Objective: Cancer has risen as the main cause of diseases with the highest rate of mortality in the world. Drugs used in cancer, usually demonstrate side effects on normal tissues. On the other hand, anticancer small peptides, effective on target tissues, should be safe on healthy organs, as being naturally originated compounds. In addition, they may have good pharmacokinetic properties. carnos...

Received (received date) Revised (revised date) Quantum relative entropy D(ρσ) def = Tr ρ(log ρ − log σ) plays an important role in quantum information and related fields. However, there are many quantum analogues of relative entropy. In this paper, we characterize these analogues from information geometrical viewpoint. We also consider the naturalness of quantum relative entropy among these an...

A facile synthesis of a series of benzene ring acylated analogues of harmaline has been achieved by Friedel-Crafts acylation under solvent-free conditions at room temperature using acyl halides/acid anhydrides and AlCl3. The reaction afforded 10- and 12-acyl analogues of harmaline in good yield, along with minor quantities of N-acyl-tryptamines and 8-acyl analogues of N-acyltryptamines.

Bile salts are essential for phospholipid secretion into the bile. To study the relevance of the structure of phospholipids for their interaction with bile salts, we used spin-labeled or fluorescent phospholipid analogues of different head groups and acyl chain length. Those analogues form micelles in aqueous suspension. Their solubilization by bile salts resulting in the formation of mixed mic...

Analogues of Texas red incorporating the heavy chalcogens S, Se, and Te atoms in the xanthylium core were prepared from the addition of aryl Grignard reagents to appropriate chalcogenoxanthone precursors. The xanthones were prepared via directed metalation of amide precursors, addition of dichalcogenide electrophiles, and electrophilic cyclization of the resulting chalcogenides with phosphorus ...

This work was presented in part at The Annual Meeting of the American Federation for Clinical Research, Atlantic City, N. J., May 1976. (1) The present address for Dr. Kolhouse and Dr. Allen is: Division of Hematology, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colo. 80220. Received for publication 11 May 1977 and in revisedform 3 August 1977. with native Cbl when it is present in plasma in...

PURPOSE To investigate the effects of topical prostaglandin analogue drugs on the differentiation of adipocytes. METHODS Differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes was induced with isobutylmethylxanthine, dexamethasone, and insulin. 3T3-L1 cells were exposed to 0.008, 0.08, 0.2 µM of latanoprost and travoprost. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction for mRNA expression of lipoprotein li...

Therapeutic insulin, in its native and biosynthetic forms as well as several currently available insulin analogues, continues to be the protein of most interest to researchers. From the time of its discovery to the development of modern insulin analogues, this important therapeutic protein has passed through several stages and product generations. Beside the well-known link between diabetes and...

A number of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide analogues have been prepared in which the purine, pyridine, and ribose moieties have been modified (2-12). These analogues have proven to be valuable in studies dealing with the site of binding of the pyridine coenzyme to dehydrogenases, in elucidating the mechanism of dehydrogenases and the configuration of the pyridme coenzymes, and as indicators ...

Although incorporation of nonnatural amino acids provides a powerful means of controlling protein structure and function, experimental investigations of amino acid analogues for utilization by the protein biosynthetic machinery can be costly and time-consuming. In this paper, we describe a computational protocol (HierDock) for predicting the relative energies of binding of phenylalanine analogu...