The objective of this study was to explore the utility of nitrile gloves as a replacement for latex surgical gloves in recovering bacteria from the hands. Two types of nitrile gloves were compared to latex gloves using the parallel streak method. Streaks of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus were made on tryptic soy agar plates, and the zones of inhibition were measured around piec...

Paclitaxel (taxol) is an antimicrotubule agent widely used in the treatment of cancer. Taxol is prepared in a semisynthetic route by coupling the N-benzoyl-(2R,3S)-3-phenylisoserine sidechain to the baccatin III core structure. Precursors of the taxol sidechain have previously been prepared in chemoenzymatic approaches using acylases, lipases, and reductases, mostly featuring the enantioselecti...

A strategy for the stereoselective functionalization of thietane 1-oxide has been developed. Mono (C2 substituted) and doubly (C2, C4 disubstituted) functionalized thietanes have been obtained from the readily available thietane 1-oxide by using the corresponding organometallic intermediates that reacted with electrophiles leaving intact the 4-membered ring.

Sulforaphane, an isothiocyanate from broccoli, is one of the most potent food-derived anticarcinogens. This compound is not present in the intact vegetable, rather it is formed from its glucosinolate precursor, glucoraphanin, by the action of myrosinase, a thioglucosidase enzyme, when broccoli tissue is crushed or chewed. However, a number of studies have demonstrated that sulforaphane yield fr...

The spectroscopic responses to environmental changes (e.g. different solvents or temperatures) of the nitrile stretching transition of small molecule-nitriles or unstructured peptides were explored to better understand the observations of the nitrile-modified RNase complexes. In general, when solvated by a polar solvent, it is expected that the large ground state dipole moment of nitrile-contai...

Room-temperature ferromagnetism is observed in (110) oriented ZnO films made from targets containing 5 at. % of Sc, Ti, V, Fe, Co, or Ni, but not Cr, Mn, or Cu ions. There are large moments, 2.6 micro(B) and 0.5 micro(B)/dopant atom for Co- and Ti-containing oxides, respectively. There is also a moment of 0.3 micro(B)/Sc. Magnetization is very anisotropic, with variations of up to a factor of 3...

Bacteria were enriched from soil samples with succinate as a carbon source and racemic naproxen nitrile [2-(6-methoxy-2-naphthyl)propionitrile] as sole source of nitrogen. Since naproxen nitrile was only poorly soluble in water media amended with different water-immiscible organic phases were used for the enrichments. With pristane (2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecane) as the organic phase two bac...

In the presence of magnesium and hexamethylphosphorictriamide, HMPT, trimethylchlorosilane, TMS-C1, reacts with cyanoepoxides to give related compounds. Ring cleavage at ? - position of cyanoepoxide, 1, followed by the addition of two trimethylsilyl groups leads to 2 then substitution of OSiMei by trimethylsilyl or H takes place to give ?, ? - bis (trimethylsilyl) nitrile or ? - trimethyls...

Nitrile hydratase (NHase) is an enzyme used in the industrial biotechnological production of acrylamide. The active site, which contains nonheme iron or noncorrin cobalt, is buried in the protein core at the interface of two domains, alpha and beta. Hydrogen bonds between betaArg-56 and alphaCys-114 sulfenic acid (alphaCEA114) are important to maintain the enzymatic activity. The enzyme may be ...

Enantiomers of N-substituted benzofuro[2,3-c]pyridin-6-ols have been synthesized, and the subnanomolar affinity and potent agonist activity of the known racemic N-phenethyl substituted benzofuro[2,3-c]pyridin-6-ol can now be ascribed to the 4aS,9aR enantiomer. The energy-minimized structures suggest that the active enantiomer bears a greater three-dimensional resemblance to morphine than to an ...