The GroEL/GroES chaperonin system of Escherichia coli forms a nano-cage allowing single protein molecules to fold in isolation. However, as the chaperonin can also mediate folding independently of substrate encapsulation, it remained unclear whether the folding cage is essential in vivo. To address this question, we replaced wild-type GroEL with mutants of GroEL having either a reduced cage vol...

Chitosan (CS, molecular weight 20.2 kDa, degree of deacylation (DD) 73.31%) was successfully obtained by deacetylation of chitin extracted from shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) shell wastes. The encapsulation of the bioactive natural product, panchovillin (PANV), isolated from Erythrina schliebenii, on a chitosan-tripolyphosphate (CS/TPP) nano-framework was achieved by ionotropic gelation. Charact...

Curcumin (Cur) is a striking anticancer agent, but its low aqueous solubility, poor absorption, hasty metabolism, and elimination limit its oral bioavailability and consequently hinder its development as a drug. To redress these limitations, amphiphilic chitosan (CS) conjugate with improved mucoadhesion and solubility over a wider pH range was developed by modification with hydrophobic acryloni...

Transdermal route is an evolving panorama in novel drug deliverance and with oral route they proffer immense potential. Most recently there is hastening in approaches for delivering bioactives via these routes, amongst them revolution has been made by dendrimers. Encapsulation and conjugation of bioactives with these virus sized robots have shown immense employment for delivery of hydrophobic a...

Nano-sized polymeric amphiphilic micelle was prepared using the hydrophilic polysaccharide, oligo-chitosan, and hydrophobic side chains, ursolic acid which assists the skin penetration, because the amphiphilic polysaccharide nanoparticles have been widely investigated as the carriers for active agents such as small molecules, proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids due to many advantages in prote...

We demonstrate the application of a low-temperature carbon counter electrode with good flexibility and high conductivity in fabricating perovskite solar cells. A modified two-step method was used for the deposition of nanocrystalline CH3NH3PbI3 under high relative humidity. The carbon counter electrode was printed on a perovskite layer directly, with different sizes of graphite powder being emp...

Temozolomide (TMZ) is the primary chemotherapeutic agent for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) yet it has a fast rate of degradation under physiological conditions to the 'active' MTIC, which has poor penetration of the blood-brain barrier and cellular absorption. Herein we have demonstrated binding of TMZ within the cavity of nano-container cucurbit[7]uril, resulting in a decreased ra...

The encapsulation of enzymes in microenvironments and especially in liposomes, has proven to greatly improve enzyme stabilization against unfolding, denaturation and dilution effects. Combining this stabilization effect, with the fact that liposomes are optically translucent, we have designed nano-sized spherical biosensors. In this work liposome-based biosensors are prepared by encapsulating t...

Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers have gained so much attention for drug and gene delivery since they have been introduced decades ago. The internal cavities and multivalent surface groups of PAMAM dendrimers have been widely used for small-molecule drugs/biomacromolecules encapsulation and conjugation. The involvement of PAMAM dendrimers in drug delivery systems (DDSs) has significantly improv...