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The coenzyme analogue nicotinamide 5-iodouracil-dinucleotide was synthesized by condensation of the two mononucleotides with dicyclohexylcarbodiimide in aqueous pyridine. The enzymatic properties of this compound were compared with those of the nicotinamide-uracil-dinucleotide. Both coenzyme analogues reacted slowly when functioning as a hydrogen carrier in enzymatic tests. The properties were similar to those of nicotinamide-benzimidazole-dinucleotide. The difference spectrum between the intact coenzyme analogue and its mononucleotides showed that the intramolecular interaction between the functional and non-functional moiety was smaller than that in NAD. The interaction corresponded to that of nicotinamide-benzimidazole-dinucleotide. The fluorescence excitation spectrum did not show any energy transfer from the non-functional iodouracil to the dihydronicotinamide part of the analogue. Difference spectra between the coenzyme - enzymecomplex and the two isolated components indicated that the unfolded dihydrocoenzyme was bound to the active site of lactate- and alcohol-dehydrogenase, respectively. Furthermore, they showed aromatic interaction of the non-functional part with parts of the protein. Introduction of iodine into the nicotinamide-uracil-dinucleotide did not remarkably alter the behavior of the analogues. As the iodine is bound very strongly to the coenzyme analogue, it may be useful for X-Ray-investigations of the dehydrogenases.
In systems containing singlet-oxygen and aromatic fluorescers energy transfer from singletoxygen dimers to the dye should be observable by emission of the fluorescer. In order to prove this hypothesis, externally generated singlet-oxygen (1Δg) was bubbled through the solutions of dyes (chlorophyll a, eosin y, rhodamine b, luminol, rubrene and acridine orange) in organic solvents.
Luminescence could be observed and its spectral distribution analyzed by sharp cut-off filters and interference filters (rubrene) . Spectra, rates of oxidation, addition of quenchers and the long lasting time dependence of the reported reactions lead to the conclusion that the observed afterglow is due to chemical oxidation mechanisms producing a chemiluminescence. Therefore an excitation of the substances investigated in these experiments by simple physical energy transfer seems not to be predominant.
Pyrosulfonyldifluoride reacts with waterfree hydrazine in a molar ratio of 2 : 3 to give hydrazine -1,2-bis(sulfonylfluoride) in a low yield.. The reaction of N-fluorosulfonylamide and SOCl2 yields NH4⊕⊖ N(SO2F)2. This salt is converted to (C6H5)4P⊕⊖N(SO2F)2 in water by (C6H5)4PCl. (CH3)2NNH2 reacts with PSF3, PSF2Br, PSF2CH3 or PSF2C2H5 to yield the following compounds: (CH3)2NNHPSF2, (CH3)2NN (PSF2)2, (CH3)2NNHPSFCH3 and (CH3)2NNHPSFC2H5. The properties and the chemical behaviour of these substances are described. Results of ir-spectra, as well as 31P-, 19F- and 1H-nmr- and mass-spectra and elemental analysis characterize the compounds.
One of the earliest consequences of slicing plant storage organs such as potato tubers into thin disks is the formation of polysomes, which in potato slices is complete after 9 hours and is dependent on transcription. Fresh disks do not incorporate 32P, 3H-uridine or 14C-leucine into their ribosomes, whereas ribosomes and polysomes of aged disks use these precursors effectively. This development can be completely blocked by actinomycin D. Among the different RNAs synthesized during aging is 28S- and 16S—rRNA, 5S—RNA, tRNA, and a component sedimenting around 15—18S with a base-composition different from 16S—rRNA, 5S- and 4S—RNA and which supports peptide formation in an in vitro incorporation system.
It is suggested that this compound represents mRNA, which is not available immediately after slicing the tissue. These findings are consistent with the view of a derepression phenomenon in sliced storage tissue.
Whereas ribosome preparations of freshly sliced potato disks do not show appreciable activity in an in-vitro amino acid incorporation system, aging of the tissue leads to a greatly enhanced incorporation activity which reaches its maximum 24 hours after slicing. If ribosomes from freshly excised disks are provided with polyuridylic acid, their activity in the incorporation of phenylalanine is increased about 8 fold.
Moreover, an RNA-fraction can be dissociated by EDTA from ribosomes of aged potato tuber slices, which sediments at 15 —18S, has a base composition different from that of 16S — rRNA, 5S-and 4S —RNA, and is not present on ribosomes of fresh slices. Its appearance is inhibited by actinomycin D and therefore most probably dependent on transcription. This compound, purified from sucrose gradients, enhances in vitro leucine incorporation into peptide material by ribosomes of fresh potato slices.
The possibility is discussed that this fraction-among other factors-is responsible for the enhanced protein synthesis after slicing plant storage organs, and is indicative of a general derepression phenomenon in these tissues.
S4N3Cl reacts with sulfonic acids and imido- bissulfonyl derivatives under HCl-evolution to the following compounds: S4N3SO3CF3, S4N3N (SO2F)2, S4NSO3CH3HSO3CH3, S4N3N (SO2CF3) SO2Cl and S4N3N (SO2CF3) SO2F, They are yellow solids which decompose when heated below the melting point. The compounds are formed in nearly quantitative yield and have been characterized by elemental analysis, nmr and electronic spectra.
The reversible one-electron insertion into mono- and 1,4-di-substituted benzene derivatives is favored by dialkoxyboron and especially by dialkylboron groups. The assumption that it should be the symmetric e2u benzene molecular orbital which is occupied in the resulting radical anions can be supported by comparison of ESR coupling constants.
Hemoproteinoids related to contemporary porphyrin-dependent peroxidases were synthesized under simple conditions. The peroxidative activity of hematin increased by a factor of 50 if the hematin was bound to proteinoids whereas the catalatic activity of hematin decreased rather under the same conditions. The peroxidative activity of hemoproteinoids particularly increased with their lysine content whereas the catalatic activity especially decreased in proteinoids with high phenylalanine content. The isoelectric points of the lysine-rich peroxidic hemoproteinoids were about 8. Their relatively broad pH-activity optimum was about pH 7.0. The molecular weights were a little below 20 000. Hematin content and amino acid composition of the synthetic materials were varied greatly. The substrate specificity appeared as broad as that of biogenous peroxidases, e. g., horseradish peroxidase. Among the many substrates was NADH. The possible importance of the peroxidative oxidation of NADH-type coenzymes by primitive heterotrophic organisms or prebiological systems in an anaerobic environment is discussed.
Gel chromatography with 6% agarose gel (Sepharose 6B) can be used for measuring the Stokes’ radius of biological particles within the range of 1,5 nm and 35 nm. The molecular weight determination of proteins is not very reliable with this method. Hepatitis sera have been chromatographied to measure the size of hepatitis associated antigen (Australia-antigen).
The radius of this antigen was determined to be 10,3 nm, which agrees with the results of electron microscopy and ultracentrifugation. The Stokes’ radius of human serum IgM was found to be 10,6 nm.
The enthalpies of mixing at 25° of diethyl ether, di-n-propyl ether, di-n-butyl ether, di-isopropyl ether, propylene oxide, tetrahydrofuran, and tetrahydropyran with chloroform are determined by an isothermal titration method. As a result, the functions HM-f(N CHCl3) are obtained with a step width of 0.025 of the mole fraction and a relative accuracy of 1 per cent or better. Evaluation of the heat of mixing data by means of equilibrium models ("ideal associated mixture") shows that the systems of aliphatic ethers with chloroform behave rather precisely as one-step equilibria of the type A + B = AB (A = ether; B = chloroform). In the systems of cyclic ethers with chloroform, a second equilibrium step, AB + B = AB2 , must be considered, the importance of which decreases with increasing ring size of the ether. The equilibrium data calculated for the seven ether-diloroform systems are discussed.
We examine the possibility of reformulating quantum theory (QT) as a deterministic ensemble theory which (a) interprets observables as objective properties of physical systems and (b) coincides with QT in all quantitative statements. As will be demonstrated, such an Ensemble-Quantum-Theory (EQT) can only be constructed if (1) one accepts a modified observable-concept, and (2) as long as the theory of measurement is left out of account. A correct treatment of the measuring process is impossible within such an EQT. Consequently, there exist no Hidden-Variable Theories with the properties (a) and (b).
The meaning of a recently proposed formalism for quantization of interacting fields is discussed by studying the consequences of the time-dependent unitary transformation which is essential for this approach. It turns out that non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics in dipole approximation may serve as a useful, although rather singular, example for this method. In the relativistic case a different point of view is suggested in order to avoid inconsistent interpretation. It is further possible to give arguments for a reasonable choice of the unitary transformation concerned.
The nuclear charge form factgr from the high-energy elastic electron scattering on 6Li has been calculated from the modified independent-particle shell model (IPSM) wave function. The usual harmonic oscillator type IPSM wave function has been modified by the inclusion of a nucleon-nucleon correlation function which involves extra-core nucleons only. The technique is extremely simple and provides an excellent agreement with the experimental data.
The triplet state of acridine orange dissolved in methanol/water matrix was investigated by ESR. In absence of oxygen a strong temperature dependence of the spectra was observed. At low temperature (100 °K) the zero-field splitting parameters calculated from the triplet spectrum are: X/hc = 0.0050 cm-1, Y/hc= 0.0342 cm-1, Z/hc=0.0387 cm-1 , at higher temperature (140 °K) : X*(hc=0.0056 cm-1, Y*/hc=0.0206 cm-1, Z*/hc = 0.0262 cm-1 . It was assumed that the low temperature spectrum is caused by isolated molecules in the triplet state while the high temperature spectrum must be attributed to the triplet exciton state of the acridine orange dimer. From the theory of the ESR triplet exciton spectra it can be shown that in the dimer state of acridine orange the molecular planes form an angle of 50° or 130°. However, it cannot be excluded that the dimer configuration differs in the ground or excited singlet state from the triplet state.
The potential energy surface has been calculated by two methods which are compared with respect to spontaneous fission. In the first one essentially the sum of the single particle energies is computed as was done in a previous paper3 while in the second one the Strutinsky technique of renormalizing to a liquid drop model has been applied. Also the half-lives for electron capture are investigated together with the predictions of the half-lives for spontaneous fission and α-decay. The results support the existence of superheavy nuclei in the regions around Z = 114 and Z = 164.
The electron paramagnetic resonance of copper (II)-tetrammine nitrate in solution of methanol and water has been investigated. The data obtained from the spectra at room temperature and 97 °K together with the optical transition energies determined from single crystal polarized absorption spectra at 77 °K by other authors were used to calculate the LCAO-MO bonding parameters. The bonding orbital of the ammonia molecule cannot be described by the concept of sp2 hybridization which was exclusively used in the theory. Therefore a calculation of the overlap integral S(n) for α bonding and of the superhyperfine splitting was carried out in terms of an arbitrary hybridization parametern. For ammonia, n was taken from the Duncan-Pople hybrid wave function for the lone pair orbital. The o bonding and the out-of-plane π bonding appear to have a moderate degree of covalency (α = Ϭ = 0.91; α’= 0.49). The covalent in-plane n bonding is somewhat stronger (β = 0.87) but is by no means so strongly covalent as is observed in compounds with ligands which do not exclusively coordinate through the lone pair electrons.
At low temperature nine ligand nuclear superhyperfine structure lines corresponding to the interaction of four magnetically equivalent nitrogen nuclei have been observed. The value of α' derived from the superhyperfine splitting is in excellent agreement with that obtained from the copper nucleus hyperfine structure.