The performance of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) for calculations of long-range exciton circular dichroism (CD) is investigated. Tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP) is used as a representative of a class of strongly absorbing chromophores for which exciton CD with chromophore separations of 50 Å and even beyond has been observed experimentally. A dimer model for TPP is set up to repro...

Thermal Proteome Profiling (TPP) combines the cellular thermal shift assay concept [1] with mass spectrometry based proteome-wide protein quantitation [2]. Thereby, drug-target interactions can be inferred from changes in the thermal stability of a protein upon drug binding, or upon downstream cellular regulatory events, in an unbiased manner. The package TPP facilitates this process by providi...

The concept of world power for the 21st century envisages prevailing development of renewable and ecologically benign sources of energy, the main of which at present is tidal energy in terms of engineering aspects of its harnessing. Utilization of tidal energy at present is possible at 140 sites on the shores of the world ocean with total potential of 811 GW, which is about a quarter of total p...

The ability to create complex three-dimensional microstructures has reached an unprecedented level of sophistication in the last 15 years. For the most part, this is the result of a steady development of the additive manufacturing technique named two-photon polymerization (TPP). In a short amount of time, TPP has gone from being a microfabrication novelty employed largely by laser specialists t...

Larvae of an anhydrobiotic insect, Polypedilum vanderplanki, accumulate very large amounts of trehalose as a compatible solute on desiccation, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this accumulation are unclear. We therefore isolated the genes coding for trehalose metabolism enzymes, i.e. trehalose-6-phosphate synthase (TPS) and trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (TPP) for the synthesis step, ...

In this work, novel mitochondrial and CD44 receptor dual-targeting redox-sensitive multifunctional nanoparticles (micelles) based on oligomeric hyaluronic acid (oHA) were proposed. The amphiphilic nanocarrier was prepared by (5-carboxypentyl)triphenylphosphonium bromide (TPP), oligomeric hyaluronic acid (oHA), disulfide bond, and curcumin (Cur), named as TPP-oHA-S-S-Cur. The TPP targeted the mi...

Thrust plate prosthesis (TPP) has load-transferring characteristics different from those of conventional intramedullary stemmed prostheses (ISP). We investigate whether prosthesis type (intramedullary or extramedullary application) can improve early functional activities in hospital patients with hip arthroplasty. Early postoperative functional activities of 30 patients with TPP were compared w...

A conducting molecular crystal TPP[MnIII(Pc)(CN)2]2 (MnIII: d4, S = 1, TPP = tetraphenylphosphonium and Pc = phthalocyanine) was fabricated. In its crystal structure, the [MnIII(Pc)(CN)2] units formed a one-dimensional regular chain along the c-axis with an overlap integral value of 8.6 × 10-3. TPP[MnIII(Pc)(CN)2]2 showed a semiconducting behaviour that also has been observed for isostructural ...

Previous studies reported that a Gamitrinib variant containing triphenylphosphonium (G-TPP) binds to mitochondrial Hsp90 and rapidly inhibits its activity to induce apoptosis. We investigated the mechanisms underlying the antitumor activity of G-TPP in Hep3B hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Contrary to our predictions, we observed mitochondrial elongation in the G-TPP-treated Hep3B cells undergo...

The photoinduced charge separation efficiency in porphyrin/TiO2 bilayers has been determined using the time-resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) technique. Porphyrins investigated are unsubstituted meso-tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP) and meso-tetra(4-ethylphenyl)porphyrin (TEPP). TEPP/TiO2 bilayers exhibit a charge separation efficiency per incident photon at the Soret band maximum of 6.2%, which...