Di- and triporphyrin arrays consisting of 5,15-diphenylporphyrinatomagnesium(II) (MgDPP) coordinated to free-base and Ni(II) porphyrinyl mono- and bis-phosphine oxides, as well as the self-coordinating diphenyl[10,20-diphenylporphyrinatomagnesium(II)-5-yl]phosphine oxide [MgDPP(Ph(2)PO)], were synthesised in excellent yields and characterised by various spectroscopic techniques. Phosphine oxide...

The TATA element is a well-known example of a DNA promoter sequence recognized by the TATA box binding protein (TBP) through its intrinsic motion and deformability. Although TBP recognizes the TATA element octamer unusually (through the minor groove, which lacks the distinctive features of the major groove), single base-pair replacements alter transcriptional activity. Recent crystallographic e...

Small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) is an experimental biophysical method used for gaining insight into the structure of large biomolecular complexes. Under appropriate chemical conditions, the information obtained from a SAXS experiment can be equated to the pair distribution function, which is the distribution of distances between every pair of points in the complex. Here we develop a mathema...

Precise conversion of genetic information into proteins is essential to cellular health. However, a margin of error exists and is at its highest on the stage of translation of mRNA by the ribosome. Here we present three crystal structures of 70S ribosome complexes with messenger RNA and transfer RNAs and show that when a G•U base pair is at the first position of the codon-anticodon helix a conv...

In this article, we consider pair frames in Banach spaces and   introduce Banach pair frames. Some various concepts in the frame theory such as frames, Schauder frames, Banach frames and atomic decompositions are considered as   special kinds of (Banach) pair frames.  Some frame-like inequalities  for (Banach)  pair frames are presented. The elements that participant  in the construction of (Ba...

A pair of thiocarboxylate lantern complexes, [PtNi(SAc)4(L)] (L = pyCN (2), HpipCN (3)) and three new {N,S} chelated mercaptopyridine complexes [PtNi(mpyS)4(L)] H2O (4), MeCN (5), (6)) have been synthesized characterized by SCXRD, 1H NMR UV–vis spectroscopies, as well elemental analysis RT solution magnetization. detailed structural comparison was made the {O,S} donor systems that demonstrates ...

few novel cobalt(ii) and copper(ii) complexes [m(fmp)3]cl2, [m(fmp)(bpy)2]cl2,[m(fmp)(phen)2]cl2 and [m(fmp)(phen)(bpy)]cl2 (fmp = 3-furan-2-ylmethylene-pentane-2,4-dione, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) have been synthesized andcharacterized by elemental analyses, molar conductance, magnetic susceptibility measurements,ir, electronic, epr, mass spectra and cyclic voltam...

1, N (2)-Propanodeoxyguanosine (PdG) is a stable structural analogue for the 3-(2'-deoxy-beta- d- erythro-pentofuranosyl)pyrimido[1,2-alpha]purin-10(3 H)-one (M 1dG) adduct derived from exposure of DNA to base propenals and to malondialdehyde. The structures of ternary polymerase-DNA-dNTP complexes for three template-primer DNA sequences were determined, with the Y-family Sulfolobus solfataricu...

Cytokeratins are expressed in different types of epithelial cells in certain combinations of polypeptides of the acidic (type I) and basic (type II) subfamilies, showing "expression pairs." We have examined in vitro the ability of purified and denatured cytokeratin polypeptides of human, bovine, and rat origin to form the characteristic heterotypic subunit complexes, as determined by various el...

A series of donor-acceptor heteroleptic open sandwiches with formula CpM-M'Pyl (M = B, Al, Ga; M' = Li, Na; Cp = cyclopentadienyl; Pyl = pentadienyl) has been designed in silico using density functional theory. The most stable complexes are those containing boron as a donor atom. A molecular orbital analysis shows that the s character of the lone pair located at the group 13 element is mainly r...