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Cu²⁺ Binding to A[beta] peptides : Detailed Heat Capacity Studies Provide Structural Insight into Complex Formation
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Alzheimer's disease (AD), an irreversible, progressive and devastating neurodegenerative disease, is the most common cause of dementia. It is characterized by the extracellular amyloid plaques and the intracellular ...
Synthesis, structure, photophysics, and biological activity of platinum (II) complexes
(East Carolina University, 2013)
The synthesis, structure, and photophysical properties of luminescent platinum (II) complexes with different coordination patterns, (C^C*N^N), (N^C*N), (N^N*C) and (N^N^C) are reported, where "C^N or N^N" denotes a bidentate ...
Elucidating the Mechanism of Action of Unnatural Amino Acid Containing Antimicrobial Peptides in Membrane Environments
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Organism resistance continues to develop to the currently available antimicrobial compounds necessitating the development of innovative new therapeutic compounds with different specificities and mechanisms of action that ...
ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION OF BENZO[A]PYRENE METABOLITE DNA DAMAGE : IMPLICATIONS OF NUCLEOBASE SEQUENCE AND ADDUCT STEREOCHEMISTRY
(East Carolina University, 2011)
Xenobiotics are chemical compounds introduced to living organisms that originate outside the body. A well-studied xenobiotic is benzo[a]pyrene (BP), a polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) primarily introduced into the body via ...
SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF BINDING MECHANISMS BETWEEN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES AND MODELS OF THE MEMBRANES OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA AND KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE
(East Carolina University, 2014)
The wide application of antibiotics goes back over sixty years to the first use of penicillin in the mid-1940s. Antimicrobial agents have well-documented activity and have played a significant role in defending against ...
Using Fluorescent Probes to Study the Location and Interaction of Disaccharides within Lipid Bilayers
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-26)
It is well known that certain organisms, such as the tardigrade, are capable of surviving extreme conditions including dehydration, freezing and / or oxygen deficiency. The tardigrades ability to withstand such extreme ...
Fundamental and Applied Studies on Chromatographic Separation of Cold Drugs and Skincare Creams and Extraction of Salvia miltiorrhiza using Subcritical Water
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Subcritical water chromatography (SBWC) and subcritical water extraction (SBWE) are two green techniques that use subcritical water as the sole solvent for separations, thus eliminating the use of toxic and expensive organic ...
Investigation of the Zinc binding region of Prothymosin-alpha : A spectroscopic and thermodynamic approach to study metal binding in Intrinsically disordered proteins
(East Carolina University, 2014)
The goal of this study is to provide a deeper insight into how metals bind intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) by taking zinc binding to prothymosin-alpha as a case study. The involvement of metals in several diseases ...
Electrochemical Detection of Benzo[a]Pyrene-Induced DNA Damage at TP53 Oligomers : Impact of 5'-Methyl Cytosine and Bioactivation on the Genotoxicity Process
(East Carolina University, 2014)
DNA houses the blueprint that dictates how an organism will develop. However, DNA features numerous reactive sites that can be attacked by chemicals and radiation, resulting in DNA damage and possibly mutations. Chemical ...
Benzoate: The Quantitation of Soft Drinks Implicated in Obesity
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-26)
Research has shown that childhood obesity is a leading cause of diseases such as coronary artery disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cancer, osteoarthritis, and many more. With approximately 17 percent of the United ...