亚油酸铂靶向脂质体与癌细胞膜相互作用的电子自旋共振研究

本文用马来酰亚胺自旋标记(MSL)技术研究了亚油酸铂靶向脂质体与肿瘤细胞膜的相互作用, 以及它们对ESR谱的影响。亚油酸铂靶向脂质体的存在, 使MSL的乳腺癌细胞膜和S180实体瘤细胞膜的W和S的比值发生了变化, 结果表明亚油酸铂可以作用于癌细胞膜影响膜蛋白巯基结合部位, 并使癌细胞膜表面蛋白质构象改变。     

不饱和酸酐—吩噻嗪电荷转移络合物结构的探讨

用ＩＲ和ＵＶ两种方法首次研究了吩噻嗪与７个酸酐形成的电荷转移络合物，测定了它们的组成和溶剂效应，并推测出酸酐与吩噻嗪形成电荷转移络合物时相互作用的方式（结构）。     

核黄素与牛血清白蛋白相互作用的荧光光谱研究

采用荧光猝灭光谱、同步荧光光谱研究了核黄素与牛血清白蛋白(BSA)相互作用的光谱行为。结果发现,在温度为293 K和310 K时核黄素与BSA的结合常数(Kb)分别为4.879×105L.mol-1和1.880×105L.mol-1,结合热力学方程计算得到了对应温度下的热力学参数。结果表明核黄素对BSA有较强的荧光猝灭作用,其荧光猝灭过程属于动态猝灭机制,二者主要靠疏水作用力结合。采用同步荧光光谱探讨了核黄素对BSA构象的影响。     

双(三氯甲基)三嗪类化合物光生酸反应的研究

对 3种具不同结构 (三氯甲基 )三嗪化合物的光致生酸及光敏化生酸问题进行了研究 .从其吸收光谱、荧光光谱、荧光猝灭以及光致生酸过程的测定结果表明 ,三嗪化合物的敏化光致生酸具有电子转移性质 .发现在三嗪化合物分子中存在着归属于核的局域发光以及分子内的电荷转移发光两个部分 .局域的激发与发光和化合物光致生酸有着密切的关系 ,而电荷转移发光则会增强或扩充化合物的吸收和发射光谱范围 ,在光致生酸中也有重要的作用 .一种完美的光致生酸化合物分子的设计和合成必须对上述两个方面均加以注意 ,使能达到互补和协同的作用     

分子印迹包裹的碳量子点荧光传感器特异性吸附检测核黄素北大核心CSCD

利用核黄素作为模板分子印迹在溶胶凝胶分子层并包裹碳量子点,制备荧光传感器(Carbon Quantum Dots@Molecular Imprinted Polymers,CD_(S)@MIPs)。在激发波长为370 nm时,该传感器特异性吸附核黄素后,520 nm处荧光随核黄素浓度的变化而变化,即520 nm处的荧光作为变量信号,碳量子点在460 nm的荧光作为参考信号,形成比率荧光传感器。核黄素的浓度与I_(520)/I_(460)的荧光比值呈现线性相关关系,线性范围为0.15~7.0μmol/L,检出限为8.48 nmol/L。相比于直接荧光检测核黄素的方法,此方法具有特异性、抗背景干扰性等优点,可应用于检测果汁中的核黄素。     

金属有机电荷转移盐(CpFeBz)n[M(L)2](L=mnt或dmit)的合成及其三阶非线性光学性质

合成了两种类型共九个新的金属有机电荷转移盐(CpFeBz)n[M(mnt)2]和(CpFeBz)n[M.(dmit)2](M=Ni, Pd, Pt,Cu, Co; Cp代表环戊二烯基; Bz代表苯; 通过元素分析、IR和1H NMR对化合物进行了鉴定。用简并四波混频的方法首次研究了金属有机电荷转移盐的三阶非线性光学性质。结果表明, 这类金属有机电荷转移有较大的近共振三阶非线性光学响应。     

核酸的化学(一)

关於构成生物体的细胞的细胞核的化学很早就是生物学和化学上的一个重要的问题。在细胞核的复杂的、有机的化学组成中,核酸(Nucleic acids)是一个主要的组成部分。可是,除了在酵母中的核酸外,核酸并不单独存在,而是与蛋白缀合为核蛋白(Nucleoproteins)。核蛋白是细胞核的主要化学成分。 1868年;瑞士生物化学家,佛烈得里希·米歇尔(Friedrich Mischer,1844—1895)收集外科医生医疗用过的绷带上的脓浆,从这些脓浆中所含的细胞核,在用稀盐酸处理后,首次得到少量的细胞核物质(当时被称为“Nuclein”,即核蛋白),证明含     

CuTSPc分子膜/p-Si(111)界面的光致电荷转移及其机制研究

本文利用L-B技术,在p-Si(111)基底上铺展了单层厚度只有6Å的CuTSPc超薄分子膜(简称超分子膜)和具有C₁₈脂链间隙的CuTSPc L-B膜两种膜系,首次观察到了CuTSPc分子膜在这种特定界面中的表面光电压谱。并且发现,当CuTSPc仅为一个单分子层时,这两种膜系的表面光伏效应最强。我们的研究结果表明,只有紧邻半导体基底的一个单分子层厚度的染料分子对光致界面电荷转移起关键作用。最后在实验上证实这种电荷转移是电荷直接注入机制,而非间接注入机制。     

核黄素在电化学还原石墨烯/Nafion修饰电极上的电化学行为及分析检测

本文采用电化学还原石墨烯(ECGO)/Nafion修饰玻碳电极对核黄素的循环伏安特性进行了研究。结果显示,ECGO/Nafion修饰薄膜对核黄素显示出良好的催化效果。实验考察了氧化石墨烯(GO)/Nafion的用量、扫描圈数、pH值、电位等对核黄素电化学行为的影响。在最优条件下,采用差分脉冲伏安法测定了核黄素检测的线性范围,结果显示,氧化峰电流与核黄素的浓度在7.5×10~(-8)~1.0×10~(-5) mol·L~(-1)范围内呈现良好的线性关系,检测限可达2.5×10~(-8) mol·L~(-1)。用该方法测定实际样品中的核黄素含量,效果较好。     

黄曲霉素B_2分子吸附在银团簇的表面增强拉曼散射机理

采用密度泛函理论(DFT)B3LYP方法,6-311G(d,p)(C,H,O)/LANL2DZ(Ag)基组,计算了黄曲霉素B2(AFB2)分子吸附在Ag2团簇的表面增强拉曼散射(SERS)光谱和预共振拉曼光谱,并与实验结果比较.结果显示:AFB2分子在基态Ag2团簇表面吸附时,增强因子最大达到102,对应吡喃(pyrane)环C=O伸缩振动,主要是由AFB2分子周围化学环境改变而引起的基态静极化率改变导致的化学增强.不同激发波长下的AFB2分子预共振拉曼光谱的增强强度不同:电荷转移态激发波长为1144和544 nm时拉曼信号增强了102倍,而选择电荷转移预共振波长432和410 nm作为入射光时,其拉曼信号增强了104倍,增强机理为银团簇和黄曲霉素分子之间的电荷转移共振增强.因此通过改变入射光波长,选择电荷转移共振激发波长,更有利于强致癌物AFB2分子的痕量检测.     

Flavin-sensitized Photo-oxidation of Lysozyme and Serum Albumin

The excited state processes of riboflavin, flavin mononucleotide and flavin adenine dinucleotide in argon-saturated aqueous solution were studied in the presence of lysozyme or bovine serum albumin (BSA). UV–Vis absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy indicates that the noncovalent flavin-protein binding is relatively weak. Quenching of the flavin triplet state by BSA, observed by time-resolved photolysis, is less efficient than by lysozyme. Light-induced oxidation of the two proteins and reduction of the three flavins were studied. The quantum yields of the former and latter in the absence of oxygen are up to 0.1 and 0.04, respectively. The effects of pH and sensitizer and protein concentrations were examined in greater detail. The proposed reaction is electron transfer from the tryptophan moiety to the flavin triplet rather than excited singlet state.     

Oxygen uptake after electron transfer from amines, amino acids and ascorbic acid to triplet flavins in air-saturated aqueous solution

The photolysis of lumichrome, riboflavin, flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) was studied in air-saturated aqueous solution at room temperature in the presence of appropriate electron donors: ascorbic acid, aromatic amino acids or amines, e.g. ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA). The overall reaction is conversion of oxygen via the hydroperoxyl/superoxide radical into hydrogen peroxide. The quantum yield of oxygen uptake increases with the donor concentration, e.g. up to 0.3 for riboflavin, FMN or FAD in the presence of EDTA or ascorbic acid (0.3-10mM). The formation of H(2)O(2) is initiated by quenching of the acceptor triplet state by the electron donor and subsequent reaction of the semiquinone radical with oxygen. Specific properties of flavins are discussed including the radicals involved and the pH and concentration dependences. The quantum yield of photodegradation is low under air, but substantial under argon, where the major product absorbing in the visible spectral range is the corresponding hydroquinone.     

Coordinated and reversible reduction of enzymes involved in terminal oxidative metabolism in skeletal muscle mitochondria from a riboflavin-responsive, multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency patient

In this case report we studied alterations in mitochondrial proteins in a patient suffering from recurrent profound muscle weakness, associated with ethylmalonic-adipic aciduria, who had benefited from high dose of riboflavin treatment. Morphological and biochemical alterations included muscle lipid accumulation, low muscle carnitine content, reduction in fatty acid beta-oxidation and reduced activity of complexes I and II of the respiratory chain. Riboflavin therapy partially or totally reversed these symptoms and increased the level of muscle flavin adenine dinucleotide, suggesting that aberrant flavin cofactor metabolism accounted for the disease. Proteomic investigation of muscle mitochondria revealed decrease or absence of several flavoenzymes, enzymes related to flavin cofactor-dependent mitochondrial pathways and mitochondrial or mitochondria-associated calcium-binding proteins. All these deficiencies were completely rescued after riboflavin treatment. This study indicates for the first time a profound involvement of riboflavin/flavin cofactors in modulating the level of a number of functionally coordinated polypeptides involved in fatty acyl-CoA and amino acid metabolism, extending the number of enzymatic pathways altered in riboflavin-responsive multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.     

Quantitation of nicotinamide and serotonin derivatives and detection of flavins in neuronal extracts using capillary electrophoresis with multiphoton-excited fluorescence

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) with multiphoton-excited fluorescence detection (CE-MPE) allows low-background analysis of spectrally distinct fluorophores using a single long-wavelength laser. Extracts were prepared from immortalized rat raphe nuclei neurons, and were analyzed by CE-MPE. Native fluorescence was detected from reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and its phosphorylated form (NADPH), flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), flavin mononucleotide (FMN), riboflavin, serotonin, and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HTrp). Quantitation of exogenous serotonin (taken up by cells) and endogenous NADH and 5HTrp was possible using internal standards or standard addition. This system should be useful to study monamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).     

THE EFFECT OF 8α-SUBSTITUTION ON FLAVIN TRIPLET STATE AND SEMIQUINONE PROPERTIES AS INVESTIGATED BY FLASH PHOTOLYSIS*

Abstract— Flash photolysis techniques have been used to study the effect of 8α-substitution on flavin triplet state formation and decay and on the properties of neutral and anionic serniquinones. Compared with riboflavin, the N(1) and N(3) isomers of 8α-histidylriboflavin show a lower triplet yield (?10%) and a faster rate of decay (? 4-Cfold). Acetylation of the histidyl a-amino groups and of the flavin ribityl side chain results in a 2-fold increase in triplet yield and a 2-fold slower rate of decay. The yield of neutral 8α-substituted flavin semiquinones upon flash photolysis in the presence of EDTA was approximately 50% that given by riboflavin. These substituted flavin neutral semiquinones dismutated at a rate 2–3 times slower than the corresponding unsubstituted form, although the anionic semiquinones dismutated at approximately the same rate. In the presence of oxygen, the kinetics of semiquinone decay changed from second order to pseudo-first order upon raising the pH, thus showing anionic semiquinone oxidation as seen previously with unsnbstituted flavins. The pK values for the ionization of the neutral 8α-substituted Aavin semiquinones are 1–1.5 units lower than the unsubstituted form. The anionic 8α-substituted flavin semiquinones react with oxygen at a rate 2–10 times more slowly than does the riboflavin form. Such alterations in properties probably reflect the electron-withdrawing effect of the 8α-substituents on the flavin ring system.     

Chromatographic determination of riboflavin and its derivatives in food

Three elution methods on two different reversed-phase C18 columns were developed to determine flavin derivatives in raw egg white, raw egg yolk, egg powder, pasteurised milk, fermented milk products and liver (chicken, calf and pig). Additionally, 11 thin-layer chromatography solvent systems were used to confirm presence of flavins detected in assessed products. It was found that an Alphabond C18 column was not as effective as a Symmetry C18 column. Method A (mobile phase gradient of methanol-0.05 M ammonium acetate, pH 6.0 applied on an Alphabond C18 column) can be used for determination of flavin adenine dinucleotide, flavin mononucleotide, riboflavin 4',5'-cyclic phosphate, riboflavin, 10-formylmethylflavin and 10-hydroxyethylflavin in products that do not contain 7alpha-hydroxyriboflavin. Method B (mobile phase gradient of methanol-demineralized water, on an Alphabond C18 column) can be useful to separate flavin coenzymes from other flavin compounds or to confirm the presence of 7alpha-hydroxyriboflavin and 10-hydroxyethylflavin in analysed samples. Method C (mobile phase gradient of methanol-0.05 M ammonium acetate, pH 6.0, on a Symmetry C18 column) allows separation of all flavins detected in tested products: flavin adenine dinucleotide, flavin mononucleotide, riboflavin 4',5'-cyclic phosphate, riboflavin, 10-formylmethylflavin, 10-hydroxyethylflavin, 7alpha-hydroxyriboflavin, riboflavin-beta-D-galactoside and riboflavin-alpha-D-glucoside.     

The reaction of triplet flavin with indole. A study of the cascade of reactive intermediates using density functional theory and time resolved infrared spectroscopy

As a model for riboflavin, lumiflavin was investigated using density functional theory methods (B3LYP/6-31G* and B3LYP/6-31+G**) with regard to the proposed cascade of intermediates formed after excitation to the triplet state, followed by electron-transfer, proton-transfer, and radical[bond]radical coupling reactions. The excited triplet state of the flavin is predicted to be 42 kcal/mol higher in energy than the singlet ground state, and the pi radical anion lies 45.1 kcal/mol lower in energy than the ground-state flavin and a free electron in the gas phase. The former value compares to a solution-phase triplet energy of 49.8 kcal/mol of riboflavin. For the radical anion, the thermodynamically favored position to accept a proton on the flavin ring system is at N(5). A natural population analysis also provided spin density information for the radicals and insight into the origin of the relative stabilities of the six different calculated hydroflavin radicals. The resulting 5H-LF* radical can then undergo radical[bond]radical coupling reactions, with the most thermodynamically stable adduct being formed at C(4'). Vibrational spectra were also calculated for the transient species. Experimental time-resolved infrared spectroscopic data obtained using riboflavin tetraacetate are in excellent agreement with the calculated spectra for the triplet flavin, the radical anion, and the most stable hydroflavin radical.     

Role of the middle residue in the triple tryptophan electron transfer chain of DNA photolyase: ultrafast spectroscopy of a Trp-->Phe mutant

Photoreduction of the semi-reduced flavin adenine dinucleotide cofactor FADH* in DNA photolyase from Escherichia coli into FADH- involves three tryptophan (W) residues that form a closely spaced electron-transfer chain FADH*-W382-W359-W306. To investigate this process, we have constructed a mutant photolyase in which W359 is replaced by phenylalanine (F). Monitoring its photoproducts by femtosecond spectroscopy, the excited-state FADH* was found to decay in approximately 30 ps, similar as in wild type (WT) photolyase. In contrast to WT, however, in W359F mutant photolyase the ground-state FADH* fully recovered virtually concomitantly with the decay of its excited state and, despite the presence of the primary electron donor W382, no measurable flavin reduction was observed at any time. Thus, W359F photolyase appears to behave like many other flavoproteins, where flavin excited states are quenched by very short-lived oxidation of aromatic residues. Our analysis indicates that both charge recombination of the primary charge separation state FADH-W382*+ and (in WT) electron transfer from W359 to W382*+ occur with time constants <4 ps, considerably faster than the initial W382-->FADH* electron-transfer step. Our results provide a first experimental indication that electron transfer between aromatic residues can take place on the time scale of approximately 10(-12) s.     

ENERGY TRANSFER FROM ENZYME-GENERATED TRIPLET ACETONE TO RIBOFLAVIN PERTURBED BY MOLECULES RELATED TO THYROXINE

Abstract— The rate of energy transfer from enzyme-generated triplet acetone to riboflavin increases by three orders of magnitude when the flavin is charge-transfer complexed with 3 ,5-dihalogenotyrosines or with thyroxine. A very fast long-range energy transfer to form the first excited singlet state of riboflavin in the complex, followed by a very efficient intersystem crossing to the triplet manifold, is postulated to account for the results.     

Dynamics of intramolecular electron transfer reaction of FAD studied by magnetic field effects on transient absorption spectra

The kinetics of intermediates generated from intramolecular electron-transfer reaction by photo irradiation of the flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) molecule was studied by a magnetic field effect (MFE) on transient absorption (TA) spectra. Existence time of MFE and MFE action spectra have a strong dependence on the pH of solutions. The MFE action spectra have indicated the existence of interconversion between the radical pair and the cation form of the triplet excited state of flavin part. All rate constants of the triplet and the radical pair were determined by analysis of the MFE action spectra and decay kinetics of TA. The obtained values for the interconversion indicate that the formation of cation radical promotes the back electron-transfer reaction to the triplet excited state. Further, rate constants of spin relaxation and recombination have been studied by the time profiles of MFE at various pH. The drastic change of those two factors has been obtained and can be explained by SOC (spin-orbit coupling) induced back electron-transfer promoted by the formation of a stacking conformation at pH > 2.5.