Forward osmosis (FO) has received considerable interest for water and energy-related applications in recent years. However, FO not been commercialized yet because of a few reasons. The lack high-performance membrane is one the important barriers. To overcome this issue, novel thin-film composite (TFC) was successfully fabricated via interfacial polymerization with poly-L-lysine incorporated pol...

α-Poly(L-lysine) (α-PLL) is a water-soluble cationic biopolymer containing the monomeric unit α-L-lysine, which not only possesses excellent intrinsic properties but also can be modified via facile reactions between side amine groups and many other functional moieties. Ring-opening polymerization (ROP) most prevalently used technique for synthesis of PLL-based polypeptides, involves initial con...

Streptomyces albulus PD-1, a productive strain for epsilon-poly-l-lysine and poly-l-diaminopropionic acid, was isolated from soils. We present the genome sequence of S. albulus PD-1, which may provide abundant information regarding the production of epsilon-poly-l-lysine and poly-l-diaminopropionic acid.

A graphene channel field-effect biosensor is demonstrated for detecting the binding of double-stranded DNA and poly-l-lysine. Sensors consist of chemical vapor deposition graphene transferred using a clean, etchant-free transfer method. The presence of DNA and poly-l-lysine are detected by the conductance change of the graphene transistor. A readily measured shift in the Dirac voltage (the volt...

In studies of the inhibition in viva of animal viruses by poly-n-lysine, Rubini et al. (1) and Green et al. (2-4) obtained data which suggested that poly-L-lysine is hydrolyzed by the proteolytic enzymes of the allantoic fluid, and that this enzymatic hydrolysis may limit its biological activity. The enzymatic hydrolysis of poly-n-lysine was reported by Katchalski (5) and by Waley and Watson (6...

Four carbohydrate derivatives of poly-D-lysine have been synthesized and assayed as substrates for the tissue culture of embryonic mouse cerebellar cells. On poly-beta-(D-glucopyranosyl)-poly-D-lysine and on poly-beta-(N-acetyl-D-glucosaminyl)-poly-D-lysine, dissociated cerebellar cells formed a monolayer. On poly-beta-(D-galactopyranosyl)-poly-D-lysine, cellular aggregates were formed and cabl...

We have determined the partial molar volumes, expansibilities, and adiabatic compressibilities for poly(L-alanine), poly(L-proline), and poly(L-threonine) within the temperature range of 18-55 degrees C. In addition, we have determined at 25 degrees C changes in volume, DeltaV, and adiabatic compressibility, DeltaK(S), associated with the coil-to-helix transitions of poly(L-lysine) and poly(L-g...

31P-NMR shows that poly(L-lysine) binding to cardiolipin, phosphatidylserine or phosphatidylglycerol does not affect the macroscopic structure or local order (in the phosphate region) of the phospholipids. In the case of cardiolipin poly(L-lysine) inhibits the ability of Ca2+ to induce the hexagonal HII phase. Alternatively, poly(L-lysine) induces the hexagonal HII phase for a fraction of the p...

Penta(L-lysine) and poly(L-lysine) (but not dior tri(-L-lysine)) were found to induce rapid and extensive phospholipid intermixing between unilamellar vesicles consisting largely of phosphatidic acid and phosphatidylethanolamine, without causing significant intermixing of, nor leakage from, the encapsulated aqueous spaces. Neither did the size of such vesicles increase after treatment with lysi...