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Pyranose

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Klaus Kern, Uta Schlickum, Stephan Rauschenbach

Carbohydrates are the most abundant organic material on Earth and the structural "material of choice" in many living systems. Nevertheless, design and engineering of synthetic carbohydrate materials presently lag behind that for protein and nucleic acids. ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

cgNA+: A sequence-dependent coarse-grain model of double-stranded nucleic acids

Rahul Sharma

DNA mechanics plays a crucial role in many biological processes, including nucleosome positioning and protein-DNA interactions. It is believed that nature employs epigenetic modifications in DNA to further regulate gene expression. Moreover, double-strande ...

EPFL2023

Indication of 310-Helix Structure in Gas-Phase Neutral Pentaalanine

Vasyl Yatsyna

We investigate the gas-phase structure of the neutral pentaalanine peptide. The IR spectrum in the 340-1820 cm-1 frequency range is obtained by employing supersonic jet cooling, infrared multiphoton dissociation, and vacuum-ultraviolet action spectroscopy. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Equilibrium and non-equilibrium furanose selection in the ribose isomerisation network

Paolo De Los Rios, Daniel Maria Busiello, Shiling Liang, Francesco Piazza

The exclusive presence of beta -D-ribofuranose in nucleic acids is still a conundrum in prebiotic chemistry, given that pyranose species are substantially more stable at equilibrium. However, a precise characterisation of the relative furanose/pyranose fra ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Revealing Single-Bond Anomeric Selectivity in Carbohydrate-Protein Interactions

Ruslan Yamaletdinov, Aleksandr Pereverzev, Viktoriia Aladinskaia

The noncovalent binding of proteins to glycans is amazingly selective to the isoforms of carbohydrates, including alpha/beta anomers that coexist in solution. We isolate in the gas phase and study at the atomic level the simplest model system: noncovalent ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy for Identification of Monosaccharide Anomers

Thomas Rizzo, Valeriu Scutelnic

We combine conformer-selective, cryogenic infrared spectroscopy, quantum mechanical computations, and 18O substitution at the reducing end to determine the structural preferences of protonated glucosamine in the gas phase. Cryogenic infrared-infrared (IR-I ...

2019

IR-induced conformational isomerization of a helical peptide in a cold ion trap

Thomas Rizzo, Aleksandra Zabuga, Annette Svendsen, Caroline Seaiby

In this work we use laser-induced population transfer techniques to study the conformational isomerization of a helical peptide, Ac-Phe-(Ala)5-LysH+, in a cold ion trap. In one scheme, called IR-UV hole-filling spectroscopy, a single conformation is select ...

American Institute of Physics2016

HRD Motif as the Central Hub of the Signaling Network for Activation Loop Autophosphorylation in Abl Kinase

Andrea Cavalli, Oliver Hantschel, Grégory La Sala

A number of structural factors modulate the activity of Abelson (Abl) tyrosine kinase, whose deregulation is often related to oncogenic processes. First, only the open conformation of the Abl kinase domain's activation loop (A-loop) favors ATP binding to t ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Palladium-Catalyzed Vicinal Amino Alcohols Synthesis from Allyl Amines by In Situ Tether Formation and Carboetherification

Jérôme Waser, Ugo Jonathan Orcel

Vicinal amino alcohols are important structural motifs of bioactive compounds. Reported herein is an efficient method for their synthesis based on the palladium-catalyzed oxy-alkynylation, oxy-arylation, or oxy-vinylation of allylic amines. High regio- and ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Molecular Mechanism of Flocculation Self-Recognition in Yeast and Its Role in Mating and Survival

Sandor Kasas, Livan Bladimir Alonso Sarduy, Jens Nielsen

We studied the flocculation mechanism at the molecular level by determining the atomic structures of N-Flo1p and N-Lg-Flo1p in complex with their ligands. We show that they have similar ligand binding mechanisms but distinct carbohydrate specificities and ...

American Society for Microbiology2015

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