The recognition of saccharides by proteins has far reaching implications in biology,
technology, and drug design. Within the past two decades, researchers have directed …

Organic chemists tend to consider the conformation of compounds as a consequence of
repulsive steric interactions. In other words,“the steric effect” means “repulsive” in many …

The CH/π hydrogen bond is an attractive molecular force occurring between a soft acid and
a soft base. Contribution from the dispersion energy is important in typical cases where …

This is a sequel to the previous Perspective “The CH–π hydrogen bond in chemistry.
Conformation, supramolecules, optical resolution and interactions involving carbohydrates” …

Xylooligosaccharides (XOS) have gained increased interest as prebiotics during the last
years. XOS and arabinoxylooligosaccharides (AXOS) can be produced from major fractions …

Xylanases are of widespread importance in several food and non-food biotechnological
applications. They degrade heteroxylans, a structurally heterogeneous group of plant cell …

Binding of hippuric acid (HA), a uremic toxin, with human serum albumin (HSA) has been
examined by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) …

Thymoquinone (TQ) is the main constituent of Nigella sativa and is traditionally used as a
folk medicine. Our aim was to investigate the binding mechanism of TQ to human serum …

Uridine analogs 5′ dFUrd (a cytotoxic metabolite of a prodrug capecitabine that
enzymatically converted into 5′ dFUrd) commonly used in the treatment of advanced …

Exogenous substances like drugs, when absorbed, enter into the circulatory system and
bind reversibly and extensively to human serum albumin (HSA). But transport of various …