Lanthanides complexes–Chiral sensing of biomolecules

K Staszak, K Wieszczycka, V Marturano… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thanks to their dimensional versatility and ability to form complexes, lanthanides are
increasingly employed for the chiral sensing of biomolecules. In this work two sensing …

The role of circular dichroism spectroscopy in the era of integrative structural biology

BA Wallace - Current opinion in structural biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Instrumentation developments are enabling an enhanced range of
measurements.•The PCDDB provides spectra and metadata for traceability and methods …

[HTML][HTML] RcAlb-PepII, a synthetic small peptide bioinspired in the 2S albumin from the seed cake of Ricinus communis, is a potent antimicrobial agent against …

LP Dias, PFN Souza, JTA Oliveira… - … et Biophysica Acta (Bba …, 2020 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are important constituents of the innate immunity system of all
living organisms. They participate in the first line of defense against invading pathogens …

Antimicrobial activity of an Fmoc-Plantaricin 149 derivative peptide against multidrug-resistant Bacteria

GM Righetto, JLS Lopes, PJM Bispo, C André… - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance poses a major threat to public health. Given the paucity of novel
antimicrobials to treat resistant infections, the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria …

Anticandidal activity of synthetic peptides: Mechanism of action revealed by scanning electron and fluorescence microscopies and synergism effect with nystatin

PG Lima, PFN Souza, CDT Freitas… - Journal of Peptide …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Candida albicans has emerged as a major public health problem in recent decades. The
most important contributing factor is the rapid increase in resistance to conventional drugs …

Recent developments in the chiroptical properties of chiral plasmonic gold nanostructures: bioanalytical applications

N John, AT Mariamma - Microchimica Acta, 2021 - Springer
The presence of excess L-amino acid in the Murchison meteorite, circular polarization effect
in the genesis of stars and existence of chirality in interstellar molecules contribute to the …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental methods to study the structure and dynamics of intrinsically disordered regions in proteins

S Maiti, T Maji, NV Saibo, S De - Current Research in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Eukaryotic proteins often feature long stretches of amino acids that lack a well-defined three-
dimensional structure and are referred to as intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or …

Going deep into protein secondary structure with synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy

PS Kumagai, APU Araujo, JLS Lopes - Biophysical Reviews, 2017 - Springer
Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a fast, powerful, well-established, and widely used
analytical technique in the biophysical and structural biology community to study protein …

[HTML][HTML] Site-specific glycations of apolipoprotein AI lead to differentiated functional effects on lipid-binding and on glucose metabolism

J Domingo-Espín, O Nilsson, K Bernfur… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2018 - Elsevier
Prolonged hyperglycemia in poorly controlled diabetes leads to an increase in reactive
glucose metabolites that covalently modify proteins by non-enzymatic glycation reactions …

Molecular dynamics ensemble refinement of intrinsically disordered peptides according to deconvoluted spectra from circular dichroism

JC Ezerski, P Zhang, NC Jennings, MN Waxham… - Biophysical journal, 2020 - cell.com
We have developed a computational method of atomistically refining the structural ensemble
of intrinsically disordered peptides (IDPs) facilitated by experimental measurements using …