Search results for "PACKING"

The role of hydrophobic matching on transmembrane helix packing in cells

2017

Folding and packing of membrane proteins are highly influenced by the lipidic component of the membrane. Here, we explore how the hydrophobic mismatch (the difference between the hydrophobic span of a transmembrane protein region and the hydrophobic thickness of the lipid membrane around the protein) influences transmembrane helix packing in a cellular environment. Using a ToxRED assay in Escherichia coli and a Bimolecular Fluorescent Complementation approach in human-derived cells complemented by atomistic molecular dynamics simulations we analyzed the dimerization of Glycophorin A derived transmembrane segments. We concluded that, biological membranes can accommodate transmembrane homo-di…

Alkyloxy modified pyrene fluorophores with tunable photophysical and crystalline properties

2019

Novel alkyloxy modified 2,7-di-tert-butyl-4,5,9,10-tetra(arylethynyl)pyrenes were prepared through a straightforward Sonogashira coupling approach. Optical properties such as quantum yields and absorption/emission spectra of the fluorophores were investigated by UV/Vis and fluorescence measurements. Aggregation induced excimer formation of the chromophores in polar solvents and in the solid state was proved by the presence of a characteristic bathochromically shifted emission band and a decrease of the emission capability. These results strongly indicate the unexpected observation that the excimer formation of adjacent pyrene rings is not prevented by the introduction of bulky tert-butyl su…

Detailed Analysis of Packing Efficiency Allows Rationalization of Solvate Formation Propensity for Selected Structurally Similar Organic Molecules

2018

In structural study of seven bile acids it was identified that their propensity for solvate formation is directly related to the packing efficiency of the unsolvated phases: low packing index, voids, and unsatisfied hydrogen bonding lead to extensive solvate formation, whereas efficient packing leads to the opposite. This was determined to be caused by the presence of OH group attached to carbon C12. Solvate formation was determined to provide a noticeable improvement in the packing efficiency for compounds having ansolvates with inefficient packing.

Über polygermane

1980

Abstract The crystal structure of octaphenylcyclotetragermane, (Ph 2 Ge) 4 , has been determined and refined to an R value of 0.046. The symmetry of the molecule approximater D 2d . the Ge 4 ring is nearly planar and square (angle of pucker 3.9°, GeGe 246.5(5) pm). The 8 phenyl groups (GeC 196.2(10) pm) are arranged in two distinct sets (“parallel” touching and perpendicular to the Ge 4 ring) which exchange their positions in solution. The packing of the (Ph 2 Ge) 4 molecules in the crystal resembles a cubic body centred sphere packing. The homocyclic series (Ph 2 Ge) n with n  4, 5, 6 shows 13 C NMR signals in CDCl 3 solution monotonic dependent on the endocyclic GeGeGe angles.

Application of microwaves dielectric spectroscopy for controlling pork meat (Longissimus dorsi) salting process

2010

Abstract Salting treatment is a common operation in the production of high quality meat products, one of its main problems is the difficulty to control the simultaneous water and salt fluxes into the product and control the protein fibers transformation throughout process. Dielectric properties of salted porcine meat are strongly related to its structure and composition. Thus, dielectric properties measurement appears as a promising method for controlling on-line the salting process in meat industry. Dielectric spectroscopy studies have been performed on raw and salted Longissimus dorsi pork samples. Dielectric spectra were measured in the frequency range from 500 MHz to 20 GHz by an Agilen…

Post-fragmentation vesiculation timescales in hydrous rhyolitic bombs from Chaitén volcano

2020

Abstract Bubble nucleation and growth dynamics exert a primary control on the explosivity of volcanic eruptions. Numerous theoretical and experimental studies aim to capture the complex process of melt vesiculation, whereas textural studies use vesicle populations to reconstruct magma behaviour. However, post-fragmentation vesiculation in rhyolitic bombs can create final quenched bubble (vesicle) textures that are not representative of the nature of fragmenting magma within the conduit. To examine bubble growth in hydrous rhyolitic bombs, we have used heated stage microscopy to directly observe vesiculation of a Chaiten rhyolite melt (with an initial dissolved water content of ~0.95 wt %) a…

Hausdorff dimension from the minimal spanning tree

1993

A technique to estimate the Hausdorff dimension of strange attractors, based on the minimal spanning tree of the point distribution is extensively tested in this work. This method takes into account in some sense the infimum requirement appearing in the definition of the Hausdorff dimension. It provides accurate estimates even for a low number of data points and it is especially suited to high-dimensional systems.

Packing dimension, intersection measures, and isometries

1997

Hausdorff measures and dimension

1995

Packing dimensions of sections of sets

1999

We obtain a formula for the essential supremum of the packing dimensions of the sections of sets parallel to a given subspace. This depends on a variant of packing dimension defined in terms of local projections of sets.