Academic Dissertation To be presented for public criticism, with the permission of the Faculty of Science of the (1998) Disulfide bonding and cysteine accessibility in the α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid receptor subunit GluRD. Implications for redox modulation of glutamate receptors. receptors and bacterial periplasmic amino acid-binding proteins share the ionic mechanism ...

The influx ofl-lysine into apical vesicles from the chicken jejunum occurs through two systems, one with low Michaelis constant ( K m) and features of system b0,+ and the other with relatively high K m forl-lysine and with properties of system y+. In the present study the effect of a lysine-enriched diet (Lys, containing 68 g l-lysine/kg dietary protein, control animals 48 g/kg) onl-lysine upta...

Inhibition of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (MPTP) by the novel inhibitor GNX-4975 was characterized. Titration of MPTP activity in de-energized rat liver mitochondria allowed determination of the number of GNX-4975-binding sites and their dissociation constant (Ki). Binding sites increased in number when MPTP opening was activated by increasing [Ca(2+)], phenylarsine oxide (PA...

To develop the structural and functional modeling chemistry of [NiFe]-H2ases, we have carried out a study regarding synthesis, characterization reactivity new series [NiFe]-H2ase model complexes. Thus, treatment diphosphine dppb-chelated Ni complex (dppb)NiCl2 (dppb = 1,2-(Ph2P)2C6H4) with (dppv)Fe(CO)2(pdt) (dppv 1,2-(Ph2P)2C2H2, pdt 1,3-propanedithiolate) NaBF4 gave dicarbonyl [(dppb)Ni(pdt)F...

The reaction of [14C]methylamine with native human C3 led to the stoichiometric incorporation of methylamine, loss of hemolytic activity, and the concomitant exposure of a sulfhydryl group that could be labeled with [14C]iodoacetamide. Both labeled sites were located in the C3d portion of the alpha-chain, which is known to contain the metastable binding of C3b. The methylamine-modified C3 [C3(C...

Liposome plays an important role in medical and pharmaceutical science as e.g. nano scale drug carriers. Liposomes are vesicles of varying size consisting of a spherical lipid bilayer and an aqueous inner compartment. Magnet-driven liposome used for the targeted delivery of drugs to organs and tissues. These liposome preparations contain encapsulated drug components and finely dispersed magneti...