Recoil-free emission of 14.37 keV lines by iron atoms undergoing radioactive decay can be exploited in high-resolution Mössbauer spectroscopy thanks to the long lifetime of the excited state. This experiment determined the natural energy width of the Mössbauer 14.37 keV line to be (1.36 ± 0.24)· 10−12 keV, giving a relative width of around 10−13. Another application of this experiment was in ch...

The molecular structure of Cyclophosphamide (N, N-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1,3,2-oxazaphosphinan-2-amine 2-oxide is the anti cancer drug and used to treat cancer and immune diseases) and SWCNTswere calculated by the B3LYP density functional model with 6-311G* basis set with Gaussian 09program. The nanotube used in this study, includes 120 C atoms (5, 5) type. The NBO analysisshowed there is a hyperco...

Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACS) are employed both as disinfectants for manual processing lines and surfaces in the food industry, and in human medicine area. QACS also cause cell death by protein denaturation . One of the QAC is cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) that appears to rapture the cell membrane. The primary site of action of CTAB has been suggested to be the lipid components...

Nuclear spin optical rotation (NSOR) is a recently developed technique for detection of nuclear magnetic resonance via rotation of light polarization, instead of the usual long-range magnetic fields. NSOR signals depend on hyperfine interactions with virtual optical excitations, giving new information about the nuclear chemical environment. We use a multipass optical cell to perform the first p...

Nuclear spin relaxation provides detailed dynamical information on molecular systems and materials. Here, first-principles modeling of the chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) relaxation time for the prototypic monoatomic (129)Xe gas is carried out, both complementing and predicting the results of NMR measurements. Our approach is based on molecular dynamics simulations combined with pre-parametrize...

The hybrid plasmid-virus pSSVx from Sulfolobus islandicus presents an open reading frame encoding a 76 amino acid protein, namely Stf76, that does not show significant sequence homology with any protein with known 3D structure. The recombinant protein recognizes specifically two DNA-binding sites located in its own promoter, thus suggesting an auto-regulated role of its expression. Circular dic...

The chemical shifts measured in solution-state and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) are powerful probes of the structure and dynamics of protein molecules. The exploitation of chemical shifts requires methods to correlate these data with the protein structures and sequences. We present here an approach to calculate accurate chemical shifts in both ordered and disordered proteins usi...

A comparative analysis of nuclear chemical shift predictions of proteins in the solid state by rapid algorithms trained on and verified with solution-state NMR assignments is presented. The precision of predictions by four dedicated computer programs (SHIFTS, PROSHIFTS, SHIFTX and SPARTA) was found to be close to values obtained for proteins in solution. Correlation coefficients depend on the N...

This study reports the formation and isolation of a diethylstibestrol-dimethylsulfoxide (DES-DMSO) adjunct and Z-3, 4-di (p-hydroxyphenyl)-2-hexene (psi-DES) from trans-DES. The presence of psi-DES was indicated by NMR and mass spectrometry and confirmed by direct comparison to a reference sample. High resolution NMR (360 MHz) along with the comparison of the chemical shift values of methine an...