Bio-derived materials have long been harnessed for their potential as backbones of
biodegradable constructs. With increasing understanding of organismal biochemistry and …

Amide bond-containing (ABC) biomolecules are some of the most intriguing and functionally
significant natural products with unmatched utility in medicine, agriculture and …

The crossing of environmental barriers poses major adaptive challenges. Rareness of
freshwater-marine transitions separates the bacterial communities, but how these are …

Poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is a natural polymer composed of glutamic acid monomer and
it has garnered substantial attention in both the fields of material science and biomedicine …

Background Post-translational modification (PTM) of proteins is central to many cellular
processes across all domains of life, but despite decades of study and a wealth of genomic …

Poly (glutamate) s exist as the naturally occurring poly (γ-glutamic acid) and the synthetically
prepared poly (α-glutamic acid). Salts and esters of poly (glutamic acid) are referred to as …

Diamines are important monomers for polyamide plastics; they include 1, 3-
diaminopropane, 1, 4-diaminobutane, 1, 5-diaminopentane, and 1, 6-diaminohexane …

Post-transcriptional control of protein abundance is a highly important, underexplored
regulatory process by which organisms respond to their environments. Here we describe an …

Amide bond formation serves as a fundamental reaction in chemistry, and is practically
useful for the synthesis of peptides, food additives, and polymers. However, current methods …

The exopolymer (EPSp) produced by the strain B. licheniformis IDN-EC was isolated and
characterized using different techniques (MALDI-TOF, NMR, ATR-FTIR, TGA, DSC, SEM) …