Bending activities

An isolated flagellum will continue to bend actively, indicating that this function is linked to its intrinsic structure. Treatment of cilia from the protozoan Tetra-hymena with the proteolytic enzyme trypsin selectively dissolves the nexin links and radial spokes but leaves unaffected the microtubules and dynein arms. If such a preparation is treated with a small amount of ATP, the loosened microtubule doublets slide against each other and through longitudinal overlap, extend for a distance that is up to nine times the original length of the cilium (Warner and Mitchell, 1981). 

Larsen MB, Boydston AJ (2013) Flex-activated mechanophores using polymer mechanochemistry to direct bond bending activation. J Am Chem Soc 135 8189... 

Figure Bl.25.12 illustrates the two scattering modes for a hypothetical adsorption system consisting of an atom on a metal [3]. The stretch vibration of the atom perpendicular to the surface is accompanied by a change m dipole moment the bending mode parallel to the surface is not. As explained above, the EELS spectrum of electrons scattered in the specular direction detects only the dipole-active vibration. The more isotropically scattered electrons, however, undergo impact scattering and excite both vibrational modes. Note that the comparison of EELS spectra recorded in specular and off-specular direction yields infomiation about the orientation of an adsorbed molecule.

The A A2 X Ai, n -n system of formaldehyde (see Section 7.3.1.2) is also electronically forbidden since A2 is not a symmetry species of a translation (see Table A.l 1 in Appendix A). The main non-totally symmetric vibration which is active is Vq, the hj out-of-plane bending vibration (see Worked example 4.1, page 90) in 4q and d transitions. 

Figure 9.32 illustrates the isotopic enrichment of SFe following irradiation with a pulsed CO2 laser in the 3g vibrational band, at 945 cm, of SFe, V3 being a strongly infrared active bending vibration. The natural abundances of the isotopes of sulphur are (95.0 per cent), (4.24 per cent), (0.74 per cent) and (0.017 per cent). The figure shows that depletion of SFg has been achieved to such an extent that equal quantities of SFg and SFa remain. 

The orientation of the cracks reveals that cyclic bending stresses or cyclic axial stresses were active. The intensification of these stresses at pits and intergranular corrosion sites produced the cracks observed. 

Steitz has suggested that DNA bending by CAP could contribute to activation of transcription by looping the DNA around CAP to provide for contacts between RNA polymerase and DNA upstream of the CAP-binding site. Such a model could explain how CAP can activate transcription from a variety of distances from the RNA polymerase-binding site since the size of the loop could vary. 

Some of the procaryotic DNA-binding proteins are activated by the binding of an allosteric effector molecule. This event changes the conformation of the dimeric protein, causing the helix-tum-helix motifs to move so that they are 34 A apart and able to bind to the major groove. The dimeric repressor for purine biosynthesis, PurR, induces a sharp bend in DNA upon binding caused by insertion of a helices in the minor groove between the two... 

Figure 9.2 Schematic model for transcriptional activation. The TATA box-binding protein, which bends the DNA upon binding to the TATA box, binds to RNA polymerase and a number of associated proteins to form the preinitiation complex. This complex interacts with different specific transcription factors that bind to promoter proximal elements and enhancer elements.

The sharp bend of DNA at the TATA box induced by TBP binding is favorable for the formation of the complete DNA control module in particular, for the interaction of specific transcription factors with TFIID. Since these factors may bind to DNA several hundred base pairs away from the TATA box, and at the same time may interact with TBP through one or several TAFs, there must be several protein-DNA interactions within this module that distort the regular B-DNA structure (see Figure 9.2). The DNA bend caused by the binding of TBP to the TATA box is one important step to bring activators near to the site of action of RNA polymerase. 

Lac repressor binds to both the major and minor grooves inducing a sharp bend in the DNA CAP-induced DNA bending could activate transcription Conclusion Selected readings... 

Figure 11.11 Schematic representation of the bonding in NO complexes. Note that bending would withdraw an electron-pair from the metal centre to the N atom thus creating a vacant coordination site this may be a significant factor in the catalytic activity of such complexes. ...

Application of similar reasoning to the case of the bending mode of COj would indicate that the vibration is Raman inactive, infrared active. 

The volumes of activation for some additions of anionic nucleophiles to arenediazonium ions were determined by Isaacs et al. (1987) and are listed in Table 6-1. All but one are negative, although one expects — and knows from various other reactions between cations and anions — that ion combination reactions should have positive volumes of activation by reason of solvent relaxation as charges become neutralized. The authors present various interpretations, one of which seems to be plausible, namely that a C — N—N bond-bending deformation of the diazonium ion occurs before the transition state of the addition is reached (Scheme 6-2). This bondbending is expected to bring about a decrease in resonance interaction in the arenediazonium ion and hence a charge concentration on Np and an increase in solvation. 

Of the five bending vibrations of the Sg molecule three are Raman active (V2, Vg, Vii) and two are IR active (V4, Vg). Most of the Raman active modes in the crystal could clearly be resolved in spectra at low temperatures and by polarization measurements. For example. Fig. 6 shows the Raman active factor group components of the Vg mode obtained at three different polarizations. In Fig. 7 an analogous IR spectrum is presented. 

Figures 8 and 9 shows a part of the bending region at low temperature containing the components of Vg (150-160 cm ) and Vs (190-200 cm ). The Vg vibration, IR active in the free molecule, has weak components in the Raman spectrum. According to theoretically calculated Raman intensities, which almost perfectly fit the experimental spectrum, the big component has a very low scattering cross-section [87] and is accidentally degenerate with the b2g component at ca. 188 cm. The IR active components of Vg cause strong absorptions in the IR spectrum even if the crystalline sample used for transmission studies is as thin as 400 pm [107, 109].

Observed on the wing of the CS2 bending mode. Occurs in violation of the selection rules of the point group Dsd but is IR active under the Csi factor group of the crystal. Could also be a combination vibration or caused by the CS2 impurity which was present in the sample (see text)... 

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