The Campylobacter jejuni flagellin protein is O-glycosylated with structural analogues of the nine-carbon sugar pseudaminic acid. The most common modifications in the C. jejuni 81-176 strain are the 5,7-di-N-acetylated derivative (Pse5Ac7Ac) and an acetamidino-substituted version (Pse5Am7Ac). Other structures detected include O-acetylated and N-acetylglutamine-substituted derivatives (Pse5Am7Ac...

The effects of gibberellic acid on the longevity and elongation of variously aged, debladed petioles of Coleus blumei were studied, with particular reference to the hypotheses 1) that auxin increases longevity by increasing growth, and 2) that gibberellic acid acts by increasing the endogenous levels of auxin.Gibberellic acid, substituted for the leaf blades, significantly decreased longevity o...

Tunable control over the functionalization of graphene is significantly important to manipulate its structure and optoelectronic properties. Yet the chemical inertness of this noble carbon material poses a particular challenge for its decoration without forcing reaction conditions. Here, a mild, operationally simple and controllable protocol is developed to synthesize hydroxylated graphene (HOG...

A 39-year-old female presented with a 20-year history of a polymorphic, urticated and papular eruption occurring on sun-exposed sites but sparing the face and hands. She had been referred because, after many years of sunscreen use, she had begun to develop an exacerbation of her rash at sites of application of a new sunscreen, including, for the first time, the face. She described an urticated ...

The structure and dynamics of Earth’s interior depend crucially upon heat flow and thus upon the thermal conductivity of its constituents. We measured optical absorbance spectra of hydrous wadsleyite and hydrous ringwoodite at simultaneous high-pressure and high-temperature conditions up to 26 GPa and 823 K in order to determine their radiative conductivities and to study the potential thermal ...

IT IS widely assumed that the atherosclerosis produced experimentally in rabbits and other animals is, in effect, equivalent to the initial stage in the pathogenesis of coronary heart disease in man. But in most such experiments the observations have actually been made on the aorta rather than on the coronary arteries themselves and even when the heart is studied, damage to the myocardium is se...

First principle calculations were performed to investigate structural, IR, and elastic properties of hydrous ringwoodite and their evolution with pressure up to 36 GPa. Hydrogen defects are introduced by creating Mgor Si-vacancies Mg1.875H0.25SiO4, Mg1.75H0.5SiO4 and Mg2Si0.875H0.5O4. Energy considerations imply that the Mg-vacancy coupled substitution will be the easiest to form, but, in the E...

The single-crystal e astic properties of a hydrous ilicate gamet, hibschite (Ca3A12(SiO4)l.72(H404)l.28), were measured using Brillouin spectroscopic techniques. The adiabatic bulk modulus of hibschite, K s = 99.8+1.0 GPa, and the shear modulus, •t = 64.3_--/-0.5 GPa, are 40% lower than the bulk and shear moduli for anhydrous grossular gamet Ca3A12(SiO4) 3. This increased compressibility of hyd...

In the present work we synthesized a selected series of hydroxylated 3-phenylcoumarins 5-8, with the aim of evaluating in detail their antioxidant properties. From an in depth study of the antioxidant capacity data (ORAC-FL, ESR, CV and ROS inhibition) it was concluded that these derivatives are very good antioxidants, with very interesting profiles in all the performed assays. The study of the...

The chemical degradation of exfoliated black phosphorus (BP) when exposed to ambient conditions can be effectively suppressed via the deposition of Al2O3 dielectric on the BP surface. A good understanding of the interactions between the BP layer and Al2O3 dielectric is important for practical device applications. In the presented paper, first principles calculations have been performed to study...