Environmental remediation requires ion-selective polymers that operate under a wide range of solution conditions. In one example, removal of trivalent and divalent metal ions from waste streams resulting from mining operations before they enter the environment requires treatment at acidic pH. The monoethyl ester phosphate ligands developed in this report operate from acidic solutions. They have...

The binding of Mg2+ to the ribitol teichoic acid of Staphylococcus aureus H walls was examined by equilibrium dialysis in solution and in the intact wall; the influence of alanyl ester groups on binding was determined. In solution the ribitol polymer had a lower affinity than did a glycerol teichoic acid and bound Mg2+ in the ratio Mg2+/P of 1:1. The presence of alanyl ester residues caused a d...

Teichoic acid-like material extracted by cold trichloroacetic acid from lyophilized whole cells of streptococci from groups A, D, E, 0, and T was shown to give a positive precipitin reaction with group antisera. Similar material from cells of groups B, C, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, and S did not give a positive reaction with group antisera. The group A material also reacted with anti-E serum...

A strain of Halomonas bacteria, GFAJ-1, has been claimed to be able to use arsenate as a nutrient when phosphate is limiting and to specifically incorporate arsenic into its DNA in place of phosphorus. However, we have found that arsenate does not contribute to growth of GFAJ-1 when phosphate is limiting and that DNA purified from cells grown with limiting phosphate and abundant arsenate does n...

Alkaline phosphatase was the first zinc enzyme to be discovered in which three closely spaced metal ions (two Zn ions and one Mg ion) are present at the active center. Zn ions at all three sites also produce a maximally active enzyme. These metal ions have center-to-center distances of 3.9 A (Zn1-Zn2), 4.9 A (Zn2-Mg3), and 7.1 A (Zn1-Mg3). Despite the close packing of these metal centers, only ...

Rogers, Dexter (Utah State University, Logan) and Shon-hua Yu. Substrate specificity of a glucose permease of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 84:877-881. 1962.-A study was made of d-galactose uptake by galactose-negative Escherichia coli strain A (Weigle). Uptake probably occurred through a glucose-permease system, because d-glucose and a variety of nonmetabolizable glucose derivatives inhibite...

The polymerization pathways of epoxidized and hydroxylated triglycerides with phosphoric acid (H3PO4) were investigated using model reactions. Involved epoxides and diols were derived from oleic acid methyl ester, which was easily monitored by oneand two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques as well as electrospray ionization mass spectroscopy (ESI-MS). Phosphoric acid played ...

Despite the ubiquitous use of phosphoramidite chemistry in the synthesis of biophosphates, catalytic asymmetric phosphoramidite transfer remains largely unexplored for phosphate ester synthesis. We have discovered that a tetrazole-functionalized peptide, in the presence of 10-Å molecular sieves, functions as an enantioselective catalyst for phosphite transfer. This chemistry in turn has been us...

The title compound, [Na(C12H8N2O8P)], consists of one Na(+) cation and one bis-(p-nitro-phen-yl)phosphate anion with a considerable distortion of the phosphate tetra-hedron due to the presence of two P-O ester bonds. The anion bridges five Na(+) cations whereby each cation is chelated by the nitro O atoms of one anion and bonded via a nitro O atom and phosphate O atoms to four other anions. Thi...

1. Glycidol (2,3-epoxypropanol) phosphate is a specific irreversible inhibitor of rabbit muscle triose phosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.1); the site of attachment has now been studied. 2. The labelled enzyme was digested with pepsin and a modified peptide isolated. The sequence of the peptide is: Ala-Tyr-Glu-Pro-Val-Trp. 3. It is the glutamic acid residue in this peptide that is labelled: the pept...