Conserved C-termini of Spidroins are secreted by the major ampullate glands and retained in the silk thread.

abstract：:Poly(L-lactide)-based microspheres having cationic or anionic surfaces were prepared using polydepsipeptide-block-poly(L-lactide)s as surfactants. Polydepsipeptide-block-poly(L-lactide)s having amino or carboxylic acid groups on their side chains were synthesized through anionic ring-opening polymerizations of L-lacti...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Ouchi T,Toyohara M,Arimura H,Ohya Y

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms tolerate extreme levels of antibiotics. Treatment of biofilm infections therefore requires the development of new or modified antimicrobials that can penetrate biofilms and are effective against dormant persistent cells. One such new approach uses the biodegradable biopolymer chitosan and its deriva...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Sahariah P,Másson M,Meyer RL

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the fibrillation pathway of ovalbumin protein and report the simultaneous formation of several types of fibrils, with clear structural and physical differences. We compare the fibrillation mechanisms at low pH with and without salt, and follow the kinetics of fibrils growth by atomic force microscopy (AFM), s...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Lara C,Gourdin-Bertin S,Adamcik J,Bolisetty S,Mezzenga R

更新日期：2012-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] (P(3HB))-degrading marine bacterium (strain NK-1, JCM10458) was isolated from the Pacific Ocean deep-sea floor (1165 m in depth) in Japan. The organism was a motile and Gram negative, aerobic, and rod-shaped bacterium, and its DNA had a guanine-plus-cytosine content of 57.7 mol%. On the b...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kasuya K,Mitomo H,Nakahara M,Akiba A,Kudo T,Doi Y

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we extend our previous experimental work on interaction between polyelectrolytes and liposomes. First, the adsorption of chitosan and alkylated chitosan (cationic polyelectrolytes) with different alkyl chain lengths on lipid membranes of liposomes is examined. The amount of both chitosans adsorbed remain...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Quemeneur F,Rinaudo M,Pépin-Donat B

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weissella confusa VTT E-90392 is an efficient producer of a dextran that is mainly composed of α-(1→6)-linked D-glucosyl units and very few α-(1→3) branch linkages. A mixture of the Chaetomium erraticum endodextranase and the Aspergillus niger α-glucosidase was used to hydrolyze W. confusa dextran to glucose and a set...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Maina NH,Virkki L,Pynnönen H,Maaheimo H,Tenkanen M

更新日期：2011-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of protein-polymer complexes was studied in an aqueous system using dynamic light scattering (DLS) and static light scattering (SLS) as the main experimental tools. Human serum albumin (HSA) was used as a protein and complexed with four representative water-soluble polymers: poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Matsudo T,Ogawa K,Kokufuta E

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing importance of biodegradable conducting polymers (CPs) have fueled the rapid development of this unique class of polymeric materials in recent years. Possessing both the electrical conductivity approaching those of metallic conductors and the biodegradability of biocompatible polymers, biodegradable CPs are...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kenry,Liu B

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat arabinoxylan was treated with two α-arabinofuranosidases exhibiting different mode of action to create three different polymeric substrates. These three substrate preparations were characterized by xylopyranose backbone sugars that are (1) singly substituted by arabinose at C2 or C3, (2) doubly substituted by ar...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Littunen K,Mai-Gisondi G,Seppälä J,Master ER

更新日期：2017-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Major ampullate silk, also known as dragline silk, is one of the strongest biomaterials known. This silk is composed of two proteins, major ampullate spidroin 1 (MaSp1) and major ampullate spidroin 2 (MaSp2). Only partial cDNA sequences have been obtained for these proteins, and these sequences are toward the C-termin...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Motriuk-Smith D,Smith A,Hayashi CY,Lewis RV

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we describe the preparation and characterization of Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayers of the enzyme organophosphorus acid anhydrolase (OPAA). Langmuir films of OPAA were characterized on different subphases, such as phosphate, ammonium carbonate, and bis-tris-propane buffers. Monolayers at ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Mello SV,Mabrouki M,Cao X,Leblanc RM,Cheng TC,DeFrank JJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of intravenously injected nanoparticles (NPs) is significantly affected by nano-protein interaction and corona formation. However, such an interaction between NPs and digestive enzymes occurring in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) and its impacts on epithelial cell uptake are little known. We synthesized the ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Peng Q,Liu J,Zhang T,Zhang TX,Zhang CL,Mu H

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cationic spherical polyelectrolyte brushes (SPBs) were synthesized by photoemulsion polymerization, consisting of a polystyrene core with a diameter around 80 nm and a poly(2-aminoethylmethacrylate hydrochloride) (PAEMH) shell with a thickness from 10 to 50 nm densely grafted on the core surface. The binding of variou...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Wang S,Chen K,Li L,Guo X

更新日期：2013-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagen is a versatile structural molecule in nature and is used as a building block in many highly organized tissues, such as bone, skin, and cornea. The functionality and performance of these tissues are controlled by their hierarchical organization ranging from the molecular up to macroscopic length scales. In the...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Masic A,Bertinetti L,Schuetz R,Galvis L,Timofeeva N,Dunlop JW,Seto J,Hartmann MA,Fratzl P

更新日期：2011-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A lamellar compound resulted from reaction of acrylic acid inside crystalline beta-chitin and the structure was investigated. Beta-chitin acts like a layered crystal, having stacked molecular sheets composed of parallel chains bound in one direction by intermolecular amide hydrogen bonding. Small guest molecules can b...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Saito Y,Tomotake Y,Shida S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The average pore size of hydrated dextran microspheres is derived from rheological and protein release data. The microspheres were prepared by cross-linking an aqueous solution of methacrylated dextran emulsified in a continuous poly(ethylene glycol) phase. The rheological data were obtained using a novel micromanipul...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Stenekes RJ,De Smedt SC,Demeester J,Sun G,Zhang Z,Hennink WE

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Hydrogel scaffolds are used in biomedicine to study cell differentiation and tissue evolution, where it is critical to control the delivery of chemical cues both spatially and temporally. While large molecules can be physically entrapped in a hydrogel, moderate molecular weight therapeutics must be tethered to the hyd...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Griffin DR,Schlosser JL,Lam SF,Nguyen TH,Maynard HD,Kasko AM

更新日期：2013-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Encapsulation of hydrophilic cancer drugs in polymeric nanocapsules was achieved in a one-pot process via the inverse miniemulsion periphery RAFT polymerization (IMEPP) approach. The chosen guest molecule was gemcitabine hydrochloride, which is used as the first-line treatment of pancreatic cancer. The resulting nanoc...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Utama RH,Jiang Y,Zetterlund PB,Stenzel MH

更新日期：2015-07-13 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：:The single and triple helical organization of protein chains strongly influences the mechanical properties of gelatin-based materials. A chemical method for obtaining different degrees of helical organization in gelatin is covalent functionalization, while a physical method for achieving the same goal is the variation...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zaupa A,Neffe AT,Pierce BF,Nöchel U,Lendlein A

更新日期：2011-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The water-soluble arabinoxylans from wheat flour (high, medium, and low viscosity samples) and rye flour (high viscosity sample) were characterized by (1)H NMR spectroscopy and HPSEC with refractive index, light scattering, and viscometric detectors. These cereal arabinoxylans have recently been used as model arabinox...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Pitkänen L,Virkki L,Tenkanen M,Tuomainen P

更新日期：2009-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) foot protein 5 (Mefp-5) is an adhesive protein that is mainly composed of glycine, l-lysine, and 3,4-dihydroxy-l-phenylalanine (DOPA). Thousands of adhesive pads have been analyzed in previous studies, whereby it has been found that adhesion is largely achieved by the redox-chemistry o...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Numata K,Baker PJ

更新日期：2014-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral cellulose nanocrystals dispersed in water were shown in a previous work to stabilize oil/water interfaces and produce Pickering emulsions with outstanding stability, whereas sulfated nanocrystals obtained from cotton did not show interfacial properties. To develop a better understanding of the stabilization me...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kalashnikova I,Bizot H,Cathala B,Capron I

更新日期：2012-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the degradation of well-characterized soluble heteropolymeric chitosans by a novel family 46 chitosanase, ScCsn46A from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2), to obtain insight into the enzyme's mode of action and to determine its potential for production of different chitooligosaccharides. The degradation of ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Heggset EB,Dybvik AI,Hoell IA,Norberg AL,Sørlie M,Eijsink VG,Vårum KM

更新日期：2010-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel pH and temperature sensitive block copolymer was prepared by adding pH sensitive moiety to temperature sensitive block copolymer. This block copolymer solution showed a reversible sol-gel transition by a small pH change in the range of pH 7.4-8.0 and also by the temperature change in the region of body tempera...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Shim WS,Yoo JS,Bae YH,Lee DS

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that functionalizing polymer-coated colloidal nanoplatelets with guanosine groups allows synergistic increase of mechanical properties in nacre-mimetic lamellar self-assemblies. Anionic montmorillonite (MTM) was first coated using cationic poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) to prepare core-shell ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Martikainen L,Walther A,Seitsonen J,Berglund L,Ikkala O

更新日期：2013-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A dual-targeted siRNA nanocarrier has been synthesized and validated that is selectively activated in environments where there is colocalization of two breast cancer hallmarks, elevated matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity and folate receptor overexpression. This siRNA nanocarrier is self-assembled from two polymer...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Li H,Miteva M,Kirkbride KC,Cheng MJ,Nelson CE,Simpson EM,Gupta MK,Duvall CL,Giorgio TD

更新日期：2015-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrically conducting polymeric membranes were prepared by incorporating multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into bacterial cellulose pellicles produced by Gluconacetobacter xylinum. The MWCNTs were dispersed in a surfactant (cationic cetyl trimethylammonium bromide) solution, and cellulose pellicles were dipped i...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Yoon SH,Jin HJ,Kook MC,Pyun YR

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular model systems are essential platforms used across multiple research fields for exploring the fundaments of biology and biochemistry. Here, we present giant plasma membrane vesicles (GPMVs) as a platform of cell-like compartments that will facilitate the study of particles within a biorelevant environment and ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zartner L,Garni M,Craciun I,Einfalt T,Palivan CG

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00