Complexin activates and clamps neurotransmitter release; impairing complexin function decreases synchronous, but increases spontaneous and asynchronous synaptic vesicle exocytosis. Here, we show that complexin-different from the Ca(2+) sensor synaptotagmin-1-activates synchronous exocytosis by promoting synaptic vesicle priming, but clamps spontaneous and asynchronous exocytosis-similar to syna...

Dried leaves of Eucalyptus camaldulensis were finely grinded and fractionated by sieving into four granulometric classes (355 μm). The obtained powder fractions used for essential oil (EO) extraction hydrodistillation their phytochemical profile in vitro antioxidant activities evaluated. mother (unsieved powder) was comparison. Particle size exerted a significant influence (p properties the EOs...

A highly trans-selective protocol for the synthesis of glycidic amides was developed. This approach gave access to oxiranes by reacting stabilised ammonium ylides bearing an α-carbonyl group and aromatic aldehydes in moderate to good yields.

The genus Tanacetum L. is one of the most important medicinal plant that contains 28 species in Iran, 12 of them are endemics. This paper reports the essential oil composition of Tanacetum hololeucum (Bornm.) Podlech; Tanacetum kotschyi (Boiss.) Grierson, growing wild in Iran. Plant flowers were collected from different zones of Dizin in north of Iran. All samples were hydro-distilled (Clevenge...

The title compound, [Ni(NCS)(2)(C(24)H(38)N(6))], is a thio-cyanate-coordinated aza-macrocyclic nickel(II) complex. There are two independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit and their bond lengths and angles are similar. Both Ni atoms have a tetra-gonally distorted octa-hedral geometry, in which the Ni(II) ion is coordinated by the four secondary N atoms of the aza-macrocyclic ligand and by t...

Seek a cell anchorage galectin bridge: Transforming the wildtype Galectin (Gal)-1 and -3 to tandem-repeat type variant via rational protein engineering enhanced cis-binding activity with O-Mannosylated core M1 glycopeptides of α-dystroglycan (DG). Furthermore, Gal-1 variants (but not Gal-3 variants) demonstrated trans-bridging prepared α-DG core-M1 glycoconjugates laminins in situ carbohydrate-...

The three-component Petasis borono-Mannich reaction starting with easily accessible N-protected α-amino aldehydes produces efficiently and diastereoselectively 1,2-trans-diamines with an enantiomeric excess of up to 98%.

Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a distinct subtype of acute myeloid leukemia that results from the expression of the promyelocytic leukemia-retinoic acid receptor α (PML-RAR-α) oncoprotein. It is characterized by severe hemorrhagic complications due in part to excessive fibrinolysis, resulting from the excessive generation of the fibrinolytic enzyme, plasmin, at the cell surface of the PM...