Analytical expression for the nth Fourier coefficient of a modulated Lorentzian dispersion lineshape function

Modulated spectroscopic detection techniques that rely on dispersion, e.g. Faraday modulation/rotation spectroscopy and wavelength-modulated noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy, are often described in terms of Fourier coefficients of a modulated dispersion lineshape function. This work derives a non-complex analytical expression for the nth Fourier coefficient of a modulated Lorentzian dispersion lineshape function. The expression is easier to implement, and orders of magnitude faster to execute, than previous approaches involving numerical calculations of integrals. The first six Fourier coefficients are explicitly given and illustrated for their optimum modulation amplitudes, which are also given.     

Trees and ultrametric Möbius structures

We define the concept of an ultrametric Möbius space (Z,M) and show that the boundary at infinity of a nonelementary geodesically complete tree is naturally an ultrametric Möbius space. In addition, we construct to a given ultrametric Möbius space (Z,M) a nonelementary geodesically complete tree, unique up to isometry, with (Z,M) being its boundary at infinity. This yields a one-to-one correspondence.     

Engleromycin,a new cytochalasan from Engleromycesgoetzei Hennings

The structure of engleromycin isolated from $\text{Engleromyces}$$\text{goetzei}$ Hennings has been established as $\text{1}$ by spectral techniques.     

High pressure raman study of isotropic lineshapes of aqueous sodium nitrate solutions

The isotropic lineshape of the v₁ (A₁) stretching mode of the nitrate ion in solutions of sodium nitrate has been studied at 25°C as a function of NaNO₃ concentration ranging from 0.1 to 6M. The pressure dependence has been determined for 1 and 6M solutions at pressures ranging from 1 bar to 3 kbar. The isotropic band becomes more asymmetric with increasing concentration, and its v₁ peak frequency undergoes a blue shift both with increased concentration and increased pressure. At low concentration the vibrational correlation function is well described by the Kubo formula, whereas at higher concentration it becomes more Gaussian. The experimental data indicate that the v₁ vibrational lineshape in aqueous solutions of NaNO₃ is dominated by strong intermolecular interactions which produce inhomogeneous broadening at higher concentration.     

Strong Antibiotic Activity of the Myxocoumarin Scaffold in vitro and in vivo

The increasing emergence of resistances against established antibiotics is a substantial threat to human health. The discovery of new compounds with potent antibiotic activity is thus of utmost importance. Within this work, we identify strong antibiotic activity of the natural product myxocoumarin B from Stigmatella aurantiaca MYX-030 against a range of clinically relevant bacterial pathogens, including clinical isolates of MRSA. A focused library of structural analogs was synthesized to explore initial structure-activity relationships and to identify equipotent myxocoumarin derivatives devoid of the natural nitro substituent to significantly streamline synthetic access. The cytotoxicity of the myxocoumarins as well as their potential to cure bacterial infections in vivo was established using a zebrafish model system. Our results reveal the exceptional antibiotic activity of the myxocoumarin scaffold and hence its potential for the development of novel antibiotics.     

REGENERATION OF BLUE AND PURPLE MEMBRANES FROM DEIONIZED BLEACHED MEMBRANES OF Halobacterium halobium

Abstract— Bleached purple membrane normally binds Ca²⁺ and Mg²⁺, which can be removed by the divalent cation chelator ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). Regeneration of pigments from EDTA-treated bleached membrane (apomembrane) and retinal leads to the formation of blue membrane at pH 4.8, and purple membrane at neutral pH. The pigments take much longer to regenerate than with un-deionized apoprotein. Adding back cations to the deionized apomembrane only partially speeds up the regeneration process. Like native purple membrane, the regenerated purple membrane also undergoes a photocycle and shows a light-induced proton release and uptake, although with much slower kinetics than the native species. Thus, cations control the kinetics of pigment regeneration, and also some aspects of the pigment's conformation which controls the photocycle kinetics. The removal and replacement of the cations is not completely reversible, suggesting the cations are not merely bound in the double layer.