Published in SN Applied Sciences
The algae turf scrubber (ATS) is an excellent system for nutrient removal in wastewater or water bodies. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the production of periphytic biomass in an ATS system installed in a freshwater reservoir and to recognize biomass composition. Mid-infrared spectroscopic analysis was carried out to identify the main co...
Published in BMC Bioinformatics
BackgroundRapid progress in deep learning has spurred its application to bioinformatics problems including protein structure prediction and design. In classic machine learning problems like computer vision, progress has been driven by standardized data sets that facilitate fair assessment of new methods and lower the barrier to entry for non-domain...
The biological effects and cellular activations triggered by monosodium urate (MSU) and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (monoclinic: m-CPPD) crystals might be modulated by protein coating on the crystal surface. This study is aimed at: (i) Identifying proteins adsorbed on m-CPPD crystals, and the underlying mechanisms of protein adsorption, and (ii...
Published in Microchimica Acta
Microbead-based point-of-care testing (POCT) has demonstrated great promise in translating detection modalities from bench-side to bed-side. This is due to the ease of visualization, high surface area-to-volume ratio of beads for efficient target binding, and efficient encoding capability for simultaneous detection of multiple analytes. This review...
Published in Journal of Biomolecular NMR
Spectral resolution remains one of the most significant limitations in the NMR study of biomolecules. We present the srNOESY (super resolution nuclear overhauser effect spectroscopy) experiment, which enhances the resolution of NOESY cross-peaks at the expense of the diagonal peak line-width. We studied two proteins, ubiquitin and the influenza hem...
Published in Journal of Biomolecular NMR
Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) provide both structural and dynamical information useful in the characterization of biological macromolecules. While most data come from the interaction of simple pairs of directly bonded spin-1/2 nuclei (1H–15N, 1H–13C, 1H–1H), it is possible to acquire data from interactions among the multiple spins of 13C-labele...
Published in Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly
AbstractThe novel iron-substituted Krebs-type polyoxotungstate (C12N4H11)4Na2H5[(Fe(H2O)3)2((FeO2)0.5(WO2)0.5)2(β-SbW9O33)2] (Fe-1) has been synthesized using ortho-phenylenediamine (opda) as a precursor for the in situ formation of the counter cation 2,3-diaminophenazinium (C12N4H11)+ (2,3-DAP). Fe-1 has been thoroughly characterized in the solid ...
Published in The Protein Journal
Proteins are polymers, and yet the language used in describing their thermodynamics and kinetics is most often that of small molecules. Using the terminology and mathematical descriptions of small molecules impedes understanding why proteins have evolved to be big in comparison. Many properties of the proteins should be interpreted as polymer behav...
The chloroplast is a major plant cell organelle that fulfills essential metabolic and biosynthetic functions. Located at the interface between the chloroplast and other cell compartments, the chloroplast envelope system is a strategic barrier controlling the exchange of ions, metabolites and proteins, thus regulating essential metabolic functions (...
