Publications by authors named "Maoz Lahav"

Correction for 'Preventing biofilm formation and eradicating pathogenic bacteria by Zn doped histidine derived carbon quantum dots' by Vijay Bhooshan Kumar , , 2024, , 2855-2868, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TB02488A.

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Short peptides are attractive building blocks for the fabrication of self-assembled materials with significant biological, chemical, and physical properties. The microscopic and macroscopic properties of assemblies are usually closely related to the dimensionality of formed hydrogen bond networks. Here, two completely different supramolecular architectures connected by distinct hydrogen bond networks were obtained by simply adding a hydroxyl group to switch from cyclo-tryptophan-alanine (cyclo-WA) to cyclo-tryptophan-serine (cyclo-WS).

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Bacterial infections are of major medical concern due to antibiotic resistance. Carbon quantum dots (CDs) have emerged as potentially excellent biomaterials for multifunctional applications due to their low toxicity, outstanding water solubility, high fluorescence, and high biocompatibility. All of these properties allow CDs to be exceptional biomaterials for inhibiting the growth of bacteria and stopping biofilm formation due to their strong binding affinity, cell wall penetration, and solubilizing biofilm in water.

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Syntenic genomic loci on human chromosome 8 and mouse chromosome 15 (mChr15) code for LY6/Ly6 (lymphocyte Ag 6) family proteins. The 23 murine family genes include eight genes that are flanked by the murine and genes and form an Ly6 subgroup referred to in this article as the Ly6a subfamily gene cluster. , also known as and , is a member of the Ly6a subfamily gene cluster.

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The adenovirus E4orf4 protein regulates the progression of viral infection, and when expressed alone in mammalian tissue culture cells it induces protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A)-B55- and Src-dependent cell death, which is more efficient in oncogene-transformed cells than in normal cells. This form of cell death is caspase-independent, although it interacts with classic caspase-dependent apoptosis. PP2A-B55-dependent E4orf4-induced toxicity is highly conserved in evolution from yeast to mammalian cells.

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Guard cells of stomata are characterized by ordered bundles of microtubules radiating from the ventral side toward the dorsal side of the cylindrical cell. It was suggested that microtubules play a role in directing the radial arrangement of the cellulose micro-fibrils of guard cells. However, the role of microtubules in daily cycles of opening and closing of stomata is not clear.

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