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Browsing Biochemistry by Type "Preprint Article"
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Boughan, Shareen; Potgieter, A. Christiaan; Van Staden, Vida
(Society for General Microbiology, 2020-04)
African horse sickness virus (AHSV) is the causative agent of the often fatal disease African horse sickness in equids. The non-structural protein NS4 is the only AHSV protein that localizes to the nucleus. Here we report ...
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Reva, Oleg N.; Rademan, Sunelle; Visagie, M.H. (Michelle Helen); Lebelo, M.T. (Maphuti); Gwangwa, Mokgadi Violet; Klochko, Vitalii V.; Joubert, Anna Margaretha; Lall, Namrita
(Future Science, 2019)
AIM : To determine the computer-predicted anticancer activity of mupirocin and to compare its activities with those determined for another polyene antibiotic, batumin. MATERIALS AND METHODS : Molecular docking, cytotoxicity ...
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Goble, Jessica L.; Johnson, Hailey; De Ridder, Jaco; Stephens, Linda L.; Louw, Abraham Izak; Blatch, Gregory L.; Boshoff, Aileen
(Bentham Science Publisher, 2013)
Plasmodium falciparum 1–deoxy–D–xylulose–5–phosphate reductoisomerase (PfDXR) is a key enzyme in the
synthesis of isoprenoids in the malaria parasite, using a pathway that is absent in the human host. This enzyme is ...
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Henriques, Ricardo; Griffiths, Caron; Rego, E. Hesper; Mhlanga, Musa M.
(Wiley, 2011-05)
Live-cell fluorescence light microscopy has emerged as an important tool in the study of cellular biology. The development of
fluorescent markers in parallel with super-resolution imaging systems has pushed light microscopy ...
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Prinsloo, Lezaan; Naidoo, Alex; Serem, June Cheptoo; Taute, Helena; Sayed, Yasien; Bester, Megan Jean; Neitz, Albert Walter Herman; Gaspar, Anabella Regina Marques
(Wiley, 2013-05)
Tick defensins may serve as templates for the development of multifunctional peptides. The purpose of this study was to
evaluate shorter peptides derived from tick defensin isoform 2 (OsDef2) in terms of their antibacterial, ...