Publications by authors named "Elahe Faramarzi"

This work reports the results of an interesting study related to the investigation of interactions of bromocriptine (BCP) with human serum albumin (HSA) by mathematicall modelling of voltammetric and spectroscopic data into an augmented data matrix and its resolution by multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS). The quality of the results obtained by MCR-ALS was examined by MCR-BANDS and its outputs confirmed the absence of rotational ambiguities in the MCR-ALS results. BCP-HSA interactions were also modeled by molecular docking methods to verify the results obtained from experimental sections and fortunately, they were compatible.

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This paper reports results of a valuable study on investigation of inhibitory effects of the sulfonamide derivative of quercetin (QD) on human carbonic anhydrase II (CA-II) by electrochemical and chemometrical approaches. To achieve this goal, a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was chosen as the sensing platform and different electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry (CV), differential pulse voltammetry (DPV), linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) were used to investigate and comparing inhibitory effects of quercetin (Q) and QD on CA-II. By the use of EQUISPEC, SPECFIT, SQUAD and REACTLAB as efficient hard-modeling algorithms, bindings of Q and QD with CA-II were investigated and the results confirmed that the QD inhibited the CA-II stronger than Q suggesting a highly relevant role of QD's-SONH group in inhibiting activity and also was confirmed by docking studies.

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In this work, voltammetric data recorded by a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was used to investigate the interactions of tolcapone (Tasmar, TAS) with human serum albumin (HSA) at the electrode surface. The recorded voltammetric data was also combined with spectroscopic data to construct an augmented data matrix which was analysed by multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) as an efficient chemometric tool to obtain more information about TAS-HSA interactions. The results of MCR-ALS confirmed formation of one complex species (HSA-TAS) and application of MCR-BANDS to the results of MCR-ALS confirmed the absence of rotational ambiguities and existing unambiguous and reliable results.

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