Using an oligonucleotide model substrate, we observed two unusual mechanisms of UvrABC endonuclease in the repair of 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen monoadducts and crosslinks. (i) UvrABC endonuclease usually incises a psoralen monoadduct only on the damaged strand. However, for one of the monoadducts we studied, incision on the complementary undamaged strand was also observed at a very low frequency,...

Light scattering measurements performed on DNA after irradiation in the presence of psoralen clearly show that inter strand cross linkings are present in the macromolecule. In fact after heat denaturation and successive cooling irradiated macromolecule shows a molecular weight practically unchanged while a DNA sample after the same treatment shows a molecular weight half of the intact native DN...

The hydrodynamic behavior of high-methoxy (HM) and low-methoxy (LM) pectin solutions was examined by capillary viscometric analysis. The LM-pectin was produced from the HM-pectin by PME-deesterification. As a result of the viscometric analysis, the PMEdeesterified LM-pectin showed quite different solution behavior from the HM-pectin. The LM-pectin had larger intrinsic viscosity ([h]) than HM-pe...

Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by relapses and remissions. There is currently no cure for OLP. Treatment is aimed primarily at reducing the length and severity of symptomatic outbreaks. Topical steroids are the first-choice agent for the treatment of symptomatic, active OLP. Other topical agents that have been used in cases resistant to topical steroids...

This experimental and computational study on the energetic properties of 2-methyl-, 3-methyl-, 4-methoxy- 5-methoxy-indanones has been carried out using mostly calorimetric techniques a suitable approach. The combustion sublimation/vaporization enthalpies were determined via calorimetry Calvet microcalorimetry, respectively, allowing for calculation standard molar formation in gaseous phase. en...

We present density functional theory calculations of methanol and methoxy adsorption at the Cr-terminated α-Cr2O3(0001) surface. We report on the equilibrium geometries of the adsorbed methanol and methoxy molecules, analyse the bonding to the surface, and discuss the dissociation energetics of methanol into methoxy on the surface. We found that methanol adsorbs with its O atom situated above a...

The purpose of the present study was to prepare psoralen-doxorubicin nanostructured lipid carriers (PSO-DOX-NLC) with better physicochemical properties for further study on its multidrug resistance reversal activity on leukemia cells. PSO-DOX-NLC was synthesized by emulsion evaporation and solidification at a low temperature. PSO-DOX-NLC morphology and particle size were examined using transmis...

Previous work to elucidate the mechanism of crosslink repair by (A)BC excinuclease has shown that a psoralen-crosslinked duplex is selectively incised in the furan-side strand, while a three-stranded structure is incised in the pyrone-side strand of the crosslink. These observations support a sequential incision and recombination model for the complete error-free repair of a psoralen crosslink....

Sonogashira reaction of 2-isopropyl-3-(trifluoromethanesulfonyloxy)psoralen with terminal arylacetylenes gave 2-isopropyl-3-(arylethynyl)psoralens which were converted into the corresponding Z-alkenes by reduction with hydrogen in the presence of Lindlar catalyst or by thermal decomposition of preliminarily prepared Ti(II)–alkyne complexes. The reaction of 2-isopropyl-3-(trifluoromethanesulfony...