Stimuli‐responsive active materials for dynamic control of light field
The increasing demand for the multidimensional and dynamic control of light has spurred the development of stimuli‐responsive, reconfigurable, and programmable optical systems.
Ren Zheng +7 more
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Functionalized Au15 nanoclusters as luminescent probes for protein carbonylation detection
Atomically precise gold nanoclusters hold promise as non-linear optical probes for biological imaging. Here functionalized luminescent gold nanoclusters bind free carbonyls via oxime bond formation, allowing detection of carbonylated proteins via gel ...
Guillaume F. Combes +16 more
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Biocompatible NaYF4:Yb,Er upconversion nanoparticles: Colloidal stability and optical properties
Currently, highly luminescent colloidal upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have expanded an increasing interest of researchers because of their facilitating lability in the biomedical/clinical field.
Anees A. Ansari +2 more
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Near‐Infrared Optical Sensing of Biomacromolecules with Upconversion Nanoplatforms
Optical sensing and imaging have perceived massive success in biomedical analysis and disease diagnosis in terms of minimal invasiveness, good sensitivity, high accuracy, and time‐/cost‐effectiveness.
Liben Yan, Zhimin Wang
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Extraction and purification of phycobiliproteins from algae and their applications
Microalgae, macroalgae and cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms, prokaryotic or eukaryotic, living in saline or freshwater environments. These have been recognized as valuable carbon sources, able to be used for food, feed, chemicals, and ...
Gabriela Kovaleski +7 more
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Protein Model and Function Analysis in Quorum-Sensing Pathway of Vibrio qinghaiensis sp.-Q67
Bioluminescent bacteria are mainly found in marine habitats. Vibrio qinghaiensis sp.-Q67 (Q67), a nonpathogenic freshwater bacterium, has been a focus due to its wide use in the monitoring of environmental pollution and the assessment of toxicity ...
Ze-Jun Wang +4 more
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Evolutionary Covariant Positions within Calmodulin EF-hand Sequences Promote Ligand Binding [PDF]
Intracellular calcium signaling is an essential regulatory mechanism through calcium-mediated signal transduction pathways involved in many cell processes, such as exocytosis, motility, apoptosis, excitability, transcription, and muscle contraction.
Vaidyanathan, Uma
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On the selection and design of proteins and peptide derivatives for the production of photoluminescent, red-emitting gold quantum clusters [PDF]
Novel pathways of the synthesis of photoluminescent gold quantum clusters (AuQCs) using biomolecules as reactants provide biocompatible products for biological imaging techniques.
A Baksi +48 more
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Fokker–Planck Analysis of Superresolution Microscopy Images
A method for the analysis of super-resolution microscopy images is presented. This method is based on the analysis of stochastic trajectories of particles moving on the membrane of a cell with the assumption that this motion is determined by the ...
Mario Annunziato, Alfio Borzì
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Site-Directed Mutagenesis and Site-Specific Binding Analysis of Calmodulin (CaM) [PDF]
Calcium signaling is a major regulatory system in cells and a crucial part of cell biology. An important element in the decoding of intracellular calcium concentration into downstream processes is the ubiquitous and highly conserved calcium binding ...
Dokic, Yelena
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