New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits were immunized with several different nontoxic botulinum neurotoxin serotype B (BoNT/B) preparations in an effort to optimize the production of a rapid and highly potent, effective neutralizing antibody response. The immunogens included a recombinant heavy chain (rHc) protein produced in Escherichia coli, a commercially available formaldehyde-inactivated toxoid, ...

Lactoperoxidase-catalyzed radioiodination of cell-surface proteins was used in the isolation of cell-surface immunoglobulin from thymus-derived thoracic duct lymphocytes activated to histocompatibility-2 antigens. Immunoglobulin was identified by specific precipitation with antiserum to mouse immunoglobulin. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of reduced and alkylated precipitates showed that th...

In a previous communication (Katz and Lipsitz, 1935), the effect of a certain synthetic surface-active material on the growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis was discussed; this work has now been extended to include three more compounds, varying in chemical structure. These materials possess substantially the same properties as the alkylated naphthalene sulfonate originally employed, i.e., remarkabl...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) catastrophe had considerable impact on the ∼ 50 km long sandy beach system located along the Alabama shoreline. We present a four-year dataset to characterize the temporal evolution of various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their alkylated homologs trapped in the residual oil buried along the shoreline. Field samples analyzed include the first arriv...

The influence of aromatics on the pyrolysis of ethane and propane was studied using benzene, toluene, α-methylnaphthalene and anthracene as model compounds. The experiments were performed in a tubular flow reactor at ordinary pressure, temperatures of 700-850°C, residence times between 0.1-1s and low concentration of aromatics (1-6%mole). Aromatic hydrocarbons inhibited the pyrolysis rate of et...

Purified human high-mol-wt kininogen (HMWK), the cofactor of the contact phase of blood coagulation, migrated as a single band (approximately 110,000 mol wt) in a continuous buffer sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), but appeared as two separated bands (approximately 120,000 and 105,000 mol wt) when analyzed in a discontinuous buffer SDS-PAGE system. After elut...

Asymmetric N-alkylations of isatins with enals were shown to be feasible via a prolinol-catalyzed iminium activation, and N-alkylated isatins were obtained in good yields and with excellent enantioselectivity. The biologically useful N-alkylated isatins also served as valuable synthetic precursors, and could be readily converted to chiral N-alkylated indole derivatives. The described method pro...

The benzene–ethene and parallel-displaced (PD) benzene–benzene dimers are the most fundamental systems involving π–π stacking interactions. Several high-level ab initio investigations calculated binding energies of these using coupled-cluster with singles, doubles, quasi-perturbative triple excitations [CCSD(T)] method at complete basis set [CBS] limit various approaches such as reduced virtual...

Carbonaceous chondrites contain a diverse suite of more or less soluble compounds, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). These compounds are structured around two fused benzene rings, and have shown to be detected in various astrophysical environments. The origin PAHs carbonaceous is debated: they may originate from the interstellar medium (ISM) thus potentially carry information o...