Cells of a cloned line of murine virus-induced erythroleukemia were stimulated to differentiate along the erythroid pathway by dimethyl sulfoxide at concentrations that did not inhibit growth. A rise in the number of benzidine-positive normoblasts was accompanied by increased synthesis of heme and hemoglobin and a decrease in the malignancy of the cells. This action of dimethyl sulfoxide, which...

New podand-type fluoroionophores having two pyrene moieties: 2,2´-bis(1-pyrenylacetyloxy)diphenyl sulfide (3), 2,2´-bis(1-pyrenylacetyloxy)diphenyl sulfoxide (4), and 2,2´-bis(1-pyrenylacetyloxy)diphenyl sulfone (5), have been synthesized by connecting two 1-pyrenecarbonylmethyl groups with the two hydroxy groups of 2,2´-dihydroxydiphenyl sulfide, sulfoxide, and sulfone, respectively. Their com...

Microbial metabolism of organosulfur compounds is of interest in the petroleum industry for in-field viscosity reduction and desulfurization. Here, dibenzyl sulfide (DBS) metabolism in white rot fungi was studied. Trametes trogii UAMH 8156, Trametes hirsuta UAMH 8165, Phanerochaete chrysosporium ATCC 24725, Trametes versicolor IFO 30340 (formerly Coriolus sp.), and Tyromyces palustris IFO 30339...

Large quantities of cephalosporins have entered into aquatic environment in recent years, posing potential adverse effect to human health and ecological safety. In this study, cefazolin, one of widely used cephalosporins, was targeted to explore its transformation behaviors in chlorination disinfection process. With the help of ultra high performance liquid chromatography and high resolution ma...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Nd(C(9)H(3)O(6))(C(2)H(6)OS)(2)](n), contains one Nd(3+) ion, one benzene-1,3,5-tricarb-oxy-lic ligand and two coordinating dimethyl sulfoxide mol-ecules. The Nd(3+) ion is coordinated by six O atoms from four carboxyl-ate groups of the benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxyl-ate ligands and two O atoms from two dimethyl sulfoxide mol-ecules. The metal-organic clus...

In the mononuclear title complex, [Zn(C(10)H(8)N(2))(2)(C(2)H(6)OS)(2)](C(24)H(20)B)(2)·C(2)H(6)OS, the Zn(II) ion is coordinated by four N atoms of two bidentate 2,2'-bipyridine mol-ecules and by the O atoms of two cis-disposed dimethyl sulfoxide mol-ecules in a distorted octa-hedral geometry. The S atom and the methyl groups of one of the coordinated dimethyl sulfoxide mol-ecules are disorder...

Proton magnetic resonance was used to study the interactions between nucleosides and phosphate monoanion in dimethyl sulfoxide. Ribose was able to form two mutually exclusive 1:1 complexes involving either OH3' and OH5' or OH3' and OH2' as hydrogen bond donor groups. Deoxyribose could form only one of these complexes. A specific interaction of phosphate with the base moiety of nucleosides was o...

We here present a new method to measure the degree of protein-bound methionine sulfoxide formation at a proteome-wide scale. In human Jurkat cells that were stressed with hydrogen peroxide, over 2000 oxidation-sensitive methionines in more than 1600 different proteins were mapped and their extent of oxidation was quantified. Meta-analysis of the sequences surrounding the oxidized methionine res...

Friend erythroleukemia cells of line Fw are noninducible for hemoglobin synthesis by dimethyl sulfoxide, butyric acid, and other agents. However, these agents were found to induce hemoglobin synthesis if the cells were also treated with exogenous hemin. Butyric acid (or, to a lesser extent, dimethyl sulfoxide) by itself induced accumulation of the erythroid-specific membrane protein spectrin. T...