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Biomolecules, Volume 8, Issue 3

September 2018 - 55 articles

Cover Story: Different studies have recently shown that flavonoids have the potential to inhibit BET domains, which holds great interest for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases. Here, we conducted a binding characterization of the flavonoid amentoflavone (AF) against BRD4. We observed that AF makes numerous contacts in the ZA channel, in addition to showing that AF can potentially make contacts with non-canonical residues. Enzymatic inhibitory assays confirmed the activity of AF. These preliminary results offer a new paradigm for BET inhibitor design.View Paper here.
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Articles (55)

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,079 Views
13 Pages

α-Tocopheryl Succinate-Based Polymeric Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  • Carolina Sánchez-Rodríguez,
  • Raquel Palao-Suay,
  • Laura Rodrigáñez,
  • María Rosa Aguilar,
  • Sergio Martín-Saldaña,
  • Julio San Román and
  • Ricardo Sanz-Fernández

19 September 2018

The aim of this work is to study, in an in vitro head and neck squamous cell carcinomas model the anti-angiogenic and anti-migratory properties of self-assembled polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) with demonstrated selective anticancer activity. The NPs a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
15,957 Views
20 Pages

Mineralocorticoid Receptor and Aldosterone-Related Biomarkers of End-Organ Damage in Cardiometabolic Disease

  • Stefania Gorini,
  • Vincenzo Marzolla,
  • Caterina Mammi,
  • Andrea Armani and
  • Massimiliano Caprio

18 September 2018

The mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) was first identified as a blood pressure regulator, modulating renal sodium handling in response to its principal ligand aldosterone. The mineralocorticoid receptor is also expressed in many tissues other than the...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,209 Views
9 Pages

Lnc-EPB41-Protein Interactions Associated with Congenital Pouch Colon

  • Sonal Gupta,
  • Nidhi Gupta,
  • Pradeep Tiwari,
  • Saji Menon,
  • Praveen Mathur,
  • Shanker Lal Kothari,
  • Sivaramaiah Nallapeta,
  • Krishna Mohan Medicherla and
  • Prashanth Suravajhala

17 September 2018

Congenital Pouch Colon (CPC) is a rare anorectal anomaly common to northwestern India, specifically Rajasthan. Despite efforts to understand the clinical genetic makeup of CPC, no attempt on identifying non-coding RNAs was done. We have earlier repor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
108 Citations
12,824 Views
38 Pages

Plasma Membrane Lipid Domains as Platforms for Vesicle Biogenesis and Shedding?

  • Hélène Pollet,
  • Louise Conrard,
  • Anne-Sophie Cloos and
  • Donatienne Tyteca

14 September 2018

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) contribute to several pathophysiological processes and appear as emerging targets for disease diagnosis and therapy. However, successful translation from bench to bedside requires deeper understanding of EVs, in particula...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,506 Views
21 Pages

The Biology of Glial Cells and Their Complex Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease: New Opportunities in Therapy

  • Saif Shahriar Rahman Nirzhor,
  • Rubayat Islam Khan and
  • Sharmind Neelotpol

10 September 2018

Even though Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is of significant interest to the scientific community, its pathogenesis is very complicated and not well-understood. A great deal of progress has been made in AD research recently and with the advent of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,805 Views
11 Pages

On Molecular Descriptors of Carbon Nanocones

  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • Adeel Farooq,
  • Muhammad Younas,
  • Mobeen Munir and
  • Shin Min Kang

7 September 2018

Many degree-based topological indices can be obtained from the closed-off M-polynomial of a carbon nanocone. These topological indices are numerical parameters that are associated with a structure and, in combination, determine the properties of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,593 Views
13 Pages

6 September 2018

Ethyl gallate is a phenolic compound richly contained in Longan. In traditional Chinese medicine, Longan is widely known as a fruit with “hot” properties, with a tendency to promote inflammatory and certain other responses. The mechanism for its proi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,752 Views
21 Pages

5 September 2018

The high demand for and resulting financial success of biopharmaceutical products over the last three decades have seen the door open for close copies of these biological products, also known as biosimilars. This paper seeks to collate all relevant p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,784 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2018

The fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) technique has been used for decades to measure movements of molecules in two-dimension (2D). Data obtained by FRAP experiments in cell plasma membranes are assumed to be described through a means...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,475 Views
14 Pages

4 September 2018

New approaches to deal with drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria are urgent. We studied the antibacterial effect of chitosans against an Escherichia coli quorum sensing biosensor reporter strain and selected a non-toxic chitosan to evaluate its quorum...

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