C-Phycocyanin exerts anti-cancer effects via the MAPK signaling pathway in MDA-MB-231 cells
Cancer Cell International, 2018 Background Triple-negative breast cancer is a biological subtype of breast cancer, which is unresponsive to conventional chemotherapies and has a poor prognosis.
Liangqian Jiang +6 more
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Food Chemistry Advances, 2022 The present investigation is designed to evaluate the ameliorative efficacy of spirulina and its active constituent, C-phycocyanin, on hepatorenal injury induced by titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs).
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C-phycocyanin inhibits epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in Caski cells
Cancer Cell International, 2020 Background In cervical cancer, most patients die of metastasis. The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a pivotal and intricate process that increases the metastatic potential of cervical cancer. C-phycocyanin (C-PC) is a natural marine product
Huanhuan Ji +5 more
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FÖRSTER TRANSFER CALCULATIONS BASED ON CRYSTAL STRUCTURE DATA FROM Agmenellum quadruplicatum C-PHYCOCYANIN [PDF]
, 1987 Excitation energy transfer in C-phycocyanin is modeled using the Forster inductive resonance mechanism. Detailed calculations are carried out using coordinates and orientations of the chromophores derived from X-ray crystallographic studies of C ...
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ENERGY TRANSFER IN TRIMERIC C-PHYCOCYANIN STUDIED BY PICOSECOND FLUORESCENCE KINETICS [PDF]
, 1986 The excited state kinetics of trimeric C-phycocyanin from Mastigocladus laminosus has been measured as a function of the emission and excitation wavelength by the single-photon timing technique with picosecond resolution and simultaneous data analysis. A
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Dissociating effect of chromophore modifications on C-phycocyanin heterohexamers [PDF]
, 1992 The bilin chromophores of the α or β subunit of C-phycocyanin (PC) from Mastigocladus laminosus were modified, and subsequently recombined with the respective complementary unmodified chromophores.
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Picosecond time-resolved fluorescence of phycobiliproteins [PDF]
, 1990 The α- and β-subunits of C-phycocyanin from Mastigocladus laminosus were prepared according to revised procedures. Both subunits are isolated as dimers, which can be dissociated into monomers with detergent mixtures.
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Mesoscale Ordering of Phycocyanin Molecules in Langmuir-Blodgett Multilayers
, 2022 Phycocyanin molecules, which are part of light-harvesting complexes in cyanobacteria, can be assembled into mesoscale multilayer nanofilms by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique.
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Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2022 Background Phycocyanin is an important protein in cyanobacteria that has many medical and therapeutic properties. The aim of the present study was to compare the antibacterial properties of phycocyanin and its SNPs and to evaluate their effects on rat ...
Mahdieh Izadi, Elaheh Latifi
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A Comparison of Phycocyanins from Three Different Species of Cyanobacteria Employing Resonance-Enhanced Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy [PDF]
, 1993 Resonance-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectra are recorded for monomers and trimers of phycocyanin from three different cyanobacteria: Westiellopsis prolifica, Mastigocladus laminosus and Spirulina platensis.
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