The production of fuels from biomass is categorized as first-, second-, or thirdgeneration depending upon the source of raw materials, either food crops, lignocellulosic material, or algal biomass, respectively. Thus far, the emphasis has been on using food crops creating several environmental problems. To overcome these problems, there is a shift toward bioenergy production from non-food sourc...

We present an extension of the all-atom internal-coordinate force field, ICMFF, that allows for simulation of heterogeneous systems including hexopyranose saccharides and glycan chains in addition to proteins. A library of standard glycan geometries containing α- and β-anomers of the most common hexapyranoses, i.e., d-galactose, d-glucose, d-mannose, d-xylose, l-fucose, N-acetylglucosamine, N-a...

The properties of doubly-expanded (xx-) purine analogues are compared to the natural and singly-expanded (x-) purines using quantum chemical (B3LYP, MP2) methods. Purine expansion upon incorporation of a benzene or naphthalene spacer affects the preferred orientation of the base about the glycosidic bond in the corresponding nucleoside to a similar extent. Although the natural purines preferent...

ABSTRACT High-molecular-weight dextrin (WS-1000) was produced from waxy corn starch and enzymatically modified to link glucose by ?-1,6 glycosidic bond at the terminal point of chain, forming MWS-1000. In this study, physical properties MWS-1000 were characterized, advantages its use as a food modifier described. From rheological calorimetric studies, it found that does not undergo retrogradati...

AB3217-A, a novel anti-mite substance, was isolated from the fermentation broth of a streptomycete strain. The strain was isolated from a soil collected at Kita-azumi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, and identified as Streptomyces platensis AB3217. AB3217-A was purified by Amberlite IR120B, Diaion HP-20 and CM-Sephadex C-25 column chromatographies. The molecular formula was determined as C17H23NO7 by...

The influence of 2'-deoxyguanosine (dG) oxidation at the C-8 position on N-glycosidic bond stability was in­ vestigated. A kinetic analysis of dG and 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG) depurination reactions was carried out in water solutions at pH ranging from 2 to 7.4 and temperature of 100 °C. The results indicate that N-glyco­ sidic bond of 8-oxodG is significantly more stable in comparison ...