We have investigated the properties of the two hemes bound to histidine in the H10 positions of the uniquely structured apo form of the heme binding four-helix bundle protein maquette [H10H24-L6I,L13F](2), here called [I(6)F(13)H(24)](2) for the amino acids at positions 6 (I), 13 (F) and 24 (H), respectively. The primary structure of each alpha-helix, alpha-SH, in [I(6)F(13)H(24)](2) is Ac-CGGG...

Diazotization of 3-amino-2-cMoro pyridine (3) in the presence of dithizone (5) gave dphenyl-2-phenylazo-4H-pyrid[o3 ,2-e] [1,3,4] thiadiazine (6). Reaction of 2- chloro-3-nitropyridine (2, G=H) with (5) dfordd 4-phenyl -2-phenylazo -4Hpyrido [2,3-el [1,3,4] thiadiazine (7). Reduction of the latter with H gas in the presence of Raney nickel gave the corresponding amino derivative (12). One ...

Mammalian interleukin-13 (IL-13) is an important regulatory T2 cytokine secreted by activated T lymphocytes. The IL-13 receptor (IL-13R) has two different chains, IL-13Ralpha1 and IL-13Ralpha2. Although the chicken IL-13 gene is well characterized, little is known about IL-13Rs. We cloned a cDNA encoding the 380 amino acid pro-peptide of chicken IL-13Ralpha2 (chIL-13Ralpha2) and developed a mon...

Infrared absorption spectra, in the vapour phase, have been recorded in the regions of NH, OH and carbonyl stretching frequencies, for a series of 1-substituted uracils and 9-substituted adenine and hypoxanthine, formal analogues of the natural nucleosides of uracil, adenine and hypoxanthine found in DNA and/or RNA. A number of related analogues was also examined, including the N-methyl derivat...