Controlling and predicting the long-lived room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) from organic materials are next challenges to address for realization of new efficient RTP systems. Here, a approach is developed reach these objectives by considering host–guest doped crystals, as well-suited model systems in that they allow comprehensive understanding synergetic structural interactions between cr...

Cation-π interactions, where protein aromatic residues supply π systems while a positive-charged portion of phospholipid head groups are the cations, have been suggested as important binding modes for peripheral membrane proteins. However, aromatic amino acids can also insert into membranes and hydrophobically interact with lipid tails. Heretofore there has been no facile way to differentiate t...

The fine conformational subtleties of DNA structure modulate many fundamental cellular processes including gene activation/repression, cellular division, and DNA repair. Most of these cellular processes rely on the conformational heterogeneity of specific DNA sequences. Factors including those structural characteristics inherent in the particular base sequence as well as those induced through i...

σ-1R is the well-known subtype of σ-Rs that were originally proposed in 1976 (Martin et al., 1976). σ-1R is a 223 amino acid integral membrane protein consisting of a short N-terminus, a large C-terminus tail, and two transmembrane domains: one at the N-terminus and the other in the middle of the protein (Su et al., 2010). σ-1Rs are distributed throughout the brain. At the subcellular level, σ-...

NBO analysis and density functional theory (DFT: B3LYP/6-311+G**) based method were used to study the impacts of the anomeric effects (AE) on the conformational properties of 2-methoxy-1,2,4,5-tetrahydro-benzo[d]oxepine (1), -thiepine (2) and -selenepine (3). The Gibbs free energy difference (Geq–Gax) values (i.e. ΔGeq-ax) at 298.15 K and 1 atm between the axial and equatorial conformations inc...