Thermostability of landscape phage probes

Immunoassays have traditionally relied on antibodies as diagnostic probes. Their use outside of a laboratory, however, may be problematic because antibodies are often unstable in severe environmental conditions. Environmental monitoring requires thermostable probes, such as landscape phage, that carry thousands of foreign peptides on their surfaces, are superior to antibodies, and can operate in non-controlled conditions. While parent wild-type phage are known to be extremely stable in various media at high temperatures, no work has been done to demonstrate the stability of landscape phage probes. We examined the thermostability of a landscape phage probe and a monoclonal antibody specific for -galactosidase in parallel in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) format. They were both stable for greater than six months at room temperature, but at higher temperatures the antibody degraded more rapidly than the phage probe. Phage retained detectable binding ability for more than six weeks at 63 °C, and three days at 76 °C. The activation energy of phage degradation was determined to be 1.34×10⁵ J/mol. These results confirm that phage probes are highly thermostable and can function even after exposure to high temperatures during shipping, storage and operation.     

Ti4+修饰阳离子交换树脂催化制备环已烯

在Ti^4 修饰阳离子交换树脂催化剂上进行了环己醇脱水制备环己烯的反应，考察了催化剂吸附毗啶的FT-IR，证实了该催化剂表面具有Bronsted酸和Lewis酸性住是催化环己烯脱水反应的物质基础，实验结果表明：修饰树脂具有较高的热稳定性，Ti^4 交换容量对阳离子交换树脂的催化活性存在着明显的影响，催化剂对环己醇脱水制环己烯反应的活性高，并得到该反应的优化条件如下：环己醇40g，催化剂5g，反应温度175℃，反应时问60min，在此条件下，环己烯的产率达89％。     

钛硅分子筛挤条成型催化剂热稳定性能的研究

采用在空气中程序升温焙烧的方式考察了钛硅分子筛挤条成型催化剂的热稳定性能．对不同温度焙烧得到的样品进行了XRD、IR、UV Raman和SEM表征．结果表明，在高温焙烧时，由于载体结构的改变引起载体与分子筛之问相互作用发生变化，导致成型催化剂中分子筛骨架破坏．随着焙烧温度的提高，IR谱图中960cm^-1处代表钛进入骨架的特征峰的强度迅速减弱，当焙烧温度达到1000℃时，960cm-1处的骨架钛特征峰移至948cm^-1．在紫外拉曼谱图中，骨架位钛物种的特征拉曼谱峰-1125cm^-1谱峰在加入SiO2载体后，高温下峰强度明显降低，这说明载体的加入降低了钛硅分子筛挤条成型催化剂的热稳定性能．     

Thermal behavior of bismaleimide resin

The cure of a bismaleimide (BMI) neat resin modified with an aromatic diamine and a siloxane elastomer, has been studied by ¹³C solid state nuclear magnetic resonance. Two chemical reactions occur during the cure cycle; at a low temperature, Michael's reaction predominates, while at a high temperature the polymerization of the double bond maleimide creates the network. The degradation of this BMI material was characterized with isothermal and dynamic thermogravimetric analyses in air and in nitrogen. The BMI thermal stability is lower in nitrogen than in air. This behavior is an indication of oxygen participating in reactions at high temperatures. The activation energy (E_a) of thermal degradation was determined from isothermal data using an Arrhenius equation (In V vs. 1/T). The global E_a for the weight loss in air was found to be 91 kJ/mol. The nature and the evolution of the thermal degradation products were the combined analyzed by techniques of pyrolysis, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The major thermal decomposition products obtained in the temperature range of 300–700°C are identified as benzene, methyl formamide, aniline, toluene and isocyanate-derived products.     

Modeling,stability and the activity assessment of glutathione reductase from Streptococcus Thermophilus; Insights from the in-silico simulation study

Antioxidant enzymes (AEs) are the main parts of the natural barriers of the body which deactivate the oxidant factors. To discover and understand their structures and function will deserve a deeper investigation. Accordingly, as an AE of probiotic strains, glutathione reductase of Streptococcus thermophilus (GRst), is characterized and modeled by in-silico methods. The investigation indicated the physicochemical properties of the enzyme and estimated its half-life of being more than 10 h. The analysis revealed that the enzyme is composed of 86 strands, 123 helices, and 241 random coils. Homology modeling of the GRst led to the construction of the enzyme’s 3D model that 62% of which is analogous to the glutathione reductase of Escherichia Coli (GRec), and which is qualitatively high in terms of Molpdf, ERRAT, Verify-3D and Ramachandran scores. Moreover, the structural stability of the model was substantiated within 10 and 20 ns at 400 and 300 K, respectively. Interestingly, these data showed that the enzyme is more stable than GRec at 400 K. In other words, the active cavity of the constructed model is characteristic of 38 amino acid residues within 4 Å around the NADPH and GSSG as corresponding ligands of GRst. Noteworthy, herein is the fact that, CYS40 and CYS45 are specified as the active site residues of this enzyme. Furthermore, the interaction assays of the model support its antioxidant capability which is even more than that of GRec.In general, these data provide a new model of AEs being inclusive of high antioxidant capacity and thermostability.     

Bioinformatics analysis of a non-specific nuclease from Yersinia enterocolitica subsp. palearctica

In this paper, the physical and chemical characteristics, biological structure and function of a non-specific nuclease from Yersinia enterocolitica subsp. palearctica (Y. NSN) found in our group were studied using multiple bioinformatics approaches. The results showed that Y. NSN had 283 amino acids, a weight of 30,692.5 ku and a certain hydrophilic property. Y. NSN had a signal peptide, no transmembrane domains and disulphide bonds. Cleavage site in Y. NSN was between pos. 23 and 24. The prediction result of the secondary structure showed Y. NSN was a coil structure-based protein. The ratio of α-helix, β-folded and random coil were 18.73%, 16.96% and 64.31%, respectively. Active sites were pos. 124, 125, 127, 157, 165 and 169. Mg²⁺ binding site was pos. 157. Substrate binding sites were pos. 124, 125 and 169. The analysis of multisequencing alignment and phylogenetic tree indicated that Y. NSN shared high similarity with the nuclease from Y. enterocolitica subsp. enterocolitica 8081. The enzyme activity results showed that Y. NSN was a nuclease with good thermostability.     

Preparation of an anionic azo pigment-pillared layered double hydroxide and the thermo- and photostability of the resulting intercalated material

A large anionic pigment has been intercalated into a layered double hydroxide (LDH) host by ion-exchange of an Mg/Al LDH-nitrate precursor with a solution of C.I. Pigment Red 48:2 (the calcium salt of 4-((5-chloro-4-methyl-2-sulfophenyl)azo)-3-hydroxy-2-naphthalene-carboxylic acid), in ethane-1,2-diol. After intercalation of the pigment, the interlayer distance in the LDH increases from 0.86 to 1.72 nm. Infrared spectra and TG-DTA curves reveal the presence of a complex system of supramolecular host-guest interactions. The UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectra of C.I. Pigment Red 48:2 show marked changes after heating at 200 °C and above, whereas there are no significant changes in the spectra of the intercalated pigment after heating at temperatures up to 300 °C, showing that the thermostability is markedly enhanced by intercalation in the LDH host. The pigment-intercalated LDHs exhibits much higher photostability to UV light than the pristine pigment, in the case of both the pure solids and their composites with polypropylene, as shown by measurement of CIE 1976 L^*a^*b^* color difference (ΔE) values.     

Structural features responsible for GFPuv and S147P-GFP’s improved fluorescence

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is used as a biological marker. It is a protein in the jellyfish, Aequorea victorea, which is found in the cold Pacific Northwest. Mature GFP, i.e. fully fluorescent GFP, is most efficiently formed at temperatures well below 37 °C. The GFPuv (F99S/M153T/V163A) and S147P-GFP mutants mature more efficiently at room temperature than wild-type GFP, and therefore result in increased fluorescence at room temperature. Computational methods have been used to examine whether the low-energy precyclized forms of these improved GFP-mutants are preorganized so that they can more efficiently form the chromophore than the wild-type and S65T-GFP. All mutations examined (S147P, F99S, M153T, V163A and F99S/M153T/V163A) more efficiently preorganize the immature precyclized forms of GFP for chromophore formation than immature wild-type GFP. It has been proposed that Arg96 is involved in chromophore formation. Our calculations suggest that the M153T and V163A mutations in GFPuv maybe partially responsible for the increased maturation efficiency observed in GFPuv because they improve the Arg96–Tyr66 interaction. The same is true for the S147P mutation in S147P-GFP.     

Synthesis,characterization and epoxidation of hexakis-4-(2-(4-((β-methallyl)oxy)phenyl)propan-2-yl)phenoxycyclotriphosphazene

4-(2-(4-((β-Methallyl)oxy)phenyl)propan-2-yl)phenol was prepared via the reaction of methallyl chloride with bisphenol A and used for the synthesis of hexakis-4-(2-(4-((β-methallyl)oxy)phenyl)propan-2-yl)phenoxycyclotriphosphazene. It was revealed that the latter undergoes the Claisen rearrangement and can be also epoxidized by 3-chloroperbenzoic acid. The obtained epoxide was cured by a treatment with isophorone diamine. The decomposition and glass transition temperatures of cured resin were also estimated (275 and 130?°C, respectively) by DSC and TGA methods.     

含芴共轭高分子的合成、表征及性能研究——推荐一个高分子化学综合实验

推荐了一个高分子化学综合实验——含芴共轭高分子的合成、表征及性能研究。实验内容包括利用Sonogashira偶联反应合成共轭高分子,采用核磁共振和红外光谱等检测手段对其结构进行表征,并利用紫外-可见光谱、荧光和热重分析对其性能进行研究。本实验结合了高分子化学和聚合物仪器分析与表征的知识点,建议纳入高分子专业高年级综合实验课程。