Effect of temperature and light was investigated on a thin film of organic semiconductor formyl-TIPPCu(II) deposited on a glass substrate with preliminary evaporated gold electrodes. The electrical capacitance and resistance of the fabricated device were evaluated under the effect of temperature and light. The relative capacitance of the fabricated sensor increased by 4.3 times by rising temper...

qct calculations were performed to study the behavior of energized nh2oh formed by association collision of nh2 radical with oh radical. a potential energy surface that describes the behavior of the title reaction has been constructed by interpolation of ab initio data. h2o, hon, hno, nh3, o, h2no, cis or trans-honh, and h products and two vibrationally energized nh2oh and nh3o adducts were obs...

The posttranslational modification of histone and other chromatin proteins has a well recognized but poorly defined role in the physiology of gene expression. With implications for interfering with these epigenetic mechanisms, we now report the existence of a relatively abundant secondary modification of chromatin proteins, the N(6)-formylation of lysine that appears to be uniquely associated w...

The antiinflammatory drug, phenylbutazone (PBZ), has been studied in terms of its influence on chemotactic deactivation of human neutrophils. When PBZ was present during the time of preincubation of cells with N-formyl-methionyl-phenylalanine (F-Met-Phe), loss of subsequent spontaneous mobility and chemotactic responsivity to F-Met-Phe did not occur. The action of PBZ to protect neutrophils fro...

Plasmenyl phospholipids are a structurally unique class of lipids that contain a vinyl ether substituent at the sn-1 position of the glycerol backbone, imparting unique susceptibility to oxidative reactions that may take place at the cell membrane lipid bilayer. Several studies have supported the hypothesis that plasmalogens may be antioxidant molecules that protect cells from oxidative stress....

In prokaryotes, PurU (10-formyl tetrahydrofolate [THF] deformylase) metabolizes 10-formyl THF to formate and THF for purine and Gly biosyntheses. The Arabidopsis thaliana genome contains two putative purU genes, At4g17360 and At5g47435. Knocking out these genes simultaneously results in plants that are smaller and paler than the wild type. These double knockout (dKO) mutant plants show a 70-fol...

* Present address, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley 4, California. 1 The following abbreviations have been used; THF, tetrahydrofolic acid; lo-formyl-THF, N*o-formyltetrahydrofolic acid; 5,10-methenyl-THF, the cyclic N6-NrOimidazolinium derivative of 5-formyl-THF (anhydroleucovorin or anhydrocitrovorum factor) ; ATP, adenosine triphosphate; ADP, adenosine diphospha...