Natarajan, Pavithra Tomich, John M.
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Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Inorganic/metallic core nanoparticles comprise 25% of the nanomedicines in clinical trials. • Nano-bio interactions are complex and lack of standardization in the field further limits their transition to clinical trials and beyond. • Experimental parameters play an important role along with the nanoparticle physicochemical properties in understan...
Duarte, Simone Panariello, Beatriz H.D.
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Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Low-temperature plasma (LTP) has antibacterial and antifungal effects against oral biofilms. • LTP has wound healing effects and antimicrobial effects on skin diseases. • LTP has direct and indirect effects on different types of cancer. • LTP inactivates or lowers viral load of different types of viruses. • LTP improves the osseointegration to de...
Perez, Luis
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Archives of biochemistry and biophysics
Organisms respond in multiple ways to microbial infections. Pathogen invasion tipically triggers an inflammatory response where acute phase proteins (APP) have a key role. Pentraxins (PTX) are a family of highly conserved APP that play a part in the host defense against infection. The larger proteins of the family are simply named pentraxins, while...
Cao, Mengyuan Zhang, Wanfu Li, Junjie Zhang, Julei Li, Lincheng Liu, Mingchuan Yin, Wen Bai, Xiaozhi
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Archives of biochemistry and biophysics
Severe inflammation may lead to multiple organs dysfunction syndrome, which has a high mortality. MicroRNA is found participated in this process. In this study we developed a lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation cell model on macrophages and a lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation mouse model. It was found that during inflammation, microRNA-9 ...
Sivanesam, Kalkena Andersen, Niels
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Archives of biochemistry and biophysics
Amyloid fibril formation has long been studied because of the variety of proteins that are capable of adopting this structure despite sharing little sequence homology. This makes amyloid fibrils a challenging focus for inhibition studies because the peptides and proteins that form amyloid fibrils cannot be targeted based on a sequence motif. Most p...
Ruggeri, Francesco Simone Šneideris, Tomas Vendruscolo, Michele Knowles, Tuomas P J
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Archives of biochemistry and biophysics
The development of atomic force microscopy (AFM) has opened up a wide range of novel opportunities in nanoscience and new modalities of observation in complex biological systems. AFM imaging has been widely employed to resolve the complex and heterogeneous conformational states involved in protein aggregation at the single molecule scale and shed l...
McMorran, Lindsay M. Brockwell, David J. Radford, Sheena E.
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Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research into the mechanisms by which proteins fold into their native structures has been on-going since the work of Anfinsen in the 1960s. Since that time, the folding mechanisms of small, water-soluble proteins have been well characterised. By contrast, progress in understanding the biogenesis and folding mechanisms of integral membrane proteins ...
Yan, Libo Cai, Qingchun Xu, Yan
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Archives of biochemistry and biophysics
The Hippo-YAP pathway is altered and implicated as an oncogenic signaling pathway in many human cancers. Hypoxia is an important microenvironmental factor that promotes tumorigenesis. However, the effects of hypoxia on the two most important Hippo-YAP effectors, YAP (Yes-associated protein) and TAZ (transcriptional co-activator with PDZ-binding mot...
Cappariello, Alfredo Maurizi, Antonio Veeriah, Vimal Teti, Anna
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Archives of biochemistry and biophysics
Much has been written recently on osteoclast biology, but this cell type still astonishes scientists with its multifaceted functions and unique properties. The last three decades have seen a change in thinking about the osteoclast, from a cell with a single function, which just destroys the tissue it belongs to, to an "orchestrator" implicated in t...
Ruotolo, Roberta Calani, Luca Brighenti, Furio Crozier, Alan Ottonello, Simone Del Rio, Daniele
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Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Several plant-derived molecules, referred to as phytoestrogens, are thought to mimic the actions of endogenous estrogens. Among these, quercetin, one of the most widespread flavonoids in the plant kingdom, has been reported as estrogenic in some occasions. However, quercetin occurs in substantial amounts as glycosides such as quercetin-3-O-glucosid...
