High gas barrier coating using non-toxic nanosheet dispersions for flexible food packaging film
Nature Communications, 2019 Food packaging industry is in search of non-toxic, stable, and recyclable coatings acting as gas-barriers. Here the authors synthesise transparent films meeting these requirements, based on high aspect ratio layered double hydroxide nanosheets obtained ...
Jingfang Yu +5 more
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Development of natural and unnatural amino acid delivery systems against hookworm infection
Precision Nanomedicine, 2020 Peptide-based vaccines consist of short antigen fragments derived from a specific pathogen. Alone, these peptide fragments are poorly or non-immunogenic; however, when incorporated into a proper delivery system, they can trigger strong immune responses.
Stacey Bartlett +5 more
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Identification and genetic analysis of Kadipiro virus isolated in Shandong province, China
Virology Journal, 2018 Background Kadipiro virus (KDV) belongs to the Reoviridae family, which consists of segmented, non-enveloped, double-stranded RNA viruses. It has previously been isolated from Culex, Anopheles, Armigeres and Aedes mosquitoes in Indonesia and China. Here,
Weijia Zhang +15 more
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Properties and Crystal Structure of the Cereibacter sphaeroides Photosynthetic Reaction Center with Double Amino Acid Substitution I(L177)H + F(M197)H. [PDF]
Membranes (Basel), 2023 Fufina TY +3 more
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Two Amino Acid Residues Contribute to a Cation-π Binding Interaction in the Binding Site of an Insect GABA Receptor [PDF]
, 2011 Cys-loop receptor binding sites characteristically possess an "aromatic box," where several aromatic amino acid residues surround the bound ligand. A cation-π interaction between one of these residues and the natural agonist is common, although the ...
Ashby, Jamie A. +3 more
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Functional interactions among members of the meiotic initiation complex in fission yeast [PDF]
, 2018 DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) initiate meiotic recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and in other organisms. The Rec12 protein catalyzes the formation of these DSBs in concert with a multitude of accessory proteins the role of which in this ...
Kohli, Jürg +2 more
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Nature Communications, 2018 In the original version of this Article, extraneous text not belonging to the article was accidentally appended to end of the first paragraph of the discussion. This error has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
Youngzee Song +10 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 Small proteins are a new and expanding area of research. Many characterized small proteins are composed of a single hydrophobic α-helix, and the functional requirements of their limited amino acid sequence are not well understood.
Jessica J Hobson +7 more
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Rapid evolution of protein kinase PKR alters sensitivity to viral inhibitors. [PDF]
, 2009 Protein kinase PKR (also known as EIF2AK2) is activated during viral infection and phosphorylates the alpha subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2), leading to inhibition of translation and viral replication. We report fast evolution
Dever, Thomas E +4 more
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Shewanella oneidensis NADH Dehydrogenase Mutants Exhibit an Amino Acid Synthesis Defect
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2019 Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is a dissimilatory metal reducing bacterium with a highly branched respiratory electron transport chain. The S. oneidensis MR-1 genome encodes four NADH dehydrogenases, any of which may be used during respiration. We previously
Kody L. Duhl, Michaela A. TerAvest
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