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- Persson, Nils-Krister, et al.
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Re: en ny samhällssektor spirar
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Resurser och hållbarhet är nära förknippade. Hållbarhet innebär att hushålla med resurser - materiella, miljömässiga och mänskliga. Och hushållning är per definition kärnan i ekonomi. Man börjar alltmer se framväxten av en hel arsenal av verktyg och förhållnings- och angreppssätt för att bygga hållbarhet. Detta förenas av ett synsätt att det som hitintills setts om avfall och värdelöst, och rent utav besvärligt att ta hand om, nu blir en värdefull resurs. Det glömda och gömda kommer åter. Faktum är att många ord och begrepp kring detta börjar på just åter- eller re- . Internationellt talar man om Redesign, Recycling, Remake, Recycle, Recraft, Reuse, Recreate, Reclaim, Reduce, Repair, Refashion.Vad är då allt detta? Ja, vill man dra det långt, är det inte mindre än framväxten av ett nyvunnet sätt att tänka, ja av en ny samhällssektor, en bransch och en industri, sammanbundet av filosofin att återanvändningen, spillminskningen, vidarebruket, efterlivet anses som viktiga faktorer för ett miljömedvetet samhälle. Re: blir paraplytermen för detta. I denna antologi av forskare från skilda discipliner vid Högskolan i Borås lyfts ett antal av dessa begrepp inom Re: fram.
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- Vertessy, Beata G., et al.
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The complete triphosphate moiety of non-hydrolyzable substrate analogues is required for a conformational shift of the flexible C-terminus in E. coli dUTP pyrophosphatase
- 1998
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Ingår i: FEBS Letters. - 1873-3468. ; 421:1, s. 83-88
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The molecular mechanism of substrate analogue interaction with Escherichia coli dUTPase was investigated, using the non-hydrolyzable 2'-deoxyuridine 5'-(α,β-imido)triphosphate (α,β-imido-dUTP). Binding of this analogue induces a difference in the far UV circular dichroism (CD) spectrum arguing for a significant change in protein conformation. The spectral shift is strictly Mg2+-dependent, does not appear with dUDP instead of α,β-imido-dUTP and is not elicited if the flexible C-terminal arm is deleted from the protein by limited tryptic digestion. Involvement of the C-terminal arm in α,β-imido-dUTP binding is consistent with the finding that this analogue protects against tryptic hydrolysis at Arg-141. Near UV CD of ligand-enzyme complexes reveals a characteristic difference in the microenvironments of enzyme-bound dUDP and α,β-imido-dUTP, a difference not observable in C-terminally truncated dUTPase. The results suggest that (i) closing of the active site during the catalytic cycle, through the movement of the C-terminal arm, requires the presence of the complete triphosphate moiety of the substrate in complex with Mg2+, and (ii) after catalytic cleavage the active site pops open to facilitate product release.
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- Barfod, Anders, et al.
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In vitro selection of RNA aptamers against a conserved region of the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1.
- 2009
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Ingår i: Parasitology Reseach. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1432-1955 .- 0932-0113. ; Aug 20, s. 1557-1566
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The var-gene encoding Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) is known to play a major role in the pathogenicity of the P. falciparum parasite. The protein enables the parasite to adhere to the endothelial linings of small blood vessels (cytoadherence) as well as to non-infected erythrocytes (rosetting), thus preventing clearance from the bloodstream. The development and spread of resistance towards most anti-malarial drugs used for treatment and prevention of the most severe form of malaria truly emphasise the importance of a continuous research and development of new drugs. In this study we use Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment (SELEX) methodology to isolate high-affinity ligands (aptamers). To validate the results from the SELEX in vitro selection, different aptamers have been selected against PfEMP1 in a live cell assay of P. falciparum strain FCR3S1.2, a highly rosetting strain. We have been able to show the rosette disrupting capacity of these SELEX-aptamers at concentrations of 33 nM and with 100% disruption at 387 nM. The described results show that RNA aptamers are promising candidates for adjunct therapy in severe malaria.
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- Bjelosevic, Haris, et al.
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Platinum(II) and gold(I) complexes based on 1,1 '-bis(diphenylphosphino)metallocene derivatives: Synthesis, characterization and biological activity of the gold complexes
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-328X. ; 720, s. 52-59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The synthesis of series of 1,2,1' substituted bis(diphenylphosphino)- ruthenocenyl (1-4) and ferrocenyl cis-platinum(II) (5-7) and gold(I) (8-12) complexes are described. Crystal structures of 2 and 4, as well as 5, 6 and 10 confirm the molecular geometry of these ligands and their metal complexes. Preliminary investigation of four gold complexes as potential anticancer, antiHIV and antimalaria showed at least one gold compound that has excellent activity towards one of these diseases. The three gold(I) complexes, {1- [1-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-1 ,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ruthenocene-kappa P-2,P'}bis[chlorogold(I)] (8) (IC50 = 1.40 mu M), {1-[1-(acetoxyethyl)-1',2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene-kappa P-2,P']bis[chlorogold(1)] (9) (IC50 = 0.51 mu M), {1-[1-(3-carboxypropanamido)ethyl]-1',2-bis(diphenylphosphino)-ruthenocene kappa P-2,P'} bis[chlorogold(I)] (12) (IC50 = 1.784 mu M), have the best activities against cancer, HIV and malaria respectively. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Bjelosevic, Haris, et al.
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Synthesis and structural characterisation of novel platinum-based drug candidates with extended functionality by incorporation of bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene units as metal chelators
- 2006
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Ingår i: Tetrahedron. - : Elsevier BV. - 0040-4020. ; 62:18, s. 4519-4527
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Among the metal-based anticancer drugs, cisplatin (cis-diaminedichloroplatinum(II)) is the most widely used species in therapy. Despite its clinical success, cisplatin still suffers in generating resistance, as well as being highly toxic due to poor selectivity between healthy and sick cells. By molecular design it ought to be possible to generate new cis-platinum compounds with increased selectivity and improved cellular behaviour. In this paper, we report a synthetic pathway for construction of derivatives of 1,1'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-ferrocene, together with their corresponding cis-platinum compounds with the aim testing them for their interaction capacity with respect to various DNA models. We also report a synthetic route for a nucleoside-based cis-platinum compound containing a bidentate ferrocenylphosphine derivative connected through a succinamic-based linker to the 5-position of the heterocyclic moiety of uridine. Our preliminary kinetic investigation of 5-{N-[1-[1',2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocenyl]ethyl]1-N'-[prop-2-yn-3-y l]succinamide} uridinedichloroplatinum(II) showed that this compound reacted faster with the phosphorothioate containing oligonucleotides d(T(6)p(S)T-6), with an observed first-order rate constant k(obs) = (1.4 +/- 0.1) X 10(-4) s(-1), compared with the G-N7 target in d(T(7)GGT(7)), for which the observed first-order rate constant is k(obs) = (7.2 +/- 0.5) X 10(-4) s(-1). (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Corpus Linguistics in Sweden : Pioneers and their context
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This volume presents findings from research on the development of corpus linguistics in Sweden as a scientific innovation. It begins with a presentation of the early international development of corpus linguistics as well as the institutional and disciplinary conditions for research on the subject in Sweden, followed by accounts of the first generations of Swedish innovators. External funding and international development were important for these pioneers, alongside the fact that established professors in language departments seem to have been relatively open to the new ideas. The criticism levelled against corpus linguistics appears instead to have come mainly from departments of general linguistics. In the course of time, this negative attitude has diminished and corpora have become an almost indispensable tool in linguistic research. Developments in Sweden are placed in an international perspective by means of an analysis of the publication database SciVerse Scopus for 1970−1999. It shows a research field in two well-defined clusters: corpus builders and corpus users, the former often with a background in language studies, the latter evincing considerable representation of psychologists and scholars of cognitive science with an interest in language acquisition and language loss. Evidence of the significance of international developments for scientific innovation is provided by an analysis of the development of professional organizations on both sides of the Atlantic.
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- Ghatnekar, Johannes, et al.
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Construction of polyamine-modified uridine and adenosine derivatives-evaluation of DNA binding capacity and cytotoxicity in vitro
- 2007
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Ingår i: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. - : Elsevier BV. - 0968-0896. ; 15:23, s. 7426-7433
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We here report the synthesis of the two polyamine-based nucleoside derivatives 5-{[bis-(3-aminopropyl)amino]acetamido-1-propynyl}uridine and 2-{[bis-(3-aminopropyl)amino]-acetamido-1-propynyl}adenosine. The various polyamine derivatives have been used in thermal melting analysis using DNA from herring testes, and in cellular studies using four different cell lines. The compounds were all found to be non-toxic, thus holding good promise for future use as siRNA building blocks.
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