Quantification of backbone hydrogen bond energies in protein folding has remained elusive despite extensive theoretical and experimental investigations over the past 70 years. This is due to difficulties in experimental mutagenesis study as well as the lack of quantitatively reliable methods in theoretical calculation. Recent advance in experiment has enabled accurate measurement of site-specif...

The title compound, C(14)H(11)BrN(2)O(5)·2H(2)O, crystallizes as hydrogen-bonded sheets. The 2-hydr-oxy group on the benzyl-idene group forms an intra-molecular hydrogen bond to the N atom of the C=N double bond. The amino N atom is a hydrogen-bond donor to a water mol-ecule. The hydr-oxy group on the benzohydrazide group is a hydrogen-bond donor to one acceptor site, whereas each water mol-ecu...

Ultrafast infrared transient absorption measurements of the complete hydroxyl OD stretching mode spectrum of HOD in water, from 100 fs to tens of picoseconds, observe hydrogen bond breaking and monitor the equilibration of the hydrogen bond network in water. In addition, the vibrational lifetime, the time constant for hydrogen bond breaking, and the rate of orientational relaxation are determin...

Hydrogen bonds play major roles in biological structure and function. Nonetheless, hydrogen-bonded protons are not typically observed by X-ray crystallography, and most structural studies provide limited insight into the conformational plasticity of individual hydrogen bonds or the dynamical coupling present within hydrogen bond networks. We report the NMR detection of the hydrogen-bonded proto...

In recent years, the potential of marine natural products as anticancer agents, specifically for breast cancer, has been examined. The sea cucumber (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata) is known to contain triterpene glycosides, which have shown anticancer or cytotoxic activity. In this research, molecular docking of selected sea cucumber bioactive compounds was conducted on five receptor targets that...