Partially fed (4 -5 days) H .a. anatolicum (Iranian isolate) female adult ticks were used for preparation of antigens of midgut which are, the gut supernate antigen (GS), gut membrane antigen (GM), triton extracted gut membrane antigen ( TX-GM ) and sodium dodecyl sulphate treated Triton extracted gut membrane antigen (SDS-TX-GM). The New Zealand white rabbits were immunized with GS, GM, TX- ...

Amide-amide hydrogen bonds have been implicated in directing protein folding and enhancing protein stability. Inversion transfer (13)C NMR spectroscopy and IR spectroscopy were used to compare the ability of various amide solvents and of water to alter the rate of the cis-trans isomerization of the prolyl peptide bond of Ac-Gly-[β,δ-(13)C]Pro-OMe and the amide I vibrational mode of [(13)C=O]Ac-...

Sucrose phosphorylase catalysed glycosylation of glyceric acid amide with complete regio- and diastereo-selectivity is studied. (R)-2-O-α-D-Glucopyranosyl glyceric acid amide was obtained in high yield from single-step transformation of racemic glyceric acid amide and sucrose. Non-productive binding of (S)-glyceric acid amide appeared to underlie strict enantiodiscrimination by the enzyme, thus...

[reaction: see text] We report for the first time that stoichiometric and even catalytic quantities of weak acids in aqueous solution can very efficiently catalyze amide isomerization in a carefully designed system in which a proton donor is situated so that intramolecular hydrogen bonding to the amide nitrogen is highly favored. Our results provide the first experimental verification that hydr...

We used ultraviolet resonance Raman (UVRR) spectra to examine the spatial dependence and the thermodynamics of R-helix melting of an isotopically labeled R-helical, 21-residue, mainly alanine peptide. The peptide was synthesized with six natural abundance amino acids at the center and mainly perdeuterated residues elsewhere. CR deuteration of a peptide bond decouples CR-H bending from N-H bendi...

four amidine nr2b-selective nmda receptor antagonists, n-( 2-methoxy benzyl) -3-phenyl-acrylamidine, n-[diduterio(2-methoxyphenyl) methyl]-3-phenyl-acrylamidine, n-benzyl-3-phenyl-acryl amidine and n-[diduterio(phenyl)methyl]-3-phenyl-acrylamidine, all fourlabeled with carbon-14 in the 1-position, have been synthesized as part of 5-step sequence fromba14co3.

(15)NH(4) (+) and [(15)N](amide)-glutamine externally supplied to detached nodules from soybean plants (cv. Tamanishiki) were incorporated within nodule tissues by vacuum infiltration and metabolized to various nitrogen compounds during 60 minutes of incubation time. In the case of (15)NH(4) (+) - feeding, the (15)N abundance ratio was highest in the amide nitrogen of glutamine, followed by glu...

The new ligand N3Py(amide)SR and its Fe(II) complex [Fe(II)(N3Py(amide)SR)](BF4)2 (1) are described. Reaction of 1 with PhIO at -40 °C gives metastable [Fe(IV)(O)(N3Py(amide)SR)](2+) (2), containing a sulfide ligand and a single amide H-bond donor in proximity to the terminal oxo group. Direct evidence for H-bonding is seen in a structural analogue, [Fe(II)(Cl)(N3Py(amide)SR)](BF4)2 (3). Comple...