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Molecules, Volume 21, Issue 5

May 2016 - 139 articles

Cover Story: Carbohydrates form the third alphabet of life, and their oligomers (glycans) are integral components of cellular glycoconjugates. By acting as counterreceptors for tissue lectins, they are increasingly delineated to affect diverse aspects of cell physiology. In addition to the glycans’ structure, the topology of their presentation is a factor for affinity to lectins. The importance of this is currently not properly understood but can be unraveled by designing chemical tools to help characterize structure–activity relationships, spanning the range from monovalent derivatives to glycoclusters and glycodendrimers, as well as biomimetic surfaces. Taking adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins as an instructive example, the concept and experimental proofs are presented on this functional pairing. View the paper
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Articles (139)

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,773 Views
12 Pages

The objective of this study is to develop suitable formulations to improve the dissolution rate of poorly water soluble drugs. We selected lipid-based formulation as a drug carrier and modified the surface using positively charged chitosan derivative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
105 Citations
13,714 Views
11 Pages

The thermal conductivity of epoxy resin composites filled with combustion-synthesized hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) particles was investigated. The mixing of the composite constituents was carried out by either a dry method (involving no use of solv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,329 Views
36 Pages

Novel Radioligands for Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase Imaging with Positron Emission Tomography: An Update on Developments Since 2012

  • Susann Schröder,
  • Barbara Wenzel,
  • Winnie Deuther-Conrad,
  • Matthias Scheunemann and
  • Peter Brust

Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) are a class of intracellular enzymes that inactivate the secondary messenger molecules, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). Thus, PDEs regulate the signaling cas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,527 Views
11 Pages

Adsorption and Gas Separation of Molecules by Carbon Nanohorns

  • Silvina M. Gatica,
  • Anton Nekhai and
  • Adam Scrivener

In this paper, we report the results of Monte Carlo simulations of the adsorption of neon, argon, methane and carbon dioxide in carbon nanohorns. We model the nanohorns as an array of carbon cones and obtained adsorption isotherms and isosteric heats...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,248 Views
18 Pages

Microtubule poisons inhibit spindle function, leading to activation of spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) and mitotic arrest. Cell death occurring in prolonged mitosis is the first target of microtubule poisons in cancer therapies. However, even in th...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,385 Views
14 Pages

The Wu-Zhu-Yu decoction is a traditional Chinese medicine formula for the treatment of headache. To reveal its material basis, a rapid and reliable liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry method was established for comprehensive profi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
9,489 Views
13 Pages

Design, Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationships of Novel Chalcone-1,2,3-triazole-azole Derivates as Antiproliferative Agents

  • Sai-Yang Zhang,
  • Dong-Jun Fu,
  • Xiao-Xin Yue,
  • Ying-Chao Liu,
  • Jian Song,
  • Hui-Hui Sun,
  • Hong-Min Liu and
  • Yan-Bing Zhang

A series of novel chalcone-1,2,3-triazole-azole hybrids were designed, synthesized and evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against three selected cancer cell lines (SK-N-SH, EC-109 and MGC-803). Most of the synthesized compounds exhibited...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,096 Views
12 Pages

A series of BiOBr/BiOI photocatalysts supported on fly-ash cenospheres (FACs) were successfully prepared via a facile one-pot alcoholysis method. The as-prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,758 Views
12 Pages

Novel Cage-Like Hexanuclear Nickel(II) Silsesquioxane. Synthesis, Structure, and Catalytic Activity in Oxidations with Peroxides

  • Alexey N. Bilyachenko,
  • Alexey I. Yalymov,
  • Lidia S. Shul’pina,
  • Dalmo Mandelli,
  • Alexander A. Korlyukov,
  • Anna V. Vologzhanina,
  • Marina A. Es’kova,
  • Elena S. Shubina,
  • Mikhail M. Levitsky and
  • Georgiy B. Shul’pin

New hexanuclear nickel(II) silsesquioxane [(PhSiO1.5)12(NiO)6(NaCl)] (1) was synthesized as its dioxane-benzonitrile-water complex (PhSiO1,5)12(NiO)6(NaCl)(C4H8O2)13(PhCN)2(H2O)2 and studied by X-ray and topological analysis. The compound exhibits cy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,862 Views
13 Pages

Synthesis of Novel Symmetrical 1,4-Disubstituted 1,2,3-Bistriazole Derivatives via ‘Click Chemistry’ and Their Biological Evaluation

  • Esra Düğdü,
  • Dilek Ünlüer,
  • Fatih Çelik,
  • Kemal Sancak,
  • Şengül Alpay Karaoğlu and
  • Arzu Özel

A series of symmetric bis-1,2,3-triazole compounds 2–5(a–f) were synthesized as potential antioxidant agents via click chemistry. Their structures were confirmed by 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR. All of the synthesized compounds were subjected to antioxidant an...

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