The rapid destruction of chemical threats, such as phosphate-based nerve agents, is of considerable current interest. The hydrolysis of the nerve-agent simulant methylparaoxon, as catalyzed by UiO-66 and UiO-67, was examined as a function of pH. Surprisingly, even though typical phosphate−ester hydrolysis mechanisms entail nucleophilic attack of the simulant by aqueous hydroxide, the rate of hy...

Cystathionine y-synthase (CS), an enzyme involved in methionine biosynthesis, was purified from an acetone powder prepared from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). After several chromatographic steps and radiolabeling of the partially purified enzyme with sodium cyan~boro[~H]hydride, a single polypeptide with a molecular weight of 34,500 was isolated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-high performance electro...

A blockwise iterative synthetic strategy for the preparation of linear, dendritic and branched full-carbohydrate architectures has been developed by using sugar azido(carbamate) isothiocyanates as key templates; the presence of intersaccharide thiourea bridges provides anchoring points for hydrogen bond-directed molecular recognition of phosphate esters in water.

The current analysis was carried out to determine the chemical components in leaves of R. minima (L.) DC. GC-MS methanolic extract Minima indicated presence 19 compounds. prevailing compounds were 1Pentadecene (14.31), alpha. Bisabolol (10.39%), 1Heptadecene (9.78%), Cyclohexene,4 (1,5dimethyl1,4hexadienyl (7.06%), 3Hexadecene (Z) (8.10%), Caryophyllene (6.58%), Neophytadiene (5.16%), Humulene ...

Inspired by biology, in which a bimetallic hydroxide-bridged zinc(II)-containing enzyme is utilized to catalytically hydrolyze phosphate ester bonds, the utility of a zirconium(IV)-cluster-containing metal-organic framework as a catalyst for the methanolysis and hydrolysis of phosphate-based nerve agent simulants was examined. The combination of the strong Lewis-acidic Zr(IV) and bridging hydro...

Bovine pancreatic deoxyribonuclease liberates p-nitrophenol from the 3'-group of deoxythymidine 3', 5'-di-p-nitrophenyl phosphate. A similar hydrolysis occurs with deoxythymidine 3'-p-nitrophenyl phosphate 5'-phsophate, but the rate is less than 2% of that with the di-p-nitrophenyl ester. The rate of formation of the p-nitrophenol, measured spectrophotometrically at 400 nm, varies linearly with...

We have treated bovine lung heparan sulfate with alkaline [3H]borohydride to end label the chains with [3H]xylitol. After subsequent periodate oxidation-alkaline elimination products were separated by gel permeation and ion exchange chromatography. The linkage region fragment expected to have 2 galactoses and 1 [‘HJxylitol residue appeared in the tetra-/trisaccharide region after gel filtration...

In the title compound, C34H30O12P2, which was synthesized via the esterification of dimethyl 2,5-dioxo-1,4-cyclo-hexa-nedi-carboxyl-ate with diphenyl chloro-phosphate, the mol-ecule has crystallographic inversion symmetry. The dihedral angles between the plane of the cyclo-hexa-1,4-diene ring and those of the two benzene rings of the substituent phosphate groups are 41.0 (1) and 89.5 (1)°, whil...