We examined the effects of the cell-permeable, broad spectrum peptide caspase inhibitors, benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp(OMe)-fluoromethyl ketone (Z-VAD.fmk), and BOC-Asp(OMe)-fluoromethyl ketone (BOC-D.fmk), on apoptosis induced by anti-CD2, anti-Fas, and the protein kinase inhibitor staurosporine in activated human peripheral T lymphocytes. We monitored ultrastructural, flow cytometric, and bi...

BACKGROUND The HIVCOBOC-RGT study (NCT01925183) was the first study to evaluate response-guided shortening of the duration of boceprevir (BOC)-based triple therapy in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/hepatitis C virus genotype 1-coinfected patients (HIV/HCV-GT1). METHODS After 4 weeks of pegylated interferon-α-2a/ribavirin (PEGIFN/RBV) lead-in, patients with target-not-detectable HCV-RNA at...

We have synthesized the information on marine and lirnnetic bacterial biomass carbon (BOC) and phytoplankton biomass carbon (PhytoC) to examine the relationships between these major biotic carbon pools. On the basis of 6 limnetic and 6 marine studies we found a good similarity for the correlations of BOC vs PhytoC in both systems although the slope was substantially lower than for sim~lar corre...

Experimental For the synthesis of: Sodium 2'-(Dicyclohexylphosphanyl)-2,6-diisopropyl-(1,1-biphenyl)-4-sulfonate (sXPhos) 12 4 Standard Reaction Procedure of 5-bromoindole 15 under reflux: 5 Microwave Reaction Procedure of 5-bromoindole 15: 5 Standard Microwave Reaction Procedure for Tryptophans: 5 (S)-2-Amino-3-(5-(phenylethynyl)-1H-indol-3-yl)propanoic acid 19 6 (S)-2-Amino-3-5-((3-fluorophen...

Sequential oligopeptides prepared by condensation of peptides with the sequence Ala-Pro-Gly or Gly-Pro-Gly were examined as possible substrates or inhibitors for the synthesis of hydroxyproline by protocollagen proline hydroxylase. The tripeptide BOC-Ala-Pro-Gly-OMe (where BOC-represents 1-butoxycarboxyland Me represents methyl) was not hydroxylated, but oligopeptides ranging in size from BOC(A...

The synthesis and conformational analysis of a series of pyridin-2-yl guanidine derivatives using NMR, X-ray crystallography, and B3LYP/6-31+G** theoretical studies are reported. A remarkable difference was observed in the (1)H NMR spectra of the guanidinium salts as compared with their N,N'-di-Boc protected and neutral analogues. This difference corresponds to a 180° change in the dihedral ang...

The periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis requires porphyrin supplementation for growth. Previously, in order to inhibit P. gingivalis growth, we synthesised very effective 'Trojan horse' ester and amide-linked deuterporphyrin-nitroimidazole (DPIX-Nim) adducts that exploited this requirement to transport metronidazole-derived antibiotics with excellent antimicrobial selectivity and reco...

The long PN code in a Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) modulated signal has a higher rate than the GPS C/A code, which makes the acquisition process in the new global navigation satellite system (GNSS) much more complex. To achieve a fast acquisition of the GNSS signal with a reduced number of correlators and low computational complexity, a two-stage deterministic compressed (DS) GNSS acquisition te...