The effect of extraction buffer on extractable calpain and calpastatin activity in postmortem muscles was examined. Muscles were removed from ovine carcasses 24 h after slaughter and extracted with three volumes of two extraction buffers containing 20 (pH 7.5) and 100 (pH 8.3) mM Tris. There was a significant difference in pH of the muscle homogenates, having a pH of 5.84 and 7.58 for 20 and 10...

A flame retardant used in children's sleepwear, tris-(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)phosphate (Fyrol FR2) is a mutagen in the Salmonella-mammalian tissue homogenate test after it has been activated by mouse or rat liver homogenate. The expected enzymatic hydrolysis product, 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol, is similarly a mutagen after activation by liver homogenate. A proposed metabolite of the flame retardant...

The cations and anions of the title salt, 3C(6)H(16)N(+)·HSO(4) (-)·SO(4) (2-), are linked by N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional network. The hydrogensulfate ion, with a single S-O(H) bond of 1.563 (2) Å, forms a short O-H⋯O hydrogen bond [O⋯O = 2.609 (2) Å] to the sulfate ion. The hydrogensulfate ion accepts two hydrogen bonds from two cations, whereas the sulfate ion, as ...

In the crystal structure of the title salt, C(4)H(12)NO(3) (+)·C(2)F(3)O(2) (-), N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the ions, forming a complex three-dimensional network.

Experiments in which chloroplasts were washed with tris and tricine buffers at different pH's indicated that the non-protonated (uncharged) form of tris was inhibitory to the Hill reaction while the protonated form of tris and the zwitterionic forms of tricine were non-inhibitory. Buffers analogous to tris and tricine gave similar results. Photoreduction of NADP could be restored to the inhibit...

Cultures of escherichia coli growing exponentially in Trisacetate medium were subjected to nutritional shift-up and the pool size of guanosine 5'-3'-diphosphate-3'diphosphate (ppGpp) as well as the rates of protein synthesis and net RNA synthesis were determined. In the shift to a rich medium (glucose plus 19 amino acids plus hypoxanthine) the basal level of ppGpp falls immediately with a decay...

The slow voltage dependent calcium channels have been described in skeletal muscle fibres of adult frogs and rats (Sanchez and Stefani 1978; Donaldson and Beam 1983). Some data have suggested that they may participate in excitationcontraction coupling (ECC) (Beam et al. 1986; Ildefonse et al. 1985; Rios et al. 1986). However, some other investigations have shown the independence of ?"'' tion of...