The problem is a practical one: hydrophilic proteins, such as those in the cytoplasm, can form crystals in solution relatively easily, but membrane proteins also have hydrophobic parts that buoy the ...

isolation of drugs from the surrounding environment and the ability to entrap both hydrophilic and hydrophobic drugs. Through the addition of agents to the lipid membrane, or the alteration of the ...

Although the bulk material is both hydrophobic and oleophobic, HFIL forms a simultaneously hydrophilic and highly oleophobic surface when applied as a nanometer-thick coating on high-energy substrates ...

Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-62500 Brno, Czech Republic National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, ...

Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Curcumin has been observed to significantly reduce pathological processes associated with MI. Its clinical ...

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Irma Lerma Rangel School of Pharmacy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States Pyroptosis is a form of proinflammatory cell death characterized ...

We explored two distinct binding pockets on the HBV capsid: the central hydrophobic pocket of HBc-dimers and the ... Germany) were made hydrophilic by plasma cleaning. This was done at a pressure of ...

While hydrophobic regions of the protein, with low solvation free energies, tend to form aggregates to reduce interactions with the solvent environment; hydrophilic regions promote interactions with ...