Unspecific

On the other hand, compounds corresponding to rather general, unspecific inodes of toxic action are distributed over a broad area in the respective layer, as shown for polar non-specific toxicants in Figure 10.1-14. 

Until now we have been purposely vague about the quantity Aw. Since we shall use the notation of Eq. (8.42) from now on, it is convenient to say a few more things about Aw before we lose sight of it entirely. Reaction (8.A) is clear enough what is unspecific are the conditions under which this reaction takes place. Several possibilities come to mind, and each imparts a slightly different meaning to the energy w ... 

Because of the time and expense involved, biological assays are used primarily for research purposes. The first chemical method for assaying L-ascorbic acid was the titration with 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol solution (76). This method is not appHcable in the presence of a variety of interfering substances, eg, reduced metal ions, sulfites, tannins, or colored dyes. This 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol method and other chemical and physiochemical methods are based on the reducing character of L-ascorbic acid (77). Colorimetric reactions with metal ions as weU as other redox systems, eg, potassium hexacyanoferrate(III), methylene blue, chloramine, etc, have been used for the assay, but they are unspecific because of interferences from a large number of reducing substances contained in foods and natural products (78). These methods have been used extensively in fish research (79). A specific photometric method for the assay of vitamin C in biological samples is based on the oxidation of ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (80). In the microfluorometric method, ascorbic acid is oxidized to dehydroascorbic acid in the presence of charcoal. The oxidized form is reacted with o-phenylenediamine to produce a fluorescent compound that is detected with an excitation maximum of ca 350 nm and an emission maximum of ca 430 nm (81). 

Figure 11.6 A schematic view of the presumed binding mode of the tetrahedral transition state intermediate for the deacylation step. The four essential features of the serine proteinases are highlighted in yellow the catalytic triad, the oxyanion hole, the specificity pocket, and the unspecific main-chain substrate binding.

The label-free detection of biomolecules is another promising field of application for SERS spectroscopy. Tiniest amounts of these molecules can be adsorbed by specific interactions with receptors immobilized on SERS-active surfaces. They can then be identified by their spectra, or specific interactions can be distinguished from unspecific interactions by monitoring characteristic changes in the conformation sensitive SERS spectra of the receptors. 

Two mechanisms are operating alone or in concert to minimize the antibiotic concentration at the intracellular target site Downregulation of the expression of the pore proteins, also called porins, and upregulation of one or a set of several unspecific efflux pumps. However, the impact of these mechanisms on the resistance is low, since due to the essential function of porins for uptake of nutrients their reduction is limited and to avoid disturbances of membrane integrity due to extensive oveiproduction of mdr efflux pumps these are subjected a strict regulation. 

Airway hyperresponsiveness is an exaggerated airway narrowing in response to a variety of unspecific stimuli. It can be measured by bronchial provocation with histamine, methacholine or adenosine. The reason for hyperresponsiveness may be stimulation of sensory nerves that are located within the epithelium. They become easily accessible after denudation of the... 

Systemic treatment of 13-cis retinoic acid frequently leads to cheilitis and eye irritations (e.g., unspecific cornea inflammation). Also other symptoms such as headache, pruritus, alopecia, pains of joints and bone, and exostosis formation have been reported. Notably, an increase of very low density lipoproteins and triglycerides accompanied by a decrease of the high density lipoproteins has been reported in 10-20% of treated patients. Transiently, liver function markers can increase during oral retinoid therapy. Etretinate causes the side effects of 13-cis retinoid acid at lower doses. In addition to this, generalized edema and centrilobulary toxic liver cell necrosis have been observed. 

Recently, Engel et al.92 critically discussed these models and concluded by equilibrium measurements in different solvents that bridging of the hydroxy group of hydroxyproline by means of a water molecule must be an unspecific reaction and can be caused as... 

In a contribution dealing with two related compound classes, space could be saved by treating them together in domains where they display close similarities. However, the only spheres where this applies to sulphones and sulphoxides are elemental sulphur determination and chromatography. The former is too unspecific to be considered for inclusion in this chapter. Chromatographic behaviour is determined by the whole molecule, but the widespread use of chromatographic methods does justify its treatment. At the risk of a very little duplication it has been deemed more suitable to provide separate accounts of the two compound classes. 

The validity of this statement is confirmed by the rates of IC1 additions (see Table 12). Because for these additions the formation of a cationic intermediate by direct attack of the electrophile on the double bond is rate determining, their order of rates is comparable to those of polymerizations. It is therefore understandable that the polymerization rates correlate much better with the reactivities of the monomers during an electrophilic addition of cationogenic agents (such as IC1) than with the relatively unspecific EDA complex formation. 

A single hydrolase is usually inadequate for the degradation of a carrier, but most hydrolases have unspecific activities, i.e., they split the chains of polymers that are not their typical substrates. For example, chitosan is susceptible to lipases, pectinases, amylases among others [257-260]. 

A successful case study for asymmetric nitrogen oxidation was reported for a series of (hetero)aromatic tertiary amines. High diastereoselectivity was observed for the enzyme-mediated oxidation of S-(—)-nicotine by isolated CHMOAdneto to give the corresponding ds-N-oxide [215]. The stereoselectivity of this biooxidation was complementary to the product obtained by flavin M O (FM O) from human li ver (trows-selective [216]) as well as unspecific oxidations by FMOs from porcine and guinea pig liver. 

HIV integrase consists of three distinct domains. The N-terminal domain contains a HHCC motif that coordinates a zinc atom that is required for viral cDNA integration. Three highly conserved amino acids (D,D-35-E) are embedded in the core domain, which form the acidic catalytic triad coordinating one or possibly two divalent metals (Mn + or Mg +). The C-terminal domain (residues 213-288) is responsible for unspecific DNA binding and adopts an overall SH3 fold (Chiu and Davies 2004). The enzyme functions as a multimer and to this end all three domains can form homodimers. 

Cholinesterases are another group of B-esterases. The two main types are acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7) and unspecific or butyrylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.8). Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is found in the postsynaptic membrane of cholinergic... 

Such layer structure does not allow ns to say a priori that hybridization of DNA will be possible, for it is protected by the octadecylamine layer. In order to control for this possibility, fluorescence measurements were performed. The first indication that hybridization was successful is that after the process, the sample surface became wettable, while before it and after cold hybridization it was not wettable at all. The results of the fluorescence measurements are summarized in Table 10. The results of the specific hybridization are three times more with respect to unspecific hybridization and one order of magnitude more with respect to cold hybridization. Thus, it appears that during a normal hybridization (100% homology) some structural changes and redistribution of the layer takes place. As a result, DNA becomes available for the specific reaction. Such a model also explains why the fluorescence level after unspecific hybridization (10% homology) is higher with respect to cold hybridization. Because the molecules have some mobility when the film is warmed, some DNA from the film could be hybridized on itself, while during cold hybridization this is impossible. 

The results of the gravimetric measurements of the hybridization are presented in Table 10. As in the case of fluorescence, normal hybridization results in a frequency shift that is much higher with respect to the unspecific and cold hybridization. Nonspecific hy-... 

High non-covalent affinity for the active site, in order to avoid unspecific labeling by permitting the reaction to be carried out at low inhibitor... 

As glycon affinity of glycosidases is generally low for monosaccharides (see Tables III and IV), problems with unspecific labeling may arise with glycon-derived inhibitors of high intrinsic reactivity which do not have additional features to provide enhanced affinity, for example, a suitably positioned... 

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