Studies on the substrate specificity of Escherichia coli galactokinase

In vitro glycorandomization (IVG) technology is dependent upon the ability to rapidly synthesize sugar phosphates. Compared with chemical synthesis, enzymatic (kinase) routes to sugar phosphates would be attractive for this application. This work focuses upon the development of a high-throughput colorimetric galactokinase (GalK) assay and its application toward probing the substrate specificity and kinetic parameters of Escherichia coli GalK. The demonstrated dinitrosalicylic assay should also be generally applicable to a variety of sugar-processing enzymes. [reaction: see text]     

Structures, relative stability and dissociation of [Si,N,C,O]2+ isomers

Fifteen isomers of [Si,N,C,O]²⁺ system are obtained at UB3LYP/6-311G(d) and UCCSD(T)/6-311+G(2df) (single-point) levels. The analyses are made for predicting the structures of optimized isomers, while ionic fragments with lower energies are suggested. The calculated results indicate that linear isomer SiNCO²⁺(²Π) is thermodynamically the most stable species in [Si,N,C,O]²⁺ system, followed by linear SiOCN²⁺ (²Π), SiCNO²⁺ (²Π), and SiC(NO) (²A) with NCO three-membered ring. The order of stability of several kinetically stable isomers is SiNCO²> SiCNO²⁺ (²Π)>SiOCN²⁺>SiC(NO)²⁺>OSiNC²⁺ (²Π). The obtained results by analyzing the isomerizations and ionic fragment patterns show that the signal peaks of [Si,N,C,O]²⁺ are attributed to the contribution of linear SiNCO²⁺ species, which is metastable and can dissociate to the ionic fragments in the mass spectrometry experiments.     

Rh—Mo—K／Al2O3催化剂的CO加氢合成低碳醇性能

本文研究了硫化态和还原态Ｒｈ－Ｍｏ－Ｋ／Ａｌ２Ｏ３催化剂上ＣＯ加氢合成低碳醇的反应性能，考察了不同铑负载量、钾助剂、合成气组成和反应条件（温度、压力和空速）对合成醇性能的影响及催化剂的反应稳定性。发现硫化样品较之还原态样品具有更好的合成醇选择性，催化剂中添加铑后，生成醇活性和选择性大幅度提高。选择合适的反应温度、提高反应压力和空速、适当增加合成气Ｈ２／ＣＯ的比例可以获得较好的合成醇反应性能。