Polymorph clusters

Table 3-1. CSD refcodes of organic polymorph clusters up to the recent update of the Cambridge Structural Database (August 2006 update) ...

Diphenyl-2,5-cyclohexadienone 3 exists as four polymorphs, labeled A-D, whose crystallographic details are summarized in Table 3-2 [14]. Polymorphs A-D are conformational polymorphs since they have different molecular conformers in their crystal structures. They are also concomitant polymorphs because they crystallized simultaneously from the same flask and under identical crystal nucleation and growth conditions. Forms B-D with multiple molecules in the asymmetric unit Z > ) may also be classified as conformational isomorphs. Such polymorph clusters with different molecular conformations, crystal packing and C—H - O... 

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Group of transmembrane proteins engaged in the presentation of small peptide fragments to T-cells. Two classes of Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules exist both of which are encoded by a highly polymorphic gene cluster. MHC class I and class II proteins present peptide fragments to CD8+ and CD4+ T-cells, respectively. The human MHC is also known as HLA, the murine MHC as H-2 complex. 

Given the role of H. pylori infection in gastric cancer and duodenal ulcer disease, one must note that certain interleukin-1 gene cluster polymorphisms (suspected of increasing production of interleukin-1-/1) are associated with a predisposition to hypochlorhydria and gastric cancer [52]. One of these host DNA polymorphisms involves a TATA box. 

C, Charmley P, Kaiser R, Hood L. Identification of clusters of biallelic polymorphic sequence-tagged sites (pSTSs) that generate highly informative and... 

Cytochrome P450 2A Gene Cluster and CYP2A6 Polymorphisms.238... 

There are many polymorphisms scattered across the more than 100 kb of genomic DNA that encodes the CASR protein however, the common missense SNPs (Ala986Ser, Arg990Gly, and GlnlOllGlu) are all clustered in the 3 cytoplasmic tail (13,14). The most common of these, the Ala986Ser variant, has proven to be predictive of the unbound, extracellular calcium fraction ("/5,76). Other CASR SNPs may also be important (17) in the general population. 

Heath, H., Odelberg, S., Jackson, C. E., et al. (1996) Clustered inactivating mutations and benign polymorphisms of the calcium receptor gene in familial benign hypocalciuric hypercalcemia suggest receptor functional domains. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 81, 1312-1317. 

Scillitani, A., Guarnieri, V., De Geronimo, S., et al. (2004) Blood ionized calcium is associated with clustered polymorphisms in the carboxyl-terminal tail of the calcium-sensing receptor. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 89, 5634—5638. 

PMs. Likewise, the PRNP-M129M variant was present in 100% of PMs and UMs (42) (see Table 10.5). These association studies clearly show that in PMs and UMs there is an accumulation of AD-related polymorphic variants of risk that might be responsible for the defective therapeutic responses currently seen in these AD clusters (42). 

Hilfiker et al. at Solvias used carbamazepine (CBZ) as a model compound to describe the use of Raman microscopy to characterize crystal forms, including during solvent evaporation experiments [228], The spectra were processed into clusters by spectral similarity. The authors note that all published and several new crystal forms were identified during the study. Solvias HTS uses a specific set of crystallization protocols that have tended to produce new polymorphs. Hilfiker notes that Raman microspectroscopy is an ideal analytical tool for high-throughput discrimination between crystal structures. [229], The ability to collect spectra directly and automatically in a microtiter plate with or without solvent and during evaporation is a major advantage over many other techniques. 

The bottleneck in utilizing Raman shifted rapidly from data acquisition to data interpretation. Visual differentiation works well when polymorph spectra are dramatically different or when reference samples are available for comparison, but is poorly suited for automation, for spectrally similar polymorphs, or when the form was previously unknown [231]. Spectral match techniques, such as are used in spectral libraries, help with automation, but can have trouble when the reference library is too small. Easily automated clustering techniques, such as hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) or PCA, group similar spectra and provide information on the degree of similarity within each group [223,230]. The techniques operate best on large data sets. As an alternative, researchers at Pfizer tested several different analysis of variance (ANOVA) techniques, along with descriptive statistics, to identify different polymorphs from measurements of Raman... 

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