A facile synthesis of highly functionalized 2H-iminopyran derivatives by the multi-component reaction of cyclohexyl isocyanide, dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates, arylglyoxals and arylamines is described. The zwitterionic intermediate produced by addition of cyclohexyl isocyanide to electron-deficient acetylene diesters was trapped by the electrophilic imine moiety of α-iminoketones, derived from...

The cathelicidin derived bovine antimicrobial peptide BMAP27 exhibits an effective microbicidal activity and moderate cytotoxicity towards erythrocytes. Irrespective of its therapeutic and multidimensional potentiality, the structural studies are still elusive. Moreover, the mechanism of BMAP27 mediated pore formation in heterogeneous lipid membrane systems is poorly explored. Here, we studied ...

Two different zwitterionic block copolymers (BCs) and a cationic BC were synthesized from the same BC precursor, which consisted of a polystyrene (PS) block and a poly[N-(3-dimethylamino-1-propyl)acrylamide] block. The zwitterionic BCs contained the dimethylammonioacetate (carboxybetaine) and dimethylammoniopropyl sulfonate (sulfobetaine) groups. Thin films cast from these polymers were investi...

Zwitterionic polysaccharide antigens (ZPSs) were recently shown to activate T cells in a class II major histocompatibility complex (MHCII)-dependent fashion requiring antigen presenting cell (APC)-mediated oxidative processing although little is known about the mechanism or affinity of carbohydrate presentation (Cobb BA, Wang Q, Tzianabos AO, Kasper DL. 2004. Polysaccharide processing and prese...

The acid-base chemistry of three zwitterionic compounds, namely anthranilic (2-aminobenzoic acid), N-methylanthranilic and N-phenylanthranilic acid has been characterized in terms of the macroconstants Ka1, Ka2, the isoelectric point pHI, the tautomerization constant Kz and microconstants k11, k12, k21, k22. The potentiometric titration method was used to determine the macrodissociation constan...