This article presents an overview of our recent progress on the development of chelating materials. Carboxymethylated pentaethylenehexamine (CM-PEHA) and polyethyleneimine (CM-PEI) as chelating ligands show excellent performance for the solid-phase extraction of trace elements. Chelating resins immobilizing these ligands can be readily prepared by immobilizing PEHA and PEI on methacrylate resin...

A novel magnetically immobilized polyethyleneimine (PEI) fabricated by covalently anchoring on silica coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles (PEI@Si-MNPs) was prepared. The synthesized catalyst was characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). The immobili...

A facile method to prepare a biocompatible graphene oxide (GO)-based substrate for protein immobilization was developed to overcome the drawbacks of GO, such as the strong electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions which could potentially alter the conformation and biological activity of proteins. The GO was coated with hydrophilic branched polyethyleneimine (BPEI), while Concanavalin A (Con A)...

We focused our study on the olfactory cells growth on biocompatible polymer films electrodeposited on a silicon microsystem. Several substrates such as polyethyleneimine (PEI), polypropyleneimine (PPI), and polypyrrole (PPy), acting as potentially good candidates for cell culture, were tested in order to allow cells to adhere and proliferate. During their growth, the evolution of their morpholo...

After infection with bacteriophage T4, Escherichia coli B shows an increase in activity for reduction of adenosine diphosphate to deoxyadenosine diphosphate. An allosteric effector appears to be deoxyguanosine triphosphate, which is needed to reveal the activity in crude extracts of the infected cells. The enzyme system determined by the three phage genes, nrdA, B, and C, is involved in the red...

Phospholipase C activity present in the growth medium of Bacillus ceyeus was purified 2o-fold by chromatography on polyethyleneimine-cellulose columns, or by treatment with protamine sulfate and subsequent chromatography on DEAE-cellulose columns. Purified enzyme preparations retained the ability to hydrolyze ethanolamine phosphoglycerides in the absence of choline phosphoglycerides. A typical ...

We report the rational control of the nanostructure and surface morphology of a polyamine@silica nanoribbon-based hybrid nanograss film, which was generated by performing a biomimetic silica mineralization reaction on a nanostructured linear polyethyleneimine (LPEI) layer preorganized on the inner wall of a glass tube. We found that the film thickness, size and density of the nanoribbons and th...

After combined pancreatic and T(1) ribonuclease treatment of RNA, a characteristic series of products of the type A(n)N are obtained, where N can be any of the four ribonucleosides. Depending on whether phosphatase treatment is used before the addition of labelled phosphate at the 5'-terminus with bacteriophage phosphokinase, the labelled oligonucleotides obtained may or may not possess a phosp...

Bimodal nanoprobes comprising both magnetic and optical functionalities have been prepared via a sequential two-step process. Firstly, magnetite nanoparticles (MNPs) with well-defined cubic shape and an average dimension of 80 nm were produced by hydrolysis of iron sulfate and were then surface modified with silica shells by using the sol-gel method. The Fe₃O₄@SiO₂ particles were then functiona...

Reverse microemulsion was used as a template to fabricate chitosan-alginate core-shell nanoparticles encapsulated with enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-encoded plasmids. The average size of DNA-entrapped nanoparticles measured by dynamic light scattering was increased proportionally, with the N/P ratios ranging from 5 to 20. These alginate-coated chitosan nanoparticles endocytosed by N...