Engineers create new glue that mimics mussels and mucus to prevent bacterial buildup
Within the animal kingdom, mussels are masters of underwater adhesion. The marine mollusks cluster atop rocks and along the bottoms of ships, and hold fast against the ocean's waves thanks to a gluey ...
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NesT-NABind: a Nested Transformer for Nucleic Acid-Binding Site Prediction on Protein Surface
School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 201210, China Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ...
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Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor influences periarticular joint inflammation in B. burgdorferi-infected mice
This study presents a valuable finding on the role of secretory leukocyte protease inhibitors (SLPI) in developing Lyme disease in mice infected with Borrelia burgdorferi. The evidence supporting the ...
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Progress on Poxvirus E3 Ubiquitin Ligases and Adaptor Proteins
The CPXV protein CP77 is a PRANC protein that contains nine ankyrin repeats and a 13 amino acid F-box motif at its C-terminus (15). CP77 blocks TNF-mediated nuclear translocation and activation of the ...
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NF-κBp50 and HDAC1 Interaction Is Implicated in the Host Tolerance to Infection Mediated by the Bacterial Quorum Sensing Signal 2-Aminoacetophenone
In contrast, in 2-AA-tolerized cells the protein–protein interaction between p65 and CBP/p300 is disrupted and conversely ... Nuclear fractions were extracted from cells with a Nuclear Extract kit ...