Globin chain separation by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Simple screening method for elongated hemoglobin chains

A simple method for the separation of hemoglobin chains from hemolysate or globin, by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, is described. The alpha, beta, and gamma chains can be clearly separated from each other. The alpha chain has the highest mobility, the beta chain has a slower mobility than the gamma chain, while the delta chain has about the same mobility as the beta chain. Hemoglobins with elongated chains can easily be detected by this method. Tak-beta, elongated by 11 residues, moves much more slowly than betaA but is much faster than alpha Constant Spring which is elongated by 31 residues. Screening of several individuals with slow-moving hemoglobins using this method led to the finding of a case with Hb Tak-beta thalassemia and other carriers of Hb Tak.     

ENERGY TRANSFER AND PHOTOOXIDATION KINETICS IN REACTION CENTERS ON THE PICOSECOND TIME SCALE

Abstract— Picosecond 530 nm actinic and 1242 nm probe light pulses have been used to measure the kinetics of energy transfer and photooxidation in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26 reaction centers. The energy transfer rate between bacteriopheophytin and the bacteriochlorophyll dimer is 1.0 ± 0.3 ± 10¹¹s^-land photooxidation of the dimer occurs within 5 ps after the dimer reaches the first excited singlet state. Using these parameters in a simple model we are able to explain the odd result that the number of reaction centers oxidized by a saturating 530 nm actinic picopulse is only 60% of the number oxidized by a saturating CW light source.     

Properties and analytical applications of the heteropolymolybdates of phosphorus, arsenic, silicon and germanium-IV Determination of phosphomolybdic and silicomolybdic acids via the molybdenum content, with phenylfluorone

Procedures are proposed for the determination of phosphorus and silicon in the ppM range, by extraction of phosphomolybdic and silicomolybdic acids with organic solvent, decomposition of the complex and spectrophotometric determination of its molybdenum content.     

Die IR-Spektren der Phasen ABTe3O8 (A = Fe,In, Sc; B = Nb,Ta) und UTe3O9

I.R. Spectra of the Phases A B Te₃O₈ (A = Fe, In, Sc; B = Nb, Ta) and UTe₃O₉ The infrared spectra of the title compounds have been recorded and discussed in comparison to formerly investigated M^IVTe₃O₈ phases. The spectrum of UTe₃O₉ (synthetic cliffordite) confirms the presence of uranyl groups and the structural relation of this compound to the fluorite.     

Determination of uranium in rocks by instrumental activation-analysis using epithermal neutrons

A rapid non-destructive neutron-activation method for the determination of uranium in rocks is described. The method is based on activation with epithermal neutrons and subsequent measurement of the 74 keV gamma-ray of (239)U. Results given for some standard rocks are in good agreement with literature data. The precision of the method is about 5 % and the limit of detection is of the order of 0.1 ppm in silicate rocks.     

Das System Siliciumtetrafluorid—Trimethylamin in Lösung

Zusammenfassung Die Verbindung SiF₄·N(CH₃)₃ ist in Benzol löslich und daraus in nadelförmigen Kristallen erhältlich, während SiF₄·2 N(CH₃)₃ als in Petroläther schwer löslicher Niederschlag gewonnen werden kann. IR-Spektren beider Verbindungen werden mitgeteilt.Mit 2 Abbildungen     

On the chemistry of flavin-dependent oxygen activation III. synthesis of 1.10a-dihydroflavin and its 10.10-aring opened derivative as model chromophores for enzyme-bound intermediates

Model chromophores of 1.10-dihydroflavin and its 10.10a-ring opened derivative have been isolated. By comparison with enzymatic intermediates, reaction mechanisms of flavin-dependent oxygenase and luciferase are discussed in terms of chemical structure.     

Glass open-tubular capillary columns with chemically bonded methyl-phenyl siloxane stationary phases of tailor made polarity

Summary The previously described method yielding apolar, chemically bonded methyl polysiloxane glass capillary columns was extended to the production of capillary systems of controlled polarity. The approach involved prior synthesis of a reactive methyl-phenyl polysiloxane polymer by copolymerisation of a mixture of dimethyl and diphenyl chlorosilanes. The polymer was then chemically bonded to the capillary glass surface to yield remarkably stable, high resolution analytical systems which were shown to be particularly well suited to the separation of biochemical mixtures at the subnanogram level. The principle of copolymerisation of differently substituted silanes confers to the method a considerable flexibility which could be used to devise polar capillary systems tailor made for a given analytical problem.     

Étude thermodynamique de la complexation des lanthanides trivalents avec l'acide hydroxyethyl-ethylenediaminetriacetique et d'autres acides aminoacetiques: III. Détermination des Constantes de Formation des Complexes Mixtes par Titrage Potentiométrique

A thermodyrmmic study of the complex formation of trivaient lanthanides with hydroxyethylethyienediaminetriacetic acid and other aminoacetic acids. Part III. The determination of the formation constants of mixed complexes by potentiometric titration.The partial stability constants of the mixed and 1:2 complexes Ln—HEDTA—L (where Ln = La, Ce,... and L = glycine, IMDA, NTA, HEDTA and EDTA) have been determined by potentiometric titration at 25°C and at a constant ionic strength of 1 (KCl). The changes in stability of the complexes studied (1:1, 1:2, mixed, protonated and unprotonated) vs. atomic number of the lanthanide are discussed. The changes observed in the trends of the partial and overall stability constants across the lanthanide series are attributed to the decrease in the number of water molecules in the 1:1 LnHEDTA ·xH₂O from x = 3 for light lanthanides to x = 2 for heavy ones. However, in this 1:1 complex, HEDTA seems to be a hexadeutate ligand in the La—Sm range of the series and a pentadentate ligand in the Gd—Lu range. Significant differences have been found between the complexes containing four nitrogen atoms, i.e. L = HEDTA, EDTA, and those with three nitrogen atoms i.e. L = glycine, IMDA, NTA.     

Alstonia scholaris: Struktur des Indolalkaloides Narelin

Alstonia scholaris: The structure of the indole alkaloid nareline Besides the known akuammidine, picralinal, picrinine and pseudoakuammigine a new indole alkaloid called nareline (M=352) was isolated from Alstonia scholaris R. BR. , which belongs to the plant family of Apocynaceae. Its structure 2 was deduced by single crystal X-ray diffraction. 2 represents the absolute configuration. The spectroscopic data of 2 and its derivatives (Scheme 1) as well as their chemical behavior support this structure. In biogenetic sense nareline is related to the bases akuammiline ( 4 ) and picraline ( 5 ) (Scheme 2). In contrast to those the C-atom 5 is exocyclic and represents an aldehyde group which forms together with the oxygen atom of the N (4)-hydroxylamine group a cyclic half acetale. - By oxidation (CrO₃/CH₃COOH) of 2 the oxindol derivative 19 (oxonareline) is formed which contains a cyclic acetal as a partial structure element (Scheme 4).