Serena Andreotti 1,2, Elisa Franzoni 1,2,* ID , Micaela Degli Esposti 1,2 ID and Paola Fabbri 1,2 1 Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, 40131 Bologna, Italy; [email protected] (S.A.); [email protected] (M.D.E.); [email protected] (P.F.) 2 Consorzio Interuniversitario di Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM), 50...

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Streptococcus milleri NMSCC 061 produces an endopeptidase, millericin B, which hydrolyzes the peptide moiety of susceptible cell wall peptidoglycan. The nucleotide sequence of a 4.9-kb chromosomal region showed three open reading frames (ORFs) and a putative tRNA(Leu) sequence. The three ORFs encode a millericin B preprotein (MilB), a putative immunity protein (MilF), and a putative transporter...

Stent technology has progressed dramatically over the past 100 years. JJ stents are essential tools for any urologist. They do have however have their own limitations with complications including stone formation, infection, reflux, stent pain, migration and importantly encrustation, which therefore requires stent changes every 3-6 months. Metal stents have been used to try to minimise these com...

BACKGROUND Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue (TPE) is the causative agent of yaws, a multi-stage disease, endemic in tropical regions of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and South America. To date, four TPE strains have been completely sequenced including three TPE strains of human origin (Samoa D, CDC-2, and Gauthier) and one TPE strain (Fribourg-Blanc) isolated from a baboon. All TPE strains are highl...

Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) catalyzes the reaction of hypoxanthine to xanthine and of xanthine to uric acid. Inhibitors of XOR can thus decrease the concentration of uric acid in serum. Crystal structures of XOR bound with various inhibitors reveal that inhibitors can be categorized into three types, i.e. mechanism-based, structure-based, and hybrid types.