Laminin-Inspired Cell-Instructive Microenvironments for Neural Stem Cells.

abstract：:Deproteinized natural rubber latex (DPNR-latex) was treated with lipase and phosphatase in order to analyze the structure of the chain-end group (alpha-terminal). The enzymatic treatment decreased the content of long-chain fatty acid ester groups in DPNR from about 6 to 2 mol per rubber molecule. The molecular weight ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Tarachiwin L,Sakdapipanich J,Ute K,Kitayama T,Bamba T,Fukusaki E,Kobayashi A,Tanaka Y

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspired by tea stains, plant polyphenolic tannic acid (TA) was beneficially employed as the primer anchor for functional polymer brushes. The brominated TA (TABr) initiator primer was synthesized by partial modification of TA with alkyl bromide functionalities. TABr with trihydroxyphenyl moieties can readily anchor o...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Pranantyo D,Xu LQ,Neoh KG,Kang ET,Ng YX,Teo SL

更新日期：2015-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of neuropeptides, vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), or growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH), with a cationic carbosilane dendrimer forms dendriplexes with antitumoral behavior in advanced prostate cancer cells PC3. At the concentrations used for dendriplexes formation, the free peptides were prot...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Sánchez-Milla M,Muñoz-Moreno L,Sánchez-Nieves J,Malý M,Gómez R,Carmena MJ,de la Mata FJ

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in ionic liquid electrolytes for cellulose or biomass dissolution has also allowed for high-resolution 1H and 13C NMR on very high molecular weight cellulose. This permits the development of advanced liquid-state quantitative NMR methods for characterization of unsubstituted and low degree of subst...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： King AWT,Mäkelä V,Kedzior SA,Laaksonen T,Partl GJ,Heikkinen S,Koskela H,Heikkinen HA,Holding AJ,Cranston ED,Kilpeläinen I

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we describe the synthesis, wet spinning, mechanical testing, and degradation of poly(urethane urea)s (PUURs) intended for clinical use in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The effects of soft segment chemical composition and molar mass and the kind of diamine chain extender on the m...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Gisselfält K,Edberg B,Flodin P

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulose nanofibers were prepared by TEMPO-mediated oxidation of wood pulp and tunicate cellulose. The cellulose nanofiber suspension in water was spun into an acetone coagulation bath. The spinning rate was varied from 0.1 to 100 m/min to align the nanofibers to the spun fibers. The fibers spun from the wood nanofib...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Iwamoto S,Isogai A,Iwata T

更新日期：2011-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen rapid growth in utilizing vegetable oils to derive a wide variety of polymers to replace petroleum-based polymers for minimizing environmental impact. Nonedible castor oil (CO) can be extracted from castor plants that grow easily, even in an arid land. CO is a promising source for developing sev...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Chakraborty I,Chatterjee K

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of versatile nanoscale platforms for cancer diagnosis and therapy is of great importance for applications in translational medicine. In this work, we present the use of γ-polyglutamic acid (γ-PGA) nanogels (NGs) to load polypyrrole (PPy) for thermal/photoacoustic (PA) imaging and radiotherapy (RT)-sensitiz...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zhou Y,Hu Y,Sun W,Lu S,Cai C,Peng C,Yu J,Popovtzer R,Shen M,Shi X

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly((N-vinylpyrrolidone)-block-poly(vinyl acetate)) (PVP-b-PVAc) block copolymers of varying molecular weight and hydrophobic block lengths were synthesized via controlled radical polymerization and investigated as carriers for the solubilization of highly hydrophobic riminophenazine compounds. These compounds have r...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Bailly N,Thomas M,Klumperman B

更新日期：2012-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, some attempts have been made to enhance the gas barrier properties of semicrystalline polymers by precisely controlling the arrangement of their impermeable crystalline lamellae. However, it is still a great challenge to achieve regular arrangement of the lamellae along the direction perpendicular to the gas...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Bai H,Huang C,Xiu H,Zhang Q,Deng H,Wang K,Chen F,Fu Q

更新日期：2014-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrospinning for the formation of nanoscale diameter fibers has been explored for high-performance filters and biomaterial scaffolds for vascular grafts or wound dressings. Fibers with nanoscale diameters provide benefits due to high surface area. In the present study we explore electrospinning for protein-based bi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Jin HJ,Fridrikh SV,Rutledge GC,Kaplan DL

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently there is great interest in the construction of nanostructures from DNA fragments. Here we report the preparation of much larger helical textures with different shapes from pure DNA fragments. We have observed them while preparing crystals of the dodecamer d(AAAAAATTTTTT), which only contains adenine and thym...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Subirana JA,Creixell M,Baldini R,Campos JL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently antifreeze proteins (AFP) have been the subject of many structure-function relationship studies regarding their antifreeze activity. Attempts have been made to elucidate the structure-function relationship by various amino acid substitutions, but to our knowledge there has been no successful from first princi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Wierzbicki A,Knight CA,Rutland TJ,Muccio DD,Pybus BS,Sikes CS

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful strategy for the immobilization of rennet from Mucor miehei has been developed. The strategy is based on the immobilization of the enzyme, via their sugar chains at high ionic strength on aminated supports having primary amino groups with a very low pK value. The rennet was covalently immobilized via suga...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Pessela BC,Torres R,Fuentes M,Mateo C,Fernandez-Lafuente R,Guisán JM

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:New type of N-glycosylated peptides having periodic sequence of -[X-Gln(beta-D-GlcNAc)-Aib]- [X = L-Glu(OMe), L-Lys(Ac), L-Ala; Aib = alpha-aminoisobutyric acid] were synthesized by polymerization of glycosylated tripeptides with an active ester methods using Cl(-+)H(3)N-L-Glu(OMe)-Gln[beta-D-GlcNAc(Ac)(3)]-Aib-ONp (N...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Takasu A,Horikoshi S,Hirabayashi T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of biofouling and microbial contamination of implanted biomedical devices is essential to maintain their functionality and biocompatibility. For this purpose, polypept(o)ide block copolymers have been developed, in which a protein-resistant polysarcosine (pSar) block is combined with a dopamine-modified pol...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Yoo J,Birke A,Kim J,Jang Y,Song SY,Ryu S,Kim BS,Kim BG,Barz M,Char K

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays an important role in symptomatic intervertebral disc degeneration and is associated with the production of neurotrophins in sensitizing innervation into the disc. The use of high molecular weight (HMw) hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogels offers a potential therapeutic biomaterial for nucleus pulposus (NP...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Isa IL,Srivastava A,Tiernan D,Owens P,Rooney P,Dockery P,Pandit A

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-dependent diffusion and mechanical properties of gelatin in solution, in the gel state, and during the sol/gel transition were determined using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) and rheology. The parameters in the experimental design were 2% w/w and 5% w/w gelatin concentration; 15, 20, and 25...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Hagman J,Lorén N,Hermansson AM

更新日期：2010-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphiphilic block copolymers containing polypeptides can self-assemble into a variety of nonspherical structures arising from strong interactions between peptide units. Here, we report the synthesis of a pH-responsive poly(ethyl glycol)-block-poly(l-glutamic acid)-block-poly(N-octylglycine) (PEG-b-PGA-b-PNOG) triblock...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Ni Y,Sun J,Wei Y,Fu X,Zhu C,Li Z

更新日期：2017-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The gold standard for implant metals is titanium, and coatings such as collagen-I, RGD-peptide, chondroitin sulfate, and calcium phosphate have been used to modify its biocompatibility. We investigated how titanium coated with pectins, adaptable bioactive plant polysaccharides with anti-inflammatory effects, supports ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kokkonen H,Cassinelli C,Verhoef R,Morra M,Schols HA,Tuukkanen J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dextrin, a glucose polymer with low molecular weight, was used to develop a fully resorbable hydrogel, without using chemical initiators. Dextrin was first oxidized (oDex) with sodium periodate and then cross-linked with adipic acid dihidrazide, a nontoxic cross-linking molecule. Furthermore, a new bidimensional compo...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Molinos M,Carvalho V,Silva DM,Gama FM

更新日期：2012-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the synthesis and cytotoxicity of poly(anhydride esters) that are composed of several salicylate derivatives, including halogenated salicylates, aminosalicylates, salicylsalicylic acid, and thiolsalicylic acid. The incorporation of these nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) into a biodegra...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Schmeltzer RC,Schmalenberg KE,Uhrich KE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The helical coiled coil is a well-studied folding motif that can be used for the design of nanometer-sized bioinspired fibrous structures with potential applications as functional materials. A two-component system of coiled coil based model peptides is investigated, which forms, under acidic conditions, uniform, hundr...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Brandenburg E,Berlepsch HV,Leiterer J,Emmerling F,Koksch B

更新日期：2012-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface-immobilized liposome layers are of interest for various potential applications such as localized drug delivery, but their characterization is challenging. We have employed an AFM method and fluorescent dye release to analyze anchored liposomes. In addition, we studied whether the liposomes are surface-bound so...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Vermette P,Griesser HJ,Kambouris P,Meagher L

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New applications in regenerative biotechnology require the ability to understand and control protein-surface interactions on micrometer and submicrometer length scales. Evidence presented here shows that micropatterned amphiphilic comb polymer films exhibit a pretreatment-dependent behavior with respect to protein ads...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zhang Z,Ma H,Hausner DB,Chilkoti A,Beebe TP Jr

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrically conductive hydrogel composites consisting of oligo(polyethylene glycol) fumarate (OPF) and polypyrrole (PPy) were developed for applications in nerve regeneration. OPF-PPy scaffolds were synthesized using three different anions: naphthalene-2-sulfonic acid sodium salt (NSA), dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid so...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Runge MB,Dadsetan M,Baltrusaitis J,Ruesink T,Lu L,Windebank AJ,Yaszemski MJ

更新日期：2010-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray analytical techniques are increasingly being used to study manuscripts and works of art on paper, whether with laboratory equipment or synchrotron sources. However, it is difficult to anticipate the impact of X-ray photons on paper- and cellulose-based artifacts, particularly due to the large variety of their co...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Gimat A,Schöder S,Thoury M,Missori M,Paris-Lacombe S,Dupont AL

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The affinity of surfaces toward proteins is found to be a key parameter to govern the synthesis of polymer brushes by surface-initiated biocatalytic atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-bioATRP). While the "ATRPase" hemoglobin (Hb) stimulates only a relatively slow growth of protein repellent brushes, the synthesi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Divandari M,Pollard J,Dehghani E,Bruns N,Benetti EM

更新日期：2017-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates the controlled synthesis and biological potential of poly( N-acryloyl-l-methionine methyl sulfonium salt)s (poly(A-Met(S+)-OH)s), which mimic dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), a compound produced by marine algae to protect their proteins. The novel sulfonium-containing zwitterionic poly...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Imamura R,Mori H

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00