Metalated covalent organic frameworks: from synthetic strategies to diverse applications

Q Guan, LL Zhou, YB Dong - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of organic crystalline porous materials
discovered in the early 21st century that have become an attractive class of emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Promising bioactivities of postbiotics: A comprehensive review

N Rafique, SY Jan, AH Dar, KK Dash, A Sarkar… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Postbiotics are bioactive substances that are useful and are produced during fermentation in
the matrix. Postbiotics are under a fragile balance in our body, excessive metabolities, may it …

Macromolecular crowding, phase separation, and homeostasis in the orchestration of bacterial cellular functions

B Monterroso, W Margolin, AJ Boersma, G Rivas… - Chemical …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Macromolecular crowding affects the activity of proteins and functional macromolecular
complexes in all cells, including bacteria. Crowding, together with physicochemical …

Gelatin/poly (vinyl alcohol)-based dual functional composite films integrated with metal-organic frameworks and anthocyanin for active and intelligent food packaging

Z Riahi, A Khan, JW Rhim, GH Shin, JT Kim - International Journal of …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Innovative active and pH-colorimetric composite films were fabricated from gelatin/poly (vinyl
alcohol)(Gel/PVA) integrated with copper-based metal-organic frameworks (Cu-MOFs) and …

Hybrid biomimetic membrane coated particles-mediated bacterial ferroptosis for acute MRSA pneumonia

H Hu, SY Hua, X Lin, F Lu, W Zhang, L Zhou, J Cui… - ACS …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Acute methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia is one of the most
frequently seen lung infection diseases with high morbidity and mortality. It is urgent to …

Flexible modulation of cellular activities with cationic photosensitizers: insights of alkyl chain length on reactive oxygen species antimicrobial mechanisms

L Zheng, Y Zhu, Y Sun, S **a, S Duan, B Yu… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Cationic photosensitizers have good binding ability with negatively charged bacteria and
fungi, exhibiting broad applications potential in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) …

High-performance multifunctional gelatin-based films engineered with metal-organic frameworks for active food packaging applications

Z Riahi, SJ Hong, JW Rhim, GH Shin, JT Kim - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Eco-friendly multifunctional composite films were designed using gelatin (Gel) and metal-
organic frameworks ZIF-8 (Zn-MOFs) to meet the demand for active packaging that ensures …

Antibiotic polymyxin arranges lipopolysaccharide into crystalline structures to solidify the bacterial membrane

S Manioglu, SM Modaresi, N Ritzmann, J Thoma… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Polymyxins are last-resort antibiotics with potent activity against multi-drug resistant
pathogens. They interact with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in bacterial membranes, but …

Bacterial extracellular vesicles: modulation of biofilm formation and virulence

GJ Jeong, F Khan, N Tabassum, KJ Cho, YM Kim - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Microbial pathogens cause persistent infections by forming biofilms and producing
numerous virulence factors. Bacterial extracellular vesicles (BEVs) are nanostructures …

Molecular machines that facilitate bacterial outer membrane protein biogenesis

MT Doyle, HD Bernstein - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Almost all outer membrane proteins (OMPs) in Gram-negative bacteria contain a β-barrel
domain that spans the outer membrane (OM). To reach the OM, OMPs must be translocated …