The Na+ content of poliovirus-infected HeLa S3 cells increased during the late phase of virus replication, after virus inhibition of host cell protein synthesis and in coincidence with late viral functions. Guanidine hydrochloride blocked the rise in Na+ content, whereas the antiguanidine agent choline fully reversed the guanidine block. Expression of one or more late viral functions was essent...

In the title tetrasubstituted guanidine, C(18)H(21)N(3)O, the guanidine and carbonyl groups are not coplanar, as reflected by the torsion angles involving the N=C atoms [17.6 (3), -141.68 (17) and 42.2 (3)°]. This is probably due to the absence of an intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond, forming a six-membered ring, and is commonly observed in this class of compounds. In the crystal structure, c...

The denaturation of ribonuclease A by guanidine hydrochloride, lithium bromide, and lithium chloride and by mixed denaturants consisting of guanidine hydrochloride and one of the denaturants lithium chloride, lithium bromide, and sodium bromide was followed by difference spectral measurements at pH 4.8 and 25 degrees C. Both components of mixed denaturant systems enhance each other's effect in ...

By a series of structural changes, Frank, Nothmann, and Wagner (1) developed synthalin, the most powerful hypoglycemic synthetic product known today. The details of their researches are not available. The increased hypoglycemic activity of agmatine over guanidine offered the first clue as to the nature of the groups which were productive of hypoglycemic activity. It may be gathered from the rec...

[PSI(+)] yeast, containing the misfolded amyloid conformation of Sup35 prion, is cured by inactivation of Hsp104. There has been controversy as to whether inactivation of Hsp104 by guanidine treatment or by overexpression of the dominant negative Hsp104 mutant, Hsp104-2KT, cures [PSI(+)] by the same mechanism- inhibition of the severing of the prion seeds. Using live cell imaging of Sup35-GFP, ...

Four guanidino compounds that have been found to be markedly increased in cerebrospinal fluid and brain tissue of uremic patients, namely, guanidine, methylguanidine, creatinine, and guanidinosuccinic acid, were applied to mouse spinal cord neurons in primary dissociated cell culture to evaluate their effects on postsynaptic responses to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glycine. Intracellular...

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a severe form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The aims of this study were to evaluate in-house molecular diagnostic protocols of DNA extraction directly from CSF samples and the targets amplified by qPCR as an accurate and fast diagnosis of TBM. One hundred CSF samples from 68 patients suspected of TBM were studied. Four DNA extraction techniques (phenol-chlorofo...

Considerable attention has been focused on the biological activity of guanidine derivatives from two main directions. Ever since the original report by Watanabe of the hypoglycemic properties of guanidine (3), derivatives of this compound have been investigated as possible therapeutic agents for the control of diabetic hyperglycemia. At least three such compounds, Synthalin (decamethylenediguan...