Poly(ε-caprolactone) nanofibers with a self-induced nanohybrid shish-kebab structure mimicking collagen fibrils.

abstract：:Since their discovery at the end of the previous millennium, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been the object of thousands of papers describing their applications in fields ranging from physics to electronics, photonics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. The development of chemical approaches to modify their graphitic sid...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Bottini M,Rosato N,Bottini N

更新日期：2011-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymeric prodrugs of mPEG-PLA-haloperidol (methoxypoly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(lactic acid)) can self-assemble into nanoscale micelle-like structures in aqueous solutions. mPEG-PLA-haloperidol was prepared and characterized using 1H and 13C NMR. The conjugation efficiency was found to be 64.8 +/- 21%. Micelles that f...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Hans M,Shimoni K,Danino D,Siegel SJ,Lowman A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Softwood and hardwood celluloses were oxidized by 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl radical (TEMPO)-mediated oxidation. The TEMPO-oxidized cellulose fibers were converted to transparent dispersions in water, which consisted of individual nanofibers 3-4 nm in width. Films were then prepared from the TEMPO-oxidized c...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Fukuzumi H,Saito T,Iwata T,Kumamoto Y,Isogai A

更新日期：2009-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is demonstrated that the molecular solubility of softwood hemicelluloses is significantly influenced by pretreatment of the fibers, extraction, and downstream processing. To quantify these effects, four hemicellulose samples were extracted from different thermomechanical pulps of Norway spruce. The molecular solubi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kishani S,Vilaplana F,Xu W,Xu C,Wågberg L

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Two linear alpha-(1,4)-D-glucans substrates, of degrees of polymerization DP approximately 150 and 6000, were exposed to maize starch-branching enzyme IIa (mSBEIIa) in vitro. The resulting branched alpha-glucans and their constituent chains (obtained by debranching) were analyzed by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) an...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Hernández JM,Gaborieau M,Castignolles P,Gidley MJ,Myers AM,Gilbert RG

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A His-tagged coiled coil stem loop peptide with stable secondary structure was designed and biosynthesized. A series of oligopeptides related to the EBV envelope glycoprotein 350/220 N-terminal nonapeptide as potential CD21 receptor-binding epitopes were engineered into the loop region of the peptide scaffold. It was ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Tang A,Kopecek J

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicomponent poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) brushes (i.e., ≥ 2 adjacent PEG brushes) can be used to engineer culture substrates with microscale, nonfouling regions decorated with covalently immobilized ligands that mediate biospecific interactions. However, synthesizing such brushes with orthogonal immobilization chemi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Sha J,Lippmann ES,McNulty J,Ma Y,Ashton RS

更新日期：2013-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermally induced aggregation of bovine β-lactoglobulin in the glass state was studied both as the pure protein and in trehalose mixtures. Calorimetric measurements and size exclusion chromatography were used to characterize the glass state and aggregation, respectively. The initial aggregation rate was characteri...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Pérez-Moral N,Adnet C,Noel TR,Parker R

更新日期：2010-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The competing mechanisms that regulate adhesion of bacteria to surfaces and subsequent biofilm formation remain unclear, though nearly all studies have focused on the role of physical and chemical properties of the material surface. Given the large monetary and health costs of medical-device colonization and hospital-...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Lichter JA,Thompson MT,Delgadillo M,Nishikawa T,Rubner MF,Van Vliet KJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to assess a new chimeric protein consisting of a fusion protein of the consensus repeat for Nephila clavipes spider dragline protein and bone sialoprotein (6mer+BSP). The elastic modulus of this protein in film form was assessed through force curves, and film surface roughness wa...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Gomes S,Numata K,Leonor IB,Mano JF,Reis RL,Kaplan DL

更新日期：2011-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Alkylated chitosan (NACS) may improve the blood clotting efficiency of chitosan (CS). To study its blood coagulation capability, a series of NACSs with various carbon chain lengths and degrees of substitution (DS) of alkyl groups were synthesized and characterized by FTIR, NMR, elemental analysis, and X-ray diffract...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Wang X,Guan J,Zhuang X,Li Z,Huang S,Yang J,Liu C,Li F,Tian F,Wu J,Shu Z

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic study is carried out to understand how physical and covalent crosslinks affect the mechanical properties of an eight-arm poly(ethyleneglycol)-based hydrogel. Heparin and heparin-binding peptide are used as a physical crosslinker, and an enzymatically cleavable peptide with a cysteine on each end serves as...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Jeong KJ,Panitch A

更新日期：2009-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of important biological events are mediated by the multivalent interaction between relevant oligosaccharides and multiple saccharide receptors on lectins, toxins, and cell surfaces; a variety of glycopolymeric materials have therefore been investigated in studies aimed at manipulating these events. The synth...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Polizzotti BD,Kiick KL

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although composed simply of glucose polymers, the starch granule is a complex, semicrystalline structure. Much of this complexity arises from the fact that the two primary enzymes of synthesis-starch synthase and starch-branching enzyme-exist as multiple isoforms. Each form has distinct properties and plays a unique r...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Smith AM

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:We utilize an aqueous extract of fish proteins (FPs) as a coating for minimizing the adsorption of fibrinogen (Fg) and human serum albumin (HSA). The surfaces include stainless steel (SS), gold (Au), silicon dioxide (SiO(2)), and poly(styrene) (PS). The adsorption processes (kinetics and adsorbed mass) are followed by...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Pillai S,Arpanaei A,Meyer RL,Birkedal V,Gram L,Besenbacher F,Kingshott P

更新日期：2009-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:l-Proline is the only, out of 20 essential, amino acid that contains a cyclized substituted α-amino group (is formally an imino acid), which restricts its conformational shape. The synthesis of well-defined homo- and copolymers of l-proline has been plagued either by the low purity of the monomer or the inability of m...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Gkikas M,Iatrou H,Thomaidis NS,Alexandridis P,Hadjichristidis N

更新日期：2011-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of moisture content and temperature on water diffusion into a modified high amylose (< or = 90%) maize thermoplastic starch blend was investigated. Gravimetric and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies were conducted to elucidate the diffusion mechanism and diffusion coefficients for this system. The dif...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Russo MA,Strounina E,Waret M,Nicholson T,Truss R,Halley PJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-editing technologies hold tremendous potential for treating genetic diseases. However, the efficient and safe delivery of genome-editing elements to the location of interest, and the achievement of specific targeted gene correction without off-target side effect remains a big challenge. In this Perspective, we ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Qiu M,Glass Z,Xu Q

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the influence of surface-functionalized substrates with nanostructures on the behaviors of mesenchymal stem cells, we conjugated bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) onto TiO(2) nanotubes with different diameter sizes of 30, 60, and 100 nm for in vitro study. Polydopamine was employed as the intermediate...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Lai M,Cai K,Zhao L,Chen X,Hou Y,Yang Z

更新日期：2011-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in the conventional approach to self-assembled biomaterials is to develop well-defined nanostructures in vitro, which is followed by disruption of the preformed nanostructures at the inside of the cell to achieve bioactivity. Here, we propose an inverse strategy to develop in-cell gain-of-function self-...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Waqas M,Jeong WJ,Lee YJ,Kim DH,Ryou C,Lim YB

更新日期：2017-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ozonolysis of methyl soyate (biodiesel) was conducted in the presence of methanol, dichloromethane (solvent), and triethylamine (catalyst) at -75 degrees C. Structural analysis, including FTIR, GC, and GC-MS, showed that the total amount of double bonds in the mixture was reduced by more than 90% after 2 h of ozonolys...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Baber TM,Graiver D,Lira CT,Narayan R

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of Vitamin E (vitE)-labeled PEIs (PEI-vitEn) were synthesized and showed excellent complexation ability with plasmid DNA (pDNA). The cellular uptake of PEI-vitEn/pDNA complexes was greatly enhanced with the increase of vitE labeling, which is much better than that of control PEI25 in three different cell line...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Liu J,Feng M,Liang D,Yang J,Tang X

更新日期：2016-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignin is a natural, renewable biopolymer synthesized by plants. It is a macromolecule consisting of aromatic structures with high density of functional groups making it an ideal precursor for the design of sustainable biomaterials for applications such as drug delivery. The rational design of these materials requires...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Salentinig S,Schubert M

更新日期：2017-08-14 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：:The grafting of thermosensitive amine-terminated statistical polymers onto the surface of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) was achieved by a peptidic coupling reaction, leading to unusual properties like colloidal stability at high ionic strength, surface activity, and thermoreversible aggregation. We have used a large v...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Azzam F,Heux L,Putaux JL,Jean B

更新日期：2010-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Dragline silk from orb-weaving spiders is a copolymer of two large proteins, major ampullate spidroin 1 (MaSp1) and 2 (MaSp2). The ratio of these proteins is known to have a large variation across different species of orb-weaving spiders. NMR results from gland material of two different species of spiders, N. clavipe...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： An B,Jenkins JE,Sampath S,Holland GP,Hinman M,Yarger JL,Lewis R

更新日期：2012-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:AQ-Pal14 is a 30-residue polypeptide that was designed to form an α-helical coiled coil that contains a metal-binding 4-pyridylalanine residue on its solvent-exposed surface. However, characterization of this peptide shows that it exists as a three-stranded coiled coil, not a two-stranded one as predicted from its des...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zaytsev DV,Xie F,Mukherjee M,Bludin A,Demeler B,Breece RM,Tierney DL,Ogawa MY

更新日期：2010-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Silk fibroin (SF) protein, produced by silkworm Bombyx mori, is a promising biomaterial, while sophorolipid (SL) is an amphiphilic functional biosurfactant synthesized by nonpathogenic yeast Candida bombicola. SL is a mixture of two forms, acidic (ASL) and lactonic (LSL), which when added to SF results in accelerated ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Dubey P,Kumar S,Aswal VK,Ravindranathan S,Rajamohanan PR,Prabhune A,Nisal A

更新日期：2016-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid-state NMR is especially useful when the structures of peptides and proteins should be analyzed by taking into account the structural distribution, that is, the distribution of the torsion angle of the individual residue. In this study, two-dimensional spin-diffusion solid-state NMR spectra of 13C-double-labeled ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Ohgo K,Kawase T,Ashida J,Asakura T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00