Stereochemistry of Trimeric Thioaldehydes

Trimeric Structure of

Trimeric Structure of Langerin*

Langerin, an endocytic receptor of Langerhans cells, binds pathogens such as human immunodeficiency virus by recognition of surface glycoconjugates and mediates their internalization into Birbeck granules. Langerin has an extracellular region consisting of a C-type carbohydrate-recognition domain (CRD) and a neck region that stabilizes formation of trimers. As in many other C-type lectins, olig...

Dictionary of Protein Stereochemistry

A computer-readable dictionary for protein structure refinement is presented. The dictionary is based on the set of interatomic bonds and bond angles previously derived from small-molecule structures by Engh & Huber [Acta Cryst. (1991), A47, 392-400]. The internal inconsistency of the set is discussed. Some preliminary results derived from several protein structures refined at atomic resolution...

Stereochemistry of Platinum Organometallics

The organometallic chemistry of platinum covers a huge field, as shown by a recent survey covering the crystallographic and structural data of almost one thousand organometallic derivatives. About nine percent of those derivatives exist as isomers and are summarized in this review and include distortion (90 %), cis trans (6%) and ligand isomerism (4%). These are discussed in terms of the coordi...

Absolute Stereochemistry of the Diepoxins

The exciton coupled CD method has been applied to determine the absolute configuration of the diepoxins, spiroketaI-linked naphthodiepoxydecaIinones of fungal origin. The CD spectra of the bis-dimethylaminobenzoate derivatives of the diepoxins 71, land ~c, reveal a positive chiral twist between the two substituted hydroxyl groups and thus infer the $ configuration at both of these stereogenic c...