• Firefly luciferin precursor 2-cyano-6-hydroxybenzothiazole: Fluorescence à la carte controlled by solvent and acidity 

  Jadhav, Ankita S.; Carreira Blanco, Carlos; Fernández Rodríguez, Berta; González Fernández, Sonia; Malkhede, Dipalee D.; Mosquera González, Manuel; Ríos Rodríguez, María del Carmen; Rodríguez-Prieto, Flor (Elsevier, 2020)

  2-Cyano-6-hydroxybenzothiazole (CBTOH) is a key intermediate in the biosynthesis of D-luciferin, also used for its chemical synthesis and as luciferin bioluminescence precursor for chemical analysis. We characterized CBTOH ...

• New insights on the mechanism of polyethylenimine transfection and their implications on gene therapy and DNA vaccines 

  Sabín Fernández, Juan Daniel; Alatorre Meda, Manuel; Miñones Conde, José; Domínguez Arca, Vicente; Prieto, Gerardo (Elsevier, 2022)

  Polyethylenimine (PEI) has been demonstrated as an efficient DNA delivery vehicle both in vitro and in vivo. There is a consensus that PEI-DNA complexes enter the cells by endocytosis and escape from endosomes by the ...

• Exploiting the potential of supported magnetic nanomaterials as Fenton-Like catalysts for environmental applications 

  González Rodríguez, Jorge; Gamallo Mirón, María; Conde López, Julio José; Vargas Osorio, Zulema; Vázquez Vázquez, Carlos; Piñeiro Redondo, Yolanda; Rivas Rey, José; Feijoo Costa, Gumersindo; Moreira Vilar, María Teresa (MDPI, 2021)

  In recent years, the application of magnetic nanoparticles as alternative catalysts to conventional Fenton processes has been investigated for the removal of emerging pollutants in wastewater. While this type of catalyst ...

• A surfactant concentration model for the systematic determination of the critical micellar concentration and the transition width 

  Al-Soufi, Wajih; Novo Rodríguez, Mercedes (MDPI, 2021)

  The critical micellar concentration (cmc) is a fundamental property of surfactant solutions. Many proposed methods for the definition and determination of the cmc from property-concentration plots yield values, which depend ...

• Spectroscopic characterization of mitochondrial G-quadruplexes 

  Illodo, Sara; Pérez González, Cibrán; Barcia, Ramiro; Rodriguez-Prieto, Flor ; Al-Soufi, Wajih; Novo Rodríguez, Mercedes (MDPI, 2022)

  Guanine quadruplexes (G4s) are highly polymorphic four-stranded structures formed within guanine-rich DNA and RNA sequences that play a crucial role in biological processes. The recent discovery of the first G4 structures ...

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