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Membrane-Phloretin Interaction, Infrared Raman, ESR Spectroscopy The transport inhibitor phloretin was bound to human red cell membrane and the concomitant structural changes were observed by spectroscopic methods. By the spin labeling method a decrease in fluidity of the membrane was found at 1 and 10 |iM concentrations of the reagent. This result was obtained with the 2-(3-Carboxypropyl)-4,4-dimethyl-2-tridecyl-3-oxazolidinyloxyl, and the 2-(14-Carboxytetradecyl)-2-ethyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-oxazolidinyloxyl lipid spin labels. Infrared spectroscopy of modified membranes revealed an intensity increase of the POO~ band at about 1250 cm-1. Moreover, a shift of the peak at 1050 cm -1 to 1100 cm-1 was observed in the presence of phloretin. Raman spectroscopy of the membranes did not contradict the results found with infrared and ESR spectroscopy: In the phloretin modified membrane we observed a lack of the band at 1085 cm-1, which leads to suggest that the POO" and/or C-C regions are less fluid. Changes of the extracted red cell membrane lipids were less characteristic, and the results differed from those found in red cell membrane.
Alkylating NAD-Analogs, Glyceraldehyde-3 Phosphate Dehydrogenase, Half-of-the-Sites Reactivity co-(3-Bromoacetylpyridinio)alkyldiphosphoadenosines with alkyl chain lengths of 2 -6 me thylene groups inactivate glyceraldehyde-3 phosphate dehydrogenase from rabbit muscle. Half-of-the-Sites reactivity is observed in each case: The analogs are covalently bound to highly reactive cysteine residues in two of the four subunits. The remaining two subunits still bind N AD and the reactive SH-groups, although modified by SH-reagents of low molecular weight are not labeled by any of the brominated coenzyme models. This behaviour may be explained by the assumption, that the modification of 2 subunits induces structural changes in the neighboured unoccupied subunits which prevent any attack on reactive cysteine residues caused by fixation and orientation of the bromoketo-coenzyme analog when bound to the active center. Structural similarities of the covalently bound coenzyme analogs in the active center and the native ternary GAPDH-NAD-substrate complex suggest that half-of-the-sites reactivity is a natural characteristic of the enzymes catalytic mechanism.
The cyanobacterium Synechococcus (Anacystis nidulans strain L 1402-1) was grown at +35 °C in air and in air enriched with 2.2 vol.% CO2. The effect of different oxygen concentrations (0, 2, 20, 50, 75 and 99.97 or 97.8 vol.%) was studied in low (0.03 vol.%) and high (2.2 vol.%) CO2 concentrations at + 35 °C. After exposure to a nitrogen atmosphere and low CO2 content I4C-bicarbonate was mainly incorporated into aspartate and glycine/serine. During oxygenic photosynthetic CO2 fixation label in aspartate decreased and a high degree of radioactivity could be found in 3-phosphoglyceric acid and sugar monophosphates. The Calvin cycle was the main fixing pathway in 2.2 vol.% CO2 during anoxygenic and oxygenic conditions independent on the O2 concentrations during the experiments. No oxygen enhancement of photosynthetic CO2 fixation could be found. Possible mechanism involved in CO2 fixation pathways and glycolate metabolism underlying the effect of oxygen was discussed.
The influence of temperatur and pressure on the fluorescence quantum yield of N-methylacridone (9,10-dihydro-9-oxo-10-methyl-acridine) in toluene in the range of 283-313 K and 1 bar to 2.5 kbar, respectively, has been investigated. Treatment of the data in terms of the Eyring transition-state theory leads to a consistent interpretation of the observed effect. The unusually large increase of the quantum yield with increasing pressure is attributed to a positive volume of activation, ⊿V≠, for the thermally activated S1-T2 intersystem crossing which is known to be the only deactivation process (of the Si-state) competing with fluorescence. Comparison of the values for ⊿H≠, the activation enthalpy of this process, determined at various pressures, indicates a decrease in ⊿H≠ at elevated pressures. Since ⊿H≠ can be associated with the S1-T2 energy gap involved in intersystem crossing, this result further confirms the conclusion that the change in Franck-Condon factors alone cannot account for the decrease in the intersystem crossing rate with increasing pressure.
1-anilino-naphthalene-8-sulfonate (ANS) fluorescence measurements have revealed that red blood cell membrane of the Rhnull type undergoes a transition at about 16 degrees C. In contrast, viscosity measurements of the extracted membrane lipids showed the usually observed transition at about 18 degrees C. Lower values of titratable sulfhydryl (SH) groups were observed in Rhnull membrane using 5,5'-dithiobis-(2-nitro-benzoic-acid) (Nbs2). In contrast, disulfide bonds in Rhnull membrane were estimated to be about 3 times the value of the controls. Spin labeling experiments using 2-(3-carboxypropyl)-4, 4 dimethyl-2-tridecyl 3-oxazolidinyloxyl were carried out with phospholipase A2 modified membranes. The mobile part of the spectra was significantly increased on the Rhnull membrane. In the presence of D-glucose, infrared spectrometry showed a larger reduction of the intensity of the POO-band in Rhnull membrane. In contrast to controls, binding of the reagent diethylpyrocarbonate resulted in no significant changes of the Rhnull membrane as determined by electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements. D-glucose transport activity was found to be at the upper level of a group of Rh positive and Rh negative persons. It is suggested that the intensity of the polar protein-lipid interaction is reduced in Rhnull membrane.
For a certain class of ocean models describing the exchange of inorganic carbon between the atmosphere and the surface layer of the ocean as well as between the surface layer and the deep sea the dynamical airborne fraction is evaluated analytically under the assumption that the growth rate of the atmospheric source term (fossil fuel plus net biogenic carbon input into the atmosphere) is slowly variable with time. Each of these models exhibits a certain uptake capacity of the deep ocean which is quantified. Considerations are made as to whether the terrestrial biota are to be regarded as a source or a sink for additional atmospheric CO2 depending on the modelling of the deep ocean. It is shown that a global one-dimensional box-diffusion ocean model with a depth dependent eddy diffusivity K(z) - K(0) exp[-z/z*], with an adjustable parameter set {K(0), z*}, provides a fairly well fit to the prebomb 14C ocean distribution and to an appreciable net biogenic carbon transfer into the atmosphere. The range of future atmospheric CO2 partial pressures is estimated for a given fossil input.
7-Dehydrocholesterol and ergosterol are oxidised by iodine and FeCl3 under "physiologically similar" conditions to highly reactive alkylating species. These can be trapped by nucleophiles, such as 1-methylimidazole.
The oxidation of the sterols to those alkylating species is discussed as a model-reaction for the first step in chemical carcinogenesis by endogene substrates.