Review: Probing protein electron transfer mechanisms from the molecular to the cellular length scales.

abstract：:Amyloid aggregates have been implicated in the pathogenesis of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and prion disease. Recently determined microcrystal structures of several short peptide segments derived from fibril-forming proteins revealed coexistence of alternative aggregation modes (amyloid...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Berhanu WM,Masunov AE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescein-labeled antibodies are widely used in clinical assays and fluorescence microscopy. The fluorescent signal per labeled antibody is limited by fluorescein self-quenching, which occurs when the antibody is heavily labeled with multiple fluoresceins. We examined immunoglobulin G (IgG) when labeled with 0.7 to ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Lakowicz JR,Malicka J,Huang J,Gryczynski Z,Gryczynski I

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we review current knowledge about the silk produced by the larvae of bees, ants, and hornets [Apoidea and Vespoidea: Hymenoptera]. Different species use the silk either alone or in composites for a variety of purposes including mechanical reinforcement, thermal regulation, or humidification. The chara...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Sutherland TD,Weisman S,Walker AA,Mudie ST

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation mechanism of an alanine-based peptide has been studied by all-atom molecular dynamics simulations with a recently developed all-atom point-charge force field and the Generalize Born continuum solvent model at an effective salt concentration of 0.2M. Thirty-two simulations were conducted. Each simulation ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chowdhury S,Zhang W,Wu C,Xiong G,Duan Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A water-insoluble polysaccharide (TM8) was isolated from sclerotium of Pleurotus tuber-regium by extraction with 0.5M NaOH aqueous solutions at 120 degrees C. Its chemical structure was confirmed by infrared, high performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, and (13)C NMR in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) to be co...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Zhang L,Zhang M,Dong J,Guo J,Song Y,Cheung PC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differences in the absorbance in the mid infrared region (Mid IR) between normal and abnormal tissues have been shown to be a possible criterion for the detection of different forms of cancer. The present work aimed to study the effects of cell growth and DNA synthesis on the RNA/DNA ratio, which is a promising pa...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Sahu RK,Mordechai S,Manor E

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the helices II-III region and the helix IV region of B. megaterium 5S rRNA have been examined by means of energy minimization and molecular dynamics calculations. Calculated distances between neighboring hydrogen-bonded imino protons in helices II, III, and IV were between 3.5 and 4.5 A. The overall ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kim JH,Marshall AG

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of amino acid sequences of yeast Rer2p and Srt1p Z-prenyltransferases shows that the spatial organization of their substrate tunnels agrees with that determined by X-ray for the E. coli undecaprenyl diphosphate synthase (UPPs). The observed trend in the maxima of product length distribution shifted from C...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Poznański J,Szkopinska A

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual pigment rhodopsin has been extensively studied for the kinetics of its photointermediates by various spectroscopic methods. Unlike such archaeal retinal proteins as bacteriorhodopsin, visual rhodopsin does not thermally recover its dark state after photoexcitation, which precludes repeated excitation of a s...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Lüdeke S,Lórenz Fonfría VA,Siebert F,Vogel R

更新日期：2006-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic peptide of sequence H-Ala-Ser-Thr-Thr-Thr-Asn-Tyr-Thr-OH, termed peptide T, a competitor of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the binding to human T cells, and its C-terminal pentapeptide fragment, were studied by 1H-nmr in DMSO solution to determine conformational preferences. The observation of nucle...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Motta A,Picone D,Temussi PA,Marastoni M,Tomatis R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spray drying is a way to generate protein solids (powders), which is also true for lyophilization. Sugars are used to protect proteins from conformational changes and chemical degradations arising from drying processes and storage conditions such as the humidity. The influence of trehalose and humidity on the conforma...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： French DL,Arakawa T,Li T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides, peptidomimetics, and peptide derivatives that self-assemble into fibrillar gels have received increasing interest as synthetic extracellular matrices for applications in 3D cell culture and regenerative medicine. Recently, several of these fibrillizing molecules have been functionalized with bioactive compon...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Jung JP,Gasiorowski JZ,Collier JH

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinatorial chemistry has recently burst on the scene as a valuable tool for the discovery of new drug candidates. The ability to synthesize hundreds of compounds for screening is a useful complement to rational drug design. There are many similarities between the design of new therapeutic agents and the development...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Agarkov A,Greenfield S,Xie D,Pawlick R,Starkey G,Gilbertson SR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational preferences of blocked alanine dipeptide (ADP), Ac-Ala-NHMe, in aqueous solution were studied using vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) together with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. DFT calculations of three most representative conformations of ADP surrounded by six explicit water mol...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Mirtič A,Merzel F,Grdadolnik J

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A winter flounder antifreeze polypeptide (HPLC-6) has been studied in vacuo and in aqueous solution using molecular dynamics computer simulation techniques. The helical conformation of this polypeptide was found to be stable both in vacuum and in solution. The major stabilizing interactions were found to be the main-c...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： McDonald SM,Brady JW,Clancy P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work concerns the aggregation properties of (Gly-Val-Gly-Val-Pro)(251) rec, a polypentapeptide reflecting a highly conserved repetitive unit of the bioelastomer, elastin. On raising the temperature of aqueous solutions above 25 degrees C, this polypeptide was already known to undergo concurrent conformational cha...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Manno M,Emanuele A,Martorana V,San Biagio PL,Bulone D,Palma-Vittorelli MB,McPherson DT,Xu J,Parker TM,Urry DW

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comprehensive structural analysis reported herein of eight N-glycopeptides, in three different solvents, is based on quantitative CD experiments, homonuclear nuclear Overhauser effect measurements, and molecular dynamics (MD) calculations. Although several orientations of the two amide planes attached to the carbo...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Perczel A,Kollát E,Hollósi M,Fasman GD

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Monte Carlo method has been developed for generating the conformations of short single-stranded DNAs from arbitrary starting states. The chain conformers are constructed from energetically favorable arrangements of the constituent mononucleotides. Minimum energy states of individual dinucleotide monophosphate molecu...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Erie DA,Breslauer KJ,Olson WK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late expression factor 4 (LEF4) is one of the four subunits of Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcNPV) RNA polymerase. LEF4 was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and recombinant protein was subjected to structural characterization. Chemical induced unfolding of LEF4 was investigated using intrinsic f...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rasheedi S,Suragani M,Haq SK,Ghosh S,Ehtesham NZ,Hasnain SE

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinatorial library composed of rigid rod-like peptides with a triple-helical scaffold was constructed. The component peptides were designed to have various combinations of basic and neutral (or hydrophobic) amino acid residues based on collagen-like (Gly-Pro-Yaa)-repeating sequences, inspired from the basic and amp...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Masuda R,Kudo M,Dazai Y,Mima T,Koide T

更新日期：2016-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual ethidium-stained DNA molecules, embedded in an agarose gel made with electrophoresis buffer (0.05 molar salt), are observed using a fluorescence microscope. In the first experiment, open circular 66 kilobase pair (kbp) plasmids, immobilized by agarose fibers threaded through their centers, display entropic ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Smith SB,Bendich AJ

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacological therapy for gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, continues to present challenges in targeting efficacy. The need for maximal local drug exposure at the inflamed regions of the GI tract has led research to focus on a disease-targeted drug delivery approach. Smart nano...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Bertoni S,Machness A,Tiboni M,Bártolo R,Santos HA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small amounts of phenolic compounds are being used as preservatives in pharmaceutical insulin preparations. It has been shown previously that these compounds bind to specific sites on the insulin hexamer and act as allosteric effectors, inducing a transformation of the T6 hexamer to the R6 hexamer, via a T3R3 intermed...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Berchtold H,Hilgenfeld R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged exposure (>90 days) of bovine beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) to subdenaturing concentrations of either urea or potassium thiocyanate resulted in the formation of ordered polymers in the form of fibrils. The fibrils obtained with each chaotrope showed major differences in morphology, surface properties, thiol acces...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rasmussen P,Barbiroli A,Bonomi F,Faoro F,Ferranti P,Iriti M,Picariello G,Iametti S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the use of hybrid double network (DN) hydrogels has become prominent due to their enhanced mechanical properties, which has opened the door for new applications of these soft materials. Only a few of these gels have demonstrated both injectable and moldable capabilities. In this work, we report the mechanica...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Qiao Z,Mieles M,Ji HF

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method for analysis of a fitness landscape of a biopolymer with significantly epistatic sites. The analysis is based on a quasi-additive fitness model. The fitness model is constructed with additive terms conducted by "site-fitness" and epistatic terms conducted by "pair-fitness," where the site-fitness i...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Aita T,Hamamatsu N,Nomiya Y,Uchiyama H,Shibanaka Y,Husimi Y

更新日期：2002-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-conjugated polysaccharide matrices using bioactive laminin-derived peptides are useful biomaterials for tissue and cell engineering. Here, we demonstrate an easy handling preparation method for peptide-polysaccharide matrices using polyion complex with both alginate and chitosan. First, aldehyde-alginate was s...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Fujimori C,Kumai J,Nakamura K,Gu Y,Katagiri F,Hozumi K,Kikkawa Y,Nomizu M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven water-insoluble (1 --> 3)-beta-D-glucan fractions TM8-1 to TM8-7 with weight-average molecular mass M(w) ranged from 2.22 to 77.4 x 10(4) obtained from the sclerotia of Pleurotus tuber-regium were carboxymethylated to produce the water-soluble fractions CTM8-1 to CTM8-7 with M(w) ranged from 3.87 to 87.8 x 10(4)...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Zhang M,Zhang L,Cheung PC

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation and intermolecular association of [D-Hyi2, L-Hyi4] meso-valinomycin [cyclo[-D-Val-D-Hyi-L-Val-L-Hyi-(D-Val-L-Hyi-L-Val-D-+ ++Hyi)2-], C60H102N6O18] in a crystal form obtained from ethanol solution has been determined by x-ray crystallography. Two depsipeptides and one ethanol molecule per asymmetric u...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Pletnev VZ,Ivanov VT,Langs DA,Burkhart BM,Duax WL

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-bond modification via N-hydroxylation has been explored as a strategy for metal coordination to induce conformational rigidity and orient side chains for specific molecular recognition. N-Hydroxyamides were prepared by reacting N-benzyloxyamino acid esters or amides with Fmoc-AA-Cl/AgCN (Fmoc: 9-fluorenylmetho...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Ye Y,Liu M,Kao JL,Marshall GR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00