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Biomolecules, Volume 11, Issue 5

May 2021 - 156 articles

Cover Story: Cardiac glycosides (CGs), well known for their cardiotonic properties, are commonly used in cardiac medicine. The biological activity of CGs is derived from the inhibition of Na+/ K+-ATPase, which is responsible for maintaining the resting potential and the balance of intracellular ions. Recently, novel applications of CGs have emerged. Since the ATPase is involved in a complex signalling cascade linked to apoptosis, CGs could be useful as anticancer agents. In addition, CGs are capable of inducing immunogenic cell death of cancer cells resulting in a strong induction of the anticancer immune response, in some cases leading to tumour eradication. In addition, CGs affect levels of various immune system markers and, thus, could be used to treat inflammation and some autoimmune diseases. Due to their immunogenic activity, CGs represent potentially very useful clinical, multifunctional compounds. View this paper
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Articles (156)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,582 Views
21 Pages

Potent Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Activities of Feleucin-K3 Analogs Modified by α-(4-Pentenyl)-Ala against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

  • Xiaomin Guo,
  • Tiantian Yan,
  • Jing Rao,
  • Xin Yue,
  • Xiong Pei,
  • Jiahui Deng,
  • Wangsheng Sun,
  • Wenle Yang,
  • Bangzhi Zhang and
  • Junqiu Xie

The dramatic increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) highlights an urgent need to develop new antimicrobial therapies. Thus, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have emerged as promising novel antibiotic alternatives. Feleucin-K3 is an amphiphilic α-hel...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,825 Views
16 Pages

Magnetic Field Alignment, a Perspective in the Engineering of Collagen-Silica Composite Biomaterials

  • Nicolas Debons,
  • Kenta Matsumoto,
  • Noriyuki Hirota,
  • Thibaud Coradin,
  • Toshiyuki Ikoma and
  • Carole Aimé

Major progress in the field of regenerative medicine is expected from the design of artificial scaffolds that mimic both the structural and functional properties of the ECM. The bionanocomposites approach is particularly well fitted to meet this chal...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,115 Views
14 Pages

Unrestrained proliferation is a common feature of malignant neoplasms. Targeting the cell cycle is a therapeutic strategy to prevent unlimited cell division. Recently developed rationales for these selective inhibitors can be subdivided into two cate...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,010 Views
20 Pages

Paternal High-Protein Diet Programs Offspring Insulin Sensitivity in a Sex-Specific Manner

  • Pengfei Gong,
  • Danielle Bailbé,
  • Lola Bianchi,
  • Gaëlle Pommier,
  • Junjun Liu,
  • Stefania Tolu,
  • Maria G. Stathopoulou,
  • Bernard Portha,
  • Valérie Grandjean and
  • Jamileh Movassat

The impact of maternal nutrition on offspring is well documented. However, the implication of pre-conceptional paternal nutrition on the metabolic health of the progeny remains underexplored. Here, we investigated the impact of paternal high-protein...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,848 Views
18 Pages

Proton Detected Solid-State NMR of Membrane Proteins at 28 Tesla (1.2 GHz) and 100 kHz Magic-Angle Spinning

  • Evgeny Nimerovsky,
  • Kumar Tekwani Movellan,
  • Xizhou Cecily Zhang,
  • Marcel C. Forster,
  • Eszter Najbauer,
  • Kai Xue,
  • Rıza Dervişoǧlu,
  • Karin Giller,
  • Christian Griesinger and
  • Stefan Becker
  • + 1 author

The available magnetic field strength for high resolution NMR in persistent superconducting magnets has recently improved from 23.5 to 28 Tesla, increasing the proton resonance frequency from 1 to 1.2 GHz. For magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR, this is...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,132 Views
11 Pages

Several RNA viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, can infect or use the eye as an entry portal to cause ocular or systemic diseases. Povidone-Iodine (PVP-I) is routinely used during ocular surgeries and eye banking as a cost-effective disinfectant due...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,175 Views
18 Pages

Synthetic Biology towards Improved Flavonoid Pharmacokinetics

  • Moon Sajid,
  • Chaitanya N. Channakesavula,
  • Shane R. Stone and
  • Parwinder Kaur

Flavonoids are a structurally diverse class of natural products that have been found to have a range of beneficial activities in humans. However, the clinical utilisation of these molecules has been limited due to their low solubility, chemical stabi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,809 Views
20 Pages

Epigenetic Insights and Potential Modifiers as Therapeutic Targets in β–Thalassemia

  • Nur Atikah Zakaria,
  • Md Asiful Islam,
  • Wan Zaidah Abdullah,
  • Rosnah Bahar,
  • Abdul Aziz Mohamed Yusoff,
  • Ridhwan Abdul Wahab,
  • Shaharum Shamsuddin and
  • Muhammad Farid Johan

Thalassemia, an inherited quantitative globin disorder, consists of two types, α– and β–thalassemia. β–thalassemia is a heterogeneous disease that can be asymptomatic, mild, or even severe. Considerable research has focused on investigating its under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,890 Views
10 Pages

The amount of bonds between constituting parts of a protein aggregate were determined in wild type (WT) and A53T α-synuclein (αS) oligomers, amyloids and in the complex of thymosin-β4–cytoplasmic domain of stabilin-2 (Tβ4-stabilin CTD). A53T αS aggre...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,824 Views
56 Pages

Sweet Modifications Modulate Plant Development

  • Tibo De Coninck,
  • Koen Gistelinck,
  • Henry C. Janse van Rensburg,
  • Wim Van den Ende and
  • Els J. M. Van Damme

Plant development represents a continuous process in which the plant undergoes morphological, (epi)genetic and metabolic changes. Starting from pollination, seed maturation and germination, the plant continues to grow and develops specialized organs...

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