监测细胞微环境及活性分子的有机小分子荧光探针

有机分子荧光探针因其灵敏度高,特异性强,对生物大分子和微环境扰动较少,同时可实现实时动态跟踪监测生物体中微环境的变化以及活性分子,已成为生物传感和生物成像领域的强大工具。本文总结了生物体微环境中常见的活性分子以及用于监测这些活性分子的有机分子荧光探针设计策略,并列举了近几年用于监测生物体中微环境变化以及活性分子的有机分子荧光探针,同时对这些荧光探针灵敏地监测与人类疾病相关的活性分子及其潜在应用价值做了讨论。     

分子印迹型二氧化钛及其复合材料的合成和应用

分子印迹技术是将分子设计、大分子合成、分子识别、生物模拟以及生物工程等技术的优点结合起来发展而成的一种新兴跨学科方法,所形成的分子印迹聚合物亲合性好、选择性和稳定性高。二氧化钛及其复合材料价格低廉、安全高效、绿色环保、光催化活性高,被广泛应用于光催化、光电转换等领域。二氧化钛及其复合材料形成的分子印迹聚合物稳定性高,光催化活性好,并且具有良好的选择性,能对低浓度、高毒性污染物进行选择性富集及光催化降解,拓宽了其应用范围。本文综述了近二十年来分子印迹型二氧化钛及其复合材料的制备方法及其在光催化降解、传感器构建以及其他领域的应用概况,并进行展望。     

基于分子容器的有机阳离子受体研究进展

分子容器是一种可以模仿酶的受限空间以及活性位点的超分子结构,自从出现以来引起了超分子科学家的广泛兴趣.科学家们开发了具有不同大小及电性的分子容器,以期望其在反应中间体稳定、活性物种捕获以及催化反应等领域具有应用价值.主要综述了超分子领域广泛关注的几种作为阳离子受体的分子容器,它们通过对阳离子物种的包裹从而实现稳定活性物种、调节反应活性以及提升底物/反应选择性的目的.以分子容器的功能分类,对分子容器的识别行为及其对阳离子物种性质的调控功能进行总结,阐释其中的原理和规律并对该领域未来的发展进行展望.     

白藜芦醇分子印迹聚合物合成及其对中药虎杖提取液活性成分的分离

白藜芦醇分子印迹聚合物合成及其对中药虎杖提取液活性成分的分离;分子印迹聚合物;白藜芦醇;虎杖;结合能力;选择性     

分子存储材料的设计和思路探讨

从低年级本科生的视角对新型分子存储材料的设计提出设想,尝试以超分子光切换器件为核心构造存储功能分子,结合超分子光化学、超分子光转化和能量转移器件以及超分子电活性材料等方面的知识研究了信息在分子尺度上的传递、记录和表达。并对该方案的可行性、理论模型及其读写过程以何种方式完成进行了分析与探讨。     

α,β-不饱和羰基化合物抗菌作用和机理的研究

采用全略微分重叠法对丁烯二酸及其酯类的量子化学参数进行了计算，并对该类化合物的分子结构特征与抗菌活性间的关系进行了相关分析．结果表明，丁烯二酸及其酯类抗菌活性依分子流水性能增强而提高，依分子内基团间作用力的增强而降低；随分子最低空轨道能量的降低，抗菌生物活性极显著上升（p＜0．01），抗代谢性能显著提高（p＜0．02）．α，β-不饱和羰基结构是该类化合物的抗菌功能域，其活性中心在β-碳和羰基氧。     

吴茱萸碱及其衍生物抗肿瘤活性的密度泛函理论研究

为了研究吴茱萸碱及其衍生物的抗肿瘤活性和分子结构之间的关系,运用密度泛函理论B3LYP方法,以6-311++G**为基组对吴茱萸碱、5-硫代吴茱萸碱和5-亚甲基吴茱萸碱进行了优化计算.从分子的几何构型、NBO电荷及前线轨道能等方面分析吴茱萸碱及其衍生物的抗肿瘤活性与结构之间的关系.结果表明,前线分子轨道对活性影响显著,ΔE_(LUMO-HOMO)越低,分子的抗肿瘤活性越强.由此得到的抗肿瘤活性大小为,5-硫代吴茱萸碱的抗肿瘤活性是最强的,吴茱萸碱次之,5-亚甲基吴茱萸碱的抗肿瘤活性最弱,计算结果与实验结果十分吻合.     

生物分子的单分子检测研究

本文评述了生物单分子检测的方法及其在生物大分子结构与功能之间的关系、酶的活性、反应动力学、分子构象、DNA和RNA的转录、蛋白质折叠等生物学重要问题研究上的应用。对生物单分子检测技术这一研究领域的发展趋势作了展望。     

青蒿素及其衍生物抗疟活性的密度泛函理论研究

为了深入研究青蒿素及其衍生物的抗疟活性和分子结构之间的关系,运用密度泛函理论B3LYP方法,以6-31G*为基组对青蒿素及其衍生物二氢青蒿素、蒿甲醚和青蒿琥酯进行了优化计算.从分子的几何构型、NBO电荷及前线轨道能等方面分析了青蒿素及其衍生物的抗疟活性与结构之间的关系.青蒿素及其衍生物结构中的过氧桥键是其抗疟作用的活性位,O17和O_20带负电荷越多、ΔE_(LUMO-HOMO)越低、E_(HOMO)能级越高,分子的抗疟活性越强.结果表明,4种化合物的抗疟活性顺序为:青蒿素二氢青蒿素蒿甲醚青蒿琥酯,与临床实验结果相吻合.     

1,2,4-三唑类化合物的合成及其农用活性研究进展

1,2,4-三唑类化合物是生物活性分子的重要结构单元,具有多种药理活性,特别是在抗真菌、杀虫和除草等农用活性方面得到广泛应用。本文对部分1,2,4-三唑环上的活性位点改性研究及其在农用活性方面的应用进行了总结归纳,期望为后期该类化合物的设计合成及农用活性研究提供参考和借鉴。     

High-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of bile pigments as their native tetrapyrroles and as their dipyrrolic azosulfanilate derivatives

A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analysis of bile pigments is described that provides baseline separation of the major bilirubin conjugates found in bile. The advantage of the technique is that the bile pigments can be analyzed directly as their native tetrapyrroles without prior solvent extractions or derivatization. The use of ammonium acetate in place of sodium salts permits preparative isolation and lyophilization of the pigments for mass spectroscopy. The derivatization of the pigments as their dipyrrolic azosulfanilates with subsequent HPLC analysis demonstrates baseline separation of the endo- and exovinyl azodipyrroles and allows identification of that half of the tetrapyrrole which contains the conjugate in the instances of monoglycosides.     

Beiträge zur Chemie der Pyrrolpigmente, 38. Mitt.: Zur Assoziation von Gallenpigmenten

The long standing problem of solvent dependent absorption spectra of certain bile pigments such as bilirubindimethylester has been solved by measurement of molecular masses by means of vapour pressure osmometry. Using this method and the investigation of the concentration and temperature dependence of the absorption spectra on several model compounds an association equilibrium for pigments of the rubinoid structural type could be confirmed. Moreover the optical properties of the coexisting species and the corresponding equilibrium constants could be deduced by spectroscopic techniques. Verdinoid pigments lacking free carboxylic functions on the other hand tend to be monomeric in solution. A heteroassociated species involving equimolar amounts of a verdinoid and a rubinoid pigment could be verified existing on adsorbents like silicagel.

37. Mitt.:Falk, H., Thirring, K., Tetrahedron, im Druck.     

Chromatographic analysis and structure determination of biliverdins and bilirubins

Recent applications of thin-layer chromatographic (TLC) and high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) procedures has revealed an unexpected wide variety of naturally occurring unconjugated and conjugated bilirubins. Biliverdins seems to occur only in unconjugated forms, mainly as the IX alpha isomer. Several synthetic biliverdins and bilirubins present interesting models for biochemical and metabolic studies. Owing to recent recognition of the astounding heterogeneity of natural bilirubins and to the various artifactual changes that bile pigments can undergo, considerable confusion has existed, and still exists, with regard to the nomenclature of the bile pigments and their derivatives. To set a background for further discussion, the present review starts with a brief discussion of nomenclature and of the various characteristic forms of lability of the bile pigments. TLC and HPLC procedures for preparation and analysis of unconjugated biliverdins and bilirubins and their methyl ester and sugar ester conjugates, as well as procedures for analysis of bilirubin-protein conjugates, are then discussed. Since, in view of the lability and pronounced heterogeneity of bile pigments, it is important to assess the composition and nature of chromatographically isolated pigments, the review is concluded by a brief evaluation of various structural tests.     

Biliproteins

Biliproteins, covalently bonded complexes of proteins and bile pigments, serve as light-harvesting pigments in photosynthesis and light-sensory pigments of photosynthetic organisms. Recent developments in the biochemistry and biophysics of these pigments are reviewed and an attempt is made to describe their functions of light-harvesting and of information transduction on a molecular level.     

Beiträge zur Chemie der Pyrrolpigmente, 44. Mitt.: Gallenfarbstoffe als Ionophore

The carrier mediated transport of cations using model compounds of the verdinoid and rubinoid bile pigment structural type as ionophores is studied. Verdinoid bile pigments turn out to be very effective carriers for cations exhibiting a pronounced selectivity for certain transition metal ions like Cr^+-+, Fe⁺⁺, Cu⁺⁺ and Zn⁺⁺. The scope of this behaviour of verdinoid bile pigments is compared to [18]-crown-6 and meso-tetraphenylporphin and is discussed with regard to structural, biological, analytical and technical implications.

     

Beiträge zur Chemie der Pyrrolpigmente, 39. Mitt.: Ein Kraftfeldmodell zur konformationsanalytischen Untersuchung von Gallenfarbstoffen

A force field model was designed with respect to the special needs of bile pigments. It is parametrized and tested using partial structures of bile pigments as well as an integral pigment; the solution structures of the molecules were previously deduced using independent experimental methods.

38. Mitt::Falk, H., Schlederer, T., Wolshann, P., Mh. Chem.112, 199 (1981).     

Konformationsanalyse von Gallenfarbstoffen mit Hilfe von Kraftfeldrechnungen

A force field constructed for bile pigments and parametrized on partial structures of bile pigments was used to calculate the minimum energy geometries of diastereomeric bilatrienes-abc. In addition the relative energies of these isomers were deduced and the energies of interconversion between the mirror images of the more or less helical (Z,Z,Z)-syn, syn, syn-form were calculated for various paths.

     

Properties and application of luster pigments

In contrast to conventional pigments, which interact with light by absorption and/or diffuse scattering, effect or luster pigments show optical properties that are due to specular reflection of light by aligned flaky particles. Their main property is goniochromaticity, i.e. the change of lightness and/or color hue with the viewing angle of the observer. The paper describes the different type of luster pigments, their optical properties and applications and manufacturing methods.     

Novel method for high-performance liquid chromatography of azo derivatives of conjugated and unconjugated bilirubin

A method for the separation and quantitation of ethyl anthranilate or p-iodoaniline azo derivatives of bile pigments was developed using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. A convenient separation was achieved in 15 min, permitting the quantitation of the unconjugated azo-dipyrrole (alpha o) and its glucuronide (delta), xyloside (alpha 2) and glucoside (alpha 3) conjugates. The pathological beta- and gamma-azo pigments, derived from bilirubin glucuronide isomers that occur in cholestatic bile or plasma, are also detected in this system. The results of this method as applied to bile from 25 healthy dogs were in excellent agreement with the values obtained by reversed-phase chromatography of bilirubin and its mono- and dimethyl esters produced from the corresponding conjugates by alkaline methanolysis. This system permits the sensitive and convenient determination of bilirubin and its conjugation pattern in biological fluids.     

PHOTOCHEMICAL RING-OPENING IN meso-CHLORINATED CHLOROPHYLLS

Abstract— Irradiation of 20-chloro-chlorophylls of the a-type with visible light produces long-wavelength shifted photoproducts, which transform in the dark to linear tetrapyrroles (bile pigments). The possible significance for chlorophyll degradation is discussed.