Biomedical subjects

Z Latajka

Publications and source records attributed to Z Latajka.

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PubMed2004

Vibrational dynamics of medium strength hydrogen bonds: Fourier transform infrared spectra and band contour analysis of the DF stretching region of (CH2)2S-DF.

Fourier transform infrared spectra of the nu(s) band of the (CH2)(2)S-DF complex have been recorded at 0.1-0.5 cm(-1) resolution in a cooled cell and in a supersonic jet expansion seeded with argon. A sufficient density of (CH(2))(2)S-DF heterodimers is produced by a double injection nozzle device, which limits the possibility of reaction between thiirane and DF before the expansion. The observation of partially resolved PQR branch structures at cell temperatures as high as 252 K indicates relatively small effective line widths, which allow a detailed analysis of the underlying vibrational couplings and of the structural properties of the complex. The analysis of cell and free jet spectra in the temperature range 50-250 K is performed with a software package for the simulation and fitting of multiple hot band progressions in asymmetric rotors. The analysis reveals that the three low frequency hydrogen-bond modes are strongly coupled to the DF stretch with anharmonic coupling constants, which indicates a strengthening of the hydrogen bond upon vibrational excitation of DF. Rovibrational parameters and a reliable upper bound for the homogeneous line width have been extracted.

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PubMed2000

Solvent effect on hydrogen bonded ammonia-hydrogen halide complexes: continuum medium versus cluster models

The influence of water and dinitrogen environment on the structures of hydrogen bonded XH-NH3 (X = F, Cl, and Br) complexes has been investigated using the self-consistent isodensity polarizable continuum solvent model (SCI-PCM) with two values of dielectric constants, 1.5 and 78.0, respectively. The geometrical parameters, along with the interaction energies as well as harmonic frequencies were calculated at the B3M-LYP/6-311 + + G(d,p) level of theory. The results from dielectric continuum model were compared with those obtained by traditional supermolecule approach. In order to model the proton transfer in XH-NH3 systems by supermolecular approach, one should add from two to four explicit water or dinitrogen molecules to the calculations. The dielectric continuum model provides similar effect using less effort. As our results shown, the SCI-PCM model, where a solvent is treated as a continuum medium, reproduces quite accurately the molecular properties of investigated medium strong hydrogen bonded systems both with dinitrogen and water environment. In order to represent solvent effects on hydrogen-bonded complexes with less acidic HX subunit it is necessary to take explicit solvent molecules into account.

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PubMed1997

Direction of protein biosynthesis as a reflection of the prebiotic environment

Systematical analyses of the folding pathways of simple polypeptides show that for systems containing L-stereoisomers their natural tendency to be right-handed abakes when the polypeptide terminal are naturally charged. This disadvantageous effect is minimized by an introduction of charged amino acid residues into the polypeptide chain at the beginning of its synthesis. Since in the rebiotic environment negatively charged amino acids were more prominent than positively charged ones, we conclude that the fixed direction of protein biosynthesis might be a result of "a broken symmetry" of amino acid charges.Copyright 1997 Academic Press Limited Copyright 1997 Academic Press Limited

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