Determination of the thiol redox state of organisms: new oxidative stress indicators

This study describes a new methodology by which the concentrations of non-protein (NP) thiols glutathione (GSH), cysteine (CSH), N-acetylcysteine (AcCSH), and protein (P) thiols (PSH), as well as the contribution of these components to symmetric and mixed disulfides (NPSSR, NPSSC, NPSSCAc, PSSR, PSSC, PSSCAc, PSSP) can reliably be measured. The methodology consists of a strict sequence of methods which are applied to every sample. Free thiols at any given state of the procedure are measured by Ellmans assay, the CSH fraction is measured by its unique response in the ninhydrin assay, AcCSH is selectively measured with ninhydrin after enzymatic deacylation, proteins are separated from non-protein thiols/disulfides by precipitation with trichloroacetic or perchloric acid, disulfides are reduced into free thiols with borohydride, mixed disulfides between a protein and a non-protein component are measured by extracting the non-protein thiol from the protein pellet after borohydride treatment, and protein thiols/disulfides are measured after resolubilization of the protein pellet.When this method was applied to animal and fungal tissue, new molecular indicators of the thiol redox state of living cells were identified. The findings of the present study clearly show that the new parameters are very sensitive indicators of redox state, while at the same time the traditional parameters GSH and GSSG often remain constant even upon dramatic changes in the overall redox state of biological tissue. Therefore, unbiased assessment of the redox state also requires explicit measurement of its most sensitive thiol indicators.Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at . A link in the frame on the left on that page takes you directly to the supplementary material.     

4′-乙酰基苯并-15-冠-5缩氨基硫脲的微波合成及晶体结构

硫脲衍生物主要通过氢键与阴离子相互作用达到识别的目的，冠醚和硫脲两个主体分子亚单元之间的协同作用往往使冠醚和硫脲表现出对某些客体更加优越的络合识别能力，我们在以前工作的基础上，微波辐射下合成了标题化合物并用红外光谱、核磁共振氢谱、元素分析、X射线单晶衍射对其结构进行了表征，欲进一步研究其对阳离子和阴离子识别的双重功效。     

Conductance in homomorphous solvents: Tetrabutylammonium salts and alkali picrates in butyrolactone-sulfolane mixtures

Conductance measurements are reported for LiPi, NaPi, KPi, RbPi, CsPi, Bu₄NPi, Bu₄NBr, Bu₄NClO₄, Bu₄NNO₃, and Bu₄NBBu₄ at 25°C in -butyrolactone-sulfolane mixtures. In these mixtures of solvents that are practically homomorphous, isodielectic and with comparable dipole moments, the ion pair association and ionic mobilities of large ions conform to the expectations of the primitive model. Electrolytes containing lithium or sodium ions show anomalies indicating that other factors besides shape, dipole moment, and polarizability of the solvent molecules are involved in the association and transport processes of these ions.     

A New Asterosaponin from the Starfish Culcita novaeguineae

A new asterosaponin named novaeguinoside A, along with a known saponin, asteronyl pentaglycoside sulfate, was isolated from the starfish Culcita novaeguineae. The new compound was identitied to be sodium 6α-O-{β-D-fucopyranosyl-(1→2)-β-D-fucopyranosyl-(1→4)-[β-D-quinovopyranosyl-(1→2)]-β-D-xylopyranosyl-(1→3)-[β-D-quinovopyranosyl}-5α-pregn-9(11)-en-20-one-3β-yl-sulfate by extensive spectral analysis and chemical evidence.     

树脂吸附法处理水杨酸甲酯生产废水的研究

采用吸附树脂NDA—99处理水杨酸甲酯生产废水，结果表明该树脂时废水中的5磺基水杨酸及水杨酸均具有良好的吸附—脱附性能．废水经预处理和吸附处理后，CODCr由57000-59000mg／L降至6300mg／L左右，去除率接近89％．用IBV8％NaOH 3BVH2O作脱附剂，在温度为60℃、流量为IBV／h的条件下，脱附率接近100％，树脂可重复使用．高浓度脱附液经酸化、浓缩、冷却结晶，可回收5—磺基水杨酸，回收率为95％左右。纯度为78％。     

Application of symplectic algorithms to QCT calculation:H+H_2 system

The basic theory of symplectic algorithm was introduced. A comparison between Runge-Kutta method and symplectic integration method was preformed in the simulation of the long time behavior of H + H2 system on BKMP potential energy surface. Our results reveal a dis-sipative behavior in the integral of ordinary differential equation by the fourth order Runge-Kutta method, which causes incorrect simulation results in QCT calculations. However, when the symplectic integration method is applied, the dissipative behavior is not found in the same system. When the initial state is the same, the energy deviation of fourth order symplectic integral method is almost one percent of that of fourth order Runge-Kutta method in a 60000-step simulation, and that of sixth order symplectic integral method is much less. These results show that the symplectic integral methods are always the better choice in the integral calculation of the long time behavior in maintaining energy conservation.     

GC/MS法分析奶油中的脂肪酸

利用气相色谱/质谱/计算机联用技术分析人造奶油、天然奶油和新西兰奶油中的脂肪酸,从中鉴定出7种酸:棕榈酸、棕榈油酸、硬脂酸、油酸、亚油酸、亚麻油酸及花生酸。人造奶油含亚油酸比天然奶油含的高。     

一种合成4β-甲基-5α胆甾烷的新路线

本文报道以胆甾醇为原料经四步反应立体控制合成4β-甲基-5α-胆甾烷(6)的新路线。4-甲基胆甾-4-烯-3-酮(3)经Clemmensen还原,得4-甲基胆甾-4-烯(4)(65％)及4-甲基胆甾-3-烯(5)(15％)。用10％Pd-C在无水乙醇中室温催化氢化4,得6(70％)与4α-甲基-5α- 胆甾烷(7)(30％)的混合物;而选用Brown催化剂在同样条件下氢化4,得到产物6与7的比例为95:5。     

HS-6顶空进样器的性能考察及其应用

考察了连接在Sigmal气相色谱仪上的HS-6顶空分析器的性能,特别注意考察了样品的体积,平衡所需时间和分流比等对保留时间和峰高的影响,研究结果还表明增加样品的加热温度和稀释样品的浓度会改善测定的灵敏度,文章还给出了一系列不同类型样品的应用结果,包括香烟、茶叶、啤酒、中药等。     

2-芳基硫杂脯氨酸结构特征的研究

对12种2-芳基硫杂脯氨酸进行了红外光谱和核磁共振谱测定,对其中两个化合物作了质谱测定。结果表明,这类化合物固态时主要以两性离子形式存在;有较强的分子离子峰,是一类较稳定的化合物。它们还存在一对非对映异构体,芳环上的取代基对芳环电子云密度的影响较大,而对四氢噻唑环的影响较小。