Bioenergetics of the growth of the lactobacillus culture on various nutrient media

The energy (enthalpy) of the multiplication of lactobacilli on various nutrient media was measured on a DAK-1-1 differential microcalorimeter. Cultivation of lactobacilli on the nutrient media studied was accompanied by a release of energy. The time dependences of heat evolution were similar in shape to the curves of the growth of the microorganism population. The conclusion was drawn that the quantity of the evolved energy depended on the type of the nutrient medium.     

DSC研究高吸水树脂吸水性能与分子结构的关系

以丙烯酸(AA)、丙烯酰胺(AM)和2-丙烯酰胺基-2-甲基丙磺酸(AMPS)为共聚单体合成了聚丙烯酸-丙烯酰胺-2-丙烯酰胺基-2-甲基丙磺酸(PAA-AM-AMPS)三元共聚物高吸水树脂.利用茶叶袋法测定了其最大吸水倍率,通过差示扫描量热仪(DSC)测定并比较了含水量为50%,75%和91%的各种水凝胶的自由水和结合水含量.结果表明在蒸馏水和生理盐水中高吸水树脂的最大吸水倍率分别为1900g/g和185g/g,共聚物的结合水含量随着AMPS和AA含量增加及AM含量的减少而增大;在0.9%生理盐水中,结合水含量随着AMPS和AM含量增加及AA含量的减少而增大,共聚物和均聚物高吸水树脂的最大吸水倍率呈现出与结合水含量相同的变化规律.     

NMR-based metabolomics to evaluate the milk composition from Friesian and autochthonous cows of Northern Italy at different lactation times

It is well established that different factors affect milk composition in cows and that milk composition, in turn, affect both technological and nutritional qualities. In this respect the comprehension of the metabolic variability of milk composition in relation to the lactation time as well as to the genetic background may be of paramount importance for the agri-food industries. In the present study we investigated the variations of the metabolic profiles during lactation in milks obtained from Friesian and autochthonous races from Northern Italy by ¹H NMR metabolomics. Furthermore, the external factors influencing the milk composition were minimized: the cows were breeded in the same farm, were fed with the same diet and were paired for the lactation interval and lactation stage. Our results showed a difference in milk composition between races and in relation to late lactation. The PLS-DA analysis permitted to distinguish the Friesian and autochthonous cow milks at the investigated different lactation times. Interestingly, the metabolites significantly involved into the discrimination between races appeared to be also technological property parameters, highlighting the importance of maintaining the biodiversity of cow breeds. Therefore, NMR-based metabolomics of milk could represent an informative tool to identify metabolites involved in milk quality both from a nutritional and industrial perspective.     

On the relationship between catalytic residues and their protein contact number

Due to advances in structural biology, an increasing number of protein structures of unknown function have been deposited in Protein Data Bank (PDB). These proteins are usually characterized by novel structures and sequences. Conventional comparative methodology (such as sequence alignment, structure comparison, or template search) is unable to determine their function. Thus, it is important to identify protein's function directly from its structure, but this is not an easy task. One of the strategies used is to analyze whether there are distinctive structure-derived features associated with functional residues. If so, one may be able to identify the functional residues directly from a single structure. Recently, we have shown that protein weighted contact number is related to atomic thermal fluctuations and can be used to derive motional correlations in proteins. In this report, we analyze the weighted contact-number profiles of both catalytic residues and non-catalytic residues for a dataset of 760 structures. We found that catalytic residues have distinct distributions of weighted contact numbers from those of non-catalytic residues. Using this feature, we are able to effectively differentiate catalytic residues from other residues with a single optimized threshold value. Our method is simple to implement and compares favourably with other more sophisticated methods. In addition, we discuss the physics behind the relationship between catalytic residues and their contact numbers as well as other features (such as residue centrality or B-factors) associated with catalytic residues.     

Kinetic investigation of the relationship between the efficiency of columns and their diameter

Many brands of packing materials made of fine particles are now available in both conventional (4.6 mm i.d.) and narrow-bore (2.1 mm i.d.) columns. It is a general observation that the efficiency of the former tends to be markedly higher than that of the latter. This report provides a detailed illustration of the characteristics of this enigma. The corrected reduced plate heights of three brands of columns packed with shell particles in 4.6 and 2.1 mm I.D. columns were measured. The brands were the 1.7 and 2.6 μm Kinetex-C(18) (Phenomenex, Torrance, CA, USA), the 2.7 μm Poroshell120-C(18) (Agilent Technologies, New Castle, DE, USA), and the 2.7 μm Halo-C(18) (Advanced Material Technologies, Wilmington, DE, USA). The extra-column contributions were minimized by optimizing the configuration of the instrument (injection volume <1.0 μL, 115 μm needle seat capillary, 80 μm connecting tubes, no heat exchanger, 0.8 μL detection cell). The correct peak variances were derived from the numerical integration of the first and second order moments of the experimental band profiles. These experimental results confirm that the kinetic performance of narrow-bore columns is inferior to that of conventional columns for all three brands of shell particles. We demonstrate that this difference is accounted for by a contribution to the column HETP of the long-range eddy diffusion term that is larger in the 2.1 than in the 4.6 mm I.D. columns. While the associated relative velocity biases are of comparable magnitude in both types of columns, the characteristic radial diffusion lengths are of the order of 100 and 40 μm in the wall regions of narrow-bore and conventional columns, respectively.     

On the relationship between the structures of CuII complexes and their chemical transformations

The thermal decomposition of the complexes M ₂ ^I Cu(SO₄)₂ · 6 H₂O and M₂Ni(SO₄)₂ · · 6 H₂O (M^I=NH₄, K, Rb, Tl) containing the complex cation M^II(H₂O)₆ ²+ (M^Il = =Cu, Ni) was studied. The values of the experimental activation energyE obtained for the dehydration reactions of both complex cations were found to be influenced in different ways by the outer-sphere cations present. It was therefore concluded that the activation energy of the decomposition of Cu(H₂O)₆ ²⁺ depends on the degree of tetragonal distortion of this cation, which increases with the ionic radius of cation M^I. TheΔH values of the studied reactions depend less on the structures of the coordination polyhedra.     

On the relationship between o-Ps lifetime in liquids and their surface tension

It is shown that the Nakanishi-Jean formulae for o-Ps lifetime vs. radius of spherical cavity gives the empirical relationship of Tao which links the o-Ps annihilation rate with macroscopic surface tension.     

The relationship between the chemical structure of nematic liquid crystals and their pretilt angles

About 50 different additives in one or more of three different nematic mixtures have been investigated to clarify the relationship between the chemical structure of the liquid crystal and the pretilt angle on a polyimide surface. The pretilts found for cells have been explained within our recently proposed population distribution model. For compounds with cyano-groups at one end, we find that the in-plane order is governed both by the surface-mesogen interaction and by the relative strength of the intermolecular interactions in the nematic phase. This strength is nearly linear in alkyl chain length for the compounds investigated. Changes in the strength due to variations in the core of the molecules can be calculated easily by using group contributions from the known Parachors. The in-plane order can be treated as a simple product of the contributions from the liquid crystal and from the polyimide. Different polar end groups will give different angles between the surface and the optical axis of the individual mesogens in the first monolayer. The cyano-group gives the highest angle and alkyl groups the lowest. For nitro-compounds the dimers formed are so strongly bound that they do not break up at the surface. Nitro-compounds will thus act as dialkyl compounds. For dialkyl compounds the pretilt angles are dominated by the difference between the chain lengths at the two ends of the molecule.     

三氮烯试剂的结构与性能关系的研究

为建立三氮烯试剂结构与性能的关系, 我们研究了在非离子型表面活性剂TritonX-100存在下, 上述试剂亚氨基氢的酸性离解常数及镉(II)与上述试剂的显色反应。研究结果表明: (1)三氮烯试剂亚氨基氢的酸性离解常数遵循Hammett方程式, 其反应常数ρ=2.23; (2)试剂的亚氨基氢的酸性离解常数(pKa)与试剂和镉(II)显色反应的最佳酸度(pH最佳)之间的经验关系式为pH最佳=pKa-(1.70±0.20)。     

Theoretical interpretation of the linear relationship between the hyperfine-structure constants in molecules and their radicals

The hyperfine-interaction constants of a number of radicals (A _H and ) and molecules (J _HH and {ie590-02}) were calculated within the framework of the semiempirical MO LCAO method. It is shown that there is a linear correlation between the atom-atom polarizabilities _rs which determine the values of the J constants and the spin densities in the corresponding radicals.     

硫醇和硫醚的沸点与分子结构之间关系的拓扑化学研究

根据分子拓扑学原理, 用染色因子标识原子性质的差异, 发展了一种适用于含原子分子体系结构性能关系研究的新方法。据此探讨了硫醇和硫醚的沸点与分子结构之间的关系, 提出一个既能合理表征结构性能关系, 又能预测沸点的定量关系式。     

A study of the relationship between the thermodynamic quality of mobile phases and their strength for the critical conditions of liquid chromatography of polystyrenes

The relationship between the thermodynamic quality of mobile phases and their strength ε was studied for the critical conditions of liquid chromatography. The chromatography of reference polystyrene samples was carried out in the adsorption and exclusion modes, and also under critical conditions, with binary mobile phases and a silica gel column used. The thermodynamic quality of solvent mixtures with respect to one another was evaluated by the intrinsic viscosity [η].     

Characteristics of some protein preparations for the fodder industry and artificial nutrient media

A comparative chemical, physicochemical, and biochemical characterization is given of some commercial protein preparations and also of promising preparations being developed in a number of scientific- research institutes of Uzbekistan, other republics of the former USSR, and the biotechnology laboratories of the Uzbek Scientific-Research Institute of Sericulture.Uzbek Scientific-Research Institute of Sericulture [UzNIISh]. Shelk Scientific-Production Combine [NPO]. Uzbek Academy,of Agricultural Sciences [UzASKhN], Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 145–153, January–February, 1995. Original article submitted October 19, 1994.