Separation of copolymers using high-performance liquid chromatography with polymeric stationary phase and liquefied carbon dioxide as adsorption promoting solvent

Chromatographic separation of copolymers depending on the chemical composition was studied by a solvent gradient method using liquefied carbon dioxide (CO2) as an adsorption promoting solvent. As the high polar stationary phase, non-bonded silica gel, crosslinked acrylamide (AA) gel and crosslinked acrylonitrile (AN) gel were utilized. All columns showed the typical normal phase type of adsorption. Polymeric stationary phases showed the higher sample recovery for styrene-methyl methacrylate (St-MMAs) copolymers, indicating suitability for quantitative analyses. The separations of butyl methacrylate (BMA)-methyl methacrylate, and 2,2,3,3,4,4,4-heptafluorobutyl methacrylate (FBMA)-methy methacrylate copolymers were also carried out, and the latter copolymers were separated based on the CO2-philicity with acrylonitrile column.     

Targeted proteo-glycomics analysis of Sialyl Lewis X antigen expressing glycoproteins secreted by human hepatoma cell line.

Sialyl Lewis X (SLEX) antigen, Neu5Acalpha2-3Galbeta1-4 (Fucalpha1-3) GlcNAc-R, plays important roles in cell-to-cell interaction: for example, the E- and P-selectin-mediated influx of SLEX expressing leukocytes into inflamed areas. A human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, HepG2 cells, was highly expressed SLEX on secreted glycoproteins and cell surface, in contrast with HuH-7 cells. We identified SLEX expressing glycoproteins in HepG2 cultured medium by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, followed by in gel digestion and peptide mass fingerprint using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS), including transferrin, alpha1-antitrypsin, alpha2-HS glycoprotein and beta-glycoprotein. We analyzed N-glycans of these glycoproteins by MALDI-TOFMS in combination with exoglycosidase digestion; our results indicate increases in poly-fucosylated and high-branched N-glycans. High alpha1,3-fucosylation in glycoproteins would be caused by increased expression of alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase activities in HepG2 cells.     

Quantitative confirmation of the crystal-amorphous interphase in semicrystalline poly(vinylidene fluoride) and poly (vinylidene fluoride)/poly (ethyl methacrylate) blends

Dielectric and thermal characterizations were performed for poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/poly (ethyl methacrylate) (PEMA) blends of different composition. The characteristics of PVDF β relaxation were shown to be little affected in the semicrystalline blends with PEMA. The relaxation strength, however, depends strongly on the PEMA content and a linear relation was found between the intensity of the β relaxation and the weight fraction of the PVDF crystal-amorphous interphase. Phase structures of the PVDF/PEMA blends are also proposed. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Aerobic oxidation of thiols to disulfides catalyzed by trichlorooxyvanadium

Thiols were converted into disulfide by the aerobic oxidation catalyzed by trichlorooxyvanadium in the presence of molecular sieves 3A.     

Re-revision of the stereo structure of piperidine lactone,an intermediate in the synthesis of febrifugine

The stereo structure of piperidine lactone (3), an intermediate of the antimalarial agent febrifugine ((+)-1) prepared by a synthetic method, was re-revised to the cis-form from the trans-form.     

Screening for Oral Cancer Using Electrochemical Telomerase Assay

Electrochemical telomerase assay (ECTA) developed by our group was evaluated in an oral cancer screening using exfoliated oral cells and tissues obtained from patients of oral cancer, mucosa associated disease, or healthy volunteers. Telomerase activity from ECTA is correlated with hTERT mRNA expression level using a real‐time PCR and was increasing in the following order: healthy volunteer group<mucosa associated disease group<oral cancer group. Sensitivity and specificity of ECTA were 88 % and 72 %, respectively when used 17 % of the threshold value based on the receiver operating characteristic curve in ECTA data.     

Algebraic Independence of Reciprocal Sums of Binary Recurrences II

 Algebraic independence of the numbers for various d and l, where is a periodic sequence of algebraic numbers and is a sequence of integers satisfying a binary linear recurrence relation, is studied by Mahler’s method. Received 25 August 2000; in revised form 8 January 2002