Cooperativity interaction

Wulff and coworkers have applied their aluminum catalyst 2 containing a vaulted biphenanthrol ligand (VAPOL, Section 2.1) to the Diels-Alder reaction between methyl acrylate and cyclopentadiene [25] (Scheme 1.32). In this Diels-Alder reaction auto-induction is observed, because of a cooperative interaction between the product... 

A cooperative interaction between two or more antioxidants (or antioxidant function) that leads to an overall antioxidant effect greater than the sum of the individual effects of each antioxidant is referred to as synergism. Synergism can be achieved in different ways. It may arise from the combined action of two chemically similar antioxidants, e.g., two hindered phenols (homosynergism), or when two different antioxidant functions are present in the same molecule (autosynergism) the latter is exemplified by many commercial antioxidants (e.g., Irgastab 2002, AO 29 Table lb), which have CB and UVA activity. 

Proska, J., and Tucek, S. (1994). Mechanisms of steric and cooperative interactions of alcuronium on cardiac muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Mol. Pharmacol. 45 709-717. 

Table 9 shows that the value of AGn of the cooperative interaction between bonding centers is within the error in the determination of integral AG values. This fact can either indicate the slight mutual influence of the centers or be caused by the compensation between the enthalpy and entropy components of Gibbs free energy. 

The DS increase as a function of increasing the chain-length of the acyl group may be also attributed to hydrophobic interactions between the cellu-losic surface, whose hydrophobic character increases as a function of increasing DS, and the acylating species. This cooperative interaction. Fig. 10, may contribute to the activation enthalpy, as a result of desolvation of the entering species. Since association between the chains attached to cellulose and those... 

Further interest is related to the design of adjustable hosts that permit to mimic cooperative interactions present in many biological functions, e.g., for the transport of sugars across cell membranes. In this respect, crown ethers have been functionalized with boronic acid units, e.g., compound 172, so that the... 

The 02-binding curve for myoglobin is hyperbolic, but for hemoglobin it is sigmoidal, a consequence of cooperative interactions in the tetramer. Cooperativ-ity maximizes the ability of hemoglobin both to load O2 at the PO2 of the lungs and to deliver O2 at the PO2 of the tissues. 

Proteins with the helix-turn-helix or leucine zipper motifs form symmetric dimers, and their respective DNA binding sites are symmetric palindromes. In proteins with the zinc finger motif, the binding site is repeated two to nine times. These features allow for cooperative interactions between binding sites and enhance the degree and affinity of binding. 

Abraham S, Sweet T, Sawaya BE, Rappaport J, Khalili K, Amini S (2005) Cooperative interaction of C/EBP beta and Tat modulates MCP-1 gene transcription in astrocytes. J Neuroimmunol 160 219-227... 

Birdsall NJ, Farries T, Gharagozloo P, Kobayashi S, Lazareno S, Sugimoto M. Subtype-selective positive cooperative interactions between brucine analogs and acetylcholine at muscarinic receptors functional studies. Mol Pharmacol 1999 55 778-786. 

Roy, A. L., Meisteremst, M., Pognonec, P., and Roeder, R. G. (1991). Cooperative interaction of an initiator-binding transcription initiation factor and helix-loop-helix activator USF. Nature 354 245-248. 

The development of the methods described in Section 9.2 was an important step in modeling polarization because it led to accurate calculations of molecular polarizability tensors. The most serious issue with those methods is known as the polarization catastrophe since they are unable to reproduce the substantial decrease of the total dipole moment at distances close to contact as obtained from ab initio calculations. As noted by Applequist et al. [49], and Thole [50], a property of the unmodified point dipole is that it may originate infinite polarization by the cooperative interaction of the two induced dipoles in the direction of the line connecting the two. The mathematical origins of such singularities are made more evident by considering a simple system consisting of two atoms (A and B) with isotropic polarizabilities, aA and c b. The molecular polarizability, has two components, one parallel and one perpendicular to the bond axis between A and B,... 

Kindon, H., Pothoulakis, C., Thim, L., Lynch-Devaney, K. and Podolsky, D.K. (1995) Trefoil peptide protection of intestinal epithelial barrier function cooperative interaction with mucin glycoprotein. Gastroenterobgy 109, 516-523. 

Skovsgaard, T., Stein, W. D., Competitive, non-competitive and cooperative interactions between substrates of P-glycoprotein as measured by its ATPase activity, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1997, 3363, 169-176. 

Of the major solids formed from melts, many, but not all, at equilibrium, the overwhelming influence is of cooperative interaction between ionic units of similar shape and size as we see in crystals. Trace elements apart from forming isolated minerals are fractioned in bulk oxides, for example, in particular orders as the melt solidifies, and this reduces the relative availability of some elements such as Cr and Ni (see Williams, and Williams and Frausto da Silva (1999) in Further Reading). Again the interaction of selective molten minerals and water creates extremely reactive environments and such environments still exist, especially in the deep sea black smokers (hydrothermal vents), around which particular mixed minerals form, which could also have been involved in prebiotic chemistry and are still involved in the peculiarities of life in these smokers . In Figure 1.6 we summarise... 

Again, we are reminded that Nature provides the ultimate model for emulation in the use of cooperative interactions of an enormous number of small structural components through many weak, reversible attractions and repulsions to produce such complex microstructures as proteins, enzymes, viruses, and cells with virtually perfect fidelity (Whitesides, 1991). One important strategy for producing ultra-thin films of promise for microelectronics... 

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