Flavonoids are a class of plant secondary metabolites that act as storage molecules, chemical messengers, as well as participate in homeostasis and defense processes. They possess pharmaceutical properties important for cancer treatment such as antioxidant and anti-tumor activities. The drug-related properties of flavonoids can be improved by glycosylation. The enzymes glycosyltransferases (GTs...

The hydrolytic action of spleen exonuclease on serine transfer RNA has been investigated. It was found that two different mechanisms of attack obtain: (a) processive degradation and (b) random cleavage. These two diiferent modes of action are determined by the presence or the absence of the terminal phosphate group at the 5’ terminus of transfer RNA. The loss of several important biological act...

In this article we present dual-component charge-transfer interaction (CT) induced organogel formation with bile acid anthracene conjugates as donors and 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenone (TNF) as the acceptor. The use of TNF (1) as a versatile electron acceptor in the formation of gels is demonstrated through the formation of gels with different steroidal groups on the anthracene moiety in a variety of...

HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein (NC) is a nucleic acid chaperone, which is required for highly specific and efficient reverse transcription. Here, we demonstrate that local structure of acceptor RNA at a potential nucleation site, rather than overall thermodynamic stability, is a critical determinant for the minus-strand transfer step (annealing of acceptor RNA to (-) strong-stop DNA followed by rev...

4-Hydroxy-2-keto-pentanoic acid aldolase from Escherichia coli was identified as a class I aldolase. The enzyme was found to be highly selective for the acetaldehyde acceptor but would accept alpha-ketobutyric acid or phenylpyruvic acid in place of the pyruvic acid carbonyl donor.

      The complex formed as a consequence of the interaction between the electron-acceptor P-chloranilic acid and an electron donor tamoxifen citrate was employed in the assay of the drug in pure powder and tablets. Chloranilic acid was found to form a charge-transfer complex in a 1:1 stoichiometric ratio, with tamoxifen citrate. The wavelength of maximum absorption for the complex was found to...

the complex formed as a consequence of the interaction between the electron-acceptor p-chloranilic acid and an electron donor tamoxifen citrate was employed in the assay of the drug in pure powder and tablets. chloranilic acid was found to form a charge-transfer complex in a 1:1 stoichiometric ratio, with tamoxifen citrate. the wavelength of maximum absorption for the complex was found to be 55...

Previously (1, 6), it was shown that prefolic A, in crude form, was converted to N5-formyltetrahydrofolic acid by two separate enzymatic reactions. First, in the presence of a suitable electron acceptor, prefolic A is converted to tetrahydrofolic acid by a flavin adenine dinucleotide-linked enzyme system. Then, in the presence of transformylase and formyl-L-glutamate, tetrahydrofolic acid is fo...