Dragon Fruit Foliage: An Agricultural Cellulosic Source to Extract Cellulose Nanomaterials.

In this report, we focus our effort to extract cellulose nanomaterials (CNs) from an agricultural cellulosic waste, Dragon Fruit foliage (DFF). DFF was first pretreated by several mechanical treatments and then bleached by chemical treatment to obtain bleached DFF. CNs were then produced from the hydrolysis of the bleached DFF catalyzed by sulfuric acid.

Anti-biofilm activity of α-mangostin isolated from Garcinia mangostana L.

This study was carried out to further examine the anti-biofilm activity of α-mangostin (αMG) isolated from Garcinia mangostana L. grown in Vietnam, against a strongly biofilm producing Streptococcus mutans, a major causative agent of dental caries. The obtained data indicated that topical applications (twice-daily, 60 s exposure each) of 150 μM αMG during biofilm formation on the surfaces of hydroxyapatite disks (sHA) by S.

Phospholipid scramblase-3 regulates cardiolipin de novo biosynthesis and its resynthesis in growing HeLa cells.

PLS3 (phospholipid scramblase-3) is a new member of the family of phospholipid scramblases and transports CL (cardiolipin) from the inner to the outer mitochondrial membrane. In the present paper we examined whether changing the levels of functional PLS3 in HeLa cells altered de novo CL biosynthesis and its resynthesis. HeLa cells overexpressing PLS3 or expressing a disrupted PLS3 (F258V) or control were incubated with [1,3-3H]glycerol and radioactivity incorporated into CL was determined.