Effect of Secondary Structure on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of PNA Hybridization to DNA Hairpins

2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (44) ◽  
pp. 10805-10813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart A. Kushon ◽  
Jason P. Jordan ◽  
Jennifer L. Seifert ◽  
Henrik Nielsen ◽  
Peter E. Nielsen ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
R. J. Lauf

Fuel particles for the High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR) contain a layer of pyrolytic silicon carbide to act as a miniature pressure vessel and primary fission product barrier. Optimization of the SiC with respect to fuel performance involves four areas of study: (a) characterization of as-deposited SiC coatings; (b) thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical reactions between SiC and fission products; (c) irradiation behavior of SiC in the absence of fission products; and (d) combined effects of irradiation and fission products. This paper reports the behavior of SiC deposited on inert microspheres and irradiated to fast neutron fluences typical of HTGR fuel at end-of-life.


2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mustapha Boulghallat ◽  
Ahmed Jouaiti ◽  
Norbert Gérard

Author(s):  
Jerzy Skrzypek ◽  
Maria Lachowska ◽  
Mirosław Grzesik ◽  
Jerzy Słoczyński ◽  
Paweł Nowak

2021 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 106094
Author(s):  
Narges Amini ◽  
Julian Pries ◽  
Yudong Cheng ◽  
Christoph Persch ◽  
Matthias Wuttig ◽  
...  

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 998
Author(s):  
Laetitia Théron ◽  
Aline Bonifacie ◽  
Jérémy Delabre ◽  
Thierry Sayd ◽  
Laurent Aubry ◽  
...  

Food processing affects the structure and chemical state of proteins. In particular, protein oxidation occurs and may impair protein properties. These chemical reactions initiated during processing can develop during digestion. Indeed, the physicochemical conditions of the stomach (oxygen pressure, low pH) favor oxidation. In that respect, digestive proteases may be affected as well. Yet, very little is known about the link between endogenous oxidation of digestive enzymes, their potential denaturation, and, therefore, food protein digestibility. Thus, the objective of this study is to understand how oxidative chemical processes will impact the pepsin secondary structure and its hydrolytic activity. The folding and unfolding kinetics of pepsin under oxidative conditions was determined using Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism. SRCD gave us the possibility to monitor the rapid kinetics of protein folding and unfolding in real-time, giving highly resolved spectral data. The proteolytic activity of control and oxidized pepsin was investigated by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry on a meat protein model, the creatine kinase. MALDI-TOF MS allowed a rapid evaluation of the proteolytic activity through peptide fingerprint. This study opens up new perspectives by shifting the digestion paradigm taking into account the gastric digestive enzyme and its substrate.


1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 2878-2884 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.A Zhubanov ◽  
V.A Solomin ◽  
P.Ye Messerle ◽  
N.G Avetisyan ◽  
V.D Moiseyev

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arghadwip Paul ◽  
Suman Samantray ◽  
Marco Anteghini ◽  
Mohammed Khaled ◽  
Birgit Strodel

The convergence of MD simulations is tested using varying measures for the intrinsically disordered amyloid-β peptide (Aβ). Markov state models show that 20–30 μs of MD is needed to reliably reproduce the thermodynamics and kinetics of Aβ.


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