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Forensic Science Laboratories usually receive numerous cases of suicidal, accidental, and homicidal poisoning most often involving organophosphorus (OP) pesticides. The toxicity of the OP pesticides arises due to their ability to inhibit the activity of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), a cholinergic enzyme that is essential for the proper functioning of the central nervous system. Conventional techniques which are currently in use for pesticide detection are time-consuming, need upskilled technicians as well as suffer from low sensitivity. Therefore, the more rapid and sensitive electrochemical biosensors based on the principle of AChE enzyme inhibition have emerged out to be a simple and promising alternative to the conventional techniques. Since, most of the time, the poison isolated from biological material in poisoning cases is in nM quantities, an attempt has been made for the development of biosensor with enhanced sensitivity in the nM range using reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and zinc oxide nanoflowers (ZnONFs). The rGO and ZnONFs were synthesized chemically and deposited electrochemically on the Au electrode. AChE was immobilized onto this prepared nano-interface (ZnONFs/rGO/Au) through chitosan and glutaraldehyde cross-linking. The fabricated sensor was characterized step by step with cyclic voltammogram and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. This advanced nanomaterials based techniques has been explored for detecting pesticides in visceral samples. The limit of detection (LOD) for the present sensor was 0.01 nM for OP pesticides.Solid-state NMR is a powerful analytical technique to determine the composite structure of Bombyx mori silk fibroin (SF). In our previous paper, we proposed a lamellar structure for Ala-Gly copolypeptides as a model of the crystalline fraction in Silk II. In this paper, the structure and dynamics of the crystalline fraction and of a better mimic of the crystalline fraction, (Ala-Gly-Ser-Gly-Ala-Gly)n (n = 2-5, 8), and 13C selectively labeled [3-13C]Ala-(AGSGAG)5 in Silk II forms, were studied using structural and dynamical analyses of the Ala Cβ peaks in 13C cross polarization/ magic angle spinning NMR and 13C solid-state spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) measurements, respectively. Like Ala-Gly copolypeptides, these materials have lamellar structures with two kinds of Ala residues in β-sheet, A and B, plus one distorted β-turn, t, formed by repetitive folding using β-turns every eighth amino acid in an antipolar arrangement. However, because of the presence of Ser residues at every sixth residue in (AGSGAG)n, the T1 values and mobilities of B decreased significantly. We conclude that the Ser hydroxyls hydrogen bond to adjacent lamellar layers and fix them together in a similar way to Velcro®.Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP) is a biomolecule with intense and natural fluorescence, with biological and medical applications. Although widely used as a biomarker in research, its application as a biosensor is limited by the lack of in-depth knowledge regarding its structure and behavior in adverse conditions. This study is focused on addressing this need by evaluating EGFP activity and structure at different pH using three-dimensional fluorescence, circular dichroism and small-angle X-ray scattering. The focus was on the reversibility of the process to gain insights for the development of biocompatible pH-biosensors. EGFP was highly stable at alkaline pH and quenched from neutral-to-acidic pH. Above pH 6.0, the fluorescence loss was almost completely reversible on return to neutral pH, but only partially reversible from pH 5.0 to 2.0. This work updates the knowledge regarding EGFP behavior in pH by accounting for the recent data on its structure. Hence, it is evident that EGFP presents the required properties for use as natural, biocompatible and environmentally friendly neutral to acidic pH-biosensors.This study aimed to characterize novel complex coacervates based on Zedo gum and cress seed gum as natural polysaccharides with gelatin (type-A and type-B) as potential wall materials for encapsulation of anthocyanins. The coacervates were prepared under optimum conditions (pH and gum to gelatin ratio), freeze-dried, and the resulted powders were analyzed in terms of thermal stability, morphology, and molecular interactions. The thermogravimetric analysis revealed that molecular interaction between polysaccharides and gelatins led to enhance the thermal stability of gums. selleck inhibitor The morphology of coacervates showed that while ZG-gelatin and CSG-gelatin coacervates resulted in cubic and irregular particles, freeze-drying severely changed the morphology of coacervates. Moreover, SEM images at lower magnification showed big voids for lyophilized coacervates, while SEM images confirmed a compact and dense microstructure of coacervates at higher magnification and BET method. Also, the molecular interaction of polysaccharides and gelatin in aqueous media was assessed using Raman spectroscopy. Furthermore, findings showed that the type-A of gelatin is a more suitable protein to form coacervates with polysaccharides. In the next step, natural anthocyanins from barberry were encapsulated by proposed coacervates as wall material. The encapsulated extract had elevated thermal stability and showed a lower degradation rate.LSD1 (KDM1A), a histone demethylase, plays important roles in breast cancer. The breast cancer patients with LSD1 mutation show significantly worse outcomes compared to those without LSD1 mutation. The R251Q mutation of LSD1 increases the invasion and migration of luminal breast cancer cells. Furthermore, the R251Q mutation of LSD1 alters the expression of genes that modulates the epithelial to mesenchymal transition. Additionally, the R251Q mutation impairs the H3K4me2 demethylation activity of LSD1 by abolishing the interaction between LSD1 and CoREST, which leads to the increased expression of TRIM37, a histone H2A ubiquitin ligase that regulates the expression of E-cadherin. Collectively, our results suggest that the R251Q mutation abolishes the tumor suppressive effects of LSD1 on luminal breast cancer cells by disrupting the formation of functional LSD1/CoREST/HDAC complexes.