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The ribosome-mediated, site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins is a powerful tool for creating protein analogues with specific steric, chemical, electronic or spectroscopic properties, in vitro and in vivo. The required aminoacyl ...
Obesity is associated with a chronic low-grade inflammation that predisposes to insulin resistance and the development of type 2 diabetes. In this metabolic context, gastrointestinal (GI) candidiasis is common. We recently demonstrated that the PPAR gamma ...
Organometallic rutheniumarene compounds bearing a maltol ligand have been shown to be nearly inactive in in vitro anticancer assays, presumably due to the formation of dimeric Ru-II species in aqueous solutions. In an attempt to stabilize such complexes, [ ...
A new macrocyclic ligand, L3, has been synthesised, based on the cyclen framework grafted with three phenacyl light-harvesting groups and a C5-alkyl chain bearing a carboxylic acid function as a potential linker for biological material. Acidity constant ...
Conditions have been developed for the multicomponent synthesis of di- and tetrapeptide based on the unique reactivity of alpha -isocyanoacetic acids (including its alpha -substituted derivs.) by an Ugi four-component, five-center reaction. Simply mixing a ...
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) promotes the biochemical and morphological differentiation of selective populations of neurons during development. In this study we examined the energy requirements associated with the effects of BDNF on neuronal di ...
The Diels-Alder adducts of maleic anhydride to furfuryl esters were reduced into 7-oxabicyclo[2.2.l]hept-5-ene-1.2-exo,3-exo-trimethanol (+/-)-15 and enantiomerically pure (-)-15 (Scheme 1). The tripivalate of (+/-)-15 was converted into (1RS,2RS,3RS,4RS,5 ...
Despite striking advances in functional brain imaging, the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the signals detected by these techniques are still largely unknown. The basic physiological principle of functional imaging is represented by the tig ...
The retention behaviour of a six-helix bundle template-assembled synthetic protein (TASP) molecule and its amphiphilic building blocks was investigated. The TASP consists of a circular template, cyclo(1-12)[KG]6, and six identical potentially alpha-helical ...
A series of plasmids encoding hybrid proteins comprising various lengths of the NH2-terminal region of colicin N coupled to almost complete beta-galactosidase or alkaline phosphatase polypeptides was constructed by transposon mutagenesis of ColN plasmid de ...
