Although in a recent study (1) the susceptibility of diphtheria antitoxin to the denaturing action of urea was apparently established, the question of the fundamental nature of the reaction remains essentially unsolved. Since the action of urea probably involves a partial unfolding of the polypeptide chains of proteins, the lability of antibody in urea suggests that the antibody structure resid...

The preparation of O-hexofuranosides was accomplished from unprotected 1-thioimidoyl furanosides as donors. The present methodology was first used for the synthesis of octyl galactofuranoside and further extended to D-galactofuranose-containing disaccharides. Within this study, we emphasized the need for additional complexing cations to maintain the furanose ring in its initial size. After expe...

Electrophilic aromatic sulfonation of benzene with sulfur trioxide is studied with ab initio molecular dynamics simulations in gas phase, and in explicit noncomplexing (CCl3F) and complexing (CH3NO2) solvent models. We investigate different possible reaction pathways, the number of SO3 molecules participating in the reaction, and the influence of the solvent. Our simulations confirm the existen...

Photochemistry, Fluorescence, Crown Ethers, Biology The complexing of thallous ions (T1+), with the crown ether dibenzo 18 crown-6 polyether (DB) has been studied by NMR, fluorescence, and pulse radiolysis techniques. NMR data show a strong interaction of the T1+ ions with the aromatic moieties. This is also illustrated by a static quenching of the aromatic fluorescence by Tl+. The rates of rea...

Ionic liquids containing the hexafluoroacetylacetonate anion are immiscible with water and they exhibit strong metal-complexing ability.

A high molecular weight fraction of a soluble Marsh muscle-relaxing preparation has been shown to contain a calcium-complexing substance. By examining the nature of the competition between this fraction and chelex-100 for calcium at various total calcium concentrations it has been possible to calculate the concentration and calcium stability constant of this calcium-complexing substance. Taking...

The intracellular location of plasmid DNA has been of interest in an effort to understand the maintenance of these molecules. We have employed a simple procedure which enables us to isolate from exponentially grown cells on sucrose gradients membrane-complexed forms of R6K plasmid DNA. Electron micrographs identified the complexing of membrane fractions to circular forms of R6K DNA. Biochemical...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent the largest family of cell-surface receptors. These receptors are natural allosteric proteins because agonist-mediated signaling by GPCRs requires a conformational change in the receptor protein transmitted between two topographically distinct binding sites, one for the agonist and another for the G protein. It is now becoming increasingly recognize...