Immunoaffinity isolation of CEACAM1 on hydrazide-derivatized cellulose with immobilized monoclonal anti-CEA antibody

Carcinoembryonic cell adhesion molecule 1 (CEACAM1) is a human membrane glycoprotein belonging to the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) family and to the immunoglobulin superfamily. It is expressed in apical membranes of many epithelial cells in gastrointestinal and urogenital tract and also in granulocytes and lymphocytes, and its biological effect in human tissues has recently been discussed in literature. The purpose of this study was to isolate CEACAM1 glycoprotein from bile and characterize its purity and recovery which has not been described before. Affinity chromatography of CEACAM1 on hydrazide-activated cellulose with immobilized monoclonal anti-CEA F34-187 antibody is described. The immunoglobulin carbohydrate moiety was oxidized by periodate and then bound to hydrazide-activated matrix. Crude protein fraction from bile was applied on the affinity column and after extensive washing of non-bound proteins CEACAM1 was eluted with 6 M guanidine-HCl. A single immunopositive 85 kDa band was detected on Western blots with anti-CEA antibody after SDS-PAGE. We found out that CEACAM1 was not stainable with any common method of protein staining and the only non-specific method which could detect the 85 kDa band was a lectin staining.     

SYNTHESIS OF SOLUBLE POLY（3,4-DIHYDROXY-o-TOLYLENE）： REDOX POLYMER

Conventional chloromethylation, paraformaldehyde/hydrogen chloride in acetic acid medium, was applied to 1,2- dimethoxybenzene. Chloroform-soluble poly（3,4-dimethoxy-o-tolylene） was obtained with an intrinsic viscosity of 0.034 dL g^-1. The polymer was evaluated as a condensation redox polymer precursor formed by a Friedel-Crafts reaction. Cleavage of the methoxy groups present in this polymer resulted in poly（3,4-dihydroxy-o-tolylene） which manifested a great air-oxidation resistance. The redox property of the latter polymer was found to be 1017 mV by potentiometric titration with 0.05 N ceric ammonium nitrate at 25℃. This midpotential was compared to that of catechol, a monomeric analogue, under the same titration conditions.     

Application of main component fraction collection method for purification of compound libraries

In order to support high-throughput library purification, a novel UV triggered fraction collection method was developed in which a maximum-seeking-algorithm-driven, six-port valve collects the largest chromatographic peak. This straightforward strategy achieves the one sample-one fraction approach, thus resulting in a simpler and less error prone workup procedure. The effectiveness of this main component fraction collection method will be illustrated here by the results of the purification of compound libraries (altogether 6086 compounds, having an averaged success rate of 79.4%). Advanced applications, where the desired component differs from the main component, will also be discussed.     

Novel pyrimidine-bridged platinum(II) complexes: multinuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and crystal structures of (NR4)2[(PtCl3)2(mu-pyrimidine)] and cis- and trans-[Pt(R2SO)Cl2]2(mu-pyrimidine)

Two new types of pyrimidine-bridged Pt(II) complexes, (NR4)2[(PtCl3)2(mu-pm)] and cis- and trans-[Pt(R2SO)Cl2]2(mu-pm) where pm = pyrimidine, were synthesized and characterized by IR and multinuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies and by crystallographic methods. Compounds with dimethylsulfoxide, tetramethylenesulfoxide, di-n-propylsulfoxide (DPrSO), di-n-butylsulfoxide (DBuSO), dibenzylsulfoxide (DBzSO), and diphenylsulfoxide were studied. The aqueous reaction of K2PtCl4 with pyrimidine produced the [(PtCl3)2(mu-pm)](2-) ions, which can be precipitated with a NR4(+) salt. The aqueous reaction of K[Pt(R2SO)Cl3] with pyrimidine in a 2:1 ratio produced the dinuclear species trans-[Pt(R2SO)Cl2]2(mu-pm). With DBuSO and DBzSO, the analogous cis isomers were also obtained. The 195Pt NMR resonances of the trans dimeric complexes were observed at higher field (av -3088 ppm) than the cis compounds (av -2948 ppm). The 195Pt coupling constants with the atoms of pyrimidine 3J(195Pt-1H) and 3J(195Pt-13C) are larger in the cis configuration than in the trans analogues. The crystal structures of two ionic complexes, (NR4)2[(PtCl3)2(mu-pm)] (R = Me and n-Bu), and of three mixed-ligands dimers, trans-[Pt(R2SO)Cl2]2(mu-pm) (R2SO = DMSO, DPrSO) and cis-Pt(DBuSO)Cl2]2(mu-pm), were determined.     

Strong Photoluminescence Enhancement from Colloidal Quantum Dot Near Silver Nano-Island Films

We present the fabrication and optical investigation of highly random self-assembled, nano-scale films, probing their influence on the luminescence properties of near surface CdSe/ZnS colloidal quantum dots. When compared to quantum dots distributed on unstructured quartz substrates, the average luminescence intensity is found to be enhanced by a factor of 160×. The silver nanoparticles are prepared using slow thermal evaporation on quartz substrates and post-deposition annealing to produce a randomly-arranged layer of smooth nano-islands. Clear polarization dependent hot spots are observed. Such hot spots deliver a maximal enhancement of the emission intensity of 240× and have a spatial density of (0.050±0.002) μm^− 2. The results show that silver nano-island films strongly enhance the optical efficiency of near quantum dots emitters.     

Sound propagation above a porous road surface with extended reaction by boundary element method

Acoustic impedance of an absorbing interface is easily introduced in boundary element codes provided that a local reaction is assumed. But this assumption is not valid in the case of porous road surface. A two-domain approach was developed for the prediction of sound propagation above a porous layer that takes into account the sound propagation inside the porous material. The porous material is modeled by a homogeneous dissipative fluid medium. An alternative to this time consuming two-domain approach is proposed by using the grazing incidence approximate impedance in the traditional single-domain boundary element method (BEM). It can be checked that this value is numerically consistent with the surface impedance calculated at the interface from the pressure and surface velocity solutions of the two-domain approach. The single-domain BEM introducing this grazing incidence impedance is compared in terms of sound attenuation with analytical solutions and two-domain BEM. The comparison is also performed with the single-domain BEM using the normal incidence impedance, and reveals a much better accuracy for the prediction of sound propagation above a porous interface.     

大气中芳樟醇与臭氧反应机理的理论研究

采用密度泛函理论研究了大气中芳樟醇臭氧化反应机理.在B3LYP/6-31G＊水平上对该反应体系的反应物、中间体、过渡态及产物进行了几何构型优化和频率计算,在B3LYP/6-311＋G（3df,2pd）水平下进行单点能量计算,构筑了反应的势能剖面.对反应中间体与H2O和NO可能的氧化机理进行了详细的描述.并对转化过程中各...     

Multiresidue determination of 160 pesticides in wines employing mixed-mode dispersive-solid phase extraction and gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

A new multiresidue method for the efficient screening, identification and quantification of over 160 pesticides belonging to different chemical classes in red, rose and white wines have been developed. The analysis was based on gas chromatographic-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometric determination (GC-QqQ-MS/MS). An optimization strategy involved the selection of buffering conditions and sorbents for dispersive-solid phase extraction (dispersive-SPE) in order to achieve acceptably high recoveries and reduce co-extractives in the final extracts. As a result, the optimized procedure allowed us to obtain consistent recoveries of the target pesticides including problematic ones such as captan, chlorothalonil, dichlofluanid, folpet and tolylfluanid. The attained recoveries were typically between 80 and 110% (89% on average) with RSD values typically lower than 10% (8% on average) at three spiking levels of 0.01, 0.05 and 0.2 mg kg⁻¹. Linearity was studied in the range between 0.005 and 0.2 mg kg⁻¹ using pesticide standards prepared both in pure solvent and in the presence of matrix, showing coefficients of determination (R²) higher than 0.99 for all the pesticides except for desmedipham, thiabendazole and thiamethoxam in pure solvent. The study of the ratio of the slopes obtained in solvent and in matrix provided information about the matrix effects, which was <10%, 10-20% and >20% for 33, 36 and 31% of the studied pesticides, respectively. To improve accuracy, matrix matched standards were always used for calculation of the quantification results. The expanded uncertainties were estimated by using a “top-down” approach as being 17% on average (coverage factor k = 2, confidence level 95%). Finally, the method was used with success to detect and quantify pesticide residues in commercial wines.