Proteolytic activity in the mature human erythrocyte was localized to the cell membrane. This activity, which could not be ascribed to contaminating leukocytes in the suspension, was totally absent from the soluble portion of the cell and was more active against hemoglobin subunits than against tetrameric hemoglobin molecules. Pulse-chase experiments confirmed that the membrane proteolytic acti...

A novel and highly efficient protocol has been developed for the regioselective synthesis of 2-iminothiazole derivatives with potential biochemical interest by the reaction of enaminones, potassium thiocyanate (KSCN), and N-bromo succinimide (NBS) under mild conditions. The reaction proceeds via the formation of α-bromo enaminones as a versatile intermediate followed by thiocyanation/intramolec...

The title compound, [Mg(NCS)(2)(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)], has been synthesized from the hydro-thermal reaction of MgCl(2), KSCN, 1,10-phenanthroline and H(2)O. Its structure is isotypic with the Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) analogues. The Mg(II) cation has a slightly distorted octa-hedral geometry containing four N atoms from two 1,10-phenanthroline mol-ecules and two N atoms fro...

Sigma phase precipitates in duplex stainless steel during slow cooling, degrading the corrosion resistance and notch toughness. The double loop electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation (DL-EPR) method a solution of 0.5 M H2SO4 + 0.01 KSCN NaCl is known to be good for detecting sigma phase. However, influence dissolved oxygen (DO) had not been elucidated, on-site application DL-EPR carried o...

Protein aggregation and precipitation is associated with many debilitating diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and light-chain amyloidosis. β-Casein, a member of the casein family, has been demonstrated to exhibit chaperone-like activity to protect protein form aggregation. Hofmeister salts (lyotropice series) are a class of ions which have an effect on the solubility and also the stab...

Poly (N-bromosuccinimide) (PNBS) as a mild, efficient, non-acidic, polymeric and heterogeneous catalyst was applied for simple conversion of epoxides into thiiranes by treatment with KSCN or (NH2)2CS at room temperature. Aliphatic and aromatic epoxides converted into their corresponding thiiranes under mild conditions. All reactions proceeded in short reaction times and afforded the correspondi...

The reaction of [PPhJ, NOS,] with CuCl and KSCN (1 :3:3) in acetone produces the yell-ow crystals of [PPh,], [WOS,(CuNCS),]. The crystals are triclinic, space group P1(2), z=2, a=12.4823(7), b=12.9224(7), c=18.6395(10)?, ?=83.907(5), ?= 73.152(4), Y= 65.194(4)'. The crystal structure was determined by single crystal Xray diffraction methods (Mo-K ?) and refined by least-squares calculations ...

The ability of Shigella flexneri to interact with lactoferrin (Lf) was examined with a 125I-labeled protein-binding assay. The percent binding of human lactoferrin (HLf) and bovine lactoferrin (BLf) to 45 S. flexneri strains was 19 +/- 3 and 21 +/- 3 (mean +/- standard error of the mean), respectively. 125I-labeled HLf and BLf binding to strain M90T reached an equilibrium within 2 h. Unlabeled ...