Highly efficient, low-cost catalysts, especially with bifunctional electrocatalytic capabilities for both the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are vital for the wide commercialization of fuel cells and metal-air batteries.
Polymers prepared from bifunctional monomers with intrinsic metal-binding capability are a platform for tailoring ion-selectivity via imprinting moiety template interaction, without complex formation and ligand immobilization.
This indicates that the bifunctional protein possesses a greater antioxidant capability, which is possibly due to the close proximity between the active site of MnSOD and the heme moiety of VHb.
Biologically bifunctional nanoparticles with unique MR and optical imaging capabilities are emerging as useful probes for biolabeling, tumour-targeting, disease diagnosis, cell-based therapy, targeted molecular imaging, optical sensing and biosensors, drug delivery, and the monitoring of therapeutic effects [[9]-[13]].
Four transcription factors are referred to here as "bifunctional" (CspC, CspE, CsrA and DksA) because of their putative capability to bind both DNA and RNA molecules, although they do not function as classical transcription factors in E. coli.
These results indicate that the dynamic bifunctional organocatalysts might be utilized as primitive switches, especially given the discovered self-modifying capabilities of this class of catalysts.
Therefore, the mussel-inspired nanostructures in 3D-printed bioceramic exhibited a remarkable capability for both cancer therapy and bone regeneration, offering a promising strategy to construct bifunctional biomaterials which could be widely used for therapy of tumor-induced tissue defects.
Klahn, P. & Bronstrup, M. Bifunctional antimicrobial conjugates and hybrid antimicrobials.
Figure 2: Catalytic reactions of IPCT/DIPPS bifunctional enzyme.
Divergent evolution of a bifunctional de novo protein.
