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Thermostability

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Additives for vaccine storage to improve thermal stability of adenoviruses from hours to months

Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Randy Patrick Carney, Valeria Cagno

Up to 80% of the cost of vaccination programmes is due to the cold chain problem (that is, keeping vaccines cold). Inexpensive, biocompatible additives to slow down the degradation of virus particles would address the problem. Here we propose and character ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Modeling and Engineering Proteins Thermostability

Hasan Pezeshgi Modarres

Enzymes have evolved during millions of years to become efficient catalysts for specific biochemical reactions within a specific range of working conditions in the cellular environment. The activity of an enzyme is directly related to its folded structure ...

EPFL2015

Solid heat-expandable polylactide-poly(methyl methacrylate) foam precursors prepared by immersion in liquid carbon dioxide

John Christopher Plummer, Yonghoon Yoon

Solid heat-expandable foam precursors were prepared by impregnating melt-blended poly(d,l-lactide) (PDLLA)-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) blends with liquid carbon dioxide (CO2). The phase behavior of these blends was strongly dependent on the processing ...

Springer2015

The effect of crowding and confinement: a comparison of Yfh1 stability in different environments

Paolo De Los Rios

Crowding and confinement can affect protein stability, favouring the more compact species amongst the folded and unfolded conformations. An unbiased assessment of the relative efficacy of crowded and confined environments has been hampered so far by the pa ...

Institute of Physics2013

The conformational flexibility of the carboxy terminal residues 105-114 is a key modulator of the catalytic activity and stability of macrophage migration inhibitory factor

Ursula Röthlisberger, Hilal Lashuel, Michele Cascella, Magdalena Zweckstetter, Hajer Ouertatani-Sakouhi, Farah El Turk

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a multifunctional protein and a major mediator of innate immunity. Although X-ray crystallography revealed that MIF exists as a homotrimer, its oligomerization state in vivo and the factors governing its olig ...

American Chemical Society2008

Engineering a thermostable human prolyl endopeptidase for antibody-directed enzyme prodrug therapy

Christian Heinis, Dario Neri

We present a new antibody-directed enzyme prodrug therapy strategy (ADEPT) based on a post-proline cleaving endopeptidase and prodrugs, in which cytotoxic moieties are linked to a proline-contg. peptide. Human prolyl endopeptidase was expressed in Escheric ...

2004

Active solubilization and refolding of stable protein aggregates by cooperative unfolding action of individual hsp70 chaperones

Giovanni Dietler, Paolo De Los Rios, Pierre Goloubinoff

Hsp70 is a central molecular chaperone that passively prevents protein aggregation and uses the energy of ATP hydrolysis to solubilize, translocate, and mediate the proper refolding of proteins in the cell. Yet, the molecular mechanism by which the active ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2004

Kinetics of collagen denaturation in tendon

Collagen is constituted of three polypeptides forming a triple helix maintained by numerous weak chemical interactions, such as hydrogen bonds. In connective tissue it further packs into very long cylinders of few nanometers of diameter, called fibrils. On ...

EPFL2000

Synthesis, structure and activity of artificial, rationally designed catalytic polypeptides

Kai Johnsson

This paper reports the synthesis of rationally designed polypeptides that catalyze the decarboxylation of oxaloacetate via an imine intermediate. The authors det. the secondary structures of the polypeptides by two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. The authors ...

1993

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