Stability and cytotoxicity of Fab-ricin A immunotoxins prepared with water soluble long chain heterobifunctional crosslinking agents

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byung Ho Woo ◽  
Jung Tae Lee ◽  
Myung Ok Park ◽  
Kang Ro Lee ◽  
Jeung Whan Han ◽  
...  
Marine Drugs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Arnaud Masselin ◽  
Antoine Rousseau ◽  
Stéphanie Pradeau ◽  
Laure Fort ◽  
Rodolphe Gueret ◽  
...  

Chitin oligosaccharides (COs) hold high promise as organic fertilizers in the ongoing agro-ecological transition. Short- and long-chain COs can contribute to the establishment of symbiotic associations between plants and microorganisms, facilitating the uptake of soil nutrients by host plants. Long-chain COs trigger plant innate immunity. A fine investigation of these different signaling pathways requires improving the access to high-purity COs. Here, we used the response surface methodology to optimize the production of COs by enzymatic hydrolysis of water-soluble chitin (WSC) with hen egg-white lysozyme. The influence of WSC concentration, its acetylation degree, and the reaction time course were modelled using a Box–Behnken design. Under optimized conditions, water-soluble COs up to the nonasaccharide were formed in 51% yield and purified to homogeneity. This straightforward approach opens new avenues to determine the complex roles of COs in plants.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 2948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner E.G. Müller ◽  
Emad Tolba ◽  
Shunfeng Wang ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
Meik Neufurth ◽  
...  

A new biomimetic strategy to im prove the self-healing properties of Portland cement is presented that is based on the application of the biogenic inorganic polymer polyphosphate (polyP), which is used as a cement admixture. The data show that synthetic linear polyp, with an average chain length of 40, as well as natural long-chain polyP isolated from soil bacteria, has the ability to support self-healing of this construction material. Furthermore, polyP, used as a water-soluble Na-salt, is subject to Na+/Ca2+ exchange by the Ca2+ from the cement, resulting in the formation of a water-rich coacervate when added to the cement surface, especially to the surface of bacteria-containing cement/concrete samples. The addition of polyP in low concentrations (<1% on weight basis for the solids) not only accelerated the hardening of cement/concrete but also the healing of microcracks present in the material. The results suggest that long-chain polyP is a promising additive that increases the self-healing capacity of cement by mimicking a bacteria-mediated natural mechanism.


2017 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 438-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanjiang Zhao ◽  
Yanli Liu ◽  
Jianzhang Wei ◽  
Haiyan Fu ◽  
Xueli Zheng ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 1288-1301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabienne Barroso-Bujans ◽  
Ricardo Martínez ◽  
Mehrdad Yazdani-Pedram ◽  
Pedro Ortiz ◽  
Holger Frey

1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 324-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Nantel ◽  
Georgia Baraff ◽  
P. Proulx

Escherichia coli lipase was found to have a broad pH optimum between pH 8 and 10. Long-chain acyl triacylglycerols such as trioleoylglycerol were hydrolysed at a relatively slow rate, whereas, the shorter-chain acyl derivative tricapryloylglycerol was not. Triacylglycerols and diacylglycerols were broken down at a rate 10- to 15-fold greater than that for monoacylglycerol. Simple esters such as methyloieate and cetylpalmitate were hydrolysed at rates greater than that of triacylglycerol. Water-soluble esters such as p-nitrophenylacetate were not attacked. Hydrolysis of lipase substrates occurred more readily in the presence of an anionic detergent such as taurocholate. The enzyme had no marked preference for the 1- or 3-position of triacylglycerols but attacked these positions much more readily than position 2. The enzyme also catalyzed transacylation reactions with simple alcohols such as methanol or ethanol.


2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (33) ◽  
pp. 9199-9203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qixun Shi ◽  
Matthew P. Mower ◽  
Donna G. Blackmond ◽  
Julius Rebek

Water-soluble, deep cavitands serve as chaperones of long-chain diesters for their selective hydrolysis in aqueous solution. The cavitands bind the diesters in rapidly exchanging, folded J-shape conformations that bury the hydrocarbon chain and expose each ester group in turn to the aqueous medium. The acid hydrolyses in the presence of the cavitand result in enhanced yields of monoacid monoester products. Product distributions indicate a two- to fourfold relative decrease in the hydrolysis rate constant of the second ester caused by the confined space in the cavitand. The rate constant for the first acid hydrolysis step is enhanced approximately 10-fold in the presence of the cavitand, compared with control reactions of the molecules in bulk solution. Hydrolysis under basic conditions (saponification) with the cavitand gave >90% yields of the corresponding monoesters. Under basic conditions the cavitand complex of the monoanion precipitates from solution and prevents further reaction.


1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. T. Canvin

Acetate-1-C14 and acetate-2-C14 were supplied to slices of developing castor bean endosperm. The molecules were extensively incorporated into long-chain fatty acids, water-soluble compounds, and protein. Oleic acid was the fatty acid initially labelled from acetate and it was the precursor of ricinoleic acid. Aerobic conditions were required for the formation of oleic acid and for the conversion of oleic acid to ricinoleic acid. Under anaerobic conditions the incorporation of acetate carbon into fatty acids was inhibited more than 90% and almost all of the C14 was found in stearic and palmitic acids. Stearic acid appeared to be formed first and palmitic acid appeared to be derived from it through a shortening of the chain. The position of linoleic acid in the fatty acid interconversions was not clear except that it was not a free intermediate in the conversion of oleic acid to ricinoleic acid.Malonate-C14 was only absorbed slightly by the tissue and although absorption could be increased by the use of diethyl malonate the metabolism of the compound was not facilitated. Because of its poor utilization by the tissue the role of malonate in long-chain fatty acid synthesis in this tissue could not be ascertained.


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