1. Stable urea isotopes can be used to study urea kinetics in humans. The use of stable urea isotopes for studying urea kinetic parameters in humans on a large scale is hampered by the high costs of the labelled material. We devised a urea dilution for measurement of the distribution volume, production rate and clearance of urea in healthy subjects and renal failure patients using the inexpensi...

Here we present a novel suite of projected 4D triple-resonance NMR experiments for efficient sequential assignment of polypeptide backbone chemical shifts in 13C/15N doubly labeled proteins. In the 3D HNN[CAHA] and 3D HNN(CO)[CAHA] experiments. the 13C(alpha) and lHalpha chemical shifts evolve in a common dimension and are simultaneously detected in quadrature. These experiments are particularl...

The comprehensive structure determination of isotopically labeled proteins by solid-state NMR requires sequence-specific assignment of 13C and 15N spectra. We describe several 2D and 3D MAS correlation techniques for resonance assignment and apply them, at 7.0 Tesla, to 13C and 15N labeled ubiquitin to examine the extent of resonance assignments in the solid state. Both interresidue and intrare...

13C/12C ratios of sets of compounds, algal sterols and terpenes, isolated from dinoflagellate symbiont (zooxanthellae)-bearing soft corals and gorgonians were determined. In most cases, a significant difference was found between the delta 13C values of the terpenes and of the algal sterols from the same set, the algal sterols containing less 13C than the terpenes. These results can only be expl...

This paper describes a [15N,1H]/[13C,1H]-TROSY experiment for the simultaneous acquisition of the heteronuclear chemical shift correlations of backbone amide 15N-1H groups, side chain 15N-1H2 groups and aromatic 13C-1H groups in otherwise highly deuterated proteins. The 15N-1H and 13C-1H correlations are extracted from two subspectra of the same data set, thus preventing possible spectral overl...

The 13C, 69/71Ga and 115In NMR spectra of lithium tetra(tert-butyl)gallate and -indate were measured under various conditions. It proved possible to determine for the first time the coupling constants 1J(69/71Ga,13C) = 182 Hz/232 Hz and 1J(115In,13C) = 310±10 Hz for these metallates under conditions for solvent-separated ions. DFT calculations [B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p)] were carried out for organogal...

The carbon metabolism of two marine sponges, Haliclona oculata and Dysidea avara, has been studied using a 13C isotope pulse-chase approach. The sponges were fed 13C-labeled diatoms (Skeletonema costatum) for 8 h and they took up between 75 and 85%. At different times, sponges were sampled for total 13C enrichment, and fatty acid (FA) composition and 13C enrichment. Algal biomarkers present in ...

Incorporation of 13C label from either [1-13C]glucose to glutamate C-4 and lactate C-3 or from [2-13C]acetate to glutamate C-4 was monitored in situ in a superfused brain slice preparation by using 1H-detected/13C-edited (1H/13C) n.m.r. spectroscopy. The fractional enrichments of both metabolites were determined by this means in both brain slices and acid extracts of the preparations in order t...

Principle of 13C-octanoic Acid Breath Test The rationale of 13C-octanoic acid breath test (13C-OBT) to measure gastric emptying of solids is based on (1) the firm retention of 13C-octanoic acid in the solid phase of a standard test meal during its passage through the gastric environment, followed by (2) a rapid disintegration of the solid phase in the duodenum with (3) subsequent absorption of ...

Improvements in the detection of 13C(CO) res­ onances by using polarization transfer techniques, based on long-range coupling constants "7(13C (CO )1H) = 1 ±0.1 Hz (n > 3), are reported. Coupling constants between 13C(CO) and other rare spin-1/2 nuclei have been observed, and longrange 13C (C O )-’H coupling have been traced by two-dimensional (2D ) 13C/'H heteronuclear shift correlations (HETC...