So far, it has been suggested that phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylases (PEPCs) and PEPC kinases (PPCKs) fulfill several important non-photosynthetic functions. However, the biological functions of soybean PPCKs, especially in alkali stress response, are not yet well known. In previous studies, we constructed a Glycine soja transcriptional profile, and identified three PPCK genes (GsPPCK1, GsPPCK2 ...

Soil particle interactions are strongly influenced by the concentration, valence and ion species and the pH of the bulk solution, which will also affect aggregate stability and particle transport. In this study, we investigated clay aggregate stability in the presence of different alkali ions (Li+, Na+, K+, and Cs+) at concentrations from10-5 to 10-1 mol L-1. Strong specific ion effects on clay...

Ultraviolet matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometric (UV-MALDI-MS) analysis of highly acidic, thermally labile species such as glycosaminoglycan-derived oligosaccharides is complicated by their poor ionization efficiency and tendency to fragment through the loss of sulfo groups. We have utilized a systematic approach to evaluate the effect of alkali metal counterions on th...

A ditopic receptor is shown to have an impressive ability to recognize and extract the ion pairs of various alkali halides into organic solution. X-ray diffraction analysis indicates that the salts are bound in the solid state as contact ion pairs. Transport experiments, using a supported liquid membrane and high salt concentration in the source phase, show that the ditopic receptor can transpo...

Path integral Monte Carlo calculations of (4)He nanodroplets doped with alkali (Na(+), K(+) and Cs(+)) and alkali-earth (Be(+) and Mg(+)) ions are presented. We study the system at T = 1 K and between 14 and 128 (4)He atoms. For all studied systems, we find that the ion is well localized at the center of the droplet with the formation of a "snowball" of well-defined shells of localized (4)He at...

We study within an ionic model the structure and energetics of neutral and charged molecular clusters which may be relevant to molten ThCl4 and to its liquid mixtures with alkali chlorides, with reference to Raman scattering experiments by Photiadis and Papatheodorou. As stressed by these authors, the most striking facts for ThCl 4 in comparison to other tetrachloride compounds (and in particul...

2014 An atomic beam source for negative polarized lithium ions is operated at the Heidelberg EN-Tandem since 1974. A highly efficient surface ionizer is used. Vector and tensor polarized beams of 6Li (I = 1) and 7Li (I = 3/2) have been produced with currents up to 150 nA of Li3+ at the target. The second rank tensor polarization of both beams is calibrated absolutely. Preliminary results of pro...

Analysis of 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) and N-arachidonoylethanolamide (anandamide) via alkali or alkaline earth metal-adduct high-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) in fast-atom bombardment (FAB) ionization-mass spectrometry (MS) is described. The CID-MS/MS of the [2-AG+Li](+) or [2-AG+Na](+) ion undergoes charge-remote fragmentation (CRF), which is useful for the determination of t...

NMR experiments on sodium biphenyl (NaBp), potassium biphenyl (KBp) and ribidium biphenyl (RbBp), dissolved in various solvents are summarized with emphasis on the structural information which can be obtained from such experiments. The crystal structures of NaBp.2Tg (Tg = triglyme), KBp.2Ttg and RbBp.2Ttg (Ttg tetraglyme) are discussed, in relation to the NMR results obtained for these systems ...