Infrared spectroscopy shows that perfluoro tert-butyl alcohol (TBF) forms hydrogen bonded hetero dimers with hydrogenated alcohols (Methanol, 1-butanol and Tert-butanol) in the gas phase at room temperature. DFT calculations confirm these findings providing structures, stabilization energies allow a first analysis of νOH spectra by considering only diagonal term anharmonicity vibration. The bro...

During the assembly of alphaviruses, a preassembled nucleocapsid buds through the cell plasma membrane to acquire an envelope containing two virally encoded glycoproteins, E2 and E1. Using two chimeric viruses, we have studied interactions between E1, E2, and a viral peptide called 6K, which are required for budding. A chimeric Sindbis virus (SIN) in which the 6K gene had been replaced with tha...

BACKGROUND The leucine zipper is a protein structural motif involved in the dimerization of a number of transcription factors. We have previously shown that peptides corresponding to the leucine-zipper region of the Fos and Jun oncoproteins preferentially form heterodimeric coiled coils, and that simple principles involving electrostatic interactions are likely to determine the pairing specific...

This family of 'half-transporters' act as homo- or heterodimers; particularly ABCG5 and ABCG8 are thought to be obligate heterodimers. The ABCG5/ABCG heterodimer sterol transporter structure has been determined [6], suggesting an extensive intracellular nucleotide binding domain linked the transmembrane domains by a fold in primary sequence. functional ABCG2 appears homodimer with structural si...