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Enhanced Infection Resistance and Regenerative Healing of Titanium Implants via Peptide‐Loaded Biodegradable Coatings

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This study presents a new biodegradable coating for titanium implants using a natural antimicrobial peptide, caerin 1.9. Applied via solvent casting, the coating offers sustained antibacterial protection and promotes healing. Tested on 3D‐printed porous titanium scaffolds, it effectively prevented infection—including against resistant bacteria—while ...
Hejie Li, Tianfang Wang, Nicolas Soro, Guoying Ni, Meg Allom, D. İpek Kurtböke, Xiaosong Liu, Damon Kent   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic analysis of the kalimantacin assembly line NRPS module using an adapted targeted mutagenesis approach [PDF]

, 2015
Kalimantacin is an antimicrobial compound with strong antistaphylococcal activity that is produced by a hybrid trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetase system in Pseudomonas fluorescens BCCM_ID9359.
Appermans, Kenny, Lathouwers, Thomas, Lavigne, Rob, Masschelein, Joleen, Michiels, Chris W., Song, Lijiang, Uytterhoeven, Birgit   +6 more
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RIG‐I Mediated Neuron‐Specific IFN Type 1 Signaling in FUS‐ALS Induces Neurodegeneration and Offers New Biomarker‐Driven Individualized Treatment Options for (FUS‐)ALS

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Using iPSC‐derived motoneurons and postmortem tissue from FUS‐ALS patients, it is demonstrated that increased mitochondrial transcription leads to elevated cytosolic double‐stranded RNA (dsRNA) levels. This aberrant accumulation activates a RIG‐I–dependent innate immune response leading to neurodegeneration, which is amenable for FDA‐ and EMA‐approved ...
Marcel Naumann, Theresa M. Wierschin, Stefanie Kretschmer, Banaja P. Dash, Aaron Held, Andrea Salzinger, Kevin Peikert, Anže Karlek, Hannes Glaß, Dajana Großmann, René Günther, Susanne Petri, Annekathrin Rödiger, David Brenner, Francisco Pan‐Montojo, Eleonora Aronica, Markus Kipp, Vitaly Zimyanin, Jared Sterneckert, Torsten Grehl, Noah D. Seebacher, Tobias M. Böckers, Alberto Catanese, Brian J. Wainger, Patrick Oeckl, Min Ae Lee‐Kirsch, Andreas Hermann   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

EDHF: An update [PDF]

, 2009
The endothelium controls vascular tone not only by releasing NO and prostacyclin, but also by other pathways causing hyperpolarization of the underlying smooth muscle cells.
Félétou, M, VanHoutte, PM
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Polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide synthases: Falling together by coming apart [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003
Microorganisms have invented many devious ways to thwart their foes and survive in adverse environments. Non-motile microbes, especially ones that inhabit soil and marine environments, are noted for an ability to produce a wide range of chemicals (1).
openaire   +2 more sources

CypD Dependent mPTP Opening Is Crucial for Oxidized Mitochondrial DNA Release in Ferroptosis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Ferroptosis is driven by mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) opening, which induces mitochondrial swelling and releases oxidized mitochondrial DNA. The released mtDNA activates cGAS–STING signaling, promotes ferritinophagy, and amplifies ferroptotic cell death. Disruption of mtDNA repair sensitizes tumors to ferroptosis in vivo, revealing
Hong Zhou, Wan Fu, Shizuo Liu, Zili Zhang, Hanyan Luo, Qing Zhong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Production of Secondary Metabolites in Extreme Environments: Food- and Airborne Wallemia spp. Produce Toxic Metabolites at Hypersaline Conditions [PDF]

, 2016
The food- and airborne fungal genus Wallemia comprises seven xerophilic and halophilic species: W. sebi, W. mellicola, W. canadensis, W. tropicalis, W. muriae, W. hederae and W. ichthyophaga.
Džeroski, Sašo, Frisvad, Jens Christian, Gostinčar, Cene, Gunde-Cimerman, Nina, Jančič, Sašo, Kocev, Dragi   +5 more
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Protein–protein interface-binding peptides inhibit the cancer therapy target human thymidylate synthase [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011
Human thymidylate synthase is a homodimeric enzyme that plays a key role in DNA synthesis and is a target for several clinically important anticancer drugs that bind to its active site. We have designed peptides to specifically target its dimer interface. Here we show through X-ray diffraction, spectroscopic, kinetic, and calorimetric evidence that the
CARDINALE, Daniela, GUAITOLI, GIAMBATTISTA, TONDI, Donatella, LUCIANI, Rosaria, S. Henrich, O. M. H. Salo Ahen, FERRARI, Stefania, MARVERTI, Gaetano, GUERRIERI, Davide, LIGABUE, Alessio, FRASSINETI, Chiara, C. Pozzi, S. Mangani, D. Fessas, R. Guerrini, PONTERINI, Glauco, R. C. Wade, COSTI, Maria Paola   +17 more
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Tailoring Vascular‐Immune Homeostasis via Manganese‐DNA Complex‐Armed Immunogenic Extracellular Vesicles for Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates that Mn2⁺–tumor DNA complexes encapsulated in dendritic cell (DC)– derived immunogenic extracellular vesicles (EVDC@Mn‐DNA) act as a DC‐specific cGAS– STING activator. EVDC@Mn‐DNA treatment enhances intratumoral DC activation, improves tumor vascular function, promotes CD8⁺ T cell activity, and suppresses pancreatic tumor growth,
Xue Jiang, Lihuan Shang, Xiaochun Chen, Xiangzhan Kong, Xiaojuan Wang, Linjia Jiang, Huiying Zhao, Yafeng Zhu, Cheng Huang, Shiyi Deng, Rui Zhang, Minghui Wang, Haoming Lin, Ping‐Pui Wong   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Template-directed biopolymerization: tape-copying Turing machines

, 2012
DNA, RNA and proteins are among the most important macromolecules in a living cell. These molecules are polymerized by molecular machines. These natural nano-machines polymerize such macromolecules, adding one monomer at a time, using another linear ...
Chowdhury, Debashish, Sharma, Ajeet K.
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