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Development of a chemically defined medium for Planctopirus limnophila to increase biomass production

BACKGROUND Planctomycetes is a phylum of biofilm-forming bacteria with numerous biosynthetic gene clusters, offering a promising source of new bioactive secondary metabolites. However, the current generation of chemically defined media achieves only low biomass yields, hindering research on these specie...

The long and successful journey of electrochemically active amino acids. From fundamental adsorption studies to potential surface engineering tools

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 90 (1,supl.1), 2018
ABSTRACT Proteins have been the subject of electrochemical studies. It is possible to apply electrochemical techniques to obtain information about their structure due to the presence of five electroactive amino acids that can be oriented to the outside of the peptidic chain. These amino acids are L-Trypt...

50 years of amino acid hydrophobicity scales: revisiting the capacity for peptide classification

Biol. Res; 49 (), 2016
BACKGROUND: Physicochemical properties are frequently analyzed to characterize protein-sequences of known and unknown function. Especially the hydrophobicity of amino acids is often used for structural prediction or for the detection of membrane associated or embedded β-sheets and α-helices. For this p...