The design of peptidomimetics able to mimic the structural and binding motifs of proteins is a major challenge in the development of new pharmaceutical tools. The b-turn motif is one of the major secondary structure elements that plays an important role in the folding of globular proteins and is often implicated as a recognition element in receptor–ligand interactions. Considerable effort has b...

A method has been developed for measuring proŽ les of aerosol mass on thin (480 1g/cm2) Apiezon-L coatedMylar Ž lms employed in rotating drum aerosol impactor samplers using the ion beam analysis technique scanning transmission ion microscopy (STIM). The greased Mylar Ž lms are excellent impaction substrates and possess excellent uniformity in projected density, making them an ideal substrate f...

In this paper, we generalize some results from Hilbert C*-modules to pro-C*-algebra case. We also give a new proof of the known result that l2(A) is aHilbert module over a pro-C*-algebra A.

The rejection of trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) by an osmotically driven membrane filtration process was investigated. A set of 40 compounds representing major groups of TrOCs of concern was selected for this study. The rejection of the TrOCs by a commercial cellulose acetate asymmetric forward osmosis membrane, as well as a ''tight'' commercial thin-film composite nanofiltration (NF) membr...

Enantiopure sulfoxides are valuable asymmetric starting materials and are important chiral auxiliaries in organic synthesis. Toluene monooxygenases (TMOs) have been shown previously to catalyze regioselective hydroxylation of substituted benzenes and phenols. Here we show that TMOs are also capable of performing enantioselective oxidation reactions of aromatic sulfides. Mutagenesis of position ...