Two isomorphous 3D Mn(II) and Co(II) coordination polymers with a dicarboxylate inner salt and cyanate as coligands were synthesized and structurally characterized, and their magnetic properties have been studied. In the compounds, [M(L)(NCO)](n).nH(2)O (M = Mn, Co, L = 1-carboxymethylpyridinium-4-carboxylate), neighboring metal ions are linked by the 3-fold bridges of an end-on cyanate and two...

BACKGROUND Protegin-1 (PG-1: RGGRLCYCRRRFCVCVGR-amide) assumes a rigid β-hairpin like structure that is stabilized by two disulfide bridges between Cys6-Cys15 and Cys8-Cys13. Previous studies, employing linear analogs of PG-1, with Cys to Ala mutations or modified Cys, have demonstrated that the disulfide bridges are critical for the broad spectrum and salt resistant antimicrobial activity of P...

In the title molecular salt, C(11)H(13)ClN(3)OS(+)·Br(-), the C-N bond lengths in the -S-C(NH(2))(2) fragment indicate partial double-bond character of these bonds. The constituent ions are connected by N-H⋯Br bridges into Z-shaped chains. The supra-molecular architecture of the structure can be described by being composed of these chains inter-locked by additional C-H⋯Br short contacts. An int...

We have performed steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations to investigate the dissociation process between the appendant structure (AS) and helix-β2 in human cystatin C dimer. Energy change during SMD showed that electrostatic interactions, including hydrogen bonds and salt bridges, were the dominant interactions to stabilize the two parts of the dimer. Furthermore, our data indicated that ...

In the crystal structure of the title salt, [Cr(3)(C(2)H(3)O(2))(6)O(H(2)O)(3)]NO(3)·CH(3)CO(2)H, the trinuclear [Cr(3)(CH(3)CO(2))(6)O(H(2)O)(3)] cluster cation has an oxide O atom that is connected to three water-coordinated Cr(III) atoms, the three metal atoms forming the points of an equilateral triangle. Each of the six acetate carboxyl-ate groups bridges a Cr-O-Cr fragment. The cluster ca...