Lysozyme-lysozyme and lysozyme-salt interactions in the aqueous saline solution: a new square-well potential.

abstract：:Characterization of poly-3-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) and poly-3-hydroxybutyric-co-valeric acid (PHBV, 13% valerate) in chloroform was performed using size exclusion chromatography coupled to a multi-angle light scattering detector (SEC-MALS). Absolute molar mass averages, molar mass distribution, and the radius of gyr...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zagar E,Krzan A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumorigenic cell behaviors can be suppressed or enhanced by their physicochemical environment. As a first step toward developing materials that allow tumorigenic behaviors to be observed and manipulated, we cultured related MCF10 breast cell lines on fibers composed of the Drosophila protein Ultrabithorax (Ubx). These...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Hsiao HC,Santos A,Howell DW,Patterson JL,Fuchs-Young RS,Bondos SE

更新日期：2016-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Agmatine-containing bioreducible polymer, poly(cystaminebis(acrylamide)-agmatine) (poly(CBA-AG)) was synthesized for gene delivery systems. It could form 200-300 nm sized and positively charged polyplexes with pDNA, which could release pDNA in reducing the environment due to the internal disulfide bonds cleavage. Poly...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Choi JY,Ryu K,Lee GJ,Kim K,Kim TI

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe investigations of insulin release from thermoresponsive microgels using variable temperature (1)H NMR. Microgel particles composed of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) were loaded with the peptide via a swelling technique, and this method was compared to simple equilibrium partitioning. Variable temperature (1)H...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Nolan CM,Gelbaum LT,Lyon LA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphiphilic random, gradient, and block copolymers of 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) and n-butyl methacrylate (BMA) were synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) in water/2-propanol mixtures using a methoxy-poly(ethylene glycol) (MPEG) (M(n) = 2000) macroinitiator. Kinetic studies indic...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Lee SB,Russell AJ,Matyjaszewski K

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forisomes are protein polymers found in leguminous plants that have the remarkable ability to undergo reversible "muscle-like" contractions in the presence of divalent cations and in extreme pH environments. To gain insight into the molecular basis of forisome structure and assembly, we used confocal laser scanning mi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Groscurth S,Müller B,Schwan S,Menzel M,Diekstall F,Senft M,Kendall A,Kommor BA,Neumann U,Kalischuk M,Kawchuk LM,Krzyzanek V,Heilmann A,Stubbs G,Twyman RM,Prüfer D,Noll GA

更新日期：2012-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin, a sulfated polysaccharide derived from animal sources, is the most commonly used parenteral anticoagulant drug, but it suffers from significant safety and supply issues. Herein, we describe the preparation of heparin mimetic homo- and copolymers via the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Nahain AA,Ignjatovic V,Monagle P,Tsanaktsidis J,Vamvounis G,Ferro V

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical glue represents a suitable tool to stop wound bleeding, seal wounds, bond tissues, or implant materials. However, the development of a medical glue for durable underwater bonding remains a challenge. Herein, we developed a hydrophobic hyperbranched polymer-based medical glue with water-resistant bonding abilit...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zhang Y,Li X,Zhu Q,Wei W,Liu X

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of chitosan/chitin samples with DA's varying between 5.2 and 89% was prepared from the reacetylation under soft conditions of a unique chitosan sample allowing the preservation of the chain distribution. The study of the variation of pH for the same concentration of amine groups, at different ionic strengths,...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Sorlier P,Denuzière A,Viton C,Domard A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles (NPs) with high drug loading and pH-responsivity were prepared by nanoprecipitation of a hydrophobic polymer-drug conjugate (PDC). The PDC, polylactide-graft-doxorubicin (PLA-g-DOX), was synthesized by azide-alkyne click reaction to transform acetylene-functionalized PLA into PLA-graft-aldehyde (PLA-g-AL...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Yu Y,Chen CK,Law WC,Weinheimer E,Sengupta S,Prasad PN,Cheng C

更新日期：2014-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic adsorption and degradation of three types of aliphatic polyester films and two types of polyolefin films by the extracellular PHB depolymerase from Alcaligenes faecalis T1 have been studied by using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) technique. Hydrolysis of poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] was quantitatively fo...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Yamashita K,Aoyagi Y,Abe H,Doi Y

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction-sensitive shell-sheddable glyco-nanoparticles were designed and developed based on poly(ε-caprolactone)-graft-SS-lactobionic acid (PCL-g-SS-LBA) copolymer for efficient hepatoma-targeting delivery of doxorubicin (DOX). PCL-g-SS-LBA was prepared by ring-opening copolymerization of ε-caprolactone and pyridyl d...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Chen W,Zou Y,Meng F,Cheng R,Deng C,Feijen J,Zhong Z

更新日期：2014-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembled hydrogen-bonded networks of the polysaccharide pectin, a mechanically functional component of plant cell walls, have been of recent interest as biomimetic exemplars of physical gels, and the microrheological and strain-stiffening behaviors have been previously investigated. Despite this detailed rheolog...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Mansel BW,Chu CY,Leis A,Hemar Y,Chen HL,Lundin L,Williams MA

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucilaginous viscin tissue within mistletoe berries possesses an extraordinary ability to be rapidly processed under ambient conditions into stiff cellulosic fibers (>14 GPa) through simple mechanical drawing. This rapid and extreme transformation process is hydration-dependent and involves an astonishing >200-fol...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Horbelt N,Eder M,Bertinetti L,Fratzl P,Harrington MJ

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly monodispersed silica nanoparticles having a controlled size from 5 to 450 nm were synthesized via a sol-gel process, and then the optimum conditions for the surface treatment of the synthesized silica nanoparticles with a silane coupling agent (i.e., 3-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (gamma-MPS)) were explor...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kim JW,Kim LU,Kim CK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied methoxy poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-poly(2-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) (mPEG-b-PCL-b-PDMAEMA) nanoparticles as the codelivery vector of hydrophobic drug and pDNA by employing dynamic light scattering (DLS), ζ potential, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), gel retardation assay, a...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Yue X,Qiao Y,Qiao N,Guo S,Xing J,Deng L,Xu J,Dong A

更新日期：2010-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of a suitable extracellular matrix (ECM) that promotes cell adhesion, organization, and proliferation is essential within biomaterial scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. In this work, short elastin mimetic peptide sequences, EM-19 and EM-23, were engineered to mimic the active motifs of human ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Patel D,Menon R,Taite LJ

更新日期：2011-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermolecular distributions of amide groups within two commercial LMA pectins was studied after removal of the methyl esters followed by fractionation of the different populations by anion exchange chromatography. The populations obtained had almost equal degrees of amidation while the values of the degree of blo...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Guillotin SE,Mey N,Ananta E,Boulenguer P,Schols HA,Voragen AG

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native cellulose consists of a set of parallel chains composed of glucose. Most of the time, these chains are highly ordered and form a structure that is known as a microfibril. On the other hand, highly crystalline forms of cellulose are more difficult to process and often are unpredictable in their behavior. If an o...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kondo T,Togawa E,Brown RM Jr

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, generation 5 (G5) polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers with two different surface groups, G4.5-COOH and G5-OH, were investigated for their protective effects on pancreas injury in a caerulein-induced acute pancreatitis (AP) mouse model. Both dendrimers significantly decreased pathological changes in the pa...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Tang Y,Han Y,Liu L,Shen W,Zhang H,Wang Y,Cui X,Wang Y,Liu G,Qi R

更新日期：2015-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Inulin, the polydisperse polyfructose, extracted from chicory, has been modified via transesterification, using fatty acid methyl esters (FAME). The grafting of an alkyl chain onto the inulin backbone under different conditions for the development of potential tensio-active derivatives is described. The modification o...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Rogge TM,Stevens CV

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of amylose-polystyrene inclusion complexes via a novel two-step approach is described. In the first-step, styrene was inserted inside the amylose helical cavity, followed by free radical polymerization in the second step. The inclusion complexes were characterized by attenuated total reflection fourier t...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kumar K,Woortman AJ,Loos K

更新日期：2013-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical rigidity and degradation rate of hydrogels utilized as cell transplantation vehicles have been regarded as critical factors in new tissue formation. However, conventional approaches to accelerate the degradation rate of gels deteriorate their function as a mechanical support in parallel. We hypothesized...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kong HJ,Kaigler D,Kim K,Mooney DJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of polyelectrolyte surface-modified Cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) for the templated synthesis of narrowly dispersed gold nanoparticles is described. The cationic polyelectrolyte, poly(allylamine) hydrochloride (PAH), is electrostatically bound to the external surface of the virus capsid; the polyelectrolyte promo...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Aljabali AA,Lomonossoff GP,Evans DJ

更新日期：2011-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermoresponsive polymers with lower critical solution temperatures (LCSTs) are of significant interest for a wide range of applications from sensors to drug delivery vehicles. However, the most widely investigated LCST polymers have nondegradable backbones, limiting their applications in vivo or in the environment. D...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Rabiee Kenaree A,Sirianni QEA,Classen K,Gillies ER

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Changing gel structure and immobilization conditions led to a significant improvement in the covalent multipoint attachment of chymotrypsin on chitosan. The use of sodium alginate, gelatin, or kappa-carrageenan, activation with glutaraldehyde, glycidol, or epichlorohydrin, and addition of microorganisms followed by ce...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Adriano WS,Mendonça DB,Rodrigues DS,Mammarella EJ,Giordano RL

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silk-elastin-like proteins (SELPs) have enormous potential for use as customizable biomaterials in numerous biomedical and materials applications, yet success in harnessing this potential has been limited by the lack of a commercially viable industrially relevant production process. We have developed a scalable fed-ba...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Collins T,Barroca M,Branca F,Padrão J,Machado R,Casal M

更新日期：2014-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphiphilic polymer conetworks (APCNs) are materials with a very large interface between their hydrophilic and hydrophobic phases due to their nanophase-separated morphologies. Proteins were found to enrich in APCNs by up to 2 orders of magnitude when incubated in aqueous protein solutions, raising the question of the...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Dech S,Cramer T,Ladisch R,Bruns N,Tiller JC

更新日期：2011-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidation-responsive behaviors of OEGylated poly-L-cysteine homopolypeptides, that is, poly(L-EG(x)MA-C)n, were investigated. These poly-L-cysteine derivatives adopted mixed conformation in water, in which the β-sheet accounted for a significant proportion. Upon oxidation, the thioethers in polypeptide side chains...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Fu X,Ma Y,Shen Y,Fu W,Li Z

更新日期：2014-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembling amphiphilic designer peptides have been successfully applied as nanomaterials in biomedical applications. Understanding molecular interactions at the peptide-membrane interface is crucial, since interactions at this site often determine (in)compatibility. The present study aims to elucidate how model m...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kornmueller K,Lehofer B,Meindl C,Fröhlich E,Leitinger G,Amenitsch H,Prassl R

更新日期：2016-11-14 00:00:00