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Solid-phase extraction with gliadin- and Emdogain-coated Sepharose revealed a gliadin cross-reactive central region and a putative conformation-dependent, apparently non-cross-reactive N-terminal region. High IgA anti-amelogenin reactivity may interfere with normal amelogenesis by inhibiting amelogenin self-assembly, amelogenin-hydroxyapatite interaction, and/or enzymatic degradation. © 2020 The Authors. Eur J Oral Sci published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Cilia are microtubule-based, cell-surface projections whose machinery is evolutionarily conserved. In vertebrates, cilia are observed on almost every cell type and are either motile or immotile. Immotile sensory, or primary cilia, are responsive to extracellular ligands and signals. Cilia can be thought of as compartments, functionally distinct from the cell that provides an environment for signaling cascades. Hedgehog is a critical developmental signaling pathway which is functionally linked to primary cilia in vertebrates. The major components of the vertebrate Hedgehog signaling pathway dynamically localize to the ciliary compartment and ciliary membrane. Critically, G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) Smoothened, the obligate transducer of the pathway, is enriched and activated in the cilium. Tegatrabetan antagonist While Smoothened is the most intensely studied ciliary receptor, many GPCRs localize within cilia. Understanding the link between Smoothened and cilia defines common features, and distinctions, of GPCR signaling within the primary cilium. This article is categorized under Signaling Pathways > Global Signaling Mechanisms Signaling Pathways > Cell Fate Signaling. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Aging results in various deleterious changes in the human body that may lead to loss of function and the manifestation of chronic diseases. While diseases can generally be reliably diagnosed, the aging process itself requires more sophisticated approaches to evaluate its progression. Numerous attempts have been made to establish biomarkers to quantify human aging at the cellular, tissue, and organismal level. Here, an up-to-date overview of biomarkers related to human aging with an emphasis on biomarkers that take into account different mechanisms of aging between individuals is provided. Classical discrete molecular and non-molecular biomarkers handpicked by researches on the base of their strong correlation with age, as well as emerging omics-based biomarkers, are discussed and potential future directions and developments in the field of aging assessment are outlined. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Ellagic acid derivatives possess antimicrobial and antibiofilm properties across a wide-range of bacterial pathogens. Due to their poor solubility and ambident reactivity it is challenging to synthesize, purify, and characterize the activity of ellagic acid glycosides. In this study, we have synthesized three ellagic acid glycoconjugates and evaluated their antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity in Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus, GBS). Their significant impacts on biofilm formation were examined via scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to reveal early-stage inhibition of cellular adhesion. Additionally, the synthetic glycosides were evaluated against five of the six ESKAPE pathogens and two fungal pathogens. These studies reveal that the ellagic acid glycosides possess inhibitory effects on the growth of Gram-negative pathogens. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Once an MRS dataset has been acquired, several important steps must be taken to obtain the desired metabolite concentration measures. First, the data must be preprocessed to prepare them for analysis. Next, the intensity of the metabolite signal(s) of interest must be estimated. Finally, the measured metabolite signal intensities must be converted into scaled concentration units employing a quantitative reference signal to allow meaningful interpretation. In this paper, we review these three main steps in the post-acquisition workflow of a single-voxel MRS experiment (preprocessing, analysis and quantification) and provide recommendations for best practices at each step. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Vibrational optical activity (VOA) consisting of infrared vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) and vibrational Raman optical activity (ROA) was predicted, discovered, and confirmed between 1971 and 1975. My path to VOA was mentored by three pioneers of chirality and vibrational spectroscopy Professors Albert Moscowitz, Warner L. Peticolas, and Philip J. Stephens, and while they are no longer alive today, the Chirality Medal, my award address, and this paper are dedicated to each of them. Since the discovery of VOA, a number of key advances have made possible the current era of widespread applications. The principal instrumental advances were Fourier-transform VCD (FT-VCD) and multichannel charge coupled detector (CCD) ROA. Computational advances include the first complete quantum chemistry formulation of VCD leading to the magnetic field perturbation (MFP) and the nuclear velocity perturbation (NVP) theories. The strength of VOA is the comparison between measured and calculated spectra that enables the determination of absolute configuration and solution-state conformations. More recently, VCD has uncovered supramolecular chirality in amyloid fibrils and ROA to high-order protein structure. Future challenges for VOA include describing the effects of weak intermolecular interactions, transfer of chirality, solvent effects, supramolecular chirality, and the generation of nuclear velocity electron current density. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.As luminescent quantum dots (QDs) are known to aggregate themselves through their chemical activation by carbodiimide chemistry and their functionalization with biotin molecules, we investigate both effects on the fluorescence properties of CdTe QDs and their impact on Förster Resonant Energy Transfer (FRET) occurring with fluorescent streptavidin molecules (FA). First, the QDs fluorescence spectrum undergoes significant changes during the activation step which are explained thanks to an original analytical model based on QDs intra-aggregate screening and inter-QDs FRET. We also highlight the strong influence of biotin in solution on FRET efficiency, and define the experimental conditions maximizing the FRET. Finally, a free-QD-based system and an aggregated-QD-based system are studied in order to compare their detection threshold. The results show a minimum concentration limit of 80 nM in FA for the former while it is equal to 5 nM for the latter, favouring monitored aggregation in the design of QDs-based biosensors.
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