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An effective antibacterial nanofiber film was prepared through the incorporation of ε-polylysine (ε-PL) into gelatin/chitosan-based polymers. All nanofiber films had uniformly disordered fibrous structure with good diameter distribution. The weight ratio of the gelatin/chitosan/ε-PL (G/C/P) influenced the solution property and nanofiber morphology. The addition of ε-PL can decrease the viscosity and increase the conductivity of solutions, which lead to a decrease in the diameter of nanofibers. The three polymers of gelatin, chitosan, and ε-PL were interacted by hydrogen bonding, and the crystallinity of nanofiber films was decreased by the electrospinning process. The addition of ε-PL can enhance the thermal stability, and decrease the water vapor permeability and oxygen permeability of the films, and ε-PL did not easily release from the nanofiber films. The G/C/P (610.125) nanofiber film was more effective to control six foodborne pathogens than the G/C nanofiber films by destroying the bacterial cell membranes. The result indicated that the gelatin/chitosan/ε-PL nanofiber films can be used as a food-packaging material to reduce the risk of foodborne pathogens.Sulfated polysaccharides from sea cucumber possess unique chemical structure and various biological activities. In this study, four sulfated polysaccharides were purified from the body wall of Holothuria fuscopunctata by anion exchange chromatography and chemical depolymerization. They were identified as sulfated fucan (SFI, SFII), fucosylated chondroitin sulfate (FCS) and sulfated aminoglycan (AG) by physicochemical and structural analyses. The Mw of SFI, SFII, FCS and AG were 470.6, 36.8, 42.6, 39.6 kDa and the sulfate content was 21.40%, 35.86%, 33.70%, 35.70%, respectively. Their primary structures were clarified both by monosaccharide composition and 1D/2D NMR spectroscopy analysis. As a result, the repeating sequences of FCS and SFII were →4)-[L-Fuc3S4S-(α1 → 3)]-D-GlcA-(β1 → 3)-D-GalNAc4S6S-(β1 → and →4-L-Fuc-(3SO3-)-α1→, respectively. The primary structure of SFI was →3)-L-Fuc2S4S-(α1 → 4)-L-Fuc-(α1 → 3)-L-Fuc2S-(α1 → 4)-L-Fuc-(α1→. buy Phenylbutyrate The sulfated AG was composed of four types of monosaccharides. Their anticoagulant activities were further evaluated in vitro. FCS and AG showed potent anticoagulant activity and intrinsic factor Xase inhibition activity. These results expand the knowledge on the structure types of sulfated polysaccharides from sea cucumber and further illustration of their functionality.In the present study, to verify the effect of polysaccharides derived from persimmon leaves (PLE) at epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), A549 cells were treated with TGF-β1 alone or co-treated with TGF-β1 and PLE (50 and 75 μg/mL). PLE-treated cells showed higher expression of E-cadherin and lower expression of N-cadherin and vimentin compared to TGF-β1-treated cells by inhibiting the levels of transcription factors, including Snail, Slug, and ZEB1, all associated with EMT. PLE also significantly decreased migration, invasion, and anoikis resistance through TGF-β1 mediated EMT suppression, whereby PLE inhibited the levels of MMP-2 and MMP-9 while cleaving PARP. These inhibitory effects of PLE against EMT, migration, invasion, and anoikis resistance were determined by activating the canonical SMAD2/3 and non-canonical ERK/p38 signaling pathways. Therefore, these results suggest that PLE could be used as a potential chemical therapeutic agent for early metastasis of lung cancer in vitro.Development of biologics and biosimilars involves extensive physical and structural characterization, which underlines the further course of its implementation. These characterization techniques require considerable standardization and are labor intensive. It is therefore, important to have an immediate, independent and affordable characterization strategy that may meet the regulatory guidelines. In this study, we have compared the standard biophysical characterization of an anti-CD 20 antibody with characterization by small angle x ray scattering (SAXS). Aggregation of this mAb was analyzed using standard techniques like size exclusion HPLC, dynamic light scattering and sedimentation velocity - analytical ultracentrifugation, whereas structure analysis was conducted using mass spectrometry, circular dichroism spectroscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy. Our results demonstrated that the inferences about the state of mAb aggregation and its structure deduced using the standard approaches were comparable to the data interpreted using SAXS. The radius of gyration and the P(r) distribution plot obtained using the SAXS scattering data allowed analysis of aggregation and conformation of mAb via a single experiment. Thus, SAXS can be used as an independent technique to complement orthogonal analysis for determining the aggregation profile and structure of mAbs.Recently discovered Lytic Polysaccharide Mono-Oxygenase (LPMO) enhances the enzymatic deconstruction of complex polysaccharide by oxidation. The present study demonstrates the agricultural waste hydrolyzing capabilities of Paenibacillus dendritiformis CRN18, which exhibits the enzyme activity of exo-glucanase, β-glucosidase, β-glucuronidase, endo-1, 4 β-xylanases, arabinosidase, and α-galactosidase as 0.1U/ml, 0.3U/ml, 0.09U/ml, 0.1U/ml, 0.05U/ml, and 0.41U/ml, respectively. The genome analysis of strain reveals the presence of four LPMO genes, along with lignocellulolytic genes. The gene structure of LPMO and its phylogenetic analysis shows the evolutionary relatedness with the Bacillus LPMO gene. Gene position of LPMOs in the genome of strains shows the close association of two LPMOs with chitin active enzyme GH18, and the other two are associated with hemicellulases (GH39, GH23). Protein-protein interaction and gene networking of LPMO sheds light on the co-occurrence, neighborhood, and interaction of LPMOs with chitinase and xylanase enzymes. Structural prediction of LPMOs unravels the information of the LPMO's binding site. Although the LPMO has been explored for its oxidative mechanism, a little light has been shed on its gene structure. This study provides insights into the LPMO gene structure in P. dendritiformis CRN18 and its potential in lignocellulose hydrolysis.