Chemical bonding

Biochemistry is the study of the chemical composition and reactions of living matter. All chemicals in the body fall into one of two major classes: organic or inorganic compounds. Organic compounds contain carbon. All organic compounds are covalently bonded molecules, and many are large. All other chemicals in the body are considered inorganic compounds. These include water, salts, and many acids and bases. Organic and inorganic compounds are equally essential for life.

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Quantum Mechanics and the Hydrogen Atom, Many-Electron Atoms and Chemical Bonding, Molecular Orbitals, Spectroscopy, and Chemical Bonding,... as the main contents of the lesson lecture 9 "Tentative material to be covered for Exam 2". Invite you to consult the lesson for more documents serving the academic needs and research.

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The exocyclic hydroxymethyl group of the
-D-1-amino-1-deoxyglucopyranose can rotate around the carbon-carbon bond. Potential energy surface for this rotation has been investigated using ab initio quantum chemical methods. Relevant stationary points, including for the first time rotational transition states have been characterized by full geometry optimization using basis sets 6-31G(d) and 6-31G(2d,lp). There is a total of six stationary points along the hydroxymethyl rotational surface, including three minima and three transition states were identified.

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The Elastomeric Alloy (EA) materials based on polypropylene (PP) and Vietnam waste Rubber Powder (RP) has been prepared in internal mixer of Haake in melting state with peroxide initiator. Dynamically stabilizing process at presence of radical donor and acceptor systems has leaded to form chemical bonds on the surface between two phases of surspending rubber powder and PP matrix and then to form intermediate phase surrounding Rubber Particles and making EA higher dense than that of materials by simple mixing RP and PP without networking.

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Two chemical treatments were applied to jute fibers to create a better bonding of fiber to resin in natural composite materials. The jute fibers have been treated with hydroxide potassium (KOH) and a bleaching agent, canxi hypochlorite (Ca(OCl)2.4H2O), in varying periods. Characterization techniques such as FT-IR, SEM were used to evaluate the effect of chemical treatments on fiber structure. After treatment the surface topography of jute was clean and microfibrils were revealed, these lead to an enhancement in mechanical properties and interfacial strength between jute fiber and PP.

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A central metal atom bonded to a group of molecules or ions is a metal complex. • If it’s charged, it’s a complex ion. Chemistry • Compounds containing complexes are coordination of Coordination Compounds compounds.The molecules or ions coordinating to the metal are the ligands.

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The aldo-keto reductase (AKR) superfamily comprises proteins that catalyse mainly the reduction of carbonyl groups or carbon–carbon double bonds of a wide variety of substrates including steroids. Such types of reactions have been proposed to occur in the biosynthetic pathway of the cardiac glycosides produced by Digitalis plants. Two cDNAs encoding leaf-specific AKR proteins (DpAR1 and DpAR2) were isolated from a D. purpurea cDNA library using the rat D4-3-ketosteroid 5b-reductase clone.

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We have characterized a glycosylated, 31 amino-acid peptide of 4932 Da isolated from Drosophila melanogaster males. The mature peptide contains a sugar moiety of 1184 Da at a NDT consensus glycosylation site and a disulfide bond. It is synthesized in the male ejaculatory duct via a 54 amino-acid precursor containing an N-terminal signal peptide and Arg-Lys at the C-terminus which is cleaved off during maturation. The gene contains an intron of 53 bp and is localized in the cytological region 99B of the D. melanogaster genome....

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Weak neurotoxins from snake venom are small proteins with five disulfide bonds, which have been shown to be poor bindersof nicotinicacetylcholine receptors.We report on the cloning and sequencing of four cDNAs encoding weak neurotoxins fromNaja sputatrixvenomglands. The protein encoded by one of them, Wntx-5, has been synthesized by solid-phase synthesis and characterized.

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Human hepatitis delta (HDV) ribozyme is one of small ribozymes, such as hammerhead and hairpin ribozymes, etc. Its secondary structure shows pseudoknot structure com-posed of four stems (I to IV) and three single-stranded regions (SSrA, -B and -C). The 3D structure of 3¢-cleaved product of genomic HDV ribozyme provided extensive information about tertiary hydrogen bonding interactions between nucleotide bases, phosphate oxygens and 2¢OHs including new stem structure P1.1.

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A new human/rat CRH analogue has been synthesized using the Fmoc/tBu solid-phase synthetic protocol. The sequence ofthe new peptide differs from the original in two positions, 12 and 15, at which the native amino acids L-phenylalanine 12 and L-leucine 15 have been replaced by the nonprotein amino acids D-phenylalanine and a-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib), respectively. The high resolution three-dimensional solution structure of [D-Phe12, Aib15]CRH has been determined by 688 dis-tance constraints (656 meaningful NOE and 32 H-bonds distance limits) and 21 angle constraints. ...

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The structurally homologous mononuclear iron and man-ganese superoxide dismutases (FeSOD and MnSOD, respectively) containa highly conservedglutamine residue in the active site which projects toward the active-site metal centre and participates in an extensive hydrogen bonding network. The position of this residue is different for each SOD isoenzyme (Q69 in FeSOD and Q146 in MnSOD of Escherichia coli).

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The disulfide structure of the CRIPTO/FRL-1/CRYPTIC (CFC) domain of human Cripto protein was determined by a combination of enzymatic and chemical fragmentation, followed by chromatographic separation of the fragments, and characterization by mass spectrometry and N-terminal sequencing. These studies showed that Cys115 forms a disulfide bond with Cys133, Cys128 with Cys149, and Cys131 with Cys140.

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Three mammalian ADAMTS enzymes, ADAMTS-1, -4 and -5, are known to cleave aggrecan at certain glutamyl bonds and are considered to be largely responsible for car-tilage aggrecan catabolismobservedduring the development of arthritis. We have previously reported that certain cate-chins, polyphenolic compounds found in highest concen-trationingreentea(Camellia sinensis), are capable of inhibiting cartilage aggrecan breakdown in anin vitromodel of cartilage degradation.

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Cytidine 5¢-triphosphate synthase catalyses the ATP-dependent formation of CTP from UTP using either ammonia orL-glutamine as the source of nitrogen. When glutamine is the substrate, GTP is required as an allosteric effector to promote catalysis. Limited trypsin-catalysed proteolysis, Edman degradation, and site-directed muta-genesis were used to identify peptide bonds C-terminal to three basic residues (Lys187, Arg429, and Lys432) of Escherichia coliCTP synthase thatwere highly susceptible to proteolysis. ...

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hort hydrogen bonds are present in many chemical and biological sys-tems. It is well known that these short hydrogen bonds are found in the active site of enzymes and aid enzyme catalysis. This study aims to system-atically characterize all short hydrogen bonds from a nonredundant dataset of protein structures. The study has revealed that short hydrogen bonds are commonly found in proteins and are widely present in different regions of the protein chain, such as the backbone or side chain, and in different secondary structural regions such as helices, strands and turns. ...

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The NMR solution structures of NTX-1 (PDB code 1W6B and BMRB 6288), a long neurotoxin isolated from the venom ofNaja naja oxiana, and the molecular dynamics simulation of these structures are reported. Calculations are based on 1114NOEs, 19 hydrogen bonds, 19 dihedral angle restraints and secondary chemical shifts derived from 1 Hto 13 C HSQC spectrum. Similar to other long neurotoxins, the three-finger like structure shows a double and a triple strandedb-sheet aswell as some flexible regions, particularly at the tip of loop II and the C-terminal tail....

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The SUMO proteins are a class of small ubiquitin-like modifiers. SUMO is attached to a specific lysine side chain on the target protein via an isopeptide bond with its C-terminal glycine.Thereareat least fourSUMOproteins in humans, which are involved in protein trafficking and tar- geting. A truncated human SUMO-2 protein that contains residues 9–93 was expressed inEscherichia coliand crystal- lized in two different unit cells, with dimensions of a ¼b¼ 75.25 A ˚ ,c¼29.17 A ˚ and a¼b¼74.96 A ˚ ,c¼33.23 A ˚ , both belonging to the rhombohedral space groupR3. They diffractedX-rays to1.

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Inactivation of factor Va (FVa) by activated protein C (APC) is a predominant mechanism in the down-regulation of thrombin generation. In normal FVa, APC-mediated inactivation occurs after cleavage at Arg306 (with corres-pondingrate constantk¢306) or after cleavage at Arg506 (k506 ) and subsequent cleavage at Arg306 (k306). We have studied the influence of heparin on APC-catalyzed FVa inactivation by kinetic analysis of the time courses of inac-tivation. Peptide bond cleavage was identified by Western blottingusingFV-specific antibodies. ...

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Cn12 isolated from the venom of the scorpionCentruroides noxiushas 67 amino-acid residues, closely packed with four disulfide bridges.Its primary structure and disulfide bridges were determined.Cn12 is not lethal to mammals and arthropodsin vivoat doses up to 100lgper animal.Its3D structure was determined by proton NMR using 850 dis-tance constraints, 36 /angles derived from 36 coupling constants obtained by two different methods, and 22 hydrogen bonds.

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