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A new non-classical fold of varroa odorant-binding proteins reveals a wide open internal cavity

Scientific Reports, 2021
Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs), as they occur in insects, form a distinct class of proteins that apparently has no closely related representatives in other animals.
Beatrice Amigues, Jiao Zhu, Anais Gaubert, Simona Arena, Giovanni Renzone, Philippe Leone, Isabella Maria Fischer, Harald Paulsen, Wolfgang Knoll, Andrea Scaloni, Alain Roussel, Christian Cambillau, Paolo Pelosi   +12 more
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Addendum: Grenda et al. Clostridia in Insect Processed Animal Proteins—Is an Epidemiological Problem Possible? Agriculture 2021, 11, 270 [PDF]

, 2021
Tomasz Grenda, K. Kwiatek, Magdalena Goldsztejn, Magdalena Sapała, Nina Kozieł, Piotr Domaradzki   +5 more
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Redefining Therapies for Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis: Synergistic Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides, Nanotechnology, and Computational Design

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial peptide (AMP)‐loaded nanocarriers provide a multifunctional strategy to combat drug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By enhancing intracellular delivery, bypassing efflux pumps, and disrupting bacterial membranes, this platform restores phagolysosome fusion and macrophage function.
Christian S. Carnero Canales, Jessica Ingrid Marquez Cazorla, Renzo Marianito Marquez Cazorla, Aline Martins dos Santos, Jonatas Lobato Duarte, Letícia Oliveira Catarin Nunes, Túlio Custódio Reis, Lara Cerazi Salvador, Norival Alves Santos‐Filho, Rafael Miguel Sábio, Hélder A. Santos, Fernando Rogério Pavan   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Roles of herbivorous insects salivary proteins

Heliyon
The intricate relationship between herbivorous insects and plants has evolved over millions of years, central to this dynamic interaction are salivary proteins (SPs), which mediate key processes ranging from nutrient acquisition to plant defense manipulation.
Xinyi Ma, Zhiyong Yin, Haiyin Li, Jianjun Guo   +3 more
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Evaluation of the Dual Impact of Nanotechnologies on Health and Environment Through Alternative Bridging Models

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores how alternative invertebrate and small‐vertebrate models advance the evaluation of nanomaterials across medicine and environmental science. By bridging cellular and organismal levels, these models enable integrated assessment of toxicity, biodistribution, and therapeutic performance.
Marie Celine Lefevre, Margherita Bernardeschi, Matteo Battaglini, Gianni Ciofani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Citrus, a key insect eggshell protein

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2011
Molecular aspects of chorion synthesis in insects have been studied deeply in species with meroistic ovaries. Information available in insects with panoistic ovaries is principally structural whereas molecular information in these species is scarce. This paper seeks to balance the above situation by describing a novel chorion gene, Citrus, from the ...
Irles, Paula, Piulachs, Maria-Dolors
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Engineered Protein‐Based Ionic Conductors for Sustainable Energy Storage Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Rational incorporation of charged residues into an engineered, self‐assembling protein scaffold yields solid‐state protein films with outstanding ionic conductivity. Salt‐doping further enhances conductivity, an effect amplified in the engineered variants. These properties enable the material integration into an efficient supercapacitor.
Juan David Cortés‐Ossa, Paolo Blesio, Marcial Fernandez‐Castro, Lisa Almonte, Maxence Fernandez, Mantas Liutkus, Perumal Pandurangan, Carlos Sabater, Aitor Villaverde, Manuel Melle‐Franco, Nurit Ashkenasy, Felipe Jiménez‐Ángeles, M. Carmen Morant‐Miñana, M. Reyes Calvo, Aitziber L. Cortajarena   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Advances and Prospects

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles offer unique properties like high surface area, tunable pores, and functionalization. They excel in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and stimuli‐responsive therapies, enabling targeted and controlled treatments. With roles in cancer therapy and diagnostics, their clinical translation requires addressing challenges in ...
Miguel Manzano, María Vallet‐Regí
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Proteomic Insights into the Immune Response of Conogethes punctiferalis Challenged with Beauveria bassiana

Insects
The yellow peach moth (YPM), Conogethes punctiferalis, is an important agricultural insect pest causing severe damage to corn in eastern China. Beauveria bassiana is an effective, eco-friendly, and promising alternative agent for controlling this insect ...
Shaohua Li, Zhiwei Kang, Xiangdong Li, Hailei Wei, Xiangchu Yin, Fangqiang Zheng, Fanghua Liu   +6 more
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Hunting for Insect-Specific Protein Domains

In Silico Biology: Journal of Biological Systems Modeling and Multi-Scale Simulation, 2006
Automatically finding new protein domains is a challenge when using the complete collection of known proteins (i.e., UniProt). By limiting the taxonomic range to class insecta, including two full proteomes (A. gambiae and D. melanogaster), we reduced the size of the search space in the hope of finding taxon-specific domains. The MKDOM2 program (http://
Daniel R, Matute, Emiliano, Barreto-Hernandez, Laurent, Falquet   +2 more
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