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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Department of Biochemistry

Verschoor, JA

MSc(Agric) DSc(Agric)(Pret) - Professor and Head

NRF Rating: C2

Telephone number: 012 420 2477
Fax number: 012 362 5302
E-mail address: jan.verschoor@up.ac.za

Chemical synthesis

The immunochemistry of mycolic acids from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Beukes M, Lemmer Y, Deysel MSM, AL Dulayymi JR, Baird MS, Koza G, Maximiliano I, Rowles RR, Theunissen C, Grooten J, Toschi G, Roberts VV, Pilcher (Collett) LA, Van Wyngaardt S, Mathebula NS, Balogun MO, Stoltz AC, Verschoor JA: 2010. Structure-function relationships of the antigenicity of mycolic acids in tuberculosis patients. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 163, pp 800-808.

Semete B, Booysen LIJ, Lemmer Y, Kalombo L, Katata L, Verschoor JA, Swai H: 2010. In vivo evaluation of the biodistribution and safety of PLGA nanoparticles as drug delivery systems. Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology And Medicine, 6, pp 662-671.

Ozoemena KI, Mathebula NS, Pillay J, Toschi G, Verschoor JA: 2010. Electron transfer dynamics across self-assembled N-(2-mercaptoethyl) octadecanamide / mycolic acid layers: impedimetric insights into the structural integrity and interaction with anti-mycolic acid antibodies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12, pp 345-357, Full Text

Driver CHS, Balogun MO, Toschi G, Verschoor JA, Baird MS, Pilcher (Collett) LA: 2010. A biomimetic approach to the synthesis of a mycolic acid motif. Tetrahedron Letters, 51 (51) / Dec, pp 1185-1186, Full Text

Semete B, Booysen LIJ, Kalombo L, Venter JD, Katata L, Ramalapa B, Verschoor JA, Swai H: 2010. In vivo uptake and acute immune response to orally administered chitosan and PEG coated PLGA nanoparticles. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 249, pp 158-165, Full Text

Verschoor JA, Beukes M: 2010. A method of detecting surrogate markers in a serum sample. (P49728ZP00 CPF/AA).

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