The recent development of an automated surface plasmon resonance technology for the measurement of biomolecular interactions (Pharmacia BIAcore) has provided new opportunities for the detection and analysis of protein-protein interactions. In the BIAcore, detection is based on changes in surface plasmon resonance which are monitored optically. Changes in surface plasmon resonance correspond to changes in surface concentration of macromolecules and can be monitored in real time.
We have found that the detection sensitivity obtainable with this technology (ng/ml concentrations of specific ligands are readily detectable for many applications) is complementary “in a bidirectional manner” to micropreparative HPLC. Thus micropreparative HPLC may be used to purify and characterise reagents for the biosensor, whilst the biosensor may be used to define chromatographic parameters such as elution conditions for affinity chromatography or serve as an affinity detector for fractions obtained during chromatographic purification.
Examples of such applications, including the potential of the biosensor to search for and monitor the purification of unknown ligands for which the target molecule has been identified, are shown. In particular, the use of the biosensor to monitor the purification of soluble epidermal growth factor receptor from A431 cell conditioned media is demonstrated. 相似文献
Isomerization of Protonated Aldehyde and Ketone Ions in the Mass-Spectrography Before the Loss of Water In mass spectrometry, protonated aldehyde and ketone ions isomerize before the loss of a molecule of water. In order to specify this process, the spectra of deuterium labelled protonated aldehydes and ketones have been compared to the spectra of the corresponding isomer ions. 相似文献
Relativistic MS Xα calculations have been performed on a PtCl62? cluster in Oh symmetry. The electronic structure is discussed and compared with the electronic structure obtained recently for IrCl62?. The theoretical photoionization and optical spectra are in very good agreement with experiment. 相似文献
The fraction b.p. ≦ 84° (0.001 Torr) from Burley tobacco condensate was carefully investigated using fractional distillation and preparative column and gas liquid chromatography aided by GLC/MS coupling. Among the 193 compounds thus separated and characterized by their spectral data, 81 were newly identified tobacco constituents. Most of the compounds isolated in the course of this work display flavouring properties which make them highly suitable for improving the flavour and aroma of tobacco and tobacco smoke. 相似文献
We have synthesized (±)-loliolide ( 7 a ), (±)-actinidiolide ( 11 a ), (±)-dihydroactinidiolide ( 16 ), and (±)-isodihydroactinidiolide ( 18 ) through various reaction paths starting from homosafranic acid ( 4 a ). Thus, (±)-actinidiolide has been synthesized for the first time, and this result allows to discard the alternative formula 11 b for that compound [2]. By investigation of the sensitized photooxygenation of methyl homosafranate ( 4 b ), this reaction is shown to lead to an interesting spiro-peroxylactone 25 , beside the expected endo-peroxide 23 . Specific oxygenation of the tetrasubstituted double bond of methyl homosafranate, and cyclisation of the hydroperoxide 24 thus produced, are believed to account for the formation of such a particular compound. The base-catalysed rearrangement of the endo-peroxide 23 gives rise to two compounds, one being the expected keto-hydroxy-ester 26 . The other - to which is assigned the glycidic ester structure 27 - obviously results from an internal displacement reaction on oxygen in 23 . It is note-worthy that the sensitized photooxygenation of methyl homosafranate proceeds directly to the same glycidic ester when it is carried out in an alcaline solution. 相似文献
7Li, 31P, and 19F solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was used to investigate the local arrangement of oxygen and fluorine in LiVPO4F1-yOy materials, interesting as positive electrode materials for Li-ion batteries. From the evolution of the 1D spectra versus y, 2D 7Li radiofrequency-driven recoupling (RFDR) experiments combined, and a tentative signal assignment based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations, it appears that F and O are not randomly dispersed on the bridging X position between two X–VO4–X octahedra (X = O or F) but tend to segregate at a local scale. Using DFT calculations, we analyzed the impact of the different local environments on the local electronic structure. Depending on the nature of the VO4X2 environments, vanadium ions are either in the +III or in the +IV oxidation state and can exhibit different distributions of their unpaired electron(s) on the d orbitals. Based on those different local electronic structures and on the computed Fermi contact shifts, we discuss the impact on the spin transfer mechanism on adjacent nuclei and propose tentative signal assignments. The O/F clustering tendency is discussed in relation with the formation of short VIVO vanadyl bonds with a very specific electronic structure and possible cooperative effect along the chain. 相似文献
The Mα energy which is usually minimized in branched transport problems among singular one-dimensional rectifiable vector measures
is approximated by means of a sequence of elliptic energies defined on more regular vector fields. The procedure recalls the
one of Modica-Mortola related to the approximation of the perimeter. In our context, the double-well potential is replaced
by a concave term. The paper contains a proof of Γ−convergence and numerical simulations of optimal networks based on that
previous result. 相似文献
The key intermediates to the fragmentation of metastable methyl and ethyl benzoate radical cations are α- and β-distonic isomers of the molecular ions. The α-distocic isomers are also formed by fragmentation of longer chain alkyl benzoates, but may not be long-lived, stable species. Rearrangement of the α-distonic ions prior to fragmentation can take place, but (re)formation of the benzoate molecular ions does not occur. 相似文献
Targeted delivery of drugs to specific cells allows a high therapeutic dose to be delivered to the target site with minimal harmful side effects. Combining targeting molecules with nanoengineered drug carriers, such as polymer capsules, micelles and polymersomes, has significant potential to improve the therapeutic delivery and index of a range of drugs. We present a general approach for functionalization of low-fouling, nanoengineered polymer capsules with antibodies using click chemistry. We demonstrate that antibody (Ab)-functionalized capsules specifically bind to colorectal cancer cells even when the target cells constitute less than 0.1% of the total cell population. This precise targeting offers promise for drug delivery applications. 相似文献