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Molecules, Volume 18, Issue 7

July 2013 - 88 articles

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Articles (88)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,022 Views
12 Pages

Structure of the C-terminal Region of the Frizzled Receptor 1 in Detergent Micelles

  • Shovanlal Gayen,
  • Qingxin Li,
  • Young Mee Kim and
  • CongBao Kang

22 July 2013

The C-terminal domains of the Frizzleds (FZDs) contain a short conserved motif (KTXXXW). It has been demonstrated that FZDs interacted with the PDZ domain of the cytoplasmic proteins such as Dishevelled through this motif and mutations in this motif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,093 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2013

To find low energy SinCn structures out of hundreds to thousands of isomers we have developed a general method to search for stable isomeric structures that combines Stochastic Potential Surface Search and Pseudopotential Plane-Wave Density Functiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
7,724 Views
11 Pages

The Effect of PAMAM Dendrimers on the Antibacterial Activity of Antibiotics with Different Water Solubility

  • Katarzyna Winnicka,
  • Magdalena Wroblewska,
  • Piotr Wieczorek,
  • Pawel Tomasz Sacha and
  • Elzbieta Anna Tryniszewska

22 July 2013

Erythromycin (EM) and tobramycin (TOB) are well-known and widely used antibiotics, belonging to different therapeutic groups: macrolide and aminoglycoside, respectively. Moreover, they possess different solubility: EM is slightly soluble and TOB is f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
75 Citations
14,210 Views
48 Pages

22 July 2013

The increasing application of positron emission tomography (PET) in nuclear medicine has stimulated the extensive development of a multitude of novel and versatile bioorthogonal conjugation techniques especially for the radiolabeling of biologically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,919 Views
16 Pages

Phenolic Content and Antioxidant Activities of Burr Parsley (Caucalis platycarpos L.)

  • Ana Plazonić,
  • Ana Mornar,
  • Željan Maleš and
  • Nikola Kujundžić

22 July 2013

Since C. platycarpos contains a wide variety of antioxidants, in the present study total flavonoid and phenolic acid content as well as antioxidative activity of various C. platycarpos extracts were investigated. The results obtained show a signific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
9,936 Views
14 Pages

MYB Transcription Factors Regulate Glucosinolate Biosynthesis in Different Organs of Chinese Cabbage (Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis)

  • Yeon Bok Kim,
  • Xiaohua Li,
  • Sun-Ju Kim,
  • Haeng Hoon Kim,
  • Jeongyeo Lee,
  • HyeRan Kim and
  • Sang Un Park

22 July 2013

In this study, we investigated the expression of seven MYB transcription factors (a total of 17 genes that included Dof1.1, IQD1-1, MYB28, MYB29, MYB34, MYB51, and MYB122 and their isoforms) involved in aliphatic and indolic glucosinolate (GSL) biosy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,028 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2013

Three diorganotin(IV) complexes of the general formula R2Sn[RcC(O)N(RN)O] (Rc = aryl, RN = Alkyl) have been synthesized by refluxing in toluene the corresponding diorganotin(IV) oxides with the free ligand N-methyl p-fluorobenzohydroxamic acid, using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,558 Views
15 Pages

Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of a New Acyclic Pyrimidine Derivative as a Probe for Imaging Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Thymidine Kinase Gene Expression

  • Andrijana Meščić,
  • Thomas Betzel,
  • Adrienne Müller,
  • Roger Slavik,
  • Stjepko Čermak,
  • Silvana Raić-Malić and
  • Simon M. Ametamey

19 July 2013

With the idea of finding a more selective radiotracer for imaging herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (HSV1-tk) gene expression by means of positron emission tomography (PET), a novel [18F]fluorine radiolabeled pyrimidine with 4-hydroxy-3-(h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,213 Views
13 Pages

Synthesis and Bioassay of a New Class of Furanyl-1,3,4-Oxadiazole Derivatives

  • Mohamed M. El Sadek,
  • Seham Y. Hassan,
  • Huda E. Abdelwahab and
  • Galila A. Yacout

19 July 2013

Tyrosinase enzyme is a monophenol monoxygenase enzyme, which plays an important role in human as a rate limiting step enzyme for different specific metabolic pathways, as well as its useful application in industry and agriculture. So this study was c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
8,227 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2013

In this study, we describe the elaboration of multifunctional positively charged polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) nanoparticles, designed to be stable at physiological salt concentration and pH, for effective targeted delivery. These nanoparticles were...

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