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Gunjan Pandey Tasneem Fatma Sudha M. Cowsik Sneha Sudha Komath 《Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology》2009,97(2):87-93
Recent research has shown that, like porphyrins, phycocyanin (PC) too can produce singlet oxygen upon excitation with the appropriate radiation and hence could be useful in photodynamic therapy (PDT) for cancer. Unlike porphyrins, PC has the advantage of being a non-toxic, non-carcinogenic, soluble protein. However, the challenge would be to target the fluorescent phycobiliprotein to malignant cells. We report here that the tumor-specific lectin, jacalin, binds PC specifically in a carbohydrate-independent manner and with affinities better than that for porphyrins. Hence the lectin could prove to be a useful carrier for targeted delivery of PC. The interaction involves both ionic and hydrophobic interactions and more than one contact site. 相似文献
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In subnormal glow discharge under d.c. excitation at different pressure in a varying transverse magnetic field (0 to 30 G)
some measurements have been carried out for various initial average tube currents. The voltage across the discharge increases
and average tube current and residual current decreases in the magnetic field. With the help of Beckman’s expression [4] for
the axial field and the electron density distribution in a transverse magnetic field the observed variation of current and
voltage can be satisfactorily explained. The variation of axial electric field with transverse magnetic field can be represented
to a fair degree of accuracy by the derived equation. The behaviour of residual current with magnetic field has been observed
in these oscillations. 相似文献
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An integral equation formulation for buoyancy-driven convection problems is developed and illustrated. Buoyancy-driven convection in a bounded cylindrical geometry with a free surface is studied for a range of aspect ratios and Nusselt numbers. The critical Rayleigh number, the nature of the cellular motion, and the heat transfer enhancement are computed using linear theory. Green's functions are used to convert the linear problem into linear Fredholm integral equations. Theorems are proved which establish the properties of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the linear integral operator which appears in these equations. 相似文献
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In this article we present a new, general but simple, microscopic expression for time-dependent solvation energy of an ion.
This expression is surprisingly similar to the expression for the time-dependent dielectric friction on a moving ion. We show
that both the Chandra-Bagchi and the Fried-Mukamel formulations of solvation dynamics can be easily derived from this expression.
This expression leads to an almost perfect agreement of the theory with all the available computer simulation results. Second,
we show here for the first time that the mobility of a light solute ion can significantly accelerate its own solvation, specially
in the underdamped limit. The latter result is also in excellent agreement with the computer simulations. 相似文献
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Sneha Sudha Komath Musti J. Swamy 《Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology》1999,50(2-3):108-118
Fluorescence quenching and time-resolved fluorescence studies have been performed on the galactose-specific lectin purified from snake gourd (Trichosanthes anguina) seeds, in order to investigate the tryptophan accessibility and environment in the native protein and in the presence of bound ligand. Estimation of the tryptophan content by N-bromosuccinimide modification in the presence of 8 M urea yields four residues per dimeric molecule. The emission spectrum of native lectin in the absence as well as in the presence of 50 mM methyl--d-galatopyranoside (MeGal) shows a maximum around 331 nm, which shifts to 361.8 nm upon reduction of the disulfide bonds and denaturation with 8 M urea, indicating that all four tryptophan residues in the native state of this protein are in a hydrophobic environment. The extent of quenching that is observed is highest with acrylamide, intermediate with succinimide, and low with Cs+ and I−, further supporting the idea that the tryptophan residues are predominantly buried in the hydrophobic core of the protein. The presence of MeGal (50 mM) affects the quenching only marginally. Time-resolved fluorescence measurements yield bi-exponential decay curves with lifetimes of 1.45 and 4.99 ns in the absence of sugar, and 1.36 and 4.8 ns in its presence. These results suggest that the tryptophan residues are not directly involved in the saccharide binding activity of the T. anguina lectin. Of the four quenchers employed in this study, the cationic quencher, Cs+, is found to be a very sensitive probe for the tryptophan environment of this lectin and may be useful in investigating the environment of partially buried tryptophan residues and unfolding processes in other proteins as well. 相似文献
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Komath SS Kenoth R Giribabu L Maiya BG Swamy MJ 《Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology》2000,55(1):49-55
The interaction of several free-base porphyrins and their corresponding copper(II) and zinc(II) derivatives with the galactose-specific lectin from snake gourd (Trichosanthes anguina) seeds has been investigated by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic techniques. The lectin dimer contains two apparently equivalent binding sites for the porphyrins. Association constants obtained for the interaction of various porphyrins with the lectin are in the range 1.7 x 10(4)-6.2 x 10(5) M(-1), with the metalloporphyrins being seen to have higher affinity for the lectin compared with the free-base analogues. Both positively charged and negatively charged porphyrins bind to snake gourd seed lectin (SGSL) with comparable affinities, suggesting that binding occurs primarily via hydrophobic interactions. Further, binding of porphyrins is found to be largely unaffected by the presence of the sugar ligand, lactose, indicating that the binding sites for the carbohydrate and porphyrin are different. This study thus suggests that the lectin may serve as a receptor for some endogenous non-carbohydrate, hydrophobic ligand in vivo, in addition to the saccharide ligands. It also opens up the possibility of employing the T. anguina lectin in applications such as photodynamic therapy, which involve the use of porphyrins. 相似文献
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CV Tomy D Pal SS Banerjee S Ramakrishnan AK Grover S Bhattacharya MJ Higgins G Balakrishnan McK Paul 《Pramana》2002,58(5-6):925-935
The weakly pinned single crystals of the hexagonal 2H-NbSe2 compound have emerged as prototypes for determining and characterizing the phase boundaries of the possible order-disorder
transformations in the vortex matter. We present here a status report based on the ac and dc magnetization measurements of
the peak effect phenomenon in three crystals of 2H-NbSe2, in which the critical current densities vary over two orders of magnitude. We sketch the generic vortex phase diagram of
a weakly pinned superconductor, which also utilizes theoretical proposals. We also establish the connection between the metastability
effects and pinning. 相似文献
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WANG Er-Kang ZHOU Wei-HongLaboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin SS China 《中国化学》1996,14(2):131-137
Capillary electrpphoresis (CE)/electrochemical detection (EC) for the simultane-ous determination of hydrazine and isoniazid has been developed.The electrochemical method uses a novel modified electrode dispersed with ultrafine platinum particles on the surface of a 30μm carbon fiber microelectrode.The unique characteristic of the Pt-particles modified carbon fiber microelectrode is its excellent stability.The current measurement for hydrazine is more sensitive than that of isoniazid.Selective determination of trace amount of free hydrazine in isoniazid and its formulation can be achieved at applied potential of 0.5V. 相似文献
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A Soibel SS Banerjee Y Myasoedov ML Rapparort E Zeldov S Ooi T Tamegai 《Pramana》2002,58(5-6):893-898
Using a novel differential magneto-optical imaging technique we investigate the phenomenon of vortex lattice melting in crystals
of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 (BSCCO). The images of melting reveal complex patterns in the formation and evolution of the vortex solid-liquid interface
with varying field (H)/temperature (T). We believe that the complex melting patterns are due to a random distribution of material disorder/inhomogeneities across
the sample, which create fluctuations in the local melting temperature or field value. To study the fluctuations in the local
melting temperature/field, we have constructed maps of the melting landscape T
m(H, r), viz., the melting temperature (T
m) at a given location (r) in the sample at a given field (H). A study of these melting landscapes reveals an unexpected feature: the melting landscape is not fixed, but changes rather
dramatically with varying field and temperature along the melting line. It is concluded that the changes in both the scale
and shape of the landscape result from the competing contributions of different types of quenched disorder which have opposite
effects on the local melting transition. 相似文献
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Dielectric relaxation in orientationally disordered dipolar solids often exhibits exotic features, such as a strong Cole-Cole relaxation for simple molecular solids. However, there does not seem to exist a detailed molecular theory of such phenomena. In this article, a molecular hydrodynamic theory of dielectric relaxation in solid rotator phases, such as plastic crystals, is presented. 相似文献