Influenza infections remain a burden on health care systems despite vaccination programs and marketed antiviral drugs. Immunomodulation through activation of innate sensors could represent innovative approaches to fight the flu. This study evaluated the ability of flagellin, agonist of Toll-like...

The development of bacteria repellent surface coatings is critical in various fields ranging from biosensing to health care, biotechnology and food production. In the present study we exploit that the protein flagellin rapidly forms a dense and oriented monolayer on hydrophobic surfaces upon ads...

The objective of this study was to introduce a simple and cheap method for purification of flagellin. So, flagellin proteins of Salmonella typhimurium (S. typhimurium), Escherichia coli (E. coli), Citrobacter freundii (C. freundii) and Salmonella typhi (S. typhi) were purified by a modified simp...

Bacterial flagellin activates the innate immune system and ultimately the adaptive immune system through a Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5)-dependent signaling mechanism. Given that TLR5 is widely distributed in epithelia, flagellin is currently being developed as a mucosal adjuvant. Flagellin FliC f...

Hemagglutinin (HA) displayed on a ferritin nano-cage has been shown to be effective in generating a potent immune response against a broad range of influenza infections. Here, we showed that conjugation of flagellin together with HA to the exterior surface of the ferritin cage greatly enhanced n...

The bacterial flagellum is the principal organelle of motility in bacteria. Here, we address the question of size when applied to the chief flagellar protein flagellin and the flagellar filament. Surprisingly, nature furnishes multiple examples of ‘giant flagellins’ greater than a thousand ami...

Green analytical chemistry concept, involving the development of analytical methodologies with an environmental concern, encourages the use of direct analysis to avoid any sample treatment that involves energy and reagent consumption and generation of wastes. However, the determination of target...

An innovative use of thermal infrared enthalpimetry (TIE) is proposed for the determination of alcoholic content of red and white wines. Notwithstanding the presence of ethanol in beverages, absolute ethanol was added directly to wines, and the temperature rise caused by the heat of dilution was...

The degradation of catechins and other phenolics in green tea infusions were monitored using fast HPLC/MS separation. The final separation was performed within 2.5 min using Ascentis Express C18 column (50 mm × 2.1 mm i.d.) packed with 2 μm porous shell particles. Degradation was studied in re...

In this work, a fast (0.5 h), green microwave-assisted synthesis of single crystalline Sb2Se3 nanowires was developed. For the first time we demonstrated a facile solvent-mediated process, whereby intriguing nanostructures including antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) nanowires and selenium (Se) microrod...

The transformation from the building material industry (BMI) to green BMI (GBMI) is not only of great significance to the upgrading of traditional BMI, but also has a pivotal role in promoting the sustainable development of cities. This paper studies the governance mechanism of the BMI in transf...

We introduce a fast algorithm for computing volume potentials – that is, the convolution of a translation invariant, free-space Green's function with a compactly supported source distribution defined on a uniform grid. The algorithm relies on regularizing the Fourier transform of the Green...

The present article describes the possibilities of the fast revegetation of coal fly ash (FA) basins through human interventions i.e., “ecological engineering” for green capping. The field results revealed that the Saccharum spontaneum L. is a suitable candidate for green capping of coal FA ba...

Paper microzone plates and thermal infrared enthalpimetry (TIE) were combined with potato juice as natural reagent extract to perform the determination of hydrogen peroxide in pharmaceutical, bleaching, and toiletry products. A multichannel pipette was used for reagent addition simultaneously in...

Photogalvanic cells are photoelectrochemical devices involving ions as mobile charges moving in solution through diffusion process. These cells are capable of solar power generation at low cost with inherent storage capacity. This property of photogalvanic cell needs to be exploited as this tech...

The dyes are one of major pollutants discharged to water bodies without any premeditation. Their undesirable detection in aqueous bodies has created a menace as they tend to disturb the complete aquatic ecosystem by directly hindering the photosynthetic process of aquatic flora. Thus pre and pos...

The stems of Dryopteris crassirhizoma, one of the main components of Lianhua-Qingwen Formula (LQF) was traditionally used for heat-clearing and detoxifying. Dryocrassin ABBA is a key antiviral component in the herbal medicine while the compound is hard to get in large amounts with the features o...

Improving the crystalline quality of boron phosphide (BP) is essential for realizing its full potential in semiconductor device applications. In this study, 3C-SiC was tested as a substrate for BP epitaxy. BP films were grown on 3C-SiC(100)/Si, 3C-SiC(111)/Si, and 3C-SiC(111)/4H-SiC(0001) substr...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have gained tremendous research interests for gas sensing applications because of their ultrahigh theoretical specific surface areas and unique electronic properties. Here, we investigate the adsorption of CO, SO2, NH3, O2, NO and NO2 gas molecules on pure and dope...

Using non-equilibrium Green׳s function and ab initio calculations we investigate structural, electronic, and transport properties of a junction consisting of armchair hexagonal boron phosphide nanoribbon (ABPNR) contacted by two semi-infinite electrodes composed of armchair graphene nanoribbons ...