The exact specifiicity of anti-DNP antibody produced by Hartley guinea pigs immunized with a series of defined alpha,DNP and epsilon,DNP-oligolysines was studied by fluorescence quenching. All responder animals made anti-DNP antibody which recognized the precise chain length, +/- 1 lysyl residue, of the DNP-oligolysines used to induce the immune response as measured by an increase in binding en...

The question whether B lymphocytes are capable of being activated by antigen in the absence of functional T cells was investigated in a model that excludes participation of T cells by virtue of an immune response gene restriction. Strain 2 guinea pigs are capable of responding to immunization with DNP-PLL, whereas strain 13 animals are not. In the present experiments, animals of both strains we...

Experimental conditions have been established for the elicitation of an allogeneic effect on the adoptive transfer secondary anti-2,4-dinitrophenyl (DNP) antibody response in mice. Thus, spleen cells from DNP-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-primed mice manifest good secondary anti-DNP responses to a challenge with DNP-KLH, but not with DNP-bovine gamma globulin (BGG), after adoptive transfer to...

Donor-acceptor binding of the pi-electron-poor cyclophane cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) (CBPQT(4+)) with the pi-electron-rich tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) and 1,5-dioxynaphthalene (DNP) stations provides the basis for electrochemically switchable, bistable [2]rotaxanes, which have been incorporated and operated within solid-state devices to form ultradense memory circuits (ChemPhysChem 2002, 3, 51...

During acute hypoxia, a hypometabolic response is commonly observed in many newborn and adult mammalian species. We hypothesized that, if hypoxic hypometabolism were entirely a regulated response with no limitation in O2 availability, pharmacological uncoupling of the oxidative phosphorylation should raise O2 consumption (VO2) by similar amounts in hypoxia and normoxia. Metabolic, ventilatory, ...

Mercapturic acids are N-acetyl-L-cysteine S-conjugates that are formed from a range of endogenous and exogenous chemicals. Although the kidney is a major site for elimination of mercapturic acids, the transport mechanisms involved have not been identified. The present study examined whether mercapturic acids are substrates for the renal basolateral organic anion transporter-1 (Oat1) from rat ki...

In this communication, we report enhancements of nuclear spin polarization by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) in static and spinning solids at a magnetic field strength of 9T (250 GHz for g = 2 electrons, 380 MHz for 1H). In these experiments, 1H enhancements of up to 170 ± 50 have been observed in 1-13C-glycine dispersed in a 60:40 glycerol/water matrix at temperatures of 20 K; in addition,...

Webster (1) first noticed that 2,4-dinitrophenol increased the ATPase” activity of myosin. Attention was focused on this observation by the work of Greville and Needham (2) and Chappell and Perry (3), who showed that under certain conditions DNP accelerated the ATPase activity of myosin A, myosin B, and myofibrils, whereas the ITPase activity was inhibited. They noted the similarity between the...

Dinitrophenol (2,4 dinitrophenol; DNP) was early identified as a potent stimulant of the carotid body (CB; Shen and Hauss, 1939). DNP acts directly upon chemoreceptor cells promoting an increase in the intracellular calcium concentration and the release of catecholamine (CA); both responses are strongly dependent on the presence of Ca+and Na+ in the extracellular media (Obeso et ai., 1989; Roch...

Transfer of live lymphoid cells from BGG-immunized strain 2 guinea pigs into syngeneic animals primed with DNP-OVA prepares the recipients for a markedly enhanced secondary anti-DNP antibody response upon challenge with DNP-BGG. This phenomenon has been demonstrated when the recipients were challenged 1 day after cell transfer, but it was considerably more striking when an interval of 6 days wa...