Peptides from natural sources are good starting material to design bioactive agents with desired therapeutic property.
Indeed, only the HAWW_5 protein when non-denatured was able to interact with the vector, showing that it is properly folded, functional and might be a good starting material for influenza vaccine construction.
These results indicate that ATA may be a good starting material for the design of a novel class of NA inhibitors for the treatment influenza viruses.
With the aim of obtaining pharmacologically active compounds, we have envisioned that the benzimidazole scaffold could be a good starting material for the development of good MTB inhibitors.
Chitin is a good starting material because there is a great deal of it around, much of it as food waste (discarded prawn and lobster shells for instance).
Given the high endothelial content of the lung tissue [ 30, 39, 43], the lung lysates are a good starting material for biochemical investigations and thus, the findings highly significant for ECs of the lung.
They had only blood serum available, which is not a good starting material, Koopmans says, and besides, once an animal has high levels of antibodies, "you don't expect much luck in finding the virus".
Because of its homogeneous structure and composition, the cyanophycin polymer and its derivatives also appear to be good candidates as starting materials for the production of nitrogen-rich commodity products, which are based on nitrogen-rich chemicals, like, for example, nylons.
