Fluorescence decay and quenching of pyrene labeled on sulfonate polyelectrolytes in salt-free aqueous solutions

Fluorescence decay and quenching of pyrene labels on copolymers of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulphonic acid (AMPS) and N,N-dimethylacrylamide were observed in dilute salt-free aqueous solutions as a function of the mole fraction F_AMPS of AMPS from 0 to 0.896. Monoexponential decay was found for the samples of F_AMPS<0.35 and biexponential decay for the samples of F_AMPS>0.35. The fast decay component is 80%, and the averaged lifetime 〈τ〉 and lifetime τ₁ of the fast decay is decreased with increasing F_AMPS. Quenching efficiency of Cu²⁺, I⁻, CH₃NO₂, and dinitrobenzene to the pyrene label was investigated in the framework of Stern-Volmer plot. With increasing F_AMPS the quenching efficiency of Cu²⁺ is increased while that of I⁻ decreased. For the neutral quenchers, the quenching rate constant k_q increases when F_AMPS<0.449 then decreases, showing a decline of accessibility to the pyrene label. These results were interpreted consistently with the counterion condensation concept, where condensed counterions caused the polyelectrolyte chains to aggregate. The existence of less-polar “temporal aggregated domain” in highly charged polyelectrolytes appears to lead to the slower decay and lower accessibility of the pyrene labels.     

Cr（Ⅲ）—5—Br—PADAP—Triton X—100析相光度法测定微量铬的研究

研究Cr(Ⅲ)-5-Br-PADAP-Triton X-100析相显色体系,建立测定微量铬的析相光度法。在pH 4.5乙酸-乙酸钠介质中,Cr(Ⅲ)、5-Br-PADAP、Triton X-100加热形成的配合物,于95℃恒温浴中析相1h,即被Triton X-100相完全富集,最大吸收峰为593nm,铬含量在0～10μg/5ml服从比耳定律,以硫脲、锰-EDTA、柠檬酸钠、氟化钾为掩蔽剂,测定水样中微量铬,获得满意结果。     

Weighted two-band target entropy minimization for the reconstruction of pure component mass spectra: Simulation studies and the application to real systems

A method is proposed, on the basis of a recently developed algorithm--Band Target Entropy Minimization (BTEM)--to reconstruct mass spectra of pure components from mixture spectra. This method is particular useful in dealing with spectral data with discrete features (like mass spectra). Compared to the original BTEM, which has been applied to differentiable spectroscopies such as Fourier-transfer infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), ultraviolet (UV), Raman, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), the latest modifications were obtained through: (1) Reformulating the objective function using the peak heights instead of their derivatives; (2) weighting the abstract vector VT to reduce the effect of noise; (3) using a two-peak targeting strategy (tBTEM) to deal with strongly overlapping peaks; and (4) using exhaustive search to locate all the component spectra. A set of 50 multi-component mass spectra was generated from ten reference experimental pure component spectra. Many of the compounds chosen have common MS fragments and therefore, many of the pure component spectra have considerable intensity in same data channels. In addition, a set of MS spectra from a real system with four components was used to examine the newly developed algorithm. Successful reconstruction of the ten component spectra of the simulated system and the four component spectra of the real system was rapidly achieved using the new tBTEM algorithm. The advantages of the new algorithm and its implication for rapid system identification of unknown mixtures are readily apparent.     

巯基化合物的电位分析法研究

本文对用直接电位法测试巯基化合物的可行性进行了研究。发现由硫化银，硫化汞等金属难溶盐制成的膜电极对６－巯基嘌呤，高胱氨酸，１，４－二巯基苏糖经合物可产生响应，其斜率为３０－１１０ｍＶ／ｐＣ，电极响应时间，则为十几秒至十几分钏，测试结果具有较好的重现性。因此，该方法可望得到应用。文中还对有关响应机理进行了探讨。     

卡尔曼滤波析相光度法同时测定锰铁铜锌镉的研究——5-Br-PADAP—Triton X-100体系

运用卡尔曼滤波递推法,以2-(5-溴-2-吡啶偶氮)—5-二乙氨基苯酚(5-Br-PADAP)为显色剂,建立了同时测定锰、铁、铜、锌、镉析相光度法.在pH9.0硼酸-氢氧化钠介质中,胶束溶液在95℃加热1h,配合物被Triton X-100相完全富集,最大吸收峰分别为锰566nm、铁556nm、铜560nm、锌562nm、镉557nm,工作曲线范围除镉为0～8μg/5ml外,其余均为0～10μg/5ml.应用于大米中锰铁铜锌镉的同时测定,结果满意.     

Novel Phenomenon of Oxygen-to-oxygen Silyl Migration in Directed Aldol Reaction

The phenomenon of migration of the silyl groups from α-oxygen to β-oxygen in sodium aldol reaction was observed for the first time in this paper.     

Determining the folding and unfolding rate constants of nucleic acids by biosensor. Application to telomere G-quadruplex

Nucleic acid molecules may fold into secondary structures, and the formation of such structures is involved in many biological processes and technical applications. The folding and unfolding rate constants define the kinetics of conformation interconversion and the stability of these structures and is important in realizing their functions. We developed a method to determine these kinetic parameters using an optical biosensor based on surface plasmon resonance. The folding and unfolding of a nucleic acid is coupled with a hybridization reaction by immobilization of the target nucleic acid on a sensor chip surface and injection of a complementary probe nucleic acid over the sensor chip surface. By monitoring the time course of duplex formation, both the folding and unfolding rate constants for the target nucleic acid and the association and dissociation rate constants for the target-probe duplex can all be derived from the same measurement. We applied this method to determine the folding and unfolding rate constants of the G-quadruplex of human telomere sequence (TTAGGG)(4) and its association and dissociation rate constants with the complementary strand (CCCTAA)(4). The results show that both the folding and unfolding occur on the time scale of minutes at physiological concentration of K(+). We speculate that this property might be important for telomere elongation. A complete set of the kinetic parameters for both of the structures allows us to study the competition between the formation of the quadruplex and the duplex. Calculations indicate that the formation of both the quadruplex and the duplex is strand concentration-dependent, and the quadruplex can be efficiently formed at low strand concentration. This property may provide the basis for the formation of the quadruplex in vivo in the presence of a complementary strand.     

Low-temperature orientationally ordered structures of two-dimensional C60

Orientationally ordered structures of two-dimensional (2D) C(60) at low temperature have been investigated theoretically and experimentally. Using total energy optimization with a phenomenological potential, we find the ground state is a close packed hexagonal lattice in which all the molecules have the same orientation. Several local minima of the potential energy surface are found to be associated with other 1 x 1 lattices as well as 2 x 2 lattices. The energies of the orientational domain boundaries of the 1x1 lattices are also computed, and two kinds of which yield negative values. A majority of these theoretical findings are confirmed by our low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy study of a 2D C(60) array supported on a self-assembled monolayer.     

Strategies for locating disulfide bonds in a monoclonal antibody via mass spectrometry

The location of the disulfide bonds in a recombinant monoclonal antibody was confirmed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) and electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry (MS). A non-reduced Endoproteinase Lys-C (Endo Lys-C) digest of the antibody was analyzed directly by MALDI-TOFMS. The sample was then reduced on-plate by depositing dithiothreitol (DTT) on the sample spot and re-analyzed by MALDI-TOFMS. The disulfide bonds were assigned based on the disappearance of certain mass ions in the non-reduced digest and the appearance of product ions in the reduced digest. A rapid LC/ESI-MS protocol was also developed to determine the location of the disulfide bonds. The peptides generated from the Endo Lys-C digest of the antibody were partially separated on a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) column by utilizing a steep gradient and analyzed by ESI-MS. The masses of the partially resolved peptides were determined by deconvoluting the mass spectra.     

活性碳纤维ZnO—SACF的制备及其对Ag^＋的氧化还原吸附

制备了含有ＺｎＯ的活性碳纤维ＺｎＯ－ＳＡＣＦ，借助ＡＡＳ，ＷＡＸＤ和ＳＥＭ探讨了ＺｎＯ－ＳＡＣＦ对Ａｇ＾＋的氧化还原吸附特性，并考察了ＺｎＯ在氧化还原中的作用。结果表明，ＺｎＯ－ＳＡＣＦ比ＳＡＣＦ具有对Ａｇ＾＋更高的氧化还原吸附量。外加ＺｎＯ的实验发现，ＺｎＯ本身并不吸附Ａｇ＾＋，但却参与氧化还原反应，中和氧化还原体系所释放出的Ｈ＾＋，提高了体系的ＰＨ值，可以认为，ＰＨ值的提高有利于ＳＡＣＦ电极电