用毛细管电泳-激光诱导荧光-增强型电荷耦合检测器测定痕量氨基酸

本文对用毛细管电泳－激光诱导荧光－增强型电荷耦合检测器测定氨基酸衍生物进行了研究。考察了荧光黄异疏氰酸酯衍生氨基酸的各种条件。在优化条件下，10－8～10－6mol／L浓度范围内精氨酸与其衍生物的荧光强度呈良好的线性关系，最小可衍生化的精氨酸浓度为5×10－10mol／L。     

Tetrazole-Functionalized Silica for Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography of Polar Solutes

In this work, tetrazole-functionalized stationary phase was prepared with nitrile-modified silica by an ammonium-catalyzed (3 + 2) azide-nitrile cycloaddition reaction. The prepared stationary phase was used for separation of nucleobases and nucleosides by hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) mode. A typical HILIC mechanism was observed at higher content of acetonitrile (>85%, v/v) in the mobile phase. The retention mechanism of the column was investigated by the models used for describing partitioning and surface adsorption through adjustment ratio of water in the mobile phase, and by the influence of salt concentration, buffer pH, and temperature on the retention of solutes. The results illustrated that the surface adsorption through hydrogen bonding dominated the retention behavior of nucleobases/nucleosides under HILIC mode. From the separation ability, the tetrazole-functionalized stationary phase could become a valuable alternative for the separation of the compounds concerned.     

MALDI-MS analysis of sialylated N-glycan linkage isomers using solid-phase two step derivatization method

Sialic acids usually locate at the terminal of many glycan structures in either α(2,3) or α(2,6) linkage, playing different roles in various biological and pathological processes. Several linkage specific carboxyl derivatization methods have been reported to discriminate between α(2,3) and α(2,6)-linked sialic acids by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS). Among them, ethyl esterification was recently reported to achieve linkage specific derivatization between α(2,3) and α(2,6)-linked sialic acids with good selectivity. However, the method suffered from the instability of the generated lactones and byproducts of the derivatives. To overcome these shortcomings, a solid-phase two step derivatization method was introduced to convert the α(2,6)-linked sialic acid into ethyl esters and the α(2,3)-inked counterparts into N-methyl amides, respectively. Under the optimized derivatization conditions, our method was able to achieve accurate relative quantification of N-glycan as well as their corresponding sialylated linkage types, superior to the ethyl esterification method. The solid phase derivatization strategy was further applied to investigate N-glycans from biosimilar antibody drug and human serum from patients and healthy volunteers. This method has the potential to be used in the biomarker discovery and pharmaceutical industry.     

A sequence-based computational model for the prediction of the solvent accessible surface area for α-helix and β-barrel transmembrane residues

Predicting the solvent accessible surface area (ASA) of transmembrane (TM) residues is of great importance for experimental researchers to elucidate diverse physiological processes. TM residues fall into two major structural classes (α-helix membrane protein and β-barrel membrane protein). The reported solvent ASA prediction models were developed for these two types of TM residues respectively. However, this prevents the general use of these methods because one cannot determine which model is suitable for a given TM residue without information of its type. To conquer this limitation, we developed a new computational model that can be used for predicting the ASA of both TM α-helix and β-barrel residues. The model was developed from 78 α-helix membrane protein chains and 24 β-barrel membrane protein. Its prediction ability was evaluated by cross validation method and its prediction result on an independent test set of 20 membrane protein chains. The results show that our model performs well for both types of TM residues and outperforms other prediction model which was developed for the specific type of TM residues. The prediction results also proved that the random forest model incorporating conservation score is an effective sequence-based computational approach for predicting the solvent ASA of TM residues.     

流动注射分光光度法测定水体总磷

提出了一种单通道紫外消解流动注射比色分析法，能快速测定水样中总磷。实验采用了微量恒流混合泵、新型的细长型高灵敏度流通池及紫外消解器、液流分配阀、恒流瓶等FIA装置，并使用工业编程控制器和智能触摸屏进行控制和计算，使操作更为方便。此法分析时间短，测量范围宽，精度高，适合于各种水体的测定。     

A direct quantitative analysis method for monitoring biogenic volatile organic compounds released from leaves of Pelargonium hortorum in situ

A direct quantitative method is presented that is based upon the use of multiple headspace solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) to monitor biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) released from a living leaf of Pelargonium hortorum in situ. Seventeen BVOCs were detected by GC-MS after a single SPME extraction using a CAR/DVB/PDMS fibre. An internal standard was employed to determine the absolute amounts of seven terpenoid compounds released from a P. hortorum leaf. The quantitative analysis was performed over two days, with extraction preformed for 20 min every 3 h. The amount of volatiles extracted varied with the time of day, with two maxima recorded at 14:00 (day 1) and 17:00 (day 2), corresponding to 236 and 277 ng of the seven terpenoids recorded, respectively. These results indicate that multiple HS-SPME in combination with an internal standard is a simple, quick, and quantitative technique for analysising BVOC emissions from a live plant sample.     

Binding of wogonin to human serum albumin: a common binding site of wogonin in subdomain IIA

The binding of wogonin to human serum albumin (HSA) has been studied by spectroscopic method including circular dichroism (CD), infrared spectra (IR) and fluorescence spectra. The fluorescence properties of HSA were examined in presence of wogonin and the fluorescence intensity of HSA was significantly decreased in the presence of wogonin. The binding parameters of wogonin were studied from the fluorescence decreasing of HSA by the fluoremetric titrations. The Stern-Volmer plots indicated that the binding of wogonin to HSA at 296, 303, 310 K is characterized by one binding site with the binding constant K(S-V) at 1.872 x 10(5), 1.561 x 10(5), 1.392 x 10(5), respectively, which are good agreement with the results from the Scatchard plots. The binding process was exothermic, enthalpy driven and spontaneous, as indicated by the thermodynamic analyses, and the major part of the binding energy is hydrophobic interaction, which were consistent with the result of molecule modelling study, and there are also a numbers of hydrogen bonds between wogonin and HSA. Furthermore, the displacement experiments indicate that wogonin can bind to the subdomain IIA, that is, the site I of HSA, which is also good agreement with the result of molecule modelling study.     

Model studies and first synthesis of the antifungal and antibacterial agent cladobotryal

The antifungal and antibacterial agent cladobotryal (1) was synthesized by a convergent route from lactone 31 and aldehyde 13, a key step in the elaboration of the pyridinone ring being conversion of a Boc group on nitrogen into a CO(2)SiPr-i(3) group. The simple model compounds 9 and 10, representing the core of cladobotryal and of 5, respectively, were prepared as support studies for making the natural product.     

A theoretical study on the mechanism of the addition reaction between carbene and epoxyethane

The mechanism of addition reaction between carbene and epoxyethane has been investigated employing the MP2 and B3LYP/6-311+G* levels of theory. Geometry optimization, vibrational analysis, and energy property for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface have been calculated. Based on the calculated results at the MP2/6-311+G* level of theory, it can be predicted that there are two reaction mechanisms (1) and (2). In the first reaction carbene attacks the atom O of epoxyethane to form an intermediate 1a (IM1a), which is a barrier-free exothermic reaction. Then, IM1a can isomerize to IM1b via a transition state 1a (TS1a), where the potential barrier is 48.6 kJ/mol. Subsequently, IM1b isomerizes to a product epoxypropane (Pro1) via TS1b with a potential barrier of 14.2 kJ/mol. In the second carbene attacks the atom C of epoxyethane firstly to form IM2 via TS2a. Then IM2 isomerizes to a product allyl alcohol (Pro2) via TS2b with a potential barrier of 101.6 kJ/mol. Correspondingly, the reaction energies for the reactions (1) and (2) are −448.4 and −501.6 kJ/mol, respectively. Additionally, the orbital interactions are also discussed for the leading intermediate. The results based on the B3LYP/6-311+G* level of theory are paralleled to those on the MP2/6-311+G* level of theory. Furthermore, the halogen and methyl substituent effects of H₂C: on the two reaction mechanisms have been investigated. The calculated results indicate that the introductions of halogen or methyl make the addition reaction difficult to proceed.