We study the nuclear stopping in high energy nuclear collisions using the constituent quark model. It is assumed that wounded nucleons with different number of interacted quarks hadronize in different ways. The probabilities of having such wounded nucleons are evaluated for proton-proton, protonnucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions. After examining our model in protonproton and proton-nucleus ...

Density functional theory calculations have been performed to study the experimentally synthesized Au30S(SR)18 and two related Au30(SR)18 and Au30S2(SR)18 clusters. The patterns of thiolate ligands on the gold cores for the three thiolate-protected Au30 nanoclusters are on the basis of the "divide and protect" concept. A novel extended protecting motif with u3-S, S(Au2(SR)2)2AuSR, is discovered...

Developing approaches to discover protein–protein interactions (PPIs) remains a fundamental challenge. A chemical biology platform is applied here to identify novel PPIs for the AAA+ superfamily oncoprotein reptin. An in silico screen coupled with chemical optimization provided Liddean, a nucleotide-mimetic which modulates reptin's oligomerization status, protein-binding activity and global con...

the nmr spectra of azo dyes, 5-arylazobarbituric (5a-g), 5-arylazo-1,3-dimethylbarbituric(6a-g) and 5-arylazothiobarbituric acids (7a-g) were studied in dmso-d6 in differentconcentrations. an intramolecular hydrogen bond was observed and indicating that thehydrazone forms is mostly predominant. the peak of the hydrazone proton was severelybroadened and its chemical shift appeared at down field ...

[This paper is a commentary on the paper Distinguishing multiple chemotaxis Y protein conformations with laserpolarized Xe NMR by Lowery et al. in this issue.] The present contribution highlights a remarkable progress in biomolecular NMR spectroscopy. The xenon isotope Xe is an NMR active spin-1/2 nucleus. It has been introduced into surface NMR spectroscopy by Ito and Fraissard (1982). Since t...

Developing approaches to discover protein-protein interactions (PPIs) remains a fundamental challenge. A chemical biology platform is applied here to identify novel PPIs for the AAA+ superfamily oncoprotein reptin. An in silico screen coupled with chemical optimization provided Liddean, a nucleotide-mimetic which modulates reptin's oligomerization status, protein-binding activity and global con...

We present a detailed study of chemical freeze-out in nucleus-nucleus collisions at beam energies of 11.6, 30, 40, 80 and 158A GeV. By analyzing hadronic multiplicities within the statistical hadronization approach, we have studied the chemical equilibration of the system as a function of center of mass energy and of the parameters of the source. Additionally, we have tested and compared differ...

A combination of solid state 1H NMR chemical shift measurements and empirical chemical shift calculations has been used to interpret 1H solid state chemical shifts of a model peptide (Ala-Gly)15 for the crystalline domain of Bombyx mori silk fibroin in silk I and silk II structures, including a treatment of both intra- and intermolecular arrangements. Silk I and silk II are the structures of si...

The radioactive isotopes of lithium have been the subject of numerous investigations, particularly after the discovery of the exotic Halo nucleus Li in 1985 [1]. Matter radii, excited states and electromagnetic moments have been determined. But the charge distribution inside the nuclei and how it is affected by the increasing number of neutrons is still an open question. Charge radii from cross...