Publications by authors named "Claude Jolivalt"

Biomimetic hydroxyapatites are widely explored for their potential applications in the repair of mineralized tissues, particularly dental enamel, which is acellular and, thus, not naturally reformed after damage. Enamel is formed with a highly-controlled hierarchical structure, which is difficult to replicate up to the macroscale. A biomimetic approach is thus warranted, based on the same principles that drive biomineralization in vivo.

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Orange carotenoid protein (OCP) is a photochromic carotenoprotein involved in the photoprotection of cyanobacteria. It is activated by blue-green light to a red form OCP capable of dissipating the excess of energy of the cyanobacterial photosynthetic light-harvesting systems. Activation to OCP can also be achieved in the dark.

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We report the synthesis of a stable heterogeneous catalyst based on copper metal nanoparticles with oxidized surface supported on ZIF-8 for the oxidation of benzyl alcohol under mild temperature and using air as a sustainable oxygen source as well as for the implementation of the tandem "one-pot" catalytic system allowing the sustainable synthesis of benzylidene malononitrile. The influence of the reduction process applied to form the nanoparticle upon the catalyst texture and its performances was extensively examined. After ZIF-8 impregnation with a copper chloride precursor, the reduction of cupric ions into Cu nanoparticles was carried out according to two procedures: (i) by soaking the solid into a solution of NaBH and (ii) by submitting it to a flow of gaseous H at 340 °C.

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Orange carotenoid protein (OCP) is a photoactive carotenoprotein involved in photoprotection of cyanobacteria, which uses a keto-catorenoid as a chromophore. When it absorbs blue-green light, it converts from an inactive OCP orange form to an activated OCP red form, the latter being able to bind the light-harvesting complexes facilitating thermal dissipation of the excess of absorbed light energy. Several research groups have focused their attention on the photoactivation mechanism, characterized by several steps, involving both carotenoid photophysics and protein conformational changes.

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Plant-derived natural bioactive molecules are of great therapeutic potential but, so far, their application in nanomedicine has scarcely been studied. This work aimed at comparing two methodologies, i.e.

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Aseptic loosening and bacterial infections are the two main causes of failure for metallic implants used for joint replacement. A coating that is both bioactive and possesses antimicrobial properties may address such shortcomings and improve the performance of the implant. We have sought to study the properties of combining hydroxyapatite-based nanoparticles or coatings with baicalein, a plant-extracted molecule with both antibacterial and antioxidant properties.

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Chlorogenic (CA) and rosmarinic (RA) acids are two natural bioactive hydroxycinnamic acids whose antioxidant properties can be modulated by the chelation of metal ions. In this work, the interactions of these two carboxylic phenols with calcium ions and the impact of such interactions on their antioxidant activity were investigated. UV-Vis absorbance, mass spectroscopy and H and C liquid NMR were used to identify complexes formed by CA and RA with calcium.

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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are considered as potential therapeutic sources of future antibiotics because of their broad-spectrum activities and alternative mechanisms of action compared to conventional antibiotics. Although AMPs present considerable advantages over conventional antibiotics, their clinical and commercial development still have some limitations, because of their potential toxicity, susceptibility to proteases, and high cost of production. To overcome these drawbacks, the use of peptides mimics is anticipated to avoid the proteolysis, while the identification of minimalist peptide sequences retaining antimicrobial activities could bring a solution for the cost issue.

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Laccases are used in decolorization and biodegradation of synthetic dyes, bioremediation of industrial wastewaters and delignification of lignocellulosic compounds. The aims of the present study were the optimization of a recombinant laccase production in Yarrowia lipolytica yeast using sucrose as a main carbon source, and the application of the resulting enzyme to decolorization of synthetic dyes, which are problematic environmental pollutants. Taguchi's experimental design method was employed to optimize medium compounds.

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Laccases are used in numerous applications, from green degradation of various xenobiotic compounds, waste detoxification, textile dye bleaching, and delignification of lignocellulose materials to biofuel production. In this study, the recombinant Yarrowia lipolytica YL4 strain carrying the white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor laccase IIIb gene was used for laccase production from beet molasses as an agro-industrial residue. Response surface methodology was used to statistical optimization of the production of laccase by Y.

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An innovative and straightforward synthesis of second-generation 2-arylbenzo[b]thiophenes as structural analogues of INF55 and the first generation of our laboratory-made molecules was developed. The synthesis of C2-arylated benzo[b]thiophene derivatives was achieved through a method involving direct arylation, followed by simple structural modifications. Among the 34 compounds tested, two of them were potent NorA pump inhibitors, which led to a 16-fold decrease in the ciprofloxacin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) against the SA-1199B strain at concentrations of 0.

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Graphite rods were modified by substituted aryldiazonium salts allowing subsequent laccase immobilisation and direct electron transfer at the cathode. Two covalent enzyme immobilisation methods were performed with carboxy and amino substituted grafted groups, either via the formation of an amide bond or a Schiff base between the glycosidic groups of the enzyme and the amino groups on the electrode surface, respectively. Laccase adsorption efficiency was consistently compared to the covalent attachment method on the same carbon surface, showing that the latter method led to a higher immobilisation yield when the electrode surface was functionalised with carboxylic groups, as shown from both laccase activity measurement towards an organic reducing substrate, ABTS, and quantitative XPS analysis.

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In response to the extensive use of antibiotics, bacteria have evolved numerous mechanisms of defense against antimicrobial agents. Among them, extrusion of the antimicrobial agents outside the bacterial cell through efflux pumps is a major cause of concern. At first limited to one or few structurally-related antibiotics, bacterial resistance have then progressed towards cross-resistance between different classes of antibiotics, leading to multidrug-resistant microorganisms.

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Objectives: We report the synthesis, antibacterial activity and toxicity of 24 bis-indolic derivatives obtained during the development of new ways of synthesis of marine bis-indole alkaloids from the spongotine, topsentin and hamacanthin classes.

Methods: Innovative ways of synthesis and further structural optimizations led to bis-indoles presenting either the 1-(1H-indol-3'-yl)-1,2-diaminoethane unit or the 1-(1H-indol-3-yl)ethanamine unit. MIC determination was performed for reference and clinical strains of Staphylococcus aureus and CoNS species.

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Objectives: The aims of this study were to identify the active ingredients from Portulaca oleracea L. (PO) that could provide synergism with antibiotics against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and their possible mechanisms of resistance inhibition.

Methods: High-speed counter-current chromatography (HSCCC) coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and a panel of laboratory MRSA strains were used for checkerboard and efflux inhibitory assays.

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The synthesis of 37 1-(1H-indol-3-yl)ethanamine derivatives, including 12 new compounds, was achieved through a series of simple and efficient chemical modifications. These indole derivatives displayed modest or no intrinsic anti-staphylococcal activity. By contrast, several of the compounds restored, in a concentration-dependent manner, the antibacterial activity of ciprofloxacin against Staphylococcus aureus strains that were resistant to fluoroquinolones due to overexpression of the NorA efflux pump.

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The feasibility to apply crude culture supernatants that contain the multicopper oxidases laccase or copper efflux oxidase (CueO) as oxygen reducing catalysts in a biofuel cell cathode is shown. As enzyme-secreting recombinant planktonic microorganisms, the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica and the bacterium Escherichia coli were investigated. The cultivation and operation conditions (choice of medium, pH) had distinct effects on the electro-catalytic performance.

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Overexpression of efflux pumps is an important mechanism of bacterial resistance that results in the extrusion of antimicrobial agents outside the bacterial cell. Inhibition of such pumps appears to be a promising strategy that could restore the potency of existing antibiotics. The NorA efflux pump of Staphylococcus aureus confers resistance to a wide range of unrelated substrates, such as hydrophilic fluoroquinolones, leading to a multidrug-resistance phenotype.

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This study aimed to assess structural requirements in the enzyme/substrate interactions that are responsible for tuning the enzymatic reactivity. To better assess the role of the aspartic residue in the substrate-binding pocket of basidiomycete-type laccases, we compared the catalytic efficiency of wild-type enzymes to that of a mutant in which carboxylic acid residue Asp206 was changed to alanine. Oxidation efficiency towards phenolic substrates by laccases of Trametes villosa, Trametes versicolor and a T.

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Aminoglycosides are antibiotic drugs that act through binding to rRNA. In the search for antimicrobial amphiphilic aminoglycosides targeting bacterial membranes, we report here on the discovery of three dialkyl derivatives of the small aminoglycoside neamine active against susceptible and resistant Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. One of these derivatives (R = 2-naphthylpropyl), which has good activity against MRSA and VRSA, showed a low toxicity in eukaryotic cells at 10 μM.

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Enzymatic biofuel cells (BFCs) show great potential for the direct conversion of biochemically stored energy from renewable biomass resources into electricity. However, enzyme purification is time-consuming and expensive. Furthermore, the long-term use of enzymatic BFCs is hindered by enzyme degradation, which limits their lifetime to only a few weeks.

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In this work, a simple and rapid method was used to functionalize carbon electrode in order to efficiently immobilize laccase for biosensor application. A stable allylamine coating was deposited using a low pressure inductively excited RF tubular plasma reactor under mild plasma conditions (low plasma power (10 W), few minutes) to generate high density amine groups (N/C ratio up to 0.18) on rough carbon surface electrodes.

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Increasing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) worldwide with limited therapeutic options is a growing public health concern. Natural products have been shown to possess antibacterial actions against MRSA. Flavonoids from natural products have been shown to possess antibacterial actions against MRSA by antagonizing its resistance mechanisms.

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For the first time, a fast and versatile technique, an atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ), has been used to functionalise graphite carbon electrodes for biofuel cell applications. The bioelectrode was functionalized by an atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) system using air, oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2) plasmas applied for only a few seconds. XPS analysis showed that carboxylic groups were created on the carbon substrates using both air and O2 plasmas, while mainly carbonyl and amine/amide functionalities were generated using N2 plasmas.

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Plasma polymerized polyacrylic acid (PPAA) was deposited on a polymer substrate, namely polyethylene terephthalate (PET) mesh, for entrapment of silver nanoparticle (Ag-NP) in order to achieve antibacterial property to the material. Carboxylic groups of PPAA act as anchor as well as capping and stabilizing agents for Ag-NPs synthesized by chemical reduction method using NaBH(4) as a reducing agent. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and water contact angle analysis were used to characterize the PPAA coatings.

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