The sulfated glycans in the tunic of Styela plicata differ from the glycosaminoglycans of animal tissues and also from the sulfated polysaccharides isolated from marine algae. The ascidian glycans occur primarily as three fractions that differ markedly in molecular weight and chemical composition. The high molecular weight fraction encompasses a broad range of molecular weights but is chemicall...

Beta-Microglobulin, a low-molecular-weight protein structurally related to the homology regions of immunoglobulins, has been used to study the role of the intrachain disulfide bond in the unfolding of immunoglobulin domains. The intact protein could be reversibly unfolded in guanidine hydrochloride, as judged by circular dichroism and optical rotation. Similarly, reoxidation of the reduced prot...

In the title tetrasubstituted guanidine, C(18)H(21)N(3)O, the guanidine and carbonyl groups are not coplanar, as reflected by the torsion angles involving the N=C atoms [17.6 (3), -141.68 (17) and 42.2 (3)°]. This is probably due to the absence of an intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond, forming a six-membered ring, and is commonly observed in this class of compounds. In the crystal structure, c...

The denaturation of ribonuclease A by guanidine hydrochloride, lithium bromide, and lithium chloride and by mixed denaturants consisting of guanidine hydrochloride and one of the denaturants lithium chloride, lithium bromide, and sodium bromide was followed by difference spectral measurements at pH 4.8 and 25 degrees C. Both components of mixed denaturant systems enhance each other's effect in ...

By a series of structural changes, Frank, Nothmann, and Wagner (1) developed synthalin, the most powerful hypoglycemic synthetic product known today. The details of their researches are not available. The increased hypoglycemic activity of agmatine over guanidine offered the first clue as to the nature of the groups which were productive of hypoglycemic activity. It may be gathered from the rec...

[PSI(+)] yeast, containing the misfolded amyloid conformation of Sup35 prion, is cured by inactivation of Hsp104. There has been controversy as to whether inactivation of Hsp104 by guanidine treatment or by overexpression of the dominant negative Hsp104 mutant, Hsp104-2KT, cures [PSI(+)] by the same mechanism- inhibition of the severing of the prion seeds. Using live cell imaging of Sup35-GFP, ...

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a severe form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The aims of this study were to evaluate in-house molecular diagnostic protocols of DNA extraction directly from CSF samples and the targets amplified by qPCR as an accurate and fast diagnosis of TBM. One hundred CSF samples from 68 patients suspected of TBM were studied. Four DNA extraction techniques (phenol-chlorofo...