几种稳定构型精氨酸分子的手性转变反应机理及水溶剂化效应

采用密度泛函理论的B3LYP方法、微扰理论的MP2方法和自洽反应场(SCRF)理论的smd模型方法,研究了2种最稳定构型的精氨酸分子的手性转变机理及水溶剂化效应.研究发现标题反应有3条通道a、b和c.对于构型1,分别是手性碳上的质子以氨基、羰基和氨基联合以及羧基和氨基联合为桥迁移.对于构型2,分别是手性碳上的质子只以氨基为桥、羧基异构后再以氨基为桥迁移及以羧基和氨基联合作桥迁移.势能面计算表明:构型1的主反应通道都是a,决速步自由能垒分别为268.2kJ·mol~(-1),来源于质子从手性碳向氨基氮迁移的过渡态.构型2的主反应通道是b,决速步自由能垒为239.3kJ·mol~(-1),来源于质子从手性碳向氨基氮迁移的过渡态.水溶剂效应使构型2的主反应通道决速步自由能垒降到95.7kJ·mol~(-1).结果表明:随着温度的升高,构型2先手性转变;水溶剂对精氨酸的手性转变有极好的催化作用.     

交联精氨酸对阴离子染料日落黄、柠檬黄的吸附行为

研究了pH值、染料浓度、吸附时间、温度对交联精氨酸吸附能力的影响．用精氨酸作单体、戊二醛为变联剂，20℃水浴摇床150r／min反应240h，离心，洗涤，冷冻干燥，制备成交联精氨酸吸附剂．在25℃，pH2．0，吸附剂对日落黄和柠檬黄48h的吸附量分别达到408．92mg／g和306．96mg／g，吸附反应符合Langmuir等温吸附模型．结果表明：方法简单、条件温和；产物对阴离子染料日落黄和柠檬黄有良好的吸附性能．     

Characteristics of Two Intermediates Trapped in the Unfolding Pathway of Arginine Kinase Induced by Guanidinium Chloride

Equilibrium guanidinium chloride （GdmCl）-induced unfolding of arginine kinase （AK） was investigated by enzymatic activity, intrinsic fluorescence, 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid （ANS） fluorescence, circular dichroism （CD） spectrum, and size-exclusion chromatography. The measurements showed that AK unfolded through two equilibrium intermediates： the molten globule state and the partly folded state. Both intermediates have no enzyme activity. The molten globule state exists at 0.4-0.8 mol/L GdmCi, perhaps after the N-terminal domain has unfolded but the C-terminal domain is still intact. The partly folded state occurs at 1.1-1.5 mol/L GdmCI with a hydrodynamic volume no more than 1.6-fold larger than the native state and a pronounced far UV-CD signal. Its ANS fluorescence intensity is about 50% of the molten globule state. This partly folded state shares similarities with the “burst” kinetic intermediate of protein folding.     

光照条件对丛枝菌根真菌吸收外源氮产精氨酸的影响

以高粱（Sorghum bicolor L．Moench）为宿主植物,接种丛枝菌根（arbuscular mycorrhiza,AM）真菌Glomus intraradices,采用三室隔离培养盒,在菌丝室加浓度为4mmol／L的精氨酸（Arg）、谷氨酰胺（Gln）、尿素（Urea）和NH4NO3,分别在4800,13200和17600lx光照条件下培养,通过测定根外菌丝和菌根中精氨酸的含量,探究了光照条件对丛枝菌根真菌吸收不同外源氮产生精氨酸的影响．结果表明：不同光照条件下不同外源氮对根外菌丝和菌根中精氨酸含量的影响不同,4800lx光照下添加谷氨酰胺和17600lx光照下添加NH4NO3,根外菌丝和菌根中的精氨酸含量均高于同光照条件下其他外源氮处理;13200lx光照下,不同外源氮对根外菌丝中精氨酸含量的影响大小为Arg〉Gln〉Urea〉NH4NO3,对菌根中精氨酸含量的影响为Gln〉Arg〉Urea〉NH4NO3．强光照可以促进丛枝菌根真菌孢子量、根侵染和菌丝量的提高．在相同氮源处理下,光照强度的影响表现为17600lx〉13200lx〉4800lx．     

Nitric oxide-dependent blood-brain barrier permeability alteration in the rat brain

The role of nitric oxide (NO), a well known vasodilator, in the regulation of blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability is not clear. Therefore, the present study was planned to assess the role of NO-releasing compounds like sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and the active metabolite of molsidomine, SIN-1, as well as a precursor of NO, L-arginine, on this physiological barrier. The permeability was assessed by using several tracers. All three agents increased the permeability of BBB to the tracer. The increase in permeability caused by L-arginine was not blocked by N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME). L-Arginine-treated brains did not show an elevation of nitrite content, thus ruling out the possibility of NO generation and its involvement in BBB permeability alteration. It is concluded that NO itself causes an increase in the permeability of BBB. However arginine-induced opening is not NO mediated.CDRI Communication Number: 5178.     

Improved Activity Assay Method for Arginine Kinase Based on a Ternary Heteropolyacid System

IntroductionArginine kinase ( EC 2 . 7. 3. 3,AK ) in inver-tebrates plays a central role in both temporal andspatial ATP buffering in cells with high,fluctuating energy requirements( muscle,nerves,etc.) by catalyzing the magnesium- dependentreversible phosphorylation between L- arginine andATP according to the following reaction[1,2 ]L- arginine+ Mg.ATP N- phospho- L- arginine+ Mg.ADP ( 1 )　 AK is an ideal paradigm for the classicalenzymology of bimolecular reactions[3 ,4] andactivit…     

GTPase activating proteins: structural and functional insights 18 years after discovery

The conversion of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) to guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and inorganic phosphate (P_i) by guanine nucleotide binding proteins (GNBPs) is a fundamental process in living cells and represents an important timer in intracellular signalling and transport processes. While the rate of GNBP-mediated GTP hydrolysis is intrinsically slow, direct interaction with GTPase activating proteins (GAPs) accelerates the reaction by up to five orders of magnitude in vitro. Eighteen years after the discovery of the first GAP, biochemical and structural research has been accumulating evidence that GAPs employ a much wider spectrum of chemical mechanisms than had originally been assumed, in order to regulate the chemical players on the catalytic protein-protein interaction stage. Received 25 March 2005; received after revision 31 August 2005; accepted 6 September 2005     

锯缘青蟹精氨酸激酶基因的克隆与表达

通过分子生物学方法,克隆得到锯缘青蟹（Scylla serrata）精氨酸激酶（Arginine Kinase,AK）开放阅读框基因序列.测序结果显示：该开放阅读框基因的序列长度为1 071 bp,编码356个氨基酸残基;该序列登录Genbank（GQ：851626）,序列比对结果显示,锯缘青蟹精氨酸激酶与凡纳滨对虾（...