A two-year-old boy with a malignant tumor of the brain (medulloblastoma) excreted large amounts of thymine and uracil in his urine. The excretion was related to progress and regress of the disease, and reached a maximum of 3.0 mol of thymine per mole of creatinine and 2.6 mol of uracil per mole of creatinine. The excretion by 20 apparently normal children was less than 0.01 mol/mol of creatinin...

Since alcohols are accessible from indigestible biomass (lignocellulose), the development of novel preferentially catalytic reactions in which alcohols are converted into important classes of fine chemicals is a central topic of sustainable synthesis. Multicomponent reactions are especially attractive in organic chemistry as they allow the synthesis of large libraries of diversely functionalize...

The preparation of five different selectively deuterated analogs of the enzyme staphylococcal nuclease has been previously reported.(1-3) The five selectively deuterated enzymes have full enzymatic activity with DNA and RNA substrates and identical amino acid compositions; and they all appear to have similar conformations in solution, despite their very different hydrogen/deuterium contents.

Sequence analysis of 5'-[32P] labeled tRNA and eukaryotic mRNA using an adaptation of a method recently described by Donis-Keller, Maxam and Gilbert for mapping guanines, adenines and pyrimidines from the 5'-end of an RNA is described. In addition, a technique utilizing two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for identification of pyrimidines within a sequence is described. 5'-[32P] ...

The effect of deuteration on the 13C linewidths of U-13C, 15N 2D crystalline bacteriorhodopsin (bR) from Halobacterium salinarium, a 248-amino acid protein with seven-transmembrane (7TM) spanning regions, has been studied in purple membranes as a prelude to potential structural studies. Spectral doubling of resonances was observed for receptor expressed in 2H medium (for both 50:50% 1H:2H, and ...

Research on interstellar ND3 is reviewed and updated from the discovery papers. Results from observations of a dozen sources at centimeter and submillimeter wavelengths are presented. The two data sets are consistent, but do not constrain the excitation conditions in the ND3emitting gas. The column density ratios of NH3/NH2D, NH2D/ND2H and ND3/ND2H, observed in similar sized beams, are ≈10, and...

We have previously reported on the tumor inhibitory properties of 5-fluorouracil and 5-fluoroorotic acid (3, 4), prepared by Duschinsky et al. (5), and on the initial clinical trials of 5fluorouracil with patients with far advanced solid tumors (6). The metabolism of 5-fluorouracil and 5-fluororotic acid has been studied, data on excretion and tissue distribution in mice and man have been repor...