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A transition from the BPharm to the PharmD degree in five selected countries (2019)
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Supapaan, T., Low, B. Y., Wongpoowarak, P., Moolasarn, S., & Anderson, C. (2019). A transition from the BPharm to the PharmD degree in five selected countries. Pharmacy Practice, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.18549/PharmPract.2019.3.1611

This review focuses on the studies and opinions around issues of transition from the BPharm to the PharmD degree in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Pakistan and Thailand. The transition to the clinically orientated PharmD degree in many countries wa... Read More about A transition from the BPharm to the PharmD degree in five selected countries.

Evolutionary Drivers of Protein Shape (2019)
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Shannon, G., Marples, C. R., Toofanny, R. D., & Williams, P. M. (2019). Evolutionary Drivers of Protein Shape. Scientific Reports, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47337-8

Diffusional motion within the crowded environment of the cell is known to be crucial to cellular function as it drives the interactions of proteins. However, the relationships between protein diffusion, shape and interaction, and the evolutionary sel... Read More about Evolutionary Drivers of Protein Shape.

Tios: The Internet of Simulations. Turning Molecular Dynamics into a Data Streaming Web Application (2019)
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Meletiou, A., Gebbie-Rayet, J., & Laughton, C. (2019). Tios: The Internet of Simulations. Turning Molecular Dynamics into a Data Streaming Web Application. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 59(8), 3359-3364. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00351

The configuration of most current academic high-performance computing (HPC) resources tends to enforce ways of working with, and thinking about, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations that are not always optimal. For example, when the aim of the simulat... Read More about Tios: The Internet of Simulations. Turning Molecular Dynamics into a Data Streaming Web Application.

Role of Self‐Assembly Conditions and Amphiphilic Balance on Nanoparticle Formation of PEG‐PDLLA Copolymers in Aqueous Environments (2019)
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Phan, H., Minut, R. I., McCrorie, P., Vasey, C., Larder, R. R., Krumins, E., …Pearce, A. K. (2019). Role of Self‐Assembly Conditions and Amphiphilic Balance on Nanoparticle Formation of PEG‐PDLLA Copolymers in Aqueous Environments. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 57(17), 1801-1810. https://doi.org/10.1002/pola.29451

The production of well-defined and reproducible poly-meric nanoparticles (NPs), in terms of size and stability in biological environments, is undoubtedly a fundamental challenge in the formulation of novel and more effective nanomedicines. The adopti... Read More about Role of Self‐Assembly Conditions and Amphiphilic Balance on Nanoparticle Formation of PEG‐PDLLA Copolymers in Aqueous Environments.

Dual Bioresponsive Antibiotic and Quorum Sensing Inhibitor Combination Nanoparticles for Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms In Vitro and Ex Vivo (2019)
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Singh, N., Romero, M., Travanut, A., Monteiro, P., Jordana-Lluch, E., Hardie, K. R., …Alexander, C. (2019). Dual Bioresponsive Antibiotic and Quorum Sensing Inhibitor Combination Nanoparticles for Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms In Vitro and Ex Vivo. Biomaterials Science, 10(7), 4099-4111. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9BM00773C

Many debilitating infections result from persistent microbial biofilms that do not respond to conventional antibiotic regimens. A potential method to treat such chronic infections is to combine agents which interfere with bacterial biofilm developmen... Read More about Dual Bioresponsive Antibiotic and Quorum Sensing Inhibitor Combination Nanoparticles for Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms In Vitro and Ex Vivo.

Timing is everything – impact of naturally occurring Staphylococcus aureus AgrC cytoplasmic domain adaptive mutations on auto-induction (2019)
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Sloan, T. J., Murray, E., Yokoyama, M., Massey, R. C., Chan, W. C., Bonev, B., & Williams, P. (2019). Timing is everything – impact of naturally occurring Staphylococcus aureus AgrC cytoplasmic domain adaptive mutations on auto-induction. Journal of Bacteriology, 201(20), Article e00409-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00409-19

Mutations in the polymorphic Staphylococcus aureus agr locus responsible for quorum sensing (QS) dependent virulence gene regulation occur frequently during host adaptation. In two genomically closely related S. aureus clinical isolates exhibiting ma... Read More about Timing is everything – impact of naturally occurring Staphylococcus aureus AgrC cytoplasmic domain adaptive mutations on auto-induction.

Multifunctional Bioinstructive 3D Architectures to Modulate Cellular Behavior (2019)
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Vaithilingam, J., Sanjuan‐Alberte, P., Campora, S., Rance, G. A., Jiang, L., Thorpe, J., …Rawson, F. J. (2019). Multifunctional Bioinstructive 3D Architectures to Modulate Cellular Behavior. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(38), Article 1902016. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201902016

Biological structures control cell behavior via physical, chemical, electrical, and mechanical cues. Approaches that allow us to build devices that mimic these cues in a combinatorial way are lacking due to there being no suitable instructive materia... Read More about Multifunctional Bioinstructive 3D Architectures to Modulate Cellular Behavior.

High-throughput characterization of fluid properties to predict droplet ejection for three-dimensional inkjet printing formulations (2019)
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Zhou, Z., Ruiz Cantu, L., Chen, X., Alexander, M. R., Roberts, C. J., Hague, R., …Wildman, R. (2019). High-throughput characterization of fluid properties to predict droplet ejection for three-dimensional inkjet printing formulations. Additive Manufacturing, 29, Article 100792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2019.100792

Inkjet printing has been used as an Additive Manufacturing (AM) method to fabricate three-dimensional (3D) structures. However, a lack of materials suitable for inkjet printing poses one of the key challenges that impedes industry from fully adopting... Read More about High-throughput characterization of fluid properties to predict droplet ejection for three-dimensional inkjet printing formulations.

Methodology for the synthesis of methacrylate monomers using designed single mode microwave applicators (2019)
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Dundas, A. A., Hook, A. L., Alexander, M. R., Kingman, S. W., Dimitrakis, G., & Irvine, D. J. (2019). Methodology for the synthesis of methacrylate monomers using designed single mode microwave applicators. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, 4(8), 1472-1476. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9re00173e

© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. A novel single-well prototype high throughput microwave reactor geometry has been produced and shown to be capable of synthesizing an array of non-commercially available methacrylate monomers. The reactor, which... Read More about Methodology for the synthesis of methacrylate monomers using designed single mode microwave applicators.

Introduction of a C-terminal hexa-lysine tag increases thermal stability of the LacDiNac binding adhesin (LabA) exodomain from Helicobacter pylori (2019)
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Paraskevopoulou, V., Artiaga, V. G., Rowlinson, R., Winkler, G. S., Gellert, P., Stolnik, S., …Falcone, F. H. (2019). Introduction of a C-terminal hexa-lysine tag increases thermal stability of the LacDiNac binding adhesin (LabA) exodomain from Helicobacter pylori. Protein Expression and Purification, 163, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pep.2019.105446

Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic microorganism infecting approximately 50% of the global population, and establishes life-long colonization despite the hostile stomach environment. H. pylori employs a wide range of outer membrane proteins (adhesin... Read More about Introduction of a C-terminal hexa-lysine tag increases thermal stability of the LacDiNac binding adhesin (LabA) exodomain from Helicobacter pylori.

The development of a foundation-level pharmacy competency framework: An analysis of country-level applicability of the Global Competency Framework (2019)
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Arakawa, N., Yamamura, S., Duggan, C., & Bates, I. (2020). The development of a foundation-level pharmacy competency framework: An analysis of country-level applicability of the Global Competency Framework. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 16(3), 396-404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2019.06.007

Background The importance and usefulness of competency frameworks (CFs) in pharmacy professional development is recognised globally. However, there is no national CF for pharmacists in Japan yet. Objective This study was conducted to measure the... Read More about The development of a foundation-level pharmacy competency framework: An analysis of country-level applicability of the Global Competency Framework.

Mechanistic insight into heterogeneity of trans-plasma membrane electron transport in cancer cell types (2019)
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Sherman, H. G., Jovanovic, C., Abuawad, A., Kim, D., Collins, H., Dixon, J. E., …Rawson, F. J. (2019). Mechanistic insight into heterogeneity of trans-plasma membrane electron transport in cancer cell types. BBA - Bioenergetics, 1860(8), 628-639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.06.012

Trans-plasma membrane electron transfer (tMPET) is a process by which reducing equivalents, either electrons or reductants like ascorbic acid, are exported to the extracellular environment by the cell. TPMET is involved in a number of physiological p... Read More about Mechanistic insight into heterogeneity of trans-plasma membrane electron transport in cancer cell types.

Highly versatile cell-penetrating peptide loaded scaffold for efficient and localised gene delivery to multiple cell types: From development to application in tissue engineering (2019)
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Raftery, R. M., Walsh, D. P., Blokpoel Ferreras, L., Mencía Castaño, I., Chen, G., LeMoine, M., …O'Brien, F. J. (2019). Highly versatile cell-penetrating peptide loaded scaffold for efficient and localised gene delivery to multiple cell types: From development to application in tissue engineering. Biomaterials, 216, Article 119277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.119277

Gene therapy has recently come of age with seven viral vector-based therapies gaining regulatory approval in recent years. In tissue engineering, non-viral vectors are preferred over viral vectors, however, lower transfection efficiencies and difficu... Read More about Highly versatile cell-penetrating peptide loaded scaffold for efficient and localised gene delivery to multiple cell types: From development to application in tissue engineering.

Nanostructured supramolecular hydrogels: Towards the topical treatment of Psoriasis and other skin diseases (2019)
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Limón, D., Talló Domínguez, K., Garduño-Ramírez, M. L., Andrade, B., Calpena, A. C., & Pérez-García, L. (2019). Nanostructured supramolecular hydrogels: Towards the topical treatment of Psoriasis and other skin diseases. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 181, 657-670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2019.06.018

Supramolecular hydrogels were synthesized using a bis-imidazolium based amphiphile, and incorporating chemically diverse drugs, such as the cytostatics gemcitabine hydrochloride and methotrexate sodium salt, the immunosuppressive drug tacrolimus, as... Read More about Nanostructured supramolecular hydrogels: Towards the topical treatment of Psoriasis and other skin diseases.

C8-substituted imidazotetrazine analogs overcome temozolomide resistance by inducing DNA adducts and DNA damage (2019)
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Yang, Z., Wei, D., Dai, X., Stevens, M. F., Bradshaw, T. D., Luo, Y., & Zhang, J. (2019). C8-substituted imidazotetrazine analogs overcome temozolomide resistance by inducing DNA adducts and DNA damage. Frontiers in Oncology, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2019.00485

Copyright © 2019 Yang, Wei, Dai, Stevens, Bradshaw, Luo and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, pro... Read More about C8-substituted imidazotetrazine analogs overcome temozolomide resistance by inducing DNA adducts and DNA damage.

DEAD-box helicase eIF4A2 inhibits CNOT7 deadenylation activity (2019)
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Meijer, H. A., Schmidt, T., Gillen, S. L., Langlais, C., Jukes-Jones, R., de Moor, C. H., …Bushell, M. (2019). DEAD-box helicase eIF4A2 inhibits CNOT7 deadenylation activity. Nucleic Acids Research, 47(15), 8224-8238. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz509

The CCR4–NOT complex plays an important role in the translational repression and deadenylation of mRNAs. However, little is known about the specific roles of interacting factors. We demonstrate that the DEAD-box helicases eIF4A2 and DDX6 interact dir... Read More about DEAD-box helicase eIF4A2 inhibits CNOT7 deadenylation activity.

Crystal structures of the recombinant β-factor XIIa protease with bound Thr-Arg and Pro-Arg substrate mimetics (2019)
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Pathak, M., Manna, R., Li, C., Kaira, B. G., Hamad, B. K., Belviso, B. D., …Emsley, J. (2019). Crystal structures of the recombinant β-factor XIIa protease with bound Thr-Arg and Pro-Arg substrate mimetics. Acta Crystallographica. Section d, Structural Biology, 75(6), 578-591. https://doi.org/10.1107/s2059798319006910

© 2019 International Union of Crystallography. Coagulation factor XII (FXII) is a key initiator of the contact pathway, which contributes to inflammatory pathways. FXII circulates as a zymogen, which when auto-activated forms factor XIIa (FXIIa). Her... Read More about Crystal structures of the recombinant β-factor XIIa protease with bound Thr-Arg and Pro-Arg substrate mimetics.

In vitro investigation on the impact of airway mucus on drug dissolution and absorption at the air-epithelium interface in the lungs (2019)
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Cingolani, E., Alqahtani, S., Sadler, R. C., Prime, D., Stolnik, S., & Bosquillon, C. (2019). In vitro investigation on the impact of airway mucus on drug dissolution and absorption at the air-epithelium interface in the lungs. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 141, 210-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2019.05.022

Although the mucus layer is the first biological barrier encountered by inhaled drugs upon their deposition in the upper airways, its potential impact on drug dissolution and absorption in the lung has hardly been investigated. Bio-relevant in vitro... Read More about In vitro investigation on the impact of airway mucus on drug dissolution and absorption at the air-epithelium interface in the lungs.

Proteins in Ionic Liquids: Reactions, Applications and Futures (2019)
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Schindl, A., Hagen, M. L., Muzammal, S., Gunasekera, H. A., & Croft, A. K. (2019). Proteins in Ionic Liquids: Reactions, Applications and Futures. Frontiers in Chemistry, 7, Article 347. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2019.00347

Biopolymer processing and handling is greatly facilitated by the use of ionic liquids, given the increased solubility, and in some cases, structural stability imparted to these molecules. Focussing on proteins, we highlight here not just the key dri... Read More about Proteins in Ionic Liquids: Reactions, Applications and Futures.