abstract：:Anchote (Coccinia abyssinica) starch films were prepared by a solution casting method with glycerol, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate, sorbitol or triethylene glycol as plasticizers. The effect of these plasticizers and their concentration on film microstructure, thermal, and mechanical properties was investigated....

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Abera G,Woldeyes B,Demash HD,Miyake G

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to reveal the effect of corn oil on formation of complex between rice starch and fatty acids, including lauric acid (C12:0), myristic acid (C14:0), palmitic acid (C16:0) and stearic acid (C18:0). The RVA, XRD, DSC and CLSM analysis confirmed formation of starch-fatty acid complex but the starch-trigly...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Li X,Luo S,Hou Y,Liu Y,Hu X,Liu C

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Abundance, cheapness, biodegradability and non-toxic behaviour of starches attract many food and non-food industries. Starch provides viscosity, adhesion, texture and homogeneity to various food products. This review article deals with the chemical composition, structure, granular morphology, pasting, thermal and in v...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Punia S

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most studied topics in analytical chemistry and physics is to develop bio-sensors. Aptamers are small single-stranded RNA or DNA oligonucleotides (5-25 kDa), which have advantages in comparison to their antibodies such as physicochemical stability and high binding specificity. They are able to integrate wit...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Yan SR,Foroughi MM,Safaei M,Jahani S,Ebrahimpour N,Borhani F,Rezaei Zade Baravati N,Aramesh-Boroujeni Z,Foong LK

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the role of surface ζ-potential, surface charge density of functional groups and available surface functional groups (-OH and -COO-) of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) was explored in the production of self-assembled dimensional frameworks. Furthermore, 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy (TEMPO) ox...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Karim Z,Svedberg A,Ayub S

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Different decolorization methods have different effects on the properties of polysaccharides. In this study, polysaccharides extracted from Thesium chinense Turcz (T. chinense) were decolorized using either hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which has been previously reported, or activated carbon. To begin, the conditions for ...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Shao L,Sun Y,Liang J,Li M,Li X

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Xyloglucan endotransglycosylase/hydrolase (XTH) belongs to the GH16 subfamily of the glycoside hydrolases of carbohydrate active enzymes and plays an important role in the structure and function of plant cell walls. In this study, 11 members of the XTH gene family were cloned from Populus tomentosa. A bioinformatics a...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Jiang Y,Li Y,Lu C,Tang Y,Jiang X,Gai Y

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multienzymatic conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemicals has been extensively studied. However, regeneration and reuse of co-factor are still the main problems for the efficient conversion of CO2. In this study, a nanoscale multienzyme reactor was constructed by encapsulating simultaneously carbonic anhydrase ...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Ren S,Wang Z,Bilal M,Feng Y,Jiang Y,Jia S,Cui J

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysialic acid (PSA), an acidic polysaccharide usually exists as a double-chain structure on cell adhesion molecules in vertebrates. The available PSA produced from Escherichia coli fermentation, however, is monochain PSA. In this work, a biomimetic biantenna type PSA (biPSA) was synthesized in vitro under mild condi...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Lei Y,Wu M,Wang J,Zhang H,Zhan X,Sun Z,Wu J

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheological, thermal and microstructural properties of wheat bran sourdough (WBS) containing different levels of microbial exopolysaccharide (EPS) extracted from Lactobacillus plantarum were investigated. All sourdough samples showed pseudoplastic behavior and the highest apparent viscosity was achieved at 1.5% EPS. T...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Abedfar A,Hosseininezhad M,Rafe A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enormous masses of keratinous wastes are annually accumulated in the environment as byproducts of poultry processing and agricultural wastes. Keratin is a recalcitrant fibrous protein, which represents the major constituent of various keratin-rich wastes, which released into the environment in the form of feathers, ha...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Hassan MA,Abol-Fotouh D,Omer AM,Tamer TM,Abbas E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is of great clinical significance to design wound dressing materials with combined excellent wound healing properties and superior capability to suppress hypertrophic scar formation. This study aimed to examine if and how the cationicity of chitosan would affect the hypertrophic scar-related outcomes, through prepa...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Zhang N,Gao T,Wang Y,Liu J,Zhang J,Yao R,Wu F

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunomodulatory effects of maca polysaccharides (MCPs) on macrophages have been demonstrated in many studies. However, the effects of MCPs on CD4+ T cells have not been studied. Four water-soluble MCPs, labeled MCP1 (weight-average molecular weights [Mws] of 896.1 and 276.6 kDa), MCP2 (Mws of 337.8 and 219.0 kDa)...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Chang Y,Lu W,Chu Y,Yan J,Wang S,Xu H,Ma H,Ma J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite impressive progress of macromolecular encapsulation technique based on hyperbranched polymer (HP), the use of natural HP for guest encapsulation has rarely been reported. Herein, we present the simple synthesis of amphiphilic PGP-DC from natural peach gum polysaccharide (PGP) and demonstrate that the PGP-DC ca...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Zeng S,Tan J,Xu X,Huang X,Zhou L

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-free dual catalytic DNA circuit for amplified detection of nucleic acids has been developed. The system functions based on a cyclic self-assembly of two auxiliary hairpins (H1 and H2) and three biotinylated hairpin oligonucleotides (H3, H4 and H5), in the format of two molecular circuits. In the upstream cir...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Ravan H,Amandadi M,Hassanshahian M,Pourseyedi S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aims at investigating Fe3O4-coated nanofibers based on cellulose acetate (CA) and chitosan (CS) for adsorption of Cr(VI), Ni(II), and phenol from aqueous solutions. The synthesized Fe3O4 nanoparticles (NPs), and the modified nanofibrous adsorbents are characterized by using FTIR and FE-SEM analyses. The opti...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Karamipour A,Khadiv Parsi P,Zahedi P,Moosavian SMA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neutral polysaccharide, SPW-2, was purified from the leaves of Sambucus adnata Wall. using water extraction and alcohol precipitation, Sevage deproteination, ion exchange chromatography and gel filtration chromatography. This molecule had an average molecular weight of 7040 Da and was composed of arabinose, xylose, ...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Yuan L,Zhong ZC,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectins are proteins capable of specific and reversible binding to mono- and/or oligosaccharides, and within this group, Legume lectins are the most studied. However, most of these studies focus on the Papilionoideae subfamily, with Caesalpinioideae and Mimosoideae lectins being significantly less explored in the lite...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Cavada BS,Osterne VJS,Oliveira MV,Pinto-Junior VR,Silva MTL,Bari AU,Lima LD,Lossio CF,Nascimento KS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, fish gelatin and chitosan were used as the film-forming substrate, and different concentrations of TiO2-Ag were added to prepare composite films. The physicochemical characteristics and microstructure of the films were studied. The results showed that the addition of TiO2-Ag significantly increased the ...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Lin D,Yang Y,Wang J,Yan W,Wu Z,Chen H,Zhang Q,Wu D,Qin W,Tu Z

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the preparation of novel biocompatible polyurethane (PU) elastomers were carried out using curcumin and 1,4-butanediol (1,4-BDO) via step growth polymerization reaction of hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene (HTPB), toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and chitin to improve the biocompatibility, antibacterial and an...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Amjed N,Bhatti IA,Zia KM,Iqbal J,Jamil Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polysaccharide fraction of Bletilla ochracea (BOP) was isolated from its tubers, and purified by DEAE-52 Cellulose and Sephadex G-200 column chromatography. The structural features of BOP were analyzed by GC-MS, HPLP, FT-IR, methylation and NMR. The average molecular weight of BOP was approximately 4.9 × 105 Da, a...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Niu J,Wang S,Wang B,Chen L,Zhao G,Liu S,Wang S,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the mechanism through which cardaba banana starch is hydrolysed, the starch digestion kinetics of native and modified cardaba banana starch samples of Nigeria origin were investigated using an in vitro procedure. The digestion kinetics of the starch samples revealed the samples exhibited a biphasic diges...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Olawoye B,Gbadamosi SO

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to optimize the mechanical and texture properties of edible film improving its antibacterial property after adding rosemary essential oil (REO) using a Doehlert matrix. Films with the highest mechanical properties were acquired using a polymer composition of 65.2% glycerol, 24.3% gelatin, 10....

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Yeddes W,Djebali K,Aidi Wannes W,Horchani-Naifer K,Hammami M,Younes I,Saidani Tounsi M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A poly(gellan gum-co-acrylamide-co-acrylic acid) (GGDA) hydrogel was synthesized by modifying gellan gum (GG) with partly neutralized acrylic acid (AAc) and acrylamide (AAm) under the crosslinking agent trimethylolpropane triglycidyl ether. With the introduction of carboxyl and amino groups by the AAc and AAm, the GGD...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Zheng M,Cai K,Chen M,Zhu Y,Zhang L,Zheng B

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant glycoproteins, especially allergenic glycoproteins such as pollen allergens, often carry antigenic N-glycans with α1-3 fucose and/or β1-2 xylose residue(s) on the trimannosyl core structure. We previously reported that one of such antigenic free-form N-glycans, Man3Xyl1Fuc1GlcNAc2 (M3FX) suppressed IL-4 producti...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Kimura M,Ogura M,Akamatsu M,Sugimoto K,Maeda M,Nitoda T,Nagasawa-Fujimori H,Yamashita H,Kimura Y

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Amygdalin, despite possessing anticancerous properties, has been viewed as a controversial choice due to the presence of the cyanide group. Here, we synthesise and investigate the potential of alginate-chitosan nanoparticles (ACNPs) as drug delivery agents for amygdalin encapsulation and its delivery to cancer cells. ...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Sohail R,Abbas SR

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Astragalus polysaccharide (APS) is a bioactive macromolecule, which has been used to alleviate the development of Parkinson's disease (PD), while its mechanism is still unresolved. As is generally accepted that autophagy has an important link with PD, thus it is reasonable to hypothesize that APS was involved in autop...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Tan Y,Yin L,Sun Z,Shao S,Chen W,Man X,Du Y,Chen Y

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polysaccharides are extensively used in drug delivery systems due to their ability to undergo a broad range of chemical and enzymatic reactions, forming new molecules. Among these, chitosan (CS) and pectin (PEC) are widely used for designing new conjugates and biopolymers. METHODS:In this study, we synthesi...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Tian L,Singh A,Singh AV

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) and its viscosity on the pasting and paste properties of waxy rice starch (WRS). HPMC with different viscosities (low, BN50; medium, BN40M; high, BN40H) but similar substituted group contents was used. Although the total...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Lee H,Kim HS

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To fight oxidative damage due to reactive oxygen species (ROS), cells are equipped of different enzymes, among which Peroxiredoxins (Prxs) (EC 1.11.1.15) play a key role. Prxs are thiol-based enzymes containing one (1-Cys Prx) or two (2-Cys Prx) catalytic cysteine residues. In 2-Cys Prxs the cysteine residues form a d...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Fiorentino G,Contursi P,Gallo G,Bartolucci S,Limauro D

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced graphene oxide (RGO) has shown tremendous potential as a NIR responsive nanomaterial and has been extensively explored for NIR mediated photothermal therapy and drug delivery. However, the potential of NIR as a stimulus to trigger release of entrapped/complexed DNA from its surface have not been explored. Stro...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Roy S,Jaiswal A

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work is to research impacts of oxidized (OCS), acetylated (ACS) and cross-linked (CLCS) corn starch on gelatinization properties of rice flour and their gel structure during storage at 4 °C for 1 and 7 days. OCS led to significant increase of pasting temperature and solubility in blend flour but ...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Hu WX,Chen J,Zhao JW,Chen L,Wang YH

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to prepare chitosan guar nanoparticle (CGNP) with high antimicrobial activity to use as a bioprotectant against rice phytopathogens. Nanoparticles were prepared using sodium tripolyphosphate by the ionic gelation method. The physico-chemical properties of nanoparticles were characteriz...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Sathiyabama M,Muthukumar S

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on the exploitation of keratinous hydrolysate by keratinase enzymes to produce vitamin B-complex. Toward this end, keratinase enzyme was produced by Bacillus thuringiensis strain MT1, newly isolated from cattle-yard utilising donkey hairs. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and Fourier transform inf...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Hassan MA,Taha TH,Hamad GM,Hashem M,Alamri S,Mostafa YS

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports encapsulation-vitrification of Leydig cells. The Leydig cells were encapsulated in sodium alginate beads of different sizes and cryopreserved by vitrification or slow freezing. Physico-chemical characterization of beads was done by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), X-Ray Diffraction (X...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Patra T,Gupta MK

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:After gelatinization, starch is prone to retrograde during storage, and it is a notorious challenge to inhibit starch retrogradation in papermaking, textile, and construction fields. This work aimed to develop a new method for inhibiting the retrogradation of normal corn starch (CS) and waxy corn starch (WCS) by sodiu...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Yu M,Xu Z,Ji N,Dai L,Xiong L,Sun Q

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:By natural selection, organisms evolve different solutions to cope with extremely cold weather. The emergence of an antifreeze protein gene is one of the most momentous solutions. Antifreeze proteins possess an importantly functional ability for organisms to survive in cold environments and are widely found in various...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Xiang H,Yang X,Ke L,Hu Y

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-enzymatic degradation of wood via a chelator-mediated Fenton (CMF) system is the primary method for initial attack in brown rot fungal decomposition of wood, the most common type of fungal degradation of terrestrial carbon biomass on the planet. In this study, the degradation of thin films of cellulose and chitin ...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Liu J,Zhu Y,Wang C,Goodell B,Esker AR

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, chitosan‑zinc sulfide nanoparticles (CS-ZnS-NPs) were developed as an efficient photocatalyst for the degradation of toxic dyes. The as-synthesized CS-ZnS-NPs were analyzed using XRD, FTIR, SEM, and EDS. The functional groups of CS-ZnS-NPs were validated with FTIR spectroscopy. The SEM envisaged the average pa...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Aziz A,Ali N,Khan A,Bilal M,Malik S,Ali N,Khan H

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of protein nanoparticles on the interfacial distribution of antioxidants and the oxidative stability in Pickering emulsions are attracting increasing research interests. In the present work, the distribution of gallic acid (GA) in zein nanoparticles-stabilized Pickering emulsions (ZPE) was determined by em...

journal_title：International journal of biological macromolecules

authors： Zhao Z,Lu M,Mao Z,Xiao J,Huang Q,Lin X,Cao Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00