Sentences with phrase «electrostatic interactions with»

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS • Developed a project as part of the high school pilot project series in a bid to assist students understand the methodologies for ribonucleic acid encapsulation • Increased student interest in laboratory work by introducing real time lab projects including minor electrostatic interactions with DNA • Decreased the number of high school students opting out of chemistry class by 30 % by implementing chemistry concepts through non-conventional methods of teaching • Introduced interactive curriculum development to the school which brought about much interest from students willing to become part of the chemistry lesson planning activities

«The negative surface charge of nanoparticles enabled electrostatic interactions with therapeutics thus resulting in the slow release of therapeutics.»

Recent successful steps in this direction were for example identifying that hydrophobic mismatch and electrostatic interaction with the lipid PIP2 are driving the formation of active complexes of the SNARE protein synatxin - 1 in plasma membrane.

Not exact matches

Charge separation on peptides creates permanent dipole moments that can be aligned with an electric field to provide optimal orientation of the molecules and the amount of peptide immobilised can also be tuned by the electrostatic interactions when the peptides have an overall charge.

This finding, along with a few other papers last year, emphasizes the importance of electrostatic interactions for protein stability, he says, and will enable protein chemists to create more stable protein - based drugs.

By tinkering with the bonds that these dozen contribute to, the researchers determined that one electrostatic interaction and one hydrophobic interaction help the proteins handle hot water.