The duckweed Spirodela oligorrhiza was grown in sterile nutrient solutions that contained 1 mm phosphate-(32)P at various specific activities. In solutions with activities higher than 2 muc per mumole per ml, plant growth was inhibited after a time, and the physical appearance of the plants was affected. The critical level of radiation, at which growth was first affected, corresponded to 5 kilo...

New antibiotics phoslactomycins A, B, C, D, E and F, which contain alpha, beta-unsaturated delta-lactone, phosphate ester, conjugated diene and cyclohexane ring moieties, were isolated from the culture broth of a soil isolate actinomycete. Morphological, cultural and physiological studies revealed that the isolate is a strain of Streptomyces nigrescens. Phoslactomycins were obtained by butanol ...

A nerve-agent simulant based on a phosphate ester is hydrolyzed using a MOF-based catalyst. Suspensions of MOF-808 (6-connected), a material featuring 6-connected zirconium nodes, display the highest hydrolysis rates among all MOFs that have been reported to date. A plug-flow reactor was also prepared with MOF-808 (6-connected) as the active layer. Deployed in a simple filtration scheme, the re...

We described a solid-supported desulfurization procedure allowing easy access to the sequence analysis of oligonucleotide phosphorothioates. The described method is based upon selective removal of the 2-cyanoethyl phosphate protecting groups, followed by iodine-promoted desulfurization of the resulting phosphorothioate diesters. Automatic oxidation of oligonucleotide phosphorothioates, anchored...

We have synthesized and characterized novel, copper-metalated, polymeric templates that contain adenine nucleobases. These promote hydrolysis of non-natural and natural phosphate ester substrates in a highly efficient and catalytic fashion. The crystal structure of the cooper-containing adenylated monomer reveals the formation of a polymeric array, through coordination to both N1 and N7 atoms. ...

Identification of MCHR1 antagonists with a preclinical safety profile to support clinical evaluation as antiobesity agents has been a challenge. Our finding that a basic moiety is not required for MCHR1 antagonists to achieve high affinity allowed us to explore structures less prone to off-target activities such as hERG inhibition. We report the SAR evolution of hydroxylated thienopyrimidinone ...

The photodegradation of Azinphos-ethyl (1) in chloroform and methanol solution has been studied. 3,4-D ihydro-3-m ethyl-4-oxobenzo[d][l,2,3]triazine (3), 3,4-dihydro-4-oxo-benzo[d][l,2,3]triazine (5), 0 ,0-d iethyl-0(3-m ethylbenzo[d][l,2 ,3]triazine-4-yl)phosphate (8), N-methylanthranilic acid (11) (in methanol: methyl ester 12), and sulfur have been isolated and charac­ terized as photoproduc...

The recovery of phospholipid, ester-linked fatty acids and phospholipid phosphate from the eubacterium Pseudomonas atlantica was shown to be equivalent for the modified Bligh and Dyer (chloroform/methanol/water) procedure and a hexane/isopropanol (HIP) lipid extraction. In addition to its previously suggested lower toxicity, the HIP solvent system allows lipid analyses to be routinely done on c...

2. Tests with known mixtures of phosphate esters and the recovery of the phosphorus of muscle extracts from the chromatograms suggest that the individual values obtained with the method in its present form are reliable to within 10 %. 3. Trichloroacetic acid extracts of muscle have been found to contain certain phosphate esters not yet identified. 4. The pyrophosphate fraction present in the ex...