinsically disordered nature of α-Syn makes… Continue reading Modulation of α-Synuclein Aggregation by Cytochrome c Binding and Hetero-dityrosine Adduct Formation
2019 / International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
The molecular interactions between two single-chain lysosomotropic surfactants DMM-11 (2-Dodecanoyloxyethyl)trimethylammonium bromide) and DMPM-11 (2-Dodecanoyloxypropyl)trimethylammonium bromide) with a small heme-protein(cytochrome c (cyt-c)) in Hepes buffer (pH = 7.4)… Continue reading Biomolecular interactions of lysosomotropic surfactants with cytochrome c and its effect on the protein conformation: A biophysical approach
2019 / ChemMedChem
The spread of antibiotic‐resistant pathogens has boosted the search for new antimicrobial drugs. Proline‐rich antimicrobial peptides are promising lead compounds… Continue reading Search for Shorter Portions of the Proline‐Rich Antimicrobial Peptide Fragment Bac5(1–25) That Retain Antimicrobial Activity by Blocking Protein Synthesis
2019 / Chinese Journal of Chemistry
Even though the bis‐lactam peptide stapling with the [i, i + 7] and the [i, i + 11] systems has been known to be… Continue reading Bis‐Lactam Peptide [i, i + 4]‐Stapling
2019 / PLoS biology
All animal cells use the motor cytoplasmic dynein 1 (dynein) to transport diverse cargo toward microtubule minus ends and to… Continue reading A transient helix in the disordered region of dynein light intermediate chain links the motor to structurally diverse adaptors for cargo transport
2019 / Scientific Reports
Characterization of small oligomers formed at an early stage of amyloid formation is critical to understanding molecular mechanism of pathogenic… Continue reading Transthyretin Aggregation Pathway toward the Formation of Distinct Cytotoxic Oligomers
2019 / Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Enzymatic treatment of allergenic protein can alter their functional properties at a mild reaction condition due to specificity of enzymes.… Continue reading Effect of tyrosinase‐catalyzed crosslinking on the structure and allergenicity of turbot parvalbumin mediated by caffeic acid
2019 / Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Many organisms possess the ability to produce metal-binding proteins to absorb cadmium. Metallothioneins, an important family of cysteine-rich metal-binding proteins,… Continue reading Purification and Characterization of a Cadmium-Binding Protein from Lentinula edodes
2019 / ACS Nano
Peptide-mediated routes to the synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles have been drawing increasing attention for the development of chiroptically active nanoscale… Continue reading In Situ Generation of Chiroptically-Active Gold-Peptide Superstructures Promoted by Iodination
