We present a unique immobilization technique via physical adsorption/exchange of biomolecules onto a sensing surface of surface plasmon resonance (SPR). The adsorption/exchange is based on competitive bindings of biomolecules to a surface, which does not require a chemical modification of the biomolecules. SPR sensorgrams show that three human serum proteins, albumin, immunoglobulin G (IgG), an...

A gold nanoparticle-based competitive colorimetric assay can detect mismatched DNAs using MutS, a mismatch binding protein, and determine their relative binding affinities for this protein by a simple color change and the melting temperature of DNA-functionalized nanoparticle assemblies.

Cholesterylphosphoryldimethylethanolamine is a zwitterionic compound which is a good bilayer stabilizer. As has been found with many other compounds having these properties, cholesterylphosphoryldimethylethanolamine is found to be a potent inhibitor of protein kinase C in both vesicle and micelle assay systems. The kinetics of the inhibition in Triton X-100 micelles was non-competitive with res...

Staphylococcal alpha-toxin inhibited the activity of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate-dependent protein kinase by competitive inhibition, probably by its interaction with a cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate-binding site in the protein kinase molecule.

The 5' untranslated region (UTR) of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) RNA 4 confers a highly competitive translational advantage on a heterologous luciferase open reading frame. Here we investigated whether secondary structure in the 5' UTR contributes to this translational advantage. Stabilization of the 5' UTR RNA secondary structure inhibited competitive translational activity. Alteration of a pot...

Abstract Proton electrochemical gradient-driven multidrug efflux activity of representatives the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) secondary active transporters contributes to antimicrobial resistance pathogenic bacteria. Integral mechanism these is a proposed competition between substrate and protons for binding site protein. The current work investigated Escherichia coli MFS multidrug/H + a...

This competitive immunoassay, based on inhibition by antigen of the idiotype-anti-idiotype interaction, detects adenosine deaminase binding protein (ABP), and involves use of monoclonal anti-idiotype antibodies prepared to a monoclonal antibody specific for ABP. The conditions for this new type of competitive immunoassay are investigated. This competitive immunoassay is as sensitive and reprodu...

A gold nanoparticle-based competitive colorimetric assay uses the ensemble of Concanavalin (ConA) and mannopyranoside-encapsulated gold nanoparticles (Man-GNPs) to identify the binding partners for ConA and the binding constants are determined based on the wavelength shifts.