基于压力的速率方程的应用

通过具体实例说明对于气相反应,使用基于压力的速率方程解题比使用基于浓度的速率方程更直接﹑更简便。总结了具有简单级数的反应的基于压力的速率方程及其特征。     

基于Matlab的二元共聚合反应的竞聚率的求解

以直线交叉法为依据,根据最小二乘原理,采用Matlab GUI工具设计了一款用于计算二元共聚合反应竞聚率的图形用户程序。与传统的求解竞聚率方法相比,该图形用户程序具有设计原理简单、计算快捷的特点;同时程序提供界面简洁、交互友好的数据输入平台,实用性强。实际应用表明:采用该款图形用户程序所测得的数据与微机动态搜索法、Tidwell-Mortimer法相近,而比采用斜率截距法计算竞聚率的最小差方和更小,并且也避免了采用斜率截距法由于所用方程的非对称性造成的计算结果的不一致性。     

某些助剂对明胶的凝胶强度的影响的研究

众所周知,物理力学性能是照相明胶的一种很重要的属性。在各种彩色及黑白胶片都面向高温快速加工发展的今天,这种属性就显得更为重要。提高胶片的物理力学性能,一方面要从提高明胶本身的胶冻强度着手,例如减少明胶中溶胶组份(分子量小、冷水中溶解度高),提高明胶中的α和β组份的相对含量,减少分子量过大的组份等等。     

基于环糊精的新材料的研究进展

从纳米粒子、水凝胶、纤维材料和环糊精高分子等方面介绍了近年来以环糊精为基础研制的新材料的研究进展。目前以环糊精为基础的纳米粒子材料有核壳结构的纳米粒子、环糊精的化学接枝与共聚、环糊精与无机非金属材料的复合和含环糊精的囊泡材料;以环糊精为基础的凝胶材料有水凝胶和有机凝胶两种材料;此外还有以环糊精为基础的纤维材料、环糊精高...     

体毛的化学和头发的保护

本文介绍了体毛结构和功能的一般化学基础,讨论了毛发的化学特征如氨基酸及微量元素的组成和应用依据,研究了护发的化学方法。作为皮肤附属器官的体毛,特别是头发,除一般的美容化妆外,近10多年来还由于人体微量元素研究的进展而引起人们的重视。曾多次召开过国际人发研究学术讨论会[1],国际原子能研究机构（IAEA）还在全球范围内收集了人发数据,并发布了人发标样（IAEA-HH-1）,我国也研制了类似的标准物。在各种病因诊断、法医学研究中,头发分析是重要项目。而在日常消费新潮中,青年人也常把相当多的精力和金钱投放在发型的美化上。因此体毛的化学和头发的保护问题,日益成为化学与生活联系的重要渠道,其社会意义已不容忽视。本文尝试就毛发的结构、功能、组成及可能的病交的化学基础和有关化妆的化学信息作一简介。     

酯的水解实验的改进

该文对现行的高中化学 (试验修订本 )第二册中关于乙酸乙酯水解实验的不足之处进行了分析,并提出了改进的方法,对其实验内容和实验效果进行了讨论。     

色彩斑斓的自然,五颜六色的化学

通过介绍菠菜中色素的提取分离及紫甘蓝中花青素的提取两个实验,揭示大自然色彩背后的化学奥秘,并介绍了两个实验作为科普实验项目在化学科普活动中展示和互动的效果及特点。     

地球的内部可能是湿润的

在地球的低层地幔下 ,可能存在着比现在的海洋还要多 4倍的水 ,这是日本工业大学的Ｍ .Ｍｕｒａｋａｍｉ和他的同事们最近估测出来的。日本地球科学家们利用了一种多功能钻探仪 ,通过对 3种据信包含低层地幔中在高温高压下生成的主要矿物组成的分析后 ,得到了这个结论。这 3种矿物是 :Ｍｇ ｐｅｒｏｖｓｋｉｔｅ ,Ｃａ ｐｅｒｏｖｓｋｉｔｅ和Ｍａｇｎｅｓｉｏｗ櫣ｓｔｉｔｅ。再利用ＳＩＭＳ对矿物中溶解的氢的含量进行测量 ,矿物学家认为氢是水的标记。发现这3种矿物的含水量都相当可观 ,大约在 0 .2 %至 0 .4 %(重量比率 )之间。用红外…     

一氧化碳的发现与燃素说的终结

考察一氧化碳的发现过程可知,这不仅是一种化学物质的发现史,也是燃素说的兴衰史。笃信燃素说的英国科学家普里斯特利首先在实验室制取并研究了它,称之为重可燃空气。相信氧化学说的英国化学家克鲁克香克用实验证明了它是一氧化碳,使当时的科学家大都皈依氧化学说,从而终结了燃素说。这段历史让人们认识到创新的理论思维对于科学研究的重要意义。     

鲍林的化学键理论的思想起源

化学键是化学与物理学于20世纪早期产生交融的重要问题,其中以美国化学家鲍林在30年代提出的价键理论最有影响力。该理论同时具有化学和物理学的多个思想来源,从19世纪后期的经典结构化学直到当时刚诞生的量子力学,以及路易斯化学键理论、X射线晶体学和物理化学。物理学比化学的影响更广,但两种来源都注重实验,演化历程中理论向实验靠拢的程度更大。     

A spider toxin binding protein from bovine brain: its purification and N-terminal amino acid sequence determination.

A 60kDa spider toxin binding protein from bovine brain was solubilized with digitonin and purified up to 5800-folds over starting crude homogenate. The purification procedure entailed DEAE-cellulose, concanavalin-A affinity, 1-naphthylacetyl spermine affinity and high performance liquid chromatography. The purified protein owned a very high affinity for ligand 125I-JSTX-3 binding Kd 15.6nM and Bmax 6.5nM. The amino acid composition of the protein was determined. The N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis yielded a unique sequence: NH2-X-Pro-X-Val-Tyr-Phe-Lys-Glu-Gln-Phe-Leu-Asp-Gly-Asp-X.     

Successive cleavage of pepsin with trypsin and cyanogen bromide isolation of a peptide fragment belonging to the C-terminal region of pepsin

Conclusions 1. The peptide TB has been isolated from the C-terminal fragment of pepsin.2. The amino acid composition of this region of pepsin has been refined.3. The sequence of nine amino acids in the peptide TB has been established.Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 540–545, 1969     

An alignment-free method to find similarity among protein sequences via the general form of Chou’s pseudo amino acid composition

In this paper, we propose a method to create the 60-dimensional feature vector for protein sequences via the general form of pseudo amino acid composition. The construction of the feature vector is based on the contents of amino acids, total distance of each amino acid from the first amino acid in the protein sequence and the distribution of 20 amino acids. The obtained cosine distance metric (also called the similarity matrix) is used to construct the phylogenetic tree by the neighbour joining method. In order to show the applicability of our approach, we tested it on three proteins: 1) ND5 protein sequences from nine species, 2) ND6 protein sequences from eight species, and 3) 50 coronavirus spike proteins. The results are in agreement with known history and the output from the multiple sequence alignment program ClustalW, which is widely used. We have also compared our phylogenetic results with six other recently proposed alignment-free methods. These comparisons show that our proposed method gives a more consistent biological relationship than the others. In addition, the time complexity is linear and space required is less as compared with other alignment-free methods that use graphical representation. It should be noted that the multiple sequence alignment method has exponential time complexity.     

A search algorithm for fixed-composition protein design

We present a computational protein design algorithm for finding low-energy sequences of fixed amino acid composition. The search algorithms used in protein design typically do not restrict amino acid composition. However, the random energy model of Shakhnovich suggests that the use of fixed-composition sequences may circumvent defects in the modeling of the denatured state. Our algorithm, FC_FASTER, links fixed-composition versions of Monte Carlo and the FASTER algorithm. As proof of principle, FC_FASTER was tested on an experimentally validated, full-sequence design of the beta1 domain of protein G. For the wild-type composition, FC_FASTER found a lower energy sequence than the experimentally validated sequence. Also, for a different composition, FC_FASTER found the hypothetical lowest-energy sequence in 14 out of 32 trials.     

Identification of mouse brain proteins after two-dimensional electrophoresis and electroblotting by microsequence analysis and amino acid composition analysis

Two-dimensional electrophoretic separation and immobilization of proteins onto inert membranes for subsequent amino acid sequence and amino acid composition analysis is described as a rapid procedure for the identification or characterization of proteins from complex mixtures. This method avoids the drawbacks of classical purification and isolation methods which involve time-consuming operations with low resolution and, often, insufficient yields. Excellent overall yields of minor amounts (in the low microgram range) using this method allow for sequence determination of yet inaccessible proteins. Solubilized cell proteins of mouse brain were separated by high resolution two-dimensional electrophoresis and electroblotted onto a siliconized glass fiber membrane. The immobilized proteins were stained with Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250, and twelve proteins spots were then submitted to both Edman degradation and amino acid analysis. Proteins were identified by comparison of the experimentally determined amino acid composition with a dataset derived from the Protein Identification Resource (PIR) protein sequence database. Eight out of twelve proteins tested were identified by amino acid analysis and confirmed by N-terminal sequence determination.     

Characterization of native and recombinant peptidyl prolyl cis-trans isomerases derived from Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus based on cDNA sequence

It is important to establish whether a recombinant protein is an authentic copy of the predicted cDNA sequence. In this study, recombinant protein for native peptidyl prolyl cis-trans isomerase (N-PPIase) and double-labeled (13C- and 15N-) protein (DL-PPIase) appeared on the sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) electropherograms as two bands for N-PPIase and four bands for DL-PPIase. Since the N-terminal amino acid residues of all bands were the same, we characterized these bands using the peptide mapping method and amino acid composition analysis. Peptide mapping of the proteins seemed to be almost identical but they could not reflect the whole amino acid sequences of the protein. The bands on the polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membrane, electroblotted after SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), were hydrolyzed and their amino acid composition was analyzed using a highly sensitive 6-aminoquinolyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate (AQC) amino acid analysis and compared with the cDNA sequences for proteins. The matching score (sigma(T%-E%)2) for similarity of proteins was calculated by summation of the square difference between the theoretical (T%) and the experimental (E%) amino acid composition of the recombinant protein. The amino acid composition of all bands of both proteins showed more than 93% of the theoretical values. The major molecular weights of both proteins were 16812 and 17694 by electrospray ionization (ESI)-mass spectrometry. However, the purified proteins also contained minor compounds with Mr of 3721 for N-PPIase and 5285 for DL-PPIase. These compounds were considered to be nonpeptidyl products that comigrated with the protein. Similarities of the amino acid composition of the four bands were more than 98%. Our results indicate that AQC amino acid analysis is the most suitable method for characterization of a recombinant protein.     

Structure determination of glycopeptide of p-momorcharin

The structure of the N-linked oligosaccharide chain of β-momorcharin, a ribosome-inactivating protein from the seeds of Momordica charantia Linn (Cucurbitaceae) was determined. A glycopeptide liberated by pronase digestion of the glycoprotein was subjected to amino acid and neutral carbohydrate analysis to establish the composition of amino acid and sugar residues. The sequences and glycosylation linkages of the sugar and amino acid residues in the glycopeptide were determined as Manal-6(Xylβ1-2)-Manβ1-4GlcNAcβ1-4(Fucal-3)-GlcNAc-Asn-Leu by 2D-NMR spectroscopy and FAB-MS data.     

Predicting protein folding rates using the concept of Chou's pseudo amino acid composition

One of the most important challenges in computational and molecular biology is to understand the relationship between amino acid sequences and the folding rates of proteins. Recent works suggest that topological parameters, amino acid properties, chain length and the composition index relate well with protein folding rates, however, sequence order information has seldom been considered as a property for predicting protein folding rates. In this study, amino acid sequence order was used to derive an effective method, based on an extended version of the pseudo-amino acid composition, for predicting protein folding rates without any explicit structural information. Using the jackknife cross validation test, the method was demonstrated on the largest dataset (99 proteins) reported. The method was found to provide a good correlation between the predicted and experimental folding rates. The correlation coefficient is 0.81 (with a highly significant level) and the standard error is 2.46. The reported algorithm was found to perform better than several representative sequence-based approaches using the same dataset. The results indicate that sequence order information is an important determinant of protein folding rates.     

The synthesis of sterically demanding amino acid-derived cyclic phosphonamides

The preparation and utilization of C(2)-symmetric 1,4-diamines in the synthesis of amino acid-derived cyclic phosphonamides 1-3 are described. The 1,4-diamines are synthesized via three methods: (i) amino acid/fumaryl chloride coupling followed by amide reduction, (ii) amino acid/1,4-diamine coupling followed by amide reduction, and (iii) a template-supported ring-closing metathesis/hydrolysis sequence. The pseudo C(2)-symmetric cyclic phosphonamides 1-3 are prepared by condensation of the C(2)-symmetric 1,4-diamines to P(III) centers, followed by oxidation.     

Amino acid identification and sequence analysis of peptides by reaction mass spectrometry

Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS) is applied to distinguish N-terminal series ions from C-terminal series ions of a peptide by on-probe acetylation, it providesvaluable information about the sequence of an unknown peptide. The FAB mass spectra containa number of characteristic ions at low-mass region in addition to the sequence ions at high-massregion. It was found that the ions below m/z 200 are characteristic of the amino acid composition ofthe peptide, from which the amino acid composition of the peptide could be estimated. Additionally,mixture analysis is also discussed.