The elemental stoichiometry of microalgae reflects their underlying macromolecular composition and influences competitive interactions among species and their role in the food web and biogeochemistry. Here we provide a new estimate of the macromolecular composition of microalgae using a hierarchical Bayesian analysis of data compiled from the literature. The median macromolecular composition of...

Fructose, an everyday component of western diet associated to chronic hyperglycemia and enhanced free radical production, impairs endothelial function and supplementation with antioxidants might improve it. In this study we investigated if vitamin E could reverse the microvascular damage elicited by fructose. Male Syrian golden hamsters drank either 10% fructose solution (F) or filtered water (...

The brain depends on redox electrons from nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (reduced form; NADH) to produce ATP and oxyradicals (reactive oxygen species [ROS]). Because ROS damage and mitochondrial dysregulation are prominent in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their relationship to the redox state is unclear, we wanted to know whether an oxidative redox shift precedes these markers and l...

Based on a protein-protein docking approach we have developed a procedure to verify or falsify protein-protein interactions that were proposed by other methods such as yeast-2-hybrid assays. Our method currently utilizes intermolecular energies but can be expanded to incorporate additional terms such as amino acid based pair-potentials. We show some early results that demonstrate the general ap...

Protein-ligand complexes are often consulted for the understanding of binding modes and mechanisms of action as well as the development of novel drugs. Unfortunately the resolution of most x-ray structures is too low to resolve hydrogen atoms. However, hydrogen positions play a major role in the analysis of important interaction types as hydrogen bonding or metal interactions. Therefore, it is ...

A majority of cellular functions are carried out by macromolecular complexes. A host of biochemical and spectroscopic methods exists to characterize especially protein/protein complexes, however there has been a lack of a universal method to determine protein stoichiometries. Peptide-based MS, especially as a complementary method to the MS analysis of intact protein complexes, has now been deve...

The function of a protein is dependent on whether and how it can interact with various ligands. Therefore, an accurate prediction of protein-ligand interactions is paramount to understanding proteins’ biological mechanisms and hence to the development of therapeutic agents. A ligand is most likely to bind in the largest pocket on the surface of the protein. Moreover, it requires that the pocket...

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