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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-203X
    Keywords: Agrobacterium rhizogenes ; Brassica napus ; glutamine synthetase ; phosphinothricin ; rape ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Hairy roots of Brassica napus (rape cv. Giant) have been produced that contain the cytosolic glutamine synthetase (GS) gene from Glycine max (soybean). Leaf explants were cocultivated with Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4T harbouring the binary vector pLN16. This vector was constructed by inserting a soybean cytosolic GS cDNA into the multiple cloning site of pGA643, placing it under the control of the CaMV promoter. In addition, the T-DNA region of pLN16 contained a NPTII gene for selection of transformed cells. Transgenic hairy roots grew prolifically on hormone-free media containing a selective level of kanamycin. Southern and northern analyses confirmed the presence of soybean GS DNA and transcripts, respectively. These transformed hairy roots also have a greater abundance of the GS polypeptide, approximately 3–6 fold greater GS activity and lower levels of endogenous ammonia. Hairy roots provide a useful system for studying responses to phosphinothricin (PPT). Hairy roots grown in media containing PPT had lower GS activity, greater ammonia accumulation and slower growth than controls. The presence of the soybean GS gene in the hairy roots reduced these PPT-induced effects and resulted in higher GS activity, lower ammonia levels and faster growth than in PPT-treated controls. Greater tolerance of PPT was also seen in shoots regenerated from the hairy roots displaying elevated levels of GS activity.
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  • 2
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 87 (1994), S. 697-704 
    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; Cultivar identification ; RAPDs ; Rapeseed ; Taxonomy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract RAPDs (Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNAs) were used to discriminate among 23 cultivars of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) selected from several breeding programs. A set of 100 random sequence 10-mer primers were tested, of which 70 produced bands and 22 showed evidence of polymorphism. A selection of six primers produced 23 polymorphic bands of between 300 to 2200 base pairs in size, sufficient to distinguish between the cultivars. An analysis of seed of five cultivars obtained from four different sites showed stability of banding pattern over source of seed. The analysis was repeated using four different thermocyclers, each of which produced the same band pattern. UPGMA cluster analysis indicates that the relationships among some of the cultivars is closer for those from the same breeding program than for those from different programs. The results of this study show that RAPDs can be used as a method of identification for oilseed rape cultivars.
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  • 3
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 88 (1994), S. 321-323 
    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; Inbreeding ; Inbreeding depression ; Line variation ; Competition
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Rapeseed plants, of the summer annual variety Topas, that had been selfed twice consecutively were compared to outcrossed half-sibs for inbreeding depression in a rapeseed population at mating equilibrium. The effect of dominance-suppression competition was included in the effect of inbreeding. Both female-and male-fitness characters showed significant inbreeding depression. Biomass decreased 17% with inbreeding and was highly correlated with seed weight. The total number of flowers decreased 15% with inbreeding. There was a significant effect of lines. The possible importance of experimental design in studies that estimate inbreeding depression is discussed.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; Raphanus sativus ; Ogura cytoplasmic male-sterility restorer gene ; Bulked segregant analysis ; RAPD markers
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Bulked segregant analysis was employed to identify random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers linked to the restorer gene (Rfo) used in theOgura radish cytoplasmic male sterility of rapeseed. A total of 138 arbitrary 10-mer oligonucleotide primers were screened on the DNA of three pairs of bulks, each bulk corresponding to homozygous restored and male sterile plants of three segregating populations. Six primers produced repeatable polymorphisms between paired bulks. DNA from individual plants of each bulk was then used as a template for amplification with these six primers. DNA polymorphisms generated by four of these primers were found to be completely linked to the restorer gene with the polymorphic DNA fragments being associated either with the fertility restorer allele or with the sterility maintainer allele. Pairwise cross-hybridization demonstrated that the four polymorphic DNA fragments did not share any homology. Southern hybridization of labelled RAPD fragments on digested genomic DNA from the same three pairs of bulks revealed fragments specific to either the male sterile bulks or to the restored bulks and a few fragments common to all bulks, indicating that the amplified sequences are low copy. The four RAPD fragments that were completely linked to the restorer locus have been cloned and sequenced to develop sequence characterized amplified regions (SCARs). This will facilitate the construction of restorer lines used in breeding programs and is the first step towards map-based cloning of the fertility restorer allele.
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  • 5
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 88 (1994), S. 123-128 
    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; RFLP markers ; RAPD markers ; Genetic distance
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract RFLP and RAPD markers were evaluated and compared for their ability to determine genetic relationships in a set of three B. napus breeding lines. Using a total of 50 RFLP and 92 RAPD markers, the relatedness between the lines was determined. In total, the RFLP and the RAPD analysis revealed more than 500 and 400 bands, respectively. The relative frequencies of loci with allele differences were estimated from the band data. The RFLP and RAPD marker sets detected very similar relationships among the three lines, consistent with known pedigree data. Bootstrap analyses showed that the use of approximately 30 probes or primers would have been sufficient to achieve these relationships. This indicates that RAPD markers have the same resolving power as RFLP markers when used on exactly the same set of B. napus genotypes. Since RAPD markers are easier and quicker to use, these markers may be preferred in applications where the relationships between closely-related breeding lines are of interest. The use of RAPD markers in fingerprinting applications may, however, not be warranted, and this is discussed in relation to the reliability of RAPD markers.
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  • 6
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 89 (1994), S. 540-544 
    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; Crossability ; Cytogenetics ; Intergeneric hybridization ; Sinapis pubescens
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The cytological possibility of gene transfer from Sinapis pubescens to Brassica napus was investigated. Intergeneric hybrids between Brassica napus (2n = 38) and Sinapis pubescens (2n = 18) were produced through ovary culture. The F1 hybrids were dihaploid and the chromosome configurations were (0–1) III + (2–11) II + (5–24) I . One F2 plant with 38 chromosomes was obtained from open pollination of the F1 hybrid. Thirty-one seeds were obtained from the backcross of the F2 plant with B. napus. Five out of seven plants had 38 chromosomes, and the pollen stainability ranged from 0% to 81.4%. In the B2 plants obtained from the backcross of B1 plants with B. napus, 66.7% of the plants examined had 38 chromosomes. S. pubescens may become a gene source for the improvement of B. napus.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1432-203X
    Keywords: Ammonia ; Agrobacterium rhizogenes ; Brassica napus ; glutamine ; glutamine synthetase ; phosphinothricin ; rape
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Hairy roots of Brassica napus (rape cv. Giant) were produced by cocultivating leaf and cotyledon explants with Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4T. The hairy roots grew prolifically on solid and in liquid media. Incorporation of ammonium sulphate or phosphinothricin (PPT) into the media reduced growth. PPT treatment reduced glutamine synthetase (GS) activity and increased the ammonia content of the hairy roots. We have found that PPT treatment also induces a loss of glutamine from the roots and this may influence root growth. To test this we grew hairy roots in a liquid medium containing 10 mM glutamine. This glutamine treatment overcame the PPT induced suppression of growth but also significantly increased GS activity, reduced ammonia accumulation and increased the levels of glutamate and asparagine.
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  • 8
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    Astrophysics and space science 216 (1994), S. 153-154 
    ISSN: 1572-946X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Molecular Hydrogen ; Cloud Models
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Abstract Observations of the CO J=1-0 line are commonly used as a tracer for molecular material in clouds. The ratio of the H2 column density to the integrated intensity of this line,X, is often taken to be constant, despite theoretical and observational uncertainty. We have tried to identify how this ratio depends on cloud parameters, testing a simple theoretical argument suggesting its invariance with respect to density. The apparent constancy can be understood if clouds are clumpy on scales of Av ≈ 1-2 mag.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1573-5087
    Keywords: abscisic acid ; 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid ; BAS 111..W ; Brassica napus ; cytokinins ; oilseed rape ; pod ; senescence ; triazole growth retardant
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract Foliar treatment of oilseed rape plants (Brassica napus L.ssp. napus cv. Linetta) with the growth retardant BAS 111..W at the 5th leaf stage delayed pod senescence during early maturation. Changes of immunoreactive cytokinin- and abscisic acid (ABA)- like substances and of the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclo-propane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) and its malonyl-conjugate (MACC) were determined in intact whole pods. When compared with control plants, higher levels of total chlorophyll correlated with four-fold and three-fold increases of trans-zeatin riboside- and dihydrozeatin riboside-type cytokinins, respectively, in the pods of plants treated with 0.25 mg BAS 111..W per plant. Isopentenyladenosine-type cytokinins and ACC and MACC contents remained virtually unchanged, whereas ABA levels dropped considerably below those of controls (60% reduction). However, when analysed at late pod maturity, BAS 111..W treatment no longer affected the total chlorophyll content, or the levels of cytokinins, ABA, ACC and MACC. We hypothesize that the retardant-induced changes in the hormonal status of the pods, favouring the senescence-delaying cytokinins as opposed to abscisic acid, could contribute to the developmental delay.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: abscisic acid ; ABA-response element ; bi-directional promoter ; Brassica napus ; oleosin ; seed development
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract In Brassica napus, oleosins are expressed at high levels in the seed during the latter stages of embryo development. The cis-acting regulatory properties of an 872 bp promoter fragment of a B. napus oleosin gene were examined by analysis of β-glucuronidase (GUS) expression in transgenic tobacco plants containing an oleosin promoter-GUS transcriptional fusion. The reporter gene was expressed at high levels only in seeds, specifically in embryo and endosperm tissue and regulated throughout seed development. These data demonstrate that oleosin gene transcription is regulated in a tissue-specific and temporally regulated manner and clearly indicate that oleosin protein expression is co-ordinated primarily at the transcriptional level. Oleosin mRNA was shown to be abscisic acid (ABA) inducible and an ABA-response element in the oleosin promoter was shown to be bound by a protein factor in a sequence-specific manner. Sequence analysis of the oleosin promoter has identified several other putative cis-acting sequences which may direct oleosin gene expression. The presence of a large open reading frame in the bottom strand of the oleosin promoter (ORF2) which encodes a polypeptide similar to the ethylene-induced E4 gene of tomato is reported. A PCR-generated DNA probe containing the ORF2 sequence hybridised with a 1.4 kb transcript in total RNA extracts of a variety of tissues, including leaves and germinated seed cotyledons. This finding suggests that the oleosin gene promoter directs transcription in both directions. It is the first report of a bi-directional nuclear gene promoter in plants.
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  • 11
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: acyl-CoA-binding protein ; Brassica napus ; diazepam-binding inhibitor protein ; linkage map
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A cDNA encoding an acyl-CoA-binding protein (ACBP) homologue has been cloned from a λgt11 library made from mRNA isolated from developing seeds of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). The derived amino acid sequence reveals a protein 92 amino acids in length which is highly conserved when compared with ACBP sequences from yeast, cow, man and fruit fly. Southern blot analysis ofBrassica napus genomic DNA revealed the presence of 6 genes, 3 derived from theBrassica rapa parent and 3 fromBrassica oleracea. Northern blot analysis showed that ACBP genes are expressed strongly in developing embryo, flowers and cotyledons of seedlings and to a lesser extent in leaves and roots.
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  • 12
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Arabidopsis thaliana ; Brassica napus ; gene expression ; Nicotiana tabacum ; retrotransposon
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The expression of the tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) retrotransposon Tntl has previously been shown to be strongly regulated and driven from the 5′ long terminal repeat (LTR). We report here that the Tntl LTR can promote activity of the β-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene in two heterologous species of the Brassicaceae family, namely rapessed (Brassica napus) and Arabidopsis thaliana. The translational LTR-GUS fusion was active in transient expression studies performed with tobacco and rapeseed protoplasts, indicating that the LTR sequences are recognized in heterologous species. Our results also showed that Tntl LTR-promoted GUS expression in transgenic Arabidopsis is strongly regulated, and that, in contrast to tobacco, hormonal activation plays a significant role in the expression of the Tntl LTR in Arabidopsis. LTR sequences were shown to be more effective than the CaMV 35S enhancer region in transient expression studies performed with tobacco or rapessed protoplasts; and substitution of the LTR sequences upstream from the major transcriptional start with the CaMV 35S enhancer region gave high levels of expression in transgenic tobacco and Arabidopsis leaves, suggesting that a Tntl element with similar substitutions in its 5′ LTR might be suited for gene-tagging experiments in heterologous species.
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  • 13
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    Plant molecular biology 26 (1994), S. 1217-1222 
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; pistil ; stigma ; cDNA
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A partial cDNA clone, Pis 63, corresponding to a mRNA highly expressed in Brassica napus pistils, was isolated by differential screening. PCR was used to complete the Pis 63 sequence (Pis 63-1) and to obtain the sequence of another related cDNA (Pis 63-2). Northern blot and in situ analyses demonstrated that these transcripts are expressed in the stigma throughout flower development. Pis 63-1 and Pis 63-2 display similarity to a cotton fibre cDNA clone.
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  • 14
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; heterologous expression ; Rab/Ypt family ; small GTP-binding protein ; vesicular transport
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A cDNA clone (bra) encoding a small GTP-binding protein was isolated from Brassica napus by screening a root cDNA library with a degenerate oligonucleotide probe that corresponds to a highly conserved GTP-binding domain of the Ras superfamily. Sequence analysis shows that the clone contains an open reading frame of 219 amino acid residues with the estimated molecular mass of 24379 Da and this coding region contains all the conserved motifs of the Ras superfamily. The deduced amino acid sequence of the bra gene is most closely related to the Ypt/Rab family that functions in the vesicular transport (46% and 47% amino acid identity to the yeast Ypt1 and to the human Rab1, respectively) and is more distantly related to the other Ras-related families. The protein encoded by the bra gene, when expressed in Escherichia coli, shows the ability to bind GTP. Furthermore, when the bra gene is introduced into Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the regulation of the yeast GAL1 promoter, the gene can complement the temperature-sensitive yeast mutation ypt1-1 that has defects in vesicular transport function. The amino acid sequence similarity and the functional complementation of the yeast mutation suggest that this gene is likely to be involved in the vesicular transport in plants. Genomic Southern analysis shows that this gene is a member of a small gene family in Brassica napus.
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  • 15
    ISSN: 1573-5060
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; microspore culture ; colchicine treatment ; chromosome doubling ; DH-breeding
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary The effect of colchicine on isolated microspore cultures of Brassica napus was evaluated in order to combine a positive effect of colchicine on the induction of embryogenesis with the possibility to induce chromosome doubling at an early developmental stage, thus avoiding the production of haploid or chimeric plants. Colchicine was added to the culture medium immediately after isolation of B. napus microspores. The cultures were incubated from 6 to 72 h with various concentrations of colchicine. Samples were taken from the regenerating embryoids after 6 weeks for ploidy determination by flow-cytometry. The highest diploidization rate was obtained after a 24 h treatment of microspores with 50 mg/l colchicine, leading to 80–90% diploid embroids. A concentration of 100 mg/l colchicine applied for the same duration resulted in a lower diploidization rate (76–80%). Treatment durations of 6 h were not long enough to induce a high rate of diploidization, whereas the application of 10 mg/l for 72 h was also very effective. A sample of the plants regenerated from the colchicine treated microspores was transferred to the greenhouse. The plants looked similar to normal diploid rapeseed plants and showed reasonable pod and seed set. Thus, an additional generation for seed increase in the greenhouse is rendered unnecessary. The advantage of applying a minimum volume of colchicine under controlled in vitro conditions means a considerable saving of time and labour in DH-breeding programs.
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  • 16
    ISSN: 1573-5060
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; light reflectance ; seed colour ; NIR
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Improved oil, protein and fibre contents are associated with light seed colour in rapeseed but the lack of reliable and efficient methods to measure seed colour has hindered breeding efforts for this trait. The feasibility of using light reflectance to assess seed colour in Brassica napus was examined using scanning light reflectance spectrophotometry and near infrared reflectance (NIR). Light reflectance by seed samples from 30 doubled haploid (DH) lines segregating for seed colour increased as the wavelength of the illuminating light in the scanning spectrophotometer increased between 550 and 650 nm. The largest reflectance values were measured for the yellow seed samples; the brown seed samples were intermediate and the black seed samples had the lowest reflectance values. The areas under the reflectance curves were used to transform the spectra to single values. Average light reflectance area values for the seed colour classes were significantly different from each other. The DHs and their corresponding light reflectance area values were also used to calibrate a NIR analyzer modified with 670 and 710 nm filters. The best calibration curve used three wavelengths (670, 2190 and 2208 nm) and had a multiple correlation coefficient of 0.987. Light reflectance area values determined with the calibrated NIR analyzer for 30 randomly selected breeding lines could be used to categorize the colour of the seed samples with no discrepancies between the visual and instrument classifications. The results indicate that NIR can be used to assess seed colour in rapeseed.
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  • 17
    ISSN: 1573-5060
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; heterosis ; hybrid breeding ; oilseed rape ; self-incompatibility ; pollination control
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Self-incompatibility was shown to be an effective method of pollination control in spring rapeseed (B. napus L. ssp. oleifera (Metzg.)) by comparing the yield of a Westar-Topas syn-1 produced by crossing two SI lines with the yield of the corresponding syn-1 produced by hand pollination. Although the trial showed high-parent heterosis in the syn-1s, there was insufficient replication to determine the level of heterosis.
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  • 18
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; Enoyl-ACP reductase ; isoforms ; stearoyl-ACP desaturase ; developmental expression ; seed
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The expression of mRNA and the steady-state levels of two-component enzymes of plant fatty acid synthetase (FAS) were studied. Northern analysis of enoyl-ACP reductase (ER) and stearoyl-ACP desaturase (SD) gene expression showed that steady-state levels of both transcripts increase during lipid deposition in the seed reaching a maximum at 29 days after flowering (DAF). The steady-state level of ER message falls very quickly after reaching its maximum, whereas the SD message is longer-lived. The levels of these specific mRNAs in seed are 15–30 times greater than in leaf. Optimum mRNA expression precedes the maximum levels of synthesis of the two proteins, which in turn precede the maximum level of oil. The expression of isoenzymes of ER were examined by two-dimensional western blotting in both leaf and seed tissue. Four enzymes are expressed in both of these tissues; the two most abundant isoforms in seed material are also the most abundant in leaf tissue.
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  • 19
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: anther ; antisense RNA ; Brassica napus ; male fertility ; tapetum
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract An antisense approach was used to attempt to determine the function of the highly abundant, tapetum-specific A9 transcript in microsporogenesis. A Brassica napus A9 cDNA clone was linked in sense and antisense orientations to the Arabidopsis thaliana A9 promoter and the resulting chimaeric genes introduced into B. napus. A high proportion of the offspring of B. napus antisense A9 plants had very low or undetectable levels of A9 mRNA. However, these plants set seed and had pollen of normal or near normal viability. Therefore, under the conditions studied, the A9 protein appears not to be essential for male fertility in B. napus.
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  • 20
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    Plant molecular biology 24 (1994), S. 223-227 
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; dehiscence ; dehydrogenase ; pod ; protochlorophyllide reductase ; shatter
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Dehiscence of oilseed rape pods, commonly known as pod shatter, is a process of agronomic importance that results in seed loss causing yield reductions and carry-over of the crop into the following growing season. In an effort to understand the mechanisms underlying this developmental event, the changes in gene expression that accompany pod shatter have been examined with a view to understanding how the process is regulated. In order to achieve this, a cDNA library was constructed using mRNA extracted from the dehiscence zone of developing pods. Differential screening with non-dehiscence zone cDNA led to the isolation of a pod-specific clone, SAC25, with a transcript size of 1100 nucleotide encoding a predicted polypeptide of 34 kDa. The level of SAC25 mRNA accumulation increased during pod development. The sequence shows no significant homology to others within the databases but has two identifiable amino acid motifs, one is an adenine nucleotide binding site for NAD/FAD dehydrogenases and the other is a conserved feature of the ribitol dehydrogenase family. The amino acid sequence has four putative glycosylation sites and contains four cysteine residues. Genomic Southern analysis indicates that SAC25 may be encoded by a single gene or a small gene family. The function of this mRNA is unknown but possible roles in dehiscence and pod development are discussed.
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  • 21
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; napin ; antisense ; seed storage protein ; seed storage lipid
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract To manipulate the quantity and quality of storage components in Brassica napus seeds, we have constructed an antisense gene for the storage protein napin. The antisense gene was driven by the 5′-flanking region of the B. napus napin gene to express antisense RNA in a seed-specific manner. Seeds of transgenic plants with antisense genes often contained reduced amounts of napin. In some transgenic plants, no accumulation of napin was observed. However, the total protein content of transgenic and wild-type seeds did not differ significantly. Seeds lacking napin accumulated 1.4 to 1.5 times more cruciferin than untransformed seeds, although the oleosin content was not affected. Fatty acid content and composition in the seeds of transgenic plants were also analyzed by gas chromatography. Though the total fatty acid content of the transformants was the same as that of non-transformants, there was a reduction in 18:1 contents and a concomitant increase of 18:2 in seeds with reduced napin levels. This observed change in fatty acid composition was inherited in the next generation.
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  • 22
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; microspore embryogenesis ; napin
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Brassica napus cv. Topas microspores can be diverted from pollen development toward haploid embryo formation in culture by subjecting them to a heat stress treatment. We show that this switch in developmental pathways is accompanied by the induction of high levels of napin seed storage protein gene expression. Changes in the plant growth or microspore culture conditions were not by themselves sufficient to induce napin gene expression. Specific members of the napin multigene family were cloned from a cDNA library prepared from microspores that had been induced to undergo embryogenesis. The majority of napin clones represented three members (BnmNAP2, BnmNAP3 and BnmNAP4) that, along with a previously isolated napin genomic clone (BngNAP1), constitute the highly conserved BnmNAP subfamily of napin genes. Both RNA gel blot analysis, using a subfamily-specific probe, and histochemical analysis of transgenic plants expressing a BngNAP1 promoter-β-glucuronidase gene fusion demonstrated that the BnmNAP subfamily is expressed in embryogenic microspores as well as during subsequent stages of microsporic embryo development.
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  • 23
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 88 (1994), S. 662-668 
    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Oilseed rape ; Brassica napus ; Restriction fragment length polymorphism ; Genetic diversity
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) is an important oilseed crop worldwide. Cultivars have been developed for many growing regions, however little is known about genetic diversity inB. napus germ plasm. The purpose of the research presented here was to study the genetic diversity and relationships ofB. napus accessions using restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). Eighty threeB. napus accessions were screened using 43 genomic DNA clones which revealed 161 polymorphic fragments. Each accession was uniquely identified by the markers with the exception of the near-isogenic cvs ‘Triton’ and ‘Tower’. The RFLP data were analyzed by cluster analysis of similarity coefficients and by principal component analysis. Overall, there were three major groups of cultivars. The first group included only spring accessions, the second mostly winter accessions and the third, rutabagas and oilseed rape accessions from China and Japan. These results indicate that withinB. napus, winter and spring cultivars represent genetically distinct groups. The grouping of accessions by cluster analysis was generally consistent with known pedigrees. This consistency included the grouping of lines derived both by backcrossing or self-pollination with their parents.
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 89 (1994), S. 615-621 
    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Brassica napus ; Doubled haploid ; Linkage map ; Restriction fragment length polymorphism
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The combined use of doubled haploid lines and molecular markers can provide new genetic information for use in breeding programs. An F1-derived doubled haploid (DH) population of Brassica napus obtained from a cross between an annual canola cultivar (‘Stellar’) and a biennial rapeseed (‘Major’) was used to construct a linkage map of 132 restriction fragment length polymorphism loci. The marker loci were arranged into 22 linkage groups and six pairs of linked loci covering 1016 cM. The DH map was compared to a partial map constructed with a common set of markers for an F2 population derived from the same F1 plant, and the overall maps were not significantly different. Comparisons of maps in Brassica species suggest that less recombination occurs in B. napus (n = 19) than expected from the combined map distances of the two hypothesized diploid progenitors, B. oleracea (n = 9) and B. rapa (n=10). A high percentage (32%) of segregating marker loci were duplicated in the DH map, and conserved linkage arrangements of some duplicated loci indicated possible intergenome homoeology in the amphidiploid or intragenome duplications from the diploid progenitors. Deviation from Mendelian segregation ratios (P 〈 0.05) was observed for 30% of the marker loci in the DH population and for 24% in the F2 population. Deviation towards each parent occurred at equal frequencies in both populations and marker loci that showed deviation clustered in specific linkage groups. The DH lines and molecular marker map generated for this study can be used to map loci for agronomic traits segregating in this population.
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    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Polymerase chain reaction ; Random amplified polymorphic DNA ; Self-incompatibility ; Brassica campestris ; Brassica napus
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    Notes: Abstract We have developed an efficient PCR-based system that uses RAPD markers for the certification of F1 hybrids of canola. These markers were selected by screening five parental lines used in three crosses X, Y and Z with 131, 131 and 322 primers respectively. Stable DNA fragments that were homozygous and specific to the male inbreds were used to certify F1 hybrid populations. The hybrid production system was based on self-incompatibility (SI) alleles that prevent self-pollination of the female parent. The efficiency of two S-alleles was compared under both field and greenhouse conditions. The percentage of hybridity was estimated in different F1 populations. We found a significant difference between the two alleles for their efficiency in controlling selfing; both alleles were stable under greenhouse conditions, one allele appeared less reliable under field conditions.
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    ISSN: 1573-739X
    Keywords: Antimalarials ; Artemisia annua L ; Artemisinin ; Biosynthesis ; Chemistry ; Clinical trials ; Pharmacology ; Phytochemistry ; Sesquiterpenes ; Toxicology
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone endoperoxide isolated fromArtemisia annua L., and a number of its semisynthetic derivatives have shown to possess antimalarial properties. They are all eflective againstPlasmodium parasites that are resistant to the newest and commonly used antimalarial drugs. This article gives a survey of the literature dealing with artemisinin-relaled antimalarial issues that have appeared from the end of 1989 up to the beginning of 1994. A broad range of medical and pharmaceutical disciplines is covered, including phytochemical aspects like the selection of high-producing plants, analytical procedures, and plant biotechnology. Furthermore, the organic synthesis of artemisinin derivatives is discussed, as well as their mechanism of action and antimalarial activity, metabolism and pharmacokinetics, clinical studies, sideeffects and toxicology, and biological activities other than antimalarial activity.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 21-36 
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    Keywords: GRAM ; Tucker ; Unfold ; NBRA ; Second-order ; Three-way ; PARAFAC ; Trilinear ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: If an analytical instrument or instrumental method gives a response matrix when analyzing a pure analyte, the instrument or instrumental method is called a second-order method. Second-order methods that generate a response matrix for a pure analyte of rank one are called rank-one second-order methods. If the response matrix of a pure analyte is not rank one, essentially two cases exist: medium rank (between two and five) and high rank (greater than five). Subsequently, medium- and high-rank second-order calibration tries to use medium- and high-rank second-order methods to analyze for analytes of interest in a mixture. A particular advantage of second-order methods is the ability to analyze for analytes of interest in a mixture which contains unknown interferences. Keeping this advantage is the challenge on moving away from rank-one second-order calibration methods. In this paper a medium-rank second-order calibration method is proposed based on least-squares restricted Tucker models. With this method the second-order advantage is retained.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 81-93 
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    Keywords: Sensory evaluation ; Cumulative ranks ; Assessor variation ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: A graphical method of assessing differences between sets of rankings based on cumulative ranks is developed. The method can be used to identify rankings that differ over all or just part of the range of objects ranked. The method is applied to an example of sensory evaluation of green peas in which ten assessors scored six attributes on each of 60 samples.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 155-168 
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    Keywords: Trilinear models ; Tensorial resolution ; PARAFAC ; Swamps ; Two-factor degeneracy ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: The alternating least squares PARAFAC algorithm is a useful tool for resolving trilinear three-way data arrays. Occasionally, however, it becomes bogged down for many iterations in the vicinity of a poor quality resolution before moving on to a much superior optimum fit. We investigate this behavior in a simulation study and suggest ways of overcoming the obstacles it presents.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 181-203 
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    Keywords: RAFA ; GRAM ; Eigenvalues ; Bias ; Variance ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: Rank annihilation factor analysis (RAFA) is a method for multicomponent calibration using two data matrices simultaneously, one for the unknown and one for the calibration sample. In its most general form, the generalized rank annihilation method (GRAM), an eigenvalue problem has to be solved. In this second paper expressions are derived for predicting the bias and variance in the eigenvalues of GRAM. These expressions are built on the analogies between a reformulation of the eigenvalue problem and the prediction equations of univariate and multivariate calibration. The error analysis will also be performed for Lorber's formulation of RAFA. It will be demonstrated that, depending on the size of the eigenvalue, large differences in performance must be expected. A bias correction technique is proposed that effectively eliminates the bias if the error in the bias estimate is not too large. The derived expressions are evaluated by Monte Carlo simulations. It is shown that the predictions are satisfactory up to the limit of detection. The results are not sensitive to an incorrect choice of the dimension of the factor space.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 301-302 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 305-331 
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    Keywords: Pyrolysis ; Mass spectroscopy ; Multivariate analysis ; Biological material identification ; Convexity ; Cones ; Subspaces ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: This work addresses the classification of high-dimensional time-dependent pyrolysis mass spectra of biological samples. The aim was the detection and classification of biological agents, and the developed approach resembles mixture analysis. The data were projected on to a low-dimensional subspace using singular value decomposition. Then a convex cone was formed on this subspace, showing as its corners physically meaningful components of the sample. This technique enabled separation of a biological material signal largely independent of the absolute amount of sample. The detection of the presence of any biological material could be accomplished based on the convex cone alone, without other reference to the mass spectra. Automated clustering of samples was successfully carried out using a minimal spanning tree.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 373-373 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 37-44 
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    Keywords: Bootstrap ; Confidence interval ; Non-linear regression ; Monte Carlo methods ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: Non-linear regression models describing the toxicity of a mixture of rotenone and pyrethrins as an insecticide, the catalytic dehydration of n-hexyl alcohol and the Michaelis-Menten model for characterizing reaction rates in enzyme systems will be used to illustrate the accuracy of bootstrap methods in non-linear regression. Classical and bootstrap confidence intervals for the parameter estimates will be presented.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 102-102 
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 111-125 
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    Keywords: PLS regression algorithm ; Kernel ; Many-variable data sets ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: A fast PLS regression algorithm dealing with large data matrices with many variables (K) and fewer objects (N) is presented For such data matrices the classical algorithm is computer-intensive and memory-demanding. Recently, Lindgren et al. (J. Chemometrics, 7, 45-49 (1993)) developed a quick and efficient kernel algorithm for the case with many objects and few variables. The present paper is focused on the opposite case, i.e. many variables and fewer objects. A kernel algorithm is presented based on eigenvectors to the ‘kernel’ matrix XX TYYT, which is a square, non-symmetric matrix of size N × N, where N is the number of objects. Using the kernel matrix and the association matrices XXT (N × N) and YYT (N × N), it is possible to calculate all score and loading vectors and hence conduct a complete PLS regression including diagnostics such as R2. This is done without returning to the original data matrices X and Y. The algorithm is presented in equation form, with proofs of some new properties and as MATLAB code.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 169-174 
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    Keywords: Kernel algorithm ; PLS ; SVD ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: Lindgren et al. (J. Chemometrics, 7, 45-49 (1993)) published a so-called kernel algorithm for PLS regression of Y against X when the number of objects is very large. The algorithm is based solely on deflation of the cross-product matrices XTX, YTY and XTY. The algorithm is now described in a shorter and more transparent way and compared with a similar algorithm for the singular value decomposition of XTY.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 241-241 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 273-285 
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    Keywords: GRAM ; Least-squares problem ; Eigenvalue problem ; NIPALS ; Performance index ; Condition number ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: In this paper we discuss the practical implementation of the generalized rank annihilation method (GRAM). The practical implementation comes down to developing a computer program where two critical steps can be distinguished: the construction of the factor space and the oblique rotation of the factors. The construction of the factor space is a least-squares (LS) problem solved by singular value decomposition (SVD), whereas the rotation of the factors is brought about by solving an eigenvalue problem. In the past several formulations for GRAM have been published. The differences essentially come down to solving either a standard eigenvalue problem or a generalized eigenvalue problem. The first objective of this paper is to discuss the numerical stability of the algorithms resulting from these formulations. It is found that the generalized eigenvalue problem is only to be preferred if the construction of the factor space is not performed with maximum precision. This is demonstrated for the case where the dominant factors are calculated by the non-linear iterative partial least-squares (NIPALS) algorithm. Several performance measures are proposed to investigate the numerical accuracy of the computed solution. The previously derived bias and variance are proposed to estimate the number of physically significant digits in the computed solution. The second objective of this paper is to discuss the relevance of theoretical considerations for application of GRAM in the presence of model errors.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 299-301 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 349-363 
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    Keywords: Variable selection ; PLS ; Calibration ; Modelling ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: A modified PLS algorithm is introduced with the goal of achieving improved prediction ability. The method, denoted IVS-PLS, is based on dimension-wise selective reweighting of single elements in the PLS weight vector w. Cross-validation, a criterion for the estimation of predictive quality, is used for guiding the selection procedure in the modelling stage. A threshold that controls the size of the selected values in w is put inside a cross-validation loop. This loop is repeated for each dimension and the results are interpreted graphically. The manipulation of w leads to rotation of the classical PLS solution. The results of IVS-PLS are different from simply selecting X-variables prior to modelling. The theory is explained and the algorithm is demonstrated for a simulated data set with 200 variables and 40 objects, representing a typical spectral calibration situation with four analytes. Improvements of up to 70% in external PRESS over the classical PLS algorithm are shown to be possible.
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    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 409-421 
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    Keywords: Deconvolution ; FT-IR spectroscopy ; Protein conformations ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
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    Notes: In a variety of spectroscopic techniques the fundamental problem exists of determination of the individual spectral components, intrinsically overlapped in the measured spectrum. This is a typical deconvolution problem and several methods and techniques have been proposed for its solution in the technical literature, but suggestions of new approaches are still of interest. A new deconvolution procedure is presented here based on the use of the conjugate gradient minimization algorithm with the addition of sutiable constraints directly obtained by the application to the measured spectrum of the second-derivative operator or more sophisticated resolution enhancement procedures. Since in the examined case deconvolution essentially requires the minimization of a non-convex function, the use of such constraints is extremely important to supply suitable input parameters to the conjugate gradient algorithm to avoid obtaining minimum points which have no physical meaning. In our case each spectral compoent used for deconvolution has been assumed to have a Gaussian analytical definition fully identified by three parameters (amplitude, central frequency, spectral bandwidth), so that the input values required to start the deconvolution process are the number M of Gaussian components and 3M suitable initial approximations of the parameters above. It is shown that all this information can be obtained from the measured data. The deconvolution procedure was implemented by a FORTRAN Microsoft Version 5.1 program and experimental results relative to spectroscopic data obtained by FT-IR analysis of human serum albumin are reported. The results are discussed and compared with data obtained by the use of other techniques.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 19 (1994), S. 1-3 
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    Keywords: protein folding ; protein conformation ; Paracelsus award ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 19 (1994), S. 4-13 
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    Keywords: trichosanthin ; ribosome-inactivating proteins ; crystal structure ; orthorhombic ; molecular replacement ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Trichosanthin (TCS) is one of the single chain ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs). The crystals of the orthorhombic form of trichosanthin have been obtained from a citrate buffer (pH 5.4) with KC1 as the precipitant. The crystal belongs to the space group P212121 with a = 38.31, b = 76.22, c = 79.21 Å. The structure was solved by molecular replacement method and refined using the programs XPLOR and PROLSQ to an R-factor of 0.191 for the reflections within the 6-1.88 Å resolution range. The bond length and bond angle in the protein molecule have root-mean-square deviations from ideal value of 0.013 Å and 3.3°, respectively. The refined model includes 247 residues and 197 water molecules. The TCS molecule consists of two structural domains. The large domain contains six α-helices, a six stranded sheet, and an antiparallel β-sheet. The small domain has a largest α-helix, which shows a distinct bend. The possible active site of the molecule located on the cleft between two domains was proposed. In the active site Arg-163 and Glu-160, Glu-189 and Arg-122 form two ion pairs, Glu-189 and Gln-156 are hydrogen bonded to each other. Three water molecules are bonded to the residues in the active site region. The structures of TCS molecule and ricin A-chain (RTA) superimpose quite well, showing that the structures of the two protein molecules are homologous. Comparison of the structures of the TCS molecule in this orthorhombic crystal with that in the monoclinic crystal indicates that there are no essential differences of the structures between the two protein crystals. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 19 (1994), S. 80-83 
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    Keywords: maize protein ; crystals ; X-ray diffraction ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Phospholipid transfer protein from maize seedlings has been crystallized using trisodium citrate as precipitant. The crystal belongs to the orthorhombic space group P212121 with unit cell dimensions of a = 24.46 Å, b = 49.97 Å, and c = 69.99 Å. The presence of one molecule in the asymmetric unit gives a crystal volume per protein mass (Vm) of 2.36 Å 3/Da and a solvent content of 48% by volume. The X-ray diffraction pattern extends at least to 1.6 Å Bragg spacing when exposed to both CuKα and synchrotron X-rays. A set of X-ray data to approximately 1.9 Å Bragg spacing has been collected from a native crystal. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 19 (1994), S. 85-97 
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    Keywords: protein conformation ; secondary structure ; protein folding ; helix stability ; helix formation ; conformational entropy ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Much effort has been invested in seeking to understand the thermodynamic basis of helix stability in both peptides and proteins. Recently, several groups have measured the helix-forming propensities of individual residues (Lyu, P. C., Liff, M. I., Marky, L. A., Kallenbach, N. R. Science 250:669-673, 1990; O'Neil, K. T., DeGrado, W. F. Science 250:646-651, 1990; Padmanabhan, S., Marqusee, S., Ridgeway, T., Laue, T. M., Baldwin, R. L. Nature (London) 344:268-270, 1990). Using Monte Carlo computer simulations, we tested the hypothesis that these differences in measured helix-forming propensity are due primarily to loss of side chain conformational entropy upon helix formation (Creamer, T. P., Rose, G. D. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89:5937-5941, 1992). Our previous study employed a rigid helix backbone, which is here generalized to a completely flexible helix model in order to ensure that earlier results were not a methodological artifact. Using this flexible model, side chain rotamer distributions and entropy losses are calculated and shown to agree with those obtained earlier. We note that the side chain conformational entropy calculated for Trp in our previous study was in error; a corrected value is presented. Extending earlier work, calculated entropy losses are found to correlate strongly with recent helix propensity scales derived from substitutions made within protein helices (Horovitz, A., Matthews, J. M., Fersht, A. R. J. Mol. Biol. 227:560-568, 1992; Blaber, M., Zhang, X.-J., Matthews, B. M. Science 260:1637-1640, 1993). In contrast, little correlation is found between these helix propensity scales and the accessible surface area buried upon formation of a model polyalanyl α-helix. Taken in sum, our results indicate that loss of side chain entropy is a major determinant of the helix-forming tendency of residues in both peptide and protein helices. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 19 (1994), S. 165-173 
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    Keywords: algoriths ; structure alignment ; Protein Data Bank ; protein superfamilies ; structural homology ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The number of protein structures known in atomic detail has increased from one in 1960 (Kendrew, J. C., Strandberg, B. E., Hart, R. G., Davies, D. R., Phillips, D. C., Shore, V. C. Nature (London) 185:422-427, 1960) to more than 1000 in 1994. The rate at which new structures are being published exceeds one a day as a result of recent advances in protein engineering, crystallography, and spectroscopy. More and more frequently, a newly determined structure is similar in fold to a known one, even when no sequence similarity is detectable. A new generation of computer algorithms has now been developed that allows routine comparison of a protein structure with the database of all known structures. Such structure database searches are already used daily and they are beginning to rival sequence database searches as a tool for discovering biologically interesting relationships. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 19 (1994), S. 199-221 
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    Keywords: multicopy simulation search ; rational drug design ; database search ; computer-aided design ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: A program (HOOK) is described for generating potential ligands that satisfy the chemical and steric requirements of the binding region of a macromolecule. Functional group sites with defined positions and orientations are derived from known ligand structures or the multicopy simulation search (MCSS) method (Miranker, A., Karplus, M. Proteins 11:29-34, 1991). HOOK places molecular “skeletons” from a database into the protein binding region by making bonds between sites (“hooks”) on the skeleton and functional groups. The nonpolar interactions with the binding region of candidate molecules are assessed by use of a simplified van der Waals potential. The method is illustrated by constructing ligands for the sialic acid binding site of the hemagglutinin from the influenza A virus and the active site of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase. Aspects of the HOOK program that lead to a highly efficient search of 105 or more skeletons for binding to 102 or more functional group minima are outlined. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 19 (1994), S. 230-243 
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    Keywords: aspartate transcarbamylase ; multienzyme complex ; comparative structure modeling ; allosteric enzymes ; molecular evolution ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: In Saccharomyces cerevisiae the first two reactions of the pyrimidine pathway are catalyzed by a multifunctional protein which possesses carbamylphosphate synthetase and aspartate transcarbamylase activities. Genetic and proteolysis studies suggested that the ATCase activity is carried out by an independently folded domain. In order to provide structural information for ongoing mutagenesis studies, a model of the three-dimensional structure of this domain was generated on the basis of the known X-ray structure of the related catalytic subunit from E. coli ATCase. First, a model of the catalytic monomer was built and refined by energy minimization. In this structure, the conserved residues between the two proteins were found to constitute the hydrophobic core whereas almost all the mutated residues are located at the surface. Then, a trimeric structure was generated in order to build the active site as it lies at the interface between adjacent chains in the E. coli catalytic trimer. After docking a bisubstrate analog into the active site, the whole structure was energy minimized to regularize the interactions at the contact areas between subunits. The resulting model is very similar to that obtained for the E. coli catalytic trimer by X-ray crystallography, with a remarkable conservation of the structure of the active site and its vicinity. Most of the interdomain and intersubunit interactions that are essential for the stability of the E. coli catalytic trimer are maintained in the yeast enzyme even though there is only 42% identity between the two sequences. Free energy calculations indicate that the trimeric assembly is more stable than the monomeric form. Moreover an insertion of four amino acids is localized in a loop which, in E. coli ATCase, is at the surface of the protein. This insertion exposes hydrophobic residues to the solvent. Interestingly, such an insertion is present in all the eukaryotic ATCase genes sequenced so far, suggesting that this region is interacting with another domain of the multifunctional protein. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 19 (1994), S. 273-276 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 19 (1994), S. 302-309 
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    Keywords: dinuclear copper site ; hemocyanin ; oxygen binding ; allosteric regulation ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The X-ray structure of an oxygenated hemocyanin molecule, subunit II of Limulus polyphemus hemocyanin, was determined at 2.4 Å resolution and refined to a crystallographic R-factor of 17.1%. The 73-kDa subunit crystallizes with the symmetry of the space group R32 with one subunit per asymmetric unit forming hexamers with 32 point group symmetry. Molecular oxygen is bound to a dinuclear copper center in the protein's second domain, symmetrically between and equidistant from the two copper atoms. The copper-copper distance in oxygenated Limulus hemocyanin is 3.6 ± 0.2 Å, which is surprisingly 1 Å less than that seen previously in deoxygenated Limulus polyphemus subunit II hemocyanin (Hazes et al., Protein Sci. 2:597, 1993). Away from the oxygen binding sites, the tertiary and quaternary structures of oxygenated and deoxygenated Limulus subunit II hemocyanins are quite similar. A major difference in tertiary structures is seen, however, when the Limulus structures are compared with deoxygenated Panulirus interruptus hemocyanin (Volbeda, A., Hol, W. G. J. J. Mol. Biol. 209:249, 1989) where the position of domain 1 is rotated by 8° with respect to domains 2 and 3. We postulate this rotation plays an important role in cooperativity and regulation of oxygen affinity in all arthropod hemocyanins. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 20 (1994) 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 20 (1994), S. 197-201 
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    Keywords: cytochrome P450 ; erythromycin ; P450eryF ; crystallization ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Cytochrome P450eryF was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified in high yield. Crystals of the protein in the presence of the substrate, 6-deoxyerythronolide B, have been obtained by the hanging drop vapor diffusion method, using polyethylene glycol 4000 as a precipitant. The crystals belong to the orthorhombic space group P212121 with unit cell dimensions of a = 54.16 Å, b = 79.67 Å, and c = 99.48 Å and one molecule per asymmetric unit. A complete native data set has been collected to a resolution of 2.1 Å, and anomalous dispersion difference Patterson maps have revealed the location of the single heme iron atom. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 20 (1994), S. 34-51 
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    Keywords: enzymology ; protein structure ; biochemical properties ; gene characterization ; bacterial diagnosis ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Pyrrolidone carboxyl peptidase (EC 3.4.11.8) is an exopeptidase commonly called PYRase, which hydrolytically removes the pGlu from pGlu-peptides or pGlu-proteins.pGlu also known as pyrrolidone carboxylic acid may occur naturally by an enzymatic procedure or may occur as an artifact in proteins or peptides. The enzymatic synthesis of pGlu suggests that this residue may have important biological and physiological functions. Several studies are consistent with this supposition.PYRase has been found in a variety of bacteria, and in plant, animal, and human tissues For over two decades, biochemical and enzymatic properties of PYRase have been investigated. At least two classes of PYRase have been characterized. The first one includes the bacterial and animal type I PYRases and the second one the animal type II and serum PYRases. Enzymes from these two classes present differences in their molecular weight and in their enzymatic properties.Recently, the genes of PYRases from four bacteria, have been cloned and characterized, allowing the study of the primary structure of these enzymes, and their over-expression in heterelogous organisms. Comparison of the primary structure of these enzymes revealed striking homologies.Type I PYRases and bacterial PYRases are generally soluble enzymes, whereas type II PYRases are membrane-bound enzymes. PYRase II appears to play as important a physiological role as other neuropeptide degrading enzymes. However, the role of type I and bacterial PYRases remains unclear.The primary application of PYRase has been its utilization for some protein or peptide sequencing. Development of chromogenic substrates for this enzyme has allowed its use in bacterial diagnosis. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 20 (1994), S. 52-67 
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    Keywords: nuclear magnetic resonance ; defensin ; hydrogen exchange ; antimicrobial peptides ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The exchange kinetics for the slowly exchanging amide hydrogens in three defensins, rabbit NP-2, rabbit NP-5, and human HNP-1, have been measured over a range of pH at 25°C using 1D and 2D NMR methods. These NHs have exchange rates 102 to 105 times slower than rates from unstructured model peptides. The observed distribution of exchange rates under these conditions can be rationalized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding of the individual NHs, solvent accessibility of the NHs, and local fluctuations in structure. The temperature dependencies of NH chemical shifts (NH temperature coefficients) were measured for the defensins and these values are consistent with the defensin structure. A comparison is made between NH exchange kinetics, NH solvent accessibility, and NH temperature coefficients of the defensins and other globular proteins. Titration of the histidine side chain in NP-2 was examined and the results are mapped to the three-dimensional structure. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 18 (1994), S. 133-147 
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    Keywords: myoglobin ; simulation ; hydration ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: An analysis of a molecular dynamics simulation of metmyoglobin in an explicit solvent environment of 3,128 water molecules has been performed. Both statics and dynamics of the protein-solvent interface are addressed in a comparison with experiment. Three-dimensional density distributions, temperature factors, and occupancy weights are computed for the solvent by using the trajectory coordinates. Analysis of the hydration leads to the localization of more than 500 hydration sites distributed into multiple layers of solvation located between 2.6 and 6.8 Å from the atomic protein surface. After locating the local solvent density maxima or hydration sites we conclude that water molecules of hydration positions and hydration sites are distinct concepts. Both global and detailed properties of the hydration cluster around myoglobin are compared with recent neutron and X-ray data on myoglobin. Questions arising from differences between X-ray and neutron data concerning the locations of the protein-bound water are investigated. Analysis of water site differences found from X-ray and neutron experiments compared with our simulation shows that the simulation gives a way to unify the hydration picture given by the two experiments. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 18 (1994), S. 119-132 
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    Keywords: electrostatics ; protein conformation ; DelPhi ; hydrophobicity ; RNase H ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: In this paper we discuss the problem of including solvation free energies in evaluating the relative stabilities of loops in proteins. A conformational search based on a gas-phase potential function is used to generate a large number of trial conformations. As has been found previously, the energy minimization step in this process tends to pack charged and polar side chains against the protein surface, resulting in conformations which are unstable in the aqueous phase. Various solvation models can easily identify such structures. In order to provide a more severe test of solvation models, gas phase conformations were generated in which side chains were kept extended so as to maximize their interaction with the solvent. The free energies of these conformations were compared to that calculated for the crystal structure in three loops of the protein E. coli RNase H, with lengths of 7, 8, and 9 residues. Free energies were evaluated with a finite difference Poisson-Boltzmann (FDPB) calculation for electrostatics and a surface area-based term for nonpolar contributions. These were added to a gas-phase potential function. A free energy function based on atomic solvation parameters was also tested. Both functions were quite successful in selecting, based on a free energy criterion, conformations quite close to the crystal structure for two of the three loops. For one loop, which is involved in crystal contacts, conformations that are quite different from the crystal structure were also selected. A method to avoid precision problems associated with using the FDPB method to evaluate conformational free energies in proteins is described. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 18 (1994), S. 107-118 
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    Keywords: protein crystallography ; four helix bundle ; iron ; macromolecular assembly ; regulation ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Ferritin is a 24 subunit protein that controls biomineralization of iron in animals, bacteria, and plants. Rates of mineralization vary among members of the ferritin family, particularly between L and H type subunits of animal ferritins which are differentially expressed in various cell types. To examine ferritin from a highly differentiated cell type and to clarify the relationship between ferritin structure and function, bullfrog red cell L ferritin has been cloned, overexpressed in E. coli, and crystallized under two conditions. Crystals were obtained at high ionic strength in the presence of MnCl2 at a concentration comparable to that of the protein and in the presence of MgCl2 at a concentration much higher than that of the protein. Under both crystallization conditions, the crystals are tetragonal bipyramids in the space group F432 with unit cell dimensions a=b=c= 182 ± 0.5 Å. Crystals obtained in the presence of manganese and ammonium sulfate diffract to 1.9 Å, while those obtained in the presence of magnesium and sodium tartrate diffract to 1.6 Å. Isomorphous crystals have been obtained under similar conditions for a site-directed mutant with a reduced mineralization rate in which Glu-57, -58, -59, and -61 are all replaced by Ala. The structure of wild type L-subunit with magnesium has been solved by molecular replacement using the calcium salt of human liver H subunit (Lawson et al., Nature (London) 349:541-544, 1991) as the model. The crystallographic R factor for the 6-2.2 Å shell is 0.21. The overall fold of human H and bullfrog L ferritins is similar with an rms difference in backbone atomic positions of 0.97 Å. The largest structural differences occur in the D helix and the loop connecting the D and E helices of the four helix bundle. Because red cell L ferritin and liver H ferritin show differences in both rates of mineralization and three-dimensional structure, more detailed comparisons of these structures are likely to shed new light on the relationship between conformation and function. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 18 (1994), S. 148-160 
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    Keywords: myoglobin ; solvation ; dynamics ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The dynamics of water at the protein-solvent interface is investigated through the analysis of a molecular dynamics simulation of metmyoglobin in explicit aqueous environment. Distribution implied dynamics, harmonic and quasiharmonic, are compared with the simulated macroscopic dynamics. The distinction between distinguishable solvent molecules and hydration sites developed in the previous paper is used. The simulated hydration region within 7 Å from the protein surface is analyzed using a set of 551 hydration sites characterized by occupancy weights and temperature B-factors determined from the simulation trajectory. The precision of the isotropic harmonic and anisotropic harmonic models for the description of proximal solvent fluctuations is examined. Residence times and dipole reorientation times of water around the protein surface are compared with NMR and ESR results. A correlation between diffraction experiment quantities such as the occupancy weights and temperature factors and the residence and correlation times resulting from magnetic resonance experiments is found via comparison with simulation. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 18 (1994), S. 198-200 
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    Keywords: catalytic antibody ; chorismate mutase ; crystallization ; X-ray diffraction ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The Fab′ fragment of a catalytic antibody with chorismate mutase activity has been crystallized as a complex with the transition-state analog hapten. The complex was crystallized by the vapor diffusion method using ammonium sulfate as the precipitant. The crystals belong to the orthorhombic space group P212121 with unit cell dimensions a = 37.1 Å, b = 63.3 Å, c = 178.5 Å, and there is one Fab' molecule per asymmetric unit. The crystals diffract X-rays to at least 3.0 Å and are suitable for X-ray crystallographic studies. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 20 (1994), S. 330-346 
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    Keywords: lentil lectin ; legume lectin ; lectin ; side chain clusters ; sugar-protein interactions ; phosphate binding ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The structures of two crystal forms of lentil lectin are determined and refined at high resolution. Orthorhombic lentil lectin is refined at 1.80 Å resolution to anR-factor of 0.184 and monoclinic lentil lectin at 1.75 Å resolution to anR-factor of 0.175. These two structures are compared to each other and to the other available legume lectin structures. The monosaccharide binding pocket of each lectin monomer contains a tightly bound phosphate ion. This phosphate makes hydrogen bonding contacts with Asp-81β, Gly-99β, and Asn-125β, three residues that are highly conserved in most of the known legume lectin sequences and essential for monosaccharide recognition in all legume lectin crystal structures described thus far. A detailed analysis of the composition and properties of the hydrophobic contact network and hydrophobic nuclei in lentil lectin is presented. Contact map calculations reveal that dense clusters of nonpolar as well as polar side chains playa major role in secondary structure packing. This is illustrated by a large cluster of 24 mainly hydrophobic amino acids that is responsible for the majority of packing interactions between the two β-sheets. Another series of four smaller and less hydrophobic clusters is found to mediate the packing of a number of loop structures upon the front sheet. A very dense, but not very conserved cluster is found to stabilize the transition metal binding site. The highly conserved and invariant nonpolar residues are distributed asymmetrically over the protein. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 20 (1994), S. 105-123 
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    Keywords: structure prediction ; helix to helix packing ; coiled coils ; leucine zippers ; heptad repeats ; molecular dynamics ; simulated annealing ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: A simulated annealing method for atomic resolution structure prediction of α-helical coiled coil proteins is described which draws upon knowledge of the oligomerization state, the helix directionality, and the properties of heptad repeat sequences. Unknown structural parameters, such as the coiled coil twist angle and the side chain conformations, are heavily sampled while allowing for flexibility in the helix backbone geometry. Structures of the wild-type GCN4 dimer [O'Shea et al., Science 254:539-544, 1991] and a mutant tetramer [Harbury et al., Science 292:1401-1407, 1993] have been generated and compared with the X-ray crystal structures. The wild-type dimer model has a root mean square coordinate deviation from the crystal structure of 0.73 Å for nonhydrogen atoms in the dimerization interface. Structures of a mutant dimer and a mutant trimer have been predicted. Packing energetics were analyzed for core leucine and isoleucine side chains in dimeric and tetrameric coiled coils. Strong packing preferences were found in the dimers but not in the tetramers. Thus, packing in the dimer may be responsible for the switch from a two-stranded to a four-stranded coiled coil caused by the GCN4 leucine zipper mutations. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 20 (1994), S. 139-148 
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    Keywords: hardware ; molecular dynamics ; simulation ; special-purpose computer ; supercomputing ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Molecular dynamics simulations have been extensively used in research of proteins. Since these simulations are quite computer intensive, their acceleration is of main interest of the research. In molecular dynamics simulations, almost all computing time is consumed in calculating the forces between particles, e.g., Coulomb and van der Waals forces. We have designed and built GRAPE-2A (GRAvity PipE 2A), a special-purpose computer for use in simulations of classical many-body systems. GRAPE-2A calculates forces exerted on a particle from the other particles. GRAPE-2A can calculate force of an arbitrary functional form of a central force. The host computer, which is connected to GRAPE-2A through the VME bus, performs other calculations such as time integration. The peak speed of GRAPE-2A is 180 Mflops. We can also stimulate systems with periodic boundary conditions by the Ewald method, using GRAPE-2A and another special-purpose computer, WINE (Wave space INtegrator for the Ewald method). © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 113-120 
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    Keywords: polyurethane ; chromatography ; stoichiometry ; GPC ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: The kinetics of formation of polyurethane prepolymers is studied by an analytical technique which involves reactive quenching of the isocyanate, separation of the oligomeric species by GPC, and measurement by UV absorbance of the quenched moieties. The precision of the kinetic parameters and the ratios of the oligomers are determined. The effect of changes in reactant stoichiometry on the ratio of oligomers is measured and compared to the value predicted by an equation from Flory. Toluene diisocyanate is shown to give fewer high oligomers than predicted, while methylene diphenylene diisocyanate gives nearly the predicted values. Tetramethylxylene diisocyanate gives more high oligomers than predicted, an unexpected but possibly important result. Catalyst is shown to increase the reaction rate of the last by more than 200 times. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 159-165 
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    Keywords: 4-hydroxybenzoic acid ; 6-thioxantone-2-carboxylic acid ; copolyesters ; whiskers ; polycondensation ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: 6-Hydroxythioxanthone-2-carboxylic acid (HTCA) was prepared from commercial dimethylnitroterephthalate via 2-(4'-hydroxythiophenyl) terephthalic acid. HTCA was acetylated and polycondensed in an inert reaction medium at 350 or 400°C. An insoluble and infusible, highly crystalline polyester was obtained, which did not form whisker-like crystals. Furthermore, copolyesters with 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (4-HBA) were synthesized and whiskers were obtained at a molar ratio of 1 : 9 (in favor of 4-HBA). A meltable, nematic copolyester was prepared by cocondensation of silylated 6-acetoxythioxanthone-2-carboxylic acid and silylated 4-acetoxybenzoic acid in bulk. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 167-174 
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    Keywords: polyimide molecular composite ; crosslinking ; internal acetylene ; laminate processing ; high modulus ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Polyimide/polyimide molecular composite (MC) films comprised of a rigid polyimide derived from biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (BPDA) and p-phenylenediamine (PDA) and a flexible polyimide derived from BPDA and bis (3,3'-diaminodiphenyl) acetylene (intA) and/or oxydianiline (ODA) were prepared by blending the polyamic acid solutions in 7 : 3 weight ratio, and then imidizing the blend films. Acetylene content in the flexible polyimide backbone was controlled by the ratio of intA and ODA. Cold-drawing of the blend polyamic acid films, followed by imidization, gives high modulus polyimide/polyimide MC films. The modulus of the MC films increased almost linearly with the draw ratio, reaching 25.5 GPa for the 40% drawn film. Acetylene groups in the flexible polyimide can be thermally cured to crosslink. The onset of exotherm appeared at 340°C on DSC, reaching maximum at 398°C. After the thermal crosslinking, the MC films maintained the high modulus, though elongation became small. Taking advantage of the crosslinkable acetylene units, two MC films were laminated and processed at 400°C for 20 min under 100 kg/cm2 to give a good-quality laminate film. The interface of the two films was strongly bonded through the crosslinking of acetylene groups. Laminate films maintained the high modulus afforded by the cold-drawing. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 355-362 
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    Keywords: bisaryloxyencephthalic Acids ; polyaramides ; rigid-rod polymers ; molecular blends ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Several 2,5-bisaryloxyterephthalic acids were prepared by a new method, namely arylation of diethyl-2,5-bistrimethylsiloxyterephthalate. Rigid-rod polyaramides were prepared by polycondensation of silylated diamines with a terephthaloylchloride with two diphenylsulfone side chains. Another polyamide was prepared from 2,5-bis(4′-cyanophenoxy) terephthalic acid and 1,4-diaminobenzene. None of these polyaramides is meltable and their solubilities differ largely. A copolymer of 1,4-diaminobenzene and 3,3′-dimethoxybenzidine is soluble in various organic solvents including polar vinyl monomers. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 149-158 
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    Keywords: metallocene ; stereoselective catalyst ; propylene polymerization ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: A new silolene-bridged compound, racemic (1,4-butanediyl) silylene-bis (1-η5-in-denyl) dichlorozirconium (1) was synthesized by reacting ZrCl4 with C4H8Si (IndLi)2 in THF. 1 was reacted with trialkylaluminum and then with triphenylcarbenium tetrakis (penta-fluorophenyl) borate (2) to produce in situ the zirconocenium ion (1+). This “constraint geometry” catalyst is exceedingly stereoselective for propylene polymerization at low temperature (Tp = -55°C), producing refluxing n-heptane insoluble isotactic poly(propylene) (i-PP) with a yield of 99.4%, Tm = 164.3°C, δHf = 20.22 cal/g and M̄w = 350 000. It has catalytic activities of 107-108 g PP/(mol Zr · [C3H6] · h) in propylene polymerization at the Tp ranging from -55°C to 70°C, and 108 polymer/(mol Zr · [monomer] · h) in ethylene polymerization. The stereospecificity of 1+ decreases gradually as Tp approaches 20°C. At higher temperatures the catalytic species rapidly loses stereochemical control. Under all experimental conditions 1+ is more stereospecific than the analogous cation derived from rac-dimethylsilylenebis (1-η5-indenyl)dichlorozirconium (4). The variations of polymerization activities in ethylene and in propylene for Tp from -55°C to +70°C indicates a Michaelis Mention kinetics. The zirconocenium-propylene π-complex has a larger insertion rate constant but lower thermal stability than the corresponding ethylene π-complex. This catalyst copolymerizes ethylene and propylene with reactivity ratios of comparable magnitude rE ˜ 4rp. Furthermore, rE.rp ˜ 0.5 indicating random copolymer formation. Both 1 and 4 activated with methylaluminoxane (MAO) exhibit much slower polymerization rates, and, under certain conditions, a lower stereo-selectivity than the corresponding 1+ or 4+ system. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 187-191 
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    Keywords: thermal degradation ; polysiloxane ; alternating copolymer ; thermal isomerization ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 219-227 
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    Keywords: Polyimidophosphonate ; dihydroxybismide ; phase transfer catalyst ; 31PNMR ; flame retardancy ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Synthesis of dihydroxybisimide monomers and their subsequent polycondensation with dichlorophenylphosphine oxide by use of a phase-transfer catalyst are reported. The monomers were characterized by melting point, elemental analysis, and IR spectroscopy. The polyimidophosphonates were characterized by viscosity measurement, molecular weight determination, elemental analysis, IR, ESCA, 1H-NMR, 31P-NMR, and X-ray diffraction. Thermal stability and glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymers were evaluated by TGA, DTA, and TMA. These polymers are self-extinguishing and readily soluble in highly polar solvents like DMF, DMSO, DMAC, NMP, HMPA, etc. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 605-630 
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    Keywords: free radical ; exit ; emulsion ; polymerization ; model ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: The exit or desorption of free radicals from latex particles is an important kinetic process in an emulsion polymerization. This article unites a successful theory of radical absorption (i.e., initiator efficiency), based on propagation in the aqueous phase being the rate determining step for entry of charged free radicals, with a detailed model of radical desorption. The result is a kinetic scheme applicable to true “zero-one” systems (i.e., where entry of a radical into a latex particle already containing a radical results in instantaneous termination), which is still, with a number of generally applicable assumptions, relatively simple. Indeed, in many physically reasonable limits, the kinetic representation reduces to a single rate equation. Specific experimental techniques of particular significance and methods of analysis of kinetic data are detailed and discussed. A methodology for both assessing the applicability of the model and its more probable limits, via use of known rate coefficients and theoretical predictions, is outlined and then applied to the representative monomers, styrene and methyl methacrylate. A detailed application of the theory and illustration of the methodology of model discrimination via experiment is contained in the second article of this series. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 675-681 
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    Keywords: nickel ; coupling polymerization ; aromatic dichloride ; tert-butyl-substituted poly (ether ketone) ; de-tert-butylation ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: tert-Butyl substituted poly (aryl ether ketone)s with relatively high molecular weights were prepared by the Ni-catalyzed polymerization of tert-butyl substituted aromatic dichlorides containing ether ketone unit. These polymers were amorphous and soluble in common organic solvents, such as THF, dichloromethane, and chloroform. De-tert-butylation of the polymer by the treatment of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid in the presence of toluene proceeded smoothly and produced crystalline poly (aryl ether ketone). © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 711-719 
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    Keywords: carbazolyl group ; liquid-crystalline polymer ; polyacrylate ; nematic phase ; smectic phase ; electron beam polymerization ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: The new acrylate monomers 4-(ω-acryloyloxyalkyloxy)-N-(9-methyl-2-carbazolylmethylene) anilines containing from 2 to 11 methylenic units in their alkyl group and a carbazolyl group in the mesogenic unit were synthesized and polymerized by azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as radical initiator and by low-energy electron beam (EB) initiation. The thermal properties of the resulting polymers were examined using differential scanning calorimetry and thermal optical polarizing microscopy. The polymer prepared by AIBN with a hexamethylene spacer exhibited a nematic phase from 73 to 170°C and with an undecamethylene spacer exhibited a smectic phase from 55 to 202°C. The isotropization temperature of the polyacrylates increased with increasing the number of carbons of the methylenic spacer. The yield of the resulting polymer was changed by EB irradiation temperature from 4.5 to 41%. The highest yield was obtained when the monomer was polymerized in a liquid-crystalline phase. The same tendency was observed in the molecular weight of the resulting polymers. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 747-752 
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    Keywords: thermotropic copolyamides ; depression of transition temperatures ; p-aminobenzoic acid ; amide bond structure ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: It is proposed that depression of the transition temperatures, especially the melting point (Tm), can be achieved by the introduction of a different amide bond structure into the copolyamides of dicarboxylic acids and diamines by copolymerization of aminocarboxylic acids, such as p-aminobenzoic acid. The effect was examined by the amount and distribution of the structure in the copolylamindes. Copolycondensations of PEG3, p-aminobenzoic acid, and diamines with different chain lengths showed that the structural change of the amide bond in the copolymers, especially its distribution, was more important than its total amount in them. Several types of aminocarboxylic acids were briefly examined to study the effect. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 797-801 
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    Keywords: solid state photopolymerization ; exciton-phonon coupling ; homogeneous and heterogeneous reaction mechanism ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Photopolymerization reaction in di n-propyl ester of dicyano p-phenylene diacrylic acid crystal is shown to be mediated by exciton-phonon coupling. Raman phonon spectra suggest that at the initial stage of reaction progress, the reactant and the product form a solid solution. In the later stage, the reactant segregates out and forms its own lattice. The polymer lattice is shown to maintain a good degree of order. Infrared and Raman spectra confirm that the polymerization occurs by cyclobutane ring formation. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 829-840 
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    Keywords: chemical modification ; poly (epichlorohydrin) ; nadimide ; polyethers ; DSC ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Chemical modification of poly(epichlorohydrin) (PECH) with nadimide derivatives using 1,8-diazabicyclo (5.4.0)-7 undecene to catalyze the substitution of the chlorine atom by acid compounds (DBU method) was accomplished. The linear polyethers obtained showed a degree of substitution from 5-80%, depending on time and temperature reaction. The Tg of modified polymers and Ea, calculated in the cure reactions, increases with substitution degree. Residual enthalpies were observed in all cases, which suggests that the curing reaction is incomplete. TGA measurements showed that the degradation has a greater dependence on the modification degree than on the introduced pendant group. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 869-877 
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    Keywords: polymer modification ; block copolymer ; hydroxylation of polyisoprene ; trifluoroacetylation of polyisoprene ; polymer monolayer ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Polyisoprene (PIP) was found to react with trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) to give an adduct. Saponification of the ester gave a new alternating copolymer of ethylene and α-methyl vinyl alcohol. TFA did not react with polybutadiene (PBD) under these conditions, thus providing a way to produce amphiphilic block copolymers from PBD-b-PIP. TFA addition to the PIP block took place cleanly at an ambient temperature with 2 equiv of the acid in toluene to give block copolymer of PBD and trifluoroacetated PIP. This polymer is very soluble in toluene regardless of molecular weight. Methanolysis with NaOMe cleaved the ester to give PDB-b-(ethylene-alt-α-methyl vinyl alcohol) (PIPOH) in a MeOH/toluene mixture. Low molecular weight hydroxylated diblock copolymer is a viscous liquid when the ratio of PIP/PBD is 0.1 ( \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$\overline {M_n }$\end{document} = 4100, D = 1.3), but a solid with the ratio 0.5 (\documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$\overline {M_n }$\end{document} = 7170, D = 1.6). High molecular weight polymer (\documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$\overline {M_n }$\end{document} = 114,000, D = 1.4) with PIP/PBD ratio 0.1 is a hazy rubbery material. Block copolymers of PIPOH and poly(methacrylic acid) was also obtained from copolymers of PIP and poly(t-butyl methacrylate). The hydroxylated copolymers showed surface activity by monolayer formation on a Langmuir-Blodgett trough. The transfer of the monolayer on a silicon wafer gave z-type deposition, with the average ellipsometer thickness of the layer being about 40 Å thick per monolayer for \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$\overline {M_n }$\end{document} = 4100 copolymer. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 909-915 
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    Keywords: high-temperature polyarylates ; dihydroxytetraphenylethylene ; solubility behavior ; thermal behavior ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: New polyarylates and aromatic polyethers were synthesized from 1,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1,2-diphenylethylene, and aromatic dicarboxylic acid chlorides and aromatic dihalides, respectively. The polyarylates having inherent viscosities of 0.28-1.05 dL/g were synthesized by either the two-phase method or the high-temperature solution method. All the polymers were easily soluble in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, N,N-dimethylformamide, pyridine, m-cresol, 1,4-dioxane, and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane. They have glass transition temperatures in the range of 217-250°C and showed no weight loss below 315°C in both air and nitrogen atmospheres. Aromatic polyethers with inherent viscosities of 0.85-1.21 dL/g were obtained by the polycondensation of 1,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1,2-diphenylethylene and aromatic difluorides in the presence of potassium carbonate. These polymers having glass transion temperatures of 193-220°C were also soluble in the aforementioned solvents and stable up to around 350deg;C in both atmospheres. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 929-935 
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    Keywords: reduced titanium dioxide ; supported titanium tetrachloride ; ethylene polymerization ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Titanium tetrachloride heterogenized on reduced TiO2 has been studied as a catalyst for ethylene polymerization. The catalyst has good storage stability and exhibits good activity for ethylene polymerization. The polymer chains grow linearly during ca. 1 h, giving an average molecular weight of up to 2.5 × 106 which indicates that practically no β-elimination occurs. The activity of the catalyst at 50°C, based on Ti(III), is 7.6 × 106 PE/mol Ti h bar and based on the quantity of polyethylene formed it is 1.25 × 106 g PE/mol Ti h bar. The molecular weight of the polymer can be controlled with the addition of hydrogen, under 0.5 bar hydrogen, polyethylene with a molecular weight of 411,000 and a relatively low polydispersity index of 2.2 is obtained. The catalyst shows good thermal stability; the Arrhenius activation energy is 31.8 kJ/mol for the polymerization. The catalyst is also active for propylene polymerization, giving 3 × 106 g PP/mol Ti h bar with the high isotacticity of 93%. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Keywords: ε-caprolactone ; ring-opening polymerization ; rare earth coordination catalyst ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone has been carried out by using rare earth coordination catalysts for the first time. The rare earth compounds, RE(acac)3.3H2O, Nd(P204)3, Nd(P507)3, Nd(naph)3, Nd(BA)3.2H2O, etc. (where RE = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Lu, Y; acac = acetylacetone; BA = benzoylacetone), combined with trialkyl aluminum, greatly increased the degree of conversion and the molecular weight of poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL). The influence of reaction conditions on the polymerization of ε-caprolactone catalyzed by the Nd (acac)3.3H2O-AlEt3 system has been examined in detail. The kinetics indicates that the polymerization rate has the first-order in monomer and a half-order in catalyst. The overall activation energy of the ring-opening polymerization amounts to 59.4 kJ/mol. By IR and UV-Vis spectra, 1H- and 13C-NMR data, it is assumed that the ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone catalyzed by the Nd(acac)3.3H2O-AlEt3 system proceeds via complexation of monomer to catalyst, acyl-oxygen cleavage insertion propagation mechanism. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 683-697 
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    Keywords: hydrosilation ; epoxy monomers ; epoxy functional oligomers ; cationic photopolymerization ; regioselective hydrosilation ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Several series of multifunctional silicon-containing epoxide monomers and oligomers have been prepared using rhodium catalyzed hydrosilation reactions. Dialkyl and diarylsilanes can be condensed with vinyl epoxides to give high yields of the desired diepoxides while the hydrosilation of alkyl and aryl silanes yields a mixture of di and tri epoxy substituted products. The condensation of αω,—Si—H difunctional compounds with vinyl epoxides can be carried out regioselectively to give α-hydrogen-ω-epoxy intermediates, which can be further reacted with di and tri olefins bearing terminal double bonds to give a series of well characterized epoxy functional oligomers. An investigation of the photoinitiated cationic polymerization of the monomers and oligomers, which were prepared during the course of these studies, was carried out. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Notes: Syndioselective propylene polymerization has been promoted by rac-2,2-dimethylpropylidene (1-η5-cyclopentadienyl) (1-η5-fluorenyl) dichlorozirconium (1). The active catalytic species were generated using either triphenylcarbenium tetrakis (pentafluorophenyl) borate (2) (Zr+ method) or methylaluminoxane (MAO method). The former exhibited much higher activity than the latter, especially at low polymerization temperatures (Tp). Syndiotactic poly (propylene) (s-PP) obtained at Tp = -20°C has Tm approaching 160°C, [rrrr] pentad fraction of 0.92 to 0.95, and 45% crystallinity (Xc). It crystallized in two antichiral unit cells B and C. The C structure is favored by low temperature of polymerization, slow crystallization from melt, and annealing. The s-PP has M̄w/M̄n ranging from 3.6 to 4.4, which can be separated into stereoregular fractions soluble in heptane and hexane and stereoirregular fractions soluble in pentane, ether, and acetone. Therefore, this system cannot be considered to be a single-site catalyst. A parallel study was made on the isopropylidene (1-η5-cyclopentadienyl) (1-η5-fluorenyl) dichlorozirconium (3)/MAO catalyst. Molecular mechanics calculations were performed for all combinations of the configuration of asymmetric centers. The steric energy favors syndiotactic enchainment for both catalysts 1 and 3, with 1 forming the more syndioselective catalyst. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 767-777 
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    Keywords: emulsion polymerization ; ion-free ; polybutadiene ; poly (vinyl pyrrolidone) ; polymer electrolyte ; latex ; core-shell ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: The synthesis of polybutadiene (PB) by emulsion polymerization with use of poly (vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) stabilizer was investigated. The goal was to prepare flexible latex films that clearly retain particle morphology in the solid state after heat treatment and contain no ionic, hydroxyl, or (primary, secondary) amino groups. The latex particle core composed of PB was nonpolar and rubbery, while the particle shell composed of PVP was polar and glassy. Average particle diameter was measured by the dynamic light scattering technique, and particles were imaged by scanning and transmission electron microscopic analyses. Dialysis of the latices resulted in successful exchange of the dispersion medium without precipitation. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 789-795 
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    Keywords: polycondensation ; serine ; aspartic acid ; inhibitors ; crystallization ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Biocompatable, degradable polymers that are powerful inhibitors of mineral formation were synthesized by automated solid phase and thermal polycondensation techniques. These polymers are analogues of natural proteins isolated from CaCO3 biomineral and consist primarily of polyaspartic acid and serine or modified serine residues. Phosphorylation of the serine residues greatly enhanced the inhibitory activity of the polymers. Synthesis in the presence of orthophosphoric acid resulted in the decomposition and modification of serine. These modified residues when incorporated into the polyaspartic acid also enhanced inhibitory activity of the polymers. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 841-847 
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    Keywords: ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymer ; propylene-carbon monoxide copolymer ; polythiophene ; polyfuran ; polyalcohol ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: The reaction of the alternating ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymer with Lawesson's reagent resulted in the conversion of 75% of the carbonyl groups to thiophene units. A few thioketone groups were also present in the derived polymer. A polymer with furan units in the backbone was formed upon treatment of the alternating propylene-carbon monoxide copolymer with P2O5. Depending on the reaction conditions, up to 90% of the carbonyl groups were converted. Finally, 1,4-polyalcohols were prepared from the alternating propylene-carbon monoxide copolymer by reduction. Hydrogenation using Raney nickel as catalyst resulted in the reduction of 60% of the carbonyl groups, whereas reaction with LiAlH4 at room temperature caused the reduction of 85% of the carbonyl groups. The glass transition temperature was found to increase monotonically with increasing concentration of hydroxyl groups in the polymer backbone. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 879-887 
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    Keywords: living cationic polymerization ; isobutyl vinyl ether ; added Lewis base ; EtAlCl2 ; Et1.5AlCl1.5 ; polymerization mechanism ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: In the living cationic polymerization of isobutyl vinyl ether (IBVE) by the CH3CH (OiBu) OCOCH3 (1)/EtAlCl2 initiating system in the presence of the added base in hexane at +40°C, the stability of the initiating system 1/EtAlCl2, which form initiating species CH3CH⊕ (OiBu) derived from 1, was investigated. In the presence of the Lewis base such as ethyl acetate or 1,4-dioxane, the active species was stable for 300 min even at +40°C in the absence of IBVE, and the living polymers were quantitatively obtained by adding IBVE. However, the active species was partly consumed by side reactions during the standing time for 60 min in the presence of a less basic additive such as ethyl benzoate, and about 50% of the active species was deactivated in the presence of methyl chloroacetate. Consequently, in the case of a less basic additive such as methyl chloroacetate (which was effective for the fast living polymerization), it can be seen that the careful selection of polymerization conditions was required. The living polymerization rate was dependent on the second order of EtAlCl2 concentration. EtAlCl2 induced the cleavage of 1 into CH3CH⊕ (OiBu) and EtAl⊖Cl2(OCOCH3), and the reactivity of CH3CH⊕ (OiBu) and propagating carbocation may be controlled by EtAl⊖Cl2(OCOCH3) with the aid of other EtAlCl2. Et1.5AlCl1.5 exists as a bimetallic complex of EtAlCl2 and Et2AlCl, and it is expected that the polymers having a bimodal molecular weight distribution will be obtained due to two kinds of counteranions coming from EtAlCl2 and Et2AlCl. However, in the cationic polymerization of IBVE by 1/Et1.5AlCl1.5 in the presence of ethyl acetate, the living polymer exhibiting a unimodal and very narrow molecular weight distribution was obtained. Thereby, it was suggested that the counteranions, EtAl⊖Cl2(OCOCH3) and Et2Al⊖Cl(OCOCH3), exchange rapidly with each other. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 917-928 
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    Keywords: radical polymerization ; stable phenoxyl radical ; intramolecular hydrogen transfer ; termination ; hindered phenol ; copolymerization ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
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    Notes: Radical polymerizations of methyl methacrylate (MMA), styrene (St), and vinyl acetate (VAc) were carried out in the presence of a novel phenyl acrylate derivative bearing a hindered phenol moiety (HPA). It has been clarified that HPA acts as a retarder and inhibitor for the polymerizations of MMA and VAc, respectively, and that in the polymerization of St it behaves as a monomer to give a copolymer. These additive effects were interpreted in terms of intramolecular transfer of the phenolic hydrogen in competition with propagation of the HPA radical to monomers. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Bognor Regis [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 32 (1994), S. 961-969 
    ISSN: 0887-624X
    Keywords: ethylene ; copolymerization ; hindered piperidine ; UV stabilizer ; chemically bound antioxidant ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Monomers having a norbornene as polymerizable group and a 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl piperidine as stabilizing moiety were prepared. This monomer was successfully copolymerized with ethylene using VAc3/AlEt2Cl as the catalytic system. Copolymers exhibited better stability under accelerated aging than polyethylene stabilized by classical blending with commercial hindered amines. Any attempt made to obtain copolymers using a high activity TiCl4/MgCl2 catalyst was unsuccessful. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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