A bis-boronic acid modified electrode for the sensitive and selective determination of glucose concentrations has been developed. The electrochemical characteristics of the sensor with added saccharides were investigated using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The bis-boronic acid modified electrode was both sensitive and selective for glucose.

Among saccharides, the antibiotics of the aminoglycoside family are the best-studied class of molecules interacting with RNA. By binding to RNA targets, aminoglycosides act as inhibitors of protein biosynthesis, they interfere with protein-RNA interaction of retroviral regulatory elements, and they inhibit the catalytic action of ribozymes. Here, we survey the available data on molecular struct...

A facile green chemistry carbonization method has been discovered for the synthesis of uniform silver@carbon rich composite (carbon and cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol) core-shell sub-microcables in large quantities, where the carbon sources such as glucose-based saccharides have played important roles in the formation of these novel sub-microcables.

T he ocean covers ≈70% of the Earth’s surface and plays a major role in regulating global climate and sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Diverse populations of phytoplankton, namely photosynthetic microalgae and cyanobacteria, abound in sunlit surface waters of the ocean and account for half of global primary production. Phytoplankton require a variety of essential nutrients, incl...

Previous studies (KALB, A. J., AND LEVITZKI, A. (1968) Biochem. J. 109, 669; SHOHAM, M., KALB, A. J., AND PECHT. I. (1973) Biochemistry 12, 1914) were interpreted as showing that transition metal and calcium ions must be bound to concanavalin A before this lectin can bind sugars. In contrast, we find that the addition of calcium ions fails to affect the following properties of manganese concana...

Amphiphilic boronic acid (BA)-substituted block copolymers have been utilized in biomedical applications through binding to saccharides, including glucose whereas the anaerobically produced metabolite lactate is unreported. Glucose requires basic conditions, while occurs at neutral physiological conditions. Herein, BA and used for first time convert solvated hydrophobic homopolymer amphiphilic ...