Investigation of double-stranded DNA/drug interaction by ESI/FT ICR: orientation of dissociations relates to stabilizing salt bridges

Noncovalent complexes of DNA and Hoechst 33258 were investigated by ESI-FT/ICR MS in various activation modes (collision-induced dissociation (CID), sustained off-resonance irradiation collision-induced dissociation (SORI-CID), infrared multiphoton dissociation (IRMPD) and electron detachment dissociation (EDD)). The binding selectivity of Hoechst 33258 was confirmed by the comparative study of its noncovalent association with different DNA sequences. The CID spectra of [ds + HO - 5H](5-) obtained with a linear hexapole ion trap resulted in unzipping of the strands. This outcome is a clue to the drug-binding mode, shading light on the localization of the binding sites of Hoechst 33258 to the DNA sequence. The IRMPD and SORI-CID experiments mainly gave DNA backbone cleavages and internal fragment ions. From this result, information on the localization of the binding sites of Hoechst 33258 in the DNA sequence was obtained. No sodium cationization was observed on the DNA sequence ions although they were present on fragmentation of the duplex, indicating that the backbone cleavages were generated from the single strand associated with the Hoechst 33258 where the number of alkali cation is restricted. Under electron detachment (ED) conditions, multiple EDs were achieved for the [ds + HO - 5H](5-) ion without any significant dissociation. The presence of drug appears to enhance the stability of the multiply charged system. It was proposed that the studied noncovalent complex involved the formation of zwitterions and consequently strong salt-bridge interactions between DNA and drug.     

Coal analysis by diffuse reflectance near-infrared spectroscopy: Hierarchical cluster and linear discriminant analysis

An extensive study was carried out in coal samples coming from several origins trying to establish a relationship between nine coal properties (moisture (%), ash (%), volatile matter (%), fixed carbon (%), heating value (kcal/kg), carbon (%), hydrogen (%), nitrogen (%) and sulphur (%)) and the corresponding near-infrared spectral data. This research was developed by applying both quantitative (partial least squares regression, PLS) and qualitative multivariate analysis techniques (hierarchical cluster analysis, HCA; linear discriminant analysis, LDA), to determine a methodology able to estimate property values for a new coal sample. For that, it was necessary to define homogeneous clusters, whose calibration equations could be obtained with accuracy and precision levels comparable to those provided by commercial online analysers and, study the discrimination level between these groups of samples attending only to the instrumental variables. These two steps were performed in three different situations depending on the variables used for the pattern recognition: property values, spectral data (principal component analysis, PCA) or a combination of both. The results indicated that it was the last situation what offered the best results in both two steps previously described, with the added benefit of outlier detection and removal.     

NIR and UV-vis spectroscopy, artificial nose and tongue: Comparison of four fingerprinting techniques for the characterisation of Italian red wines

Four rapid and low-cost vanguard analytical systems (NIR and UV-vis spectroscopy, a headspace-mass based artificial nose and a voltammetric artificial tongue), together with chemometric pattern recognition techniques, were applied and compared in addressing a food authentication problem: the distinction between wine samples from the same Italian oenological region, according to the grape variety.Specifically, 59 certified samples belonging to the Barbera d’Alba and Dolcetto d’Alba appellations and collected from the same vintage (2007) were analysed.The instrumental responses, after proper data pre-processing, were used as fingerprints of the characteristics of the samples: the results from principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis were discussed, comparing the capability of the four analytical strategies in addressing the problem studied.     

主成分分析排序和模糊线性判别分析的生菜近红外光谱分类

贮存时间是影响生菜品质的一项重要因素,传统的贮存时间鉴别方法主要依靠人工经验,但是这种方法的准确率和可信度并不高。研究的目标是建立一种基于模糊识别的模型进行生菜光谱分析以实现生菜贮存时间的鉴别,并与其他鉴别方法作比较。为此,在当地超市购买60份新鲜生菜样品,存放于冰箱中待用。首先,通过AntarisⅡ近红外光谱检测仪采集生菜样品的近红外光谱数据,每隔12小时检测一次,每个样本检测重复三次,并取三次平均值作为实验数据。其次,利用多元散射校正(MSC)减少近红外光谱中的冗余信息。为了进一步去除近红外光谱中的无用信息以及简化随后的数据分类过程,分别运用主成分分析(PCA)和排序主成分分析(PCA Sort)。其中,PCA Sort通过改进对主成分的排序方法能提高分类准确率,同时便于模糊线性鉴别分析(FLDA)进一步提取特征。PCA和PCA Sort的计算仅运用了前15个主成分(能充分反映光谱的主要信息)。最后,利用模糊线性鉴别分析算法(FLDA)和K近邻算法(KNN)进一步分类所得的低维数据。基于PCA和KNN算法的模型鉴别准确率达到43%,而基于PCA, FLDA和KNN算法的模型鉴别准确...     

傅里叶变换拉曼光谱对芦竹碱木质素的研究

芦竹作为一种多年生的能源植物,具有广阔的开发利用前景。以傅里叶变换拉曼光谱技术对苯醇抽提前后芦竹原料、磨木木质素以及不同碱处理时间获得的碱木质素进行了无损分析。研究结果表明,原料中苯醇抽出物的存在会降低芦竹拉曼特征峰的强度,但不产生新的拉曼特征峰。芦竹磨木木质素的拉曼光谱图表明芦竹木质素为SGH型木质素。相比于木材磨木木质素,芦竹磨木木质素在1 173cm-1处的特征峰更强。通过对羟基肉桂酸标准物的拉曼光谱分析,进一步证实了该特征峰可能由草类原料中的羟基肉桂酸引起。此外,碱木质素拉曼光谱分析结果表明,碱处理40min获得的木质素中羟基肉桂酸特征峰最强,松柏醛/芥子醛特征峰最弱,而松柏醇/芥子醇的特征峰几乎消失。可见,该碱木质素中酚酸含量最高,潜在的抗氧化性最好,利用价值最高。二维异核单量子碳氢相关谱进一步验证了所得结果,证实了傅里叶变换拉曼光谱技术可作为一种安全、快速、准确、无损的分析手段鉴定木质素结构。     

胆结石中蛋白质的傅里叶变换红外光谱和表面增强拉曼光谱研究

用氯仿、乙醚、乙醇和盐酸等溶剂溶解一组人体胆结石，获取难溶物；用傅里叶变换红外光谱和表面增强拉曼光谱对难溶剩余物进行研究。结果显示，结石难溶物主要由胆红素盐和蛋白质组成，结石中的蛋白质的二级结构以α螺旋和无规卷曲构象为主，其中α螺旋构象成分较多。讨论了蛋白质在胆结石形成中的作用。     

虫草氨基酸的人工神经网络-近红外光谱快速测定方法

提出了用近红外漫反射光谱技术快速检测发酵冬虫夏草中氨基酸含量的新方法。采用比色法测定虫草菌粉中氨基酸含量。用BP神经网络建立了近红外光谱数据与氨基酸、精氨酸和总氨酸含量间的定量关联模型。通过比较不同的光谱预处理方法及光谱范围, 得到最优模型,即在7 501.7～6 097.8,5 453.7～4 246.5 cm-1区域内,近红外光谱的一阶微分光谱与其氨基酸含量之间建立模型。甘氨酸、精氨酸和总氨基酸的预测标准偏差分别为0.08,0.07和0.36,均优于主成分回归(PCR)和偏最小二乘回归(PLS)等线性模型的处理结果。结果表明,该方法是一种有效实用的非线性校正方法。为近红外光谱快速测定中药组分含量提供了一条新途径。     

Thermal dissociation of ions limits the degree of the gas‐phase H/D exchange at the atmospheric pressure

We present the application of the extended desolvating capillaries for increasing the degree of the gas‐phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange reaction at atmospheric pressure. The use of the extended capillaries results in the increase of the time that ions spend in the high pressure region, what leads to the significant improvement of the efficiency of the reaction. For the small protein ubiquitin, it was observed that for the same temperature, the number of exchanges increases with the decrease of the charge state so that the lowest charge state can exchange twice the number of hydrogen than the highest one. With the increase of the temperature, the difference decreases, and eventually, the number of exchanges equalizes for all charge states. The value of this temperature and the corresponding number of exchanges depend on the geometric parameters of the capillary. Further increase of the temperature leads to the thermal dissociation of the protein ion. The observed b/y fragments are identical to those produced by collision‐induced dissociation performed in the ion trap. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Twisted Bay‐Substituted Quaterrylene Phosphorescing in the NIR Spectral Region

The preparation of the first soluble quaterrylene derivative featuring peripheral tert‐butyl substituents and sterically hindering, core‐anchored triflate groups has been achieved. This involves a facile synthetic route based on an oxidative coupling of perylene precursors in the presence of H₂O₂ as oxidant. The steric hindrance between the TfO substituents at the central bay position of the quaterrylene board triggers a strong deformation of the central perylene planarity, which forces the quaterrylene platform to adopt a twisted geometry as shown by X‐ray analysis. Exceptionally, photophysical investigations show that the core‐twisted quaterrylene phosphoresces in the NIR spectral region at 1716 nm. Moreover, third‐order nonlinear optical measurements on solutions and thin film containing the relevant molecule showed very large second hyperpolarizability values, as predicted by theoretical calculations at the CAM ‐B3LYP /6‐31G** level of theory, making this material very appealing for photonic applications.