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Cells maintain membrane fluidity by regulating lipid saturation, but the molecular mechanisms of this homeoviscous adaptation remain poorly understood. Here, we have reconstituted the core machinery for sensing and regulating lipid saturation in baker’s yeast to directly characterize its response to defined membrane environments. Using spectroscopic techniques and in vitro ubiquitylation, we uncover a unique sensitivity of the transcriptional regulator Mga2 to the abundance, position, and configuration of double bonds in lipid acyl chains and provide unprecedented insight into the molecular rules of membrane adaptivity. Our data challenge the prevailing hypothesis that membrane viscosity serves as the measured variable for regulating lipid saturation. Rather, we show that the signaling output of Mga2 correlates with the size of a single sensor residue in the transmembrane helix, which senses the lateral pressure and/or compressibility profile in a defined region of the membrane. Our findings suggest that membrane property sensors have evolved remarkable sensitivities to highly specific aspects of membrane structure and dynamics, thus paving the way toward the development of genetically encoded reporters for such membrane properties in the future.
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.
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.
Li6UO6 has a reversible phase transformation at 680°C and decomposes above about 850°C. At high pressure the low temperature modification becomes unstable because of an invariant point in the system Li2O—Li4UO5 at approximately 13 Kb and 620°C. β-Li6UO6 has a triclinic unit cell with a = 5.203, b= 5.520, c = 5.536 Å, α = 114.7, β = 120.7 and γ = 75.5°. The close relationship between the crystal structures of Li6TeO6 and Li6UO6 is also suggested from similar infrared spectra and from partial solid solution Li6UO6—Li6TeO6.
The interactions between human haptoglobin, Hp II (genetic types 2 - 1 and 2-2), and bovine hemoglobin, Hb, were investigated taking inhibition of complex formation and complex dissociation in various solvent media as criteria.
As shown by relative peroxidase activity and gel chromatography, complex dissociation occurs at high concentrations of guanidine HCl, urea, sodium chloride, dioxane, and formaldehyde, while in case of sodium dodecylsulfate a low molar ratio (SDS/Hb -Hp<5) is sufficient to split the complex. In general the formation of the complex stabilizes the structure of its constituents.
Excluding solvent conditions which lead to denaturation (as measured by optical rotation), ionpairs and H-bonds seem to prevail in the stabilization of the complex, while hydrophobic interactions should be of minor importance. Chemical modification of histidine and tyrosine with diazonium-1-H-tetrazole and N-acetylimidazole, respectively, prove histidyl-groups in Hb and tyrosylgroups in Hp to participate in the Hb-Hp contact, thus confirming earlier results.
Fluorescense spectra of lactate dehydrogenase * (E.C. 1.1.1.27) were investigated in the presence of the coenzyme fragments dihydronicotinamide mononucleotide and dihydronicotinamide-ribose-5'-pyrophospho- (P2) -5“-ribose. The reduced mononucleotide is enzymatically less active as a hydrogen donor. However, formation of a complex with the enzyme was not observed under the conditions used. All the other substances: dihydronicotinamide-ribose-5'-pyrophospho- (P2) -5“-ribose, dihydronicotinamide- benzimidazole-dinucleotide, dihydronicotinamide-3-desazapurine-dinucleotide and dihydronicotinamide-6-mercaptopurine-dinucleotide form more or less stable complexes with lactate dehydrogenase. The complexes do not markedly differ from the complex formed with the natural cofactor. In all cases spectra indicate change in conformation of the coenzyme by forming the coenzyme-enzyme-complex which has been proposed by VELICK 1 too. The cysteine residues of the lactate dehydrogenase are not essential for binding the coenzyme to the active center; this was shown with mercury blocked enzyme.
It is possible to determine the anomeric configuration of nucleosides by a simple, spectrophotometric assay, using the nucleoside phosphorylase activity of cell-free extracts from E. coli. β-nucleo-sides are split, a-anomers remain unchanged. For a single estimation 20-40 µg of nucleoside are required. 6-Azauracil- and 8-azaguanine-β-ᴅ-riboside and some nucleoside phosphates are resistant, a fact, which is of interest in view of the specificity of nucleoside phosphorylases.
Gegenstand der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist das hydrolytische Verhalten von Glycyl-seryl-alanin beim Erhitzen in einer rein wäßrigen Lösung bei einem pH-Wert in der Nähe des isoelektrischen Punktes. Die Reaktionsmöglichkeiten des Tripeptids und aller Folgeprodukte, die Alanin enthalten, wurden qualitativ aufgeklärt und die kinetischen Daten der einzelnen Reaktionen durch quantitative Hydrolyseversuche an den mit dem Kohlenstoffisotop 14C geeignet radioaktiv markierten Verbindungen Glycyl-seryl-alanin, Seryl-alanin, Alanyl-serin und Seryl-alanyl-diketopiperazin bei mehreren Temperaturen zwischen 55 und 95 °C bestimmt. Die Trennung der Hydrolysatproben erfolgte mit Hilfe der Papierchromatographie bzw. der Papierelektrophorese; für die Konzentrationsbestimmung der radioaktiven Substanzen wurde ein Verfahren ausgearbeitet, das eine Radioaktivitätsmessung mit hoher reproduzierbarer Ausbeute direkt auf den zur Trennung benutzten Filterpapieren nach der Flüssigkeitsszintillations-Methode ermöglicht.
Alle beobachteten Reaktionen verlaufen unter den Versuchsbedingungen nach einem Zeitgesetz 1. Ordnung. Die Konzentrations-Zeit-Funktionen der einzelnen Reaktionsteilnehmer wurden durch Auflösung der simultanen linearen Differentialgleichungen 1. Ordnung bestimmt und zur Berechnung der Reaktionsgeschwindigkeits-Konstanten nach einem iterativen Ausgleichsverfahren herangezogen.
In der Diskussion wird versucht, die beobachteten thermodynamischen Daten in ihrer Größenordnung aus anderen Eigenschaften und aus der Molekularstruktur der einzelnen Verbindungen abzuleiten und durch bestimmte Reaktionsmechanismen zu interpretieren.