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    High molecular weight poly-L-proline: Synthesis and physical-chemical studiesThis is “Polypeptides. XLI.” For the preceding paper in this series see A. J. Alder, G. D. Fasman, and E. R. Blout, J. Am. Chem. Soc., in press.This work has been supported by the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army.Presented in part at the 132 Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New York, New York, September 1957. (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 3-14 
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    Notes: Poly-L-proline in the molecular weight range 50,000-90,000 has been synthesized from L-proline-N-carboxyanhydride. The molecular weight obtained is dependent on the initiator concentration. The rate constants for the polymerization have been determined by measuring the CO2 evolution. By observation of rotation during the polymerization, it is possible to deduce the conformation of the polymer in the polymerization solution. It is concluded that the immediate product of the polymerization is neither pure form I nor pure form II. The differences between form I and form II of poly-L-proline have been further characterized by measurements of their ultraviolet rotatory dispersion and their ultraviolet spectra.
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    Modification of the reactivity of a small molecule by reversible association with a synthetic polymer. Inhibition of the hydrolysis of cationic esters by polyanionsAbstracted in part from a Ph.D. thesis to be submitted by J. A. Shafer to the Graduate School, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, in June 1963. Financial support of this work by the Office of Naval Research and the National Institutes of Health is gratefully acknowledged. (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 71-77 
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    Notes: The base-catalyzed hydrolysis rate of the cationic esters obtained by quaternization of N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine with phenylbromoacetate was studied in buffers and in solutions of partially neutralized polymeric acids. The polyanions were found to be powerful inhibitors of the reaction. This effect was interpreted as due to the association of the ester with the polyanion, from which the catalytically active hydroxyl groups are repelled. It is shown that kinetic data may be interpreted by a procedure similar to the Lineweaver-Burk plot to yield the reactivity of the bound ester and the dissociation constant of the polymer-ester complex.
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    Copolymers of L-proline and sarcosine: Synthesis and physical-chemical studiesThis is “Polypeptides. XLIII.” For the preceding paper in this series see E. R. Blout, J. P. Carver, and J. Gross, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 85 (1963).Presented in part at the 132 Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New York, September 1957.This work supported by the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army. (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 99-109 
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    Notes: A series of high molecular weight copolypeptides of L-proline and sarcosine have been synthesized. Experimental evidence is presented which indicates that the products are true copolymers rather than mixtures of homopolymers. In contrast to poly-L-proline I, a copolymer of L-proline-sarcosine I containing approximately 50% sarcosine is soluble in water. Two molecular conformations of the copolymers, similar to those found for polyproline, have been characterized by means of infrared spectroscopy and optical rotatory dispersion. The residue rotation of L-proline has been obtained from the copolymers and is -250°.
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    Ionic polysaccharides. IV. Free-rotation dimensions for disaccharide polymers. Comparison with experiment for hyaluronic acid (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 811-824 
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    Notes: The root-mean-square end-to-end distance has been calculated for a model allowing free rotation about glycoside bonds for the general case of polysaccharides having a disaccharide repeating unit. Numerical estimates are given for several naturally occurring structures based on an idealized pyranose unit in the C1 chair conformation. Extrapolation procedures which make use of the intrinsic viscosity [η] in good solvents to obtain unperturbed dimensions do not represent, data for hyaluronic acid very well, especially at low molecular weights. However, order-of-magnitude estimates suggest that this polymer behaves similarly to other polysaccharides, and probably has stiffer local structure than typical non-ionic synthetic polymers. A double logarithmic plot of the product of [η] and M̄w, the weight-average molecular weight, against the degree of polymerization in the range for M̄w of 104 to 2 × 104 permits a straight-line fit of available data for all the glycosaminoglycans, including heparin and the chondroitin sulfates, as well as sodium carboxymethyl cellulose. This result suggests similarity of short-chain hydrodynamic behavior of these polymers.
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    The 4th Jerusalem symposium (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 875-875 
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    Masthead (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970) 
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    Diffusional boundary spreading in the ultracentrifuge (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 865-874 
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    Notes: A common approximation for deriving solutions to the Lamm equation is to neglect diffusion. This paper presents a singular perturbation technique that allows one to estimate the band spreading due to nonzero diffusion coefficient. We illustrate the general mathematical technique by its application to sedimentation when pressure effects are important. Comparison of the approximate solution with accurate numerical solutions shows that the relative errors are of the order of 1% both for concentration and concentration gradient for parameters of chemical interest.
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    Role of pH in charging of glycogen (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 891-896 
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    Notes: Glycogen acquires a negative charge in both alkaline and acidic solutions and can move in an electrical field, its mobility being related to the degree of alkalinity or acidity. There is a slight increase in relative viscosity at both ends of the pH spectrum. These effects and the changes in nuclear magnetic resonance as a function of pH are interpreted.
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    Studies on the viscosity of solutions of bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase and on related hydrodynamic models; effect of toluene on enzyme association (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 877-889 
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    Notes: The viscosity of bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase solutions was studied at 10 and 20° C in 0.2.M sodium phosphate buffer at pH 7, in the concentration range 0.1-8 mg/ml. A method for the study of the viscosity of very dilute solutions of associating enzymes is described. It was found that the reduced specific viscosity ηsp/c of glutamate dehydrogenase continuously increases with increasing enzyme concentration, from about 4 ml/g at the lowest concentrations to about 16 ml/g at 8 mg/ml. In the presence of 10-3M GTP and 10-3M NADH the viscosity increase is much smaller and the results can be extrapolated to zero enzyme concentration to yield an intrinsic viscosity [η] = 3.2. The values of ηsp/c in phosphate buffer alone apparently extrapolate to the same value of [η], or to a value close to it. We also observe that, in the presence of toluene ηsp/c increases very much more with enzyme concentration: ηsp/c already equals 16 ml/g at a concentration of 0.75 mg/ml. These observations are in good agreement with the hypothesis that the active oligomer of glutamate dehydrogenase (MW = 312,000) associates with increasing enzyme concentration to form linear rodlike polymers of indefinite length. This association is strongly diminished by the addition of 10-3M GTP, 10-3M NADH. Toluene, on the other hand, promotes reversible association to linear polymers of very high molecular weight. The transverse and axial rotary frictional coefficients of macroscopic bodies, similar to a physical model for the structure of glutamate dehydrogenase recently advanced, were determined. Assuming that the viscosity of the model is equal to that of an ellipsoid of rotation with identical frictional coefficients, we calculate [η] = 3.26 ml/g according to Kuhn and 3.20 ml/g according to Simha, for the glutamate dehydrogenase oligomer, in good agreement with the result derived from the study of enzyme solutions.
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    Surface chemistry of poly(β-beiizyl L-aspartate) (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 911-922 
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    Notes: Molecular monolaycrs of poly(β-benzyl L-aspartate) spread at. an air-water interface have been studied. The results obtained both by direct observations on the monlayer and from examination of collapsed films with polarized infrared spectroscopy and electron diffraction are consistent with the presence of right handed α-helices in the mono-layer when the molecular weight is high. When 1% (v/v) isopropanol is present in the subphase the right-handed helix prevails, provided that the monolayer is first spread on water. Monolayers of low molecular weight polymer appear to form the crossed-β structure. Orientated collapsed films of high molecular weight polymer can be converted to the left-handed α-helical and to the ω-conformation, and the mechanisms are discussed. The surface chemistry of this polymer is compared with that of related polymers and a consistent pattern of behavior emerges.
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    Characterization of acid-denatured DNA by low-angle light scattering (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1017-1028 
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    Notes: Low-angle light scattering results reported previously demonstrated that measurements on high molecular weight native DNA must be made at angles below 30° in order to obtain correct molecular weights. Earlier light-scattering data obtained on denaturated DNA at angles above 30° showed no change in molecular weight upon denaturation, even though other techniques clearly showed that strand separation occurred. This paper reports low-angle measurements on solutions of calf thymus and T7 DNA denatured under acidic conditions. The results demonstrate that a halving of molecular weight consistent with strand separation is detected by light scattering only when low-angle data are used to obtain correct molecular weights for native material. As expected from theoretical considerations, the scattering from denatured DNA is a linear function of sin2(θ/2), where θ is the angle of observation. This result shows that anticipated experimental artifacts have no significant effect on the low-angle measurements and demonstrates that the curvature in the scattering envelope observed for native DNA below 30° is an inherent property of the native molecule.
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    Kinetics for the transition between cis- and trans-helices in poly-L-prolineA preliminary report of this work was presented at the 156th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 1968. (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1001-1016 
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    Notes: The kinetics for the cis-trans isomerization of long-chain poly-L-proline has been studied as a function of pressure, temperature, and solvent composition in the acetic acid + n-propanol solvent system. Our complete kinetic curves were fitted by Monte Carlo techniques, and rate constants for nucleation, growth, and termination were estimated. It was found that for the formation of a cis-helix, high pressure, low temperature, and increased acetic acid content of the solvent, lowered the rate of nucleation relative to growth. The inverse seems to be t rue for the formation of a trans-helix. Molecular models suggest that this behavior of the kinetic constants can be due to the exposure of peptide units to solvent in the transition state for trans nucleation, and the burying of peptide units in the transition state for cis nucleation. It is further suggested from our analysis of complete kinetic curves that at least one of the assumptions usually made in the analysis of relaxation kinetics is invalid for poly-L-proline.
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    X-Ray diffraction of ethylenediamine-amylose complex (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1039-1047 
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    Notes: Solutions of amylose in ethylenediamine yield a crystalline film complex upon evaporation of solvent. The x-ray analysis indicates the presence of a tetragonal-shaped cell with a symmetry approximating that of space group P212121. The amylose sixfold helix has a diameter of 13.3 Å and a translation period of 8.0Å. Chemical and physical analyses support a complexing ratio of one ethylenediamine molecule to every two glucose units. The structure is nearly identical to any amylose-dimethyl sulfoxide complex previously examined. The square mode of packing arrangement appears to result from complexation between amylose chains. Such complexing indicates a much greater degree of amylose interaction than is observed in amylose complex structures having a hexagonal close-packing arrangement.
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    Potentiometric titration of poly-S-carboxymethyl-L-cysteine in aqueous NaCl solution (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1049-1058 
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    Notes: pH titration measurements of poly- S-carboxymethyl-L-cysteine were undertaken in the aqueous Nacl solution in relation to the β form-random coil transition. The titration curves show a marked molecular weight dependence because of the shortened chain length of materials. Comparison of the optical rotatory dispersion parameter a0 with the titration curve reveals that the titration curve apparently reflects a β structure-random coil transition. The β form of this polymer is assumed to be an intramolecular β form, rather than a β structure stabilized by an intermolecular hydrogen bond, at least in the polymer concentration range considered here. The standard free energy change per amino acid residue for the transition from un-ionized random coil to un-ionized β form is estimated to be about -750 cal/mole residue in the range of 0.005-0.2M NaCl concentration.
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    Oligonucleotide interactions. III. Circular dichroism studies of the conformation of deoxyoligonucleolides (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1059-1077 
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    Notes: The circular dichroism (CD) spectra of the four usual deoxymononucleosides, all sixteen deoxydinucleotides, and a number of trinucleotides have been measured. The dimer spectra are quite different from the sum of the spectra of their constituent monomers. This indicates the presence of base-stacked conformations analogous to those found for ribonucleoside diphosphates. The CD spectra of several deoxytrinucleotide diphosphates and single-strand f 1 DNA can be calculated fairly well by using a semi-empirical nearest-neighbor approach. There is little or no effect of terminal phosphate or of salt concentration on the optical properties of most deoxy oligomers. The possibility of simultaneous analysis of mixtures of deoxypurine or deoxypyrimidine sequence isomers has been examined. This seems to be a viable approach for the analysis of purine runs but cannot promise much success for pyrimidine runs.
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    Oligonucleotide interactions. IV. Conformational differences between deoxy- and ribodinucleoside phosphates (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1079-1103 
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    Notes: The circular dichroism spectra of all 16 ribodinudeoside phosphates containing the bases adenine, uracil, cytosine, and guanine have been measured at room temperature and neutral pH. These results are compared with the circular dichroism spectra of the corresponding deoxy compounds. From the optical properties it is clear that the geometry of the base-stacked conformation of ribo compounds must differ substantially from that of deoxy compounds. Because of this, it is not possible to draw firm conclusions about the relative extent of stacking in most ribo and deoxy compounds. The optical rotatory dispersion of about a dozen deoxy and ribodinucleoside phosphates has been studied as a function of temperature. These results confirmed the conclusions drawn earlier from measurements at a single temperature. Several dinucleoside phosphates containing a 2′ → 5′ phosphodiester bond have also been examined. These compounds have a substantial degree of base stacking at room temperature. The geometry of the stacked conformation is different from that of either the normal ribo dimer or the deoxy dimer. The role of the 2′-hydroxyl group in stabilizing base stacked geometries has been examined by studies on C-2′-O-methyl-pC. This compound has optical properties almost identical to those of CpC. This suggests that the effect of the 2′ hydroxyl is felt indirectly through its perturbation of the geometry of the sugar ring rather than directly by hydrogen bonding. It is not possible at present to identify precise conformational differences among deoxy-, ribo-and 2′ → 5′ ribodinucleoside phosphates.
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    Aggregation of poly-L-proline II (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1119-1124 
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    The influence of single-strand breaks on the kinetics of denaturation of DNA (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1349-1360 
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    Notes: The influence of single-strand breaks on the kinetics of the relaxation of DNA in a solution of low ionic strength has been investigated by a temperature jump method. The relaxation of DNA after a jump of 0.7 °C in the melting region has been monitored by measuring the extinction at 260 nm. For essentially monodisperse T4 DNA (M = 130 × 106) two distinct relaxation times have been observed, that depend markedly on the initial extent of denaturation 1 - θ. The larger relaxation time decreases from 450 sec to about 300 sec, the smaller one from 55 see to 30 when 1 - θ increases from 0.03 to about 0.8. The dependence of these relaxation times on the average number of single-strand breaks per molecule (p) appears to be very small up to p = 100. However, the relative contribution of the slow process decreases sharply when p increases from 0.6 to 30 and remains nearly constant for larger p. The observations are discussed in the light recent theories of the kinetics of denaturation.
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    Electro-optic scattering studies on deoxyribonucleic acid (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1361-1372 
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    Notes: Measurements have been made of the intensity of light scattered from aqueous solutions of calf thymus DNA with and without the application of electric fields. For fields approaching 150 V/cm and frequencies below 2.5 KHz, changes (ΔI) of up to 10% in the residual scattered intensity were observed. In agreement with previous dielectric and electric birefringence measurements, a low frequency dispersion of ΔI was observed, from which a rotary diffusion constant (D) of 1200 s-1 was determined. Interpreting the electric field data in terms of the classical dipolar orientation theory led to values of 2.4 × 10-25 cm (7.4 × 10-14 esu) and 4.3 × 10-25 cm (13 × 10-14 esu) for the permanent dipole moment and the anisotropy of the electric polarisabilities respectively. Furthermore the permanent dipole moment was along the major molecular axis and the particles orientated in the field as rigid entities. The zero field data indicated a molecular shape which was not rodlike but corresponded to the Kratky-Porod “stiffness” parameter of x = 24 for the wormlike coil model. Although curved, the molecules appeared to orientate in low-intensity electric fields as rigid, but not rodlike molecules. The implications of this on recent discrepancies in D determined by two or more dynamic relaxation methods is briefly discussed.
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    Buoyant density and solvation of magnesium DNA (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1391-1402 
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    Notes: The buoyant density of T-4 DNA was determined by equilibrium sedimentation in a density gradient, of mixed solutions of cesium and magnesium chlorides and bromides. The preferential hydration was calculated from these data, allowing appropriately for the exchange equilibrium of DNA with Cs+ and Mg++ ions. The charge and intrinsic solvation of the counterions were found to have no appreciable effect on the hydration of the DNA, the extent of solvation depending only on the thermodynamic, activity of the water. Various reasonable hypotheses are discussed to account for these results.
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    Studies on bacteriophage MS2. VIII. Evidence for dimer formation of MS2 RNA by reaction with formaldehyde at acidic pH (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1373-1389 
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    Notes: Reaction of 27 SMS2 RNA with formaldehyde normally results in an unfolded, 13.4 S form. At acidic pH, however, and under the proper ionic conditions, a compact component sedimenting at 36-40 S was obtained. The molecular weight of this species corresponds to a dinner. The formaldehyde concentration was not critical, and approximately the same number of base pairs had been opened in the compact and in the unfolded form. Presumably dimers, which had been specifically formed under defined conditions, were stabilized by formaldehyde-induced crosslinks. Similar dimers were formed by 16 S and by 23 S ribosomal RNA, but not by tRNA.
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    Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. I. Conceptual basis and theory (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1-27 
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    Notes: We describe a method for determining chemical kinetic constants and diffusion coefficients by measuring the rates of decay of spontaneous concentration fluctuations. The equilibrium of the system is not disturbed during the measurement. We measure the number of molecules of a specified type in a defined open volume as a function of time and compute the time course of the deviations from the thermodynamic mean concentration. The method is based on the principle that the rates of decay of spontaneous microscopic fluctuations are determined by the same phenomenological rate coefficients as those of macroscopic departures from equilibrium which result from external perturbations. Hence, an analysis of fluctuations yields the same chemical rate constants and diffusion coefficients as are measured by conventional procedures. In practice the number of the specified molecules is measured by a property such as absorbance or fluorescence which is specific and sensitive to chemical change. The sample volume is defined by a light beam which traverses the cell. As the molecules appear in or disappear from the light beam, either due to diffusion or chemical reaction, their concentration fluctuations give rise to corresponding fluctuations of the intensity of absorbed or emitted light. This paper presents the theory needed to derive chemical rate constants and diffusion coefficients from these fluctuations in light intensity. The theory is applied to three examples of general interest: pure diffusion in the absence of chemical reaction; the binding of a small rapidly diffusing ligand to a larger slowly diffusing macromolecule; and a unimolecular isomerization. The method should be especially useful in studying highly cooperative systems, relatively noncooperative systems with intermediate states closely spaced in free energy, small systems, and systems not readily subject to perturbations of state.
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    Molecular mobility of polypeptides containing proline as determined by 13C magnetic resonance (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 97-114 
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    Notes: The molecular conformations and dynamics of poly(L-prolyl), poly(hydroxyl-L-prolyl), poly(L-prolyl-glycyl), poly(hydroxyl-L-prolyl), and poly(glycyl-glycyl-L-prolyl-glycyl), in aqueous solution, have been studied using 13C pulse Fourier transform nmr spectroscopy. From a measurement of the intensities of major and minor resonances in the spectra of the copolypeptides, it was determined that 15-20% of the glycyl-prolyl and glycyl-hydroxyprolyl peptide bonds are cis. Effective rotational correlation times (τeff), obtained from measurements of spin-lattice relaxation times (T1) of individual backbone and side-chain carbons, demonstrated that backbone reorientation is approximately isotropic for the five polypeptides and is characterized by correlation times of ca. 0.3-0.6 nanoseconds as a result of rapid segmental motion. In a given polypeptide glycyl and pyrrolidine residues were found to have the same backbone correlation times, but backbone carbon τeff values did decrease as the glycyl content of the peptides increased. A semi-quantitative analysis of Cβ, Cγ, and Cδ correlation times suggests that rapid ring motion in both prolyl and hydroxyprolyl involves primarily Cγ and Cβ, with the prolyl ring being more mobile than the hydroxyprolyl ring.
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    Comment on “rotational relaxation of macromolecules determined by dynamic light scattering” (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 237-238 
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    Flexibility of DNA (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 217-226 
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    Notes: A model for the flexibility of DNA is proposed that is based on discrete variations in the direction of propagation in going from one subunit to the next. Expansion of the local free energy in terms of the local bending gives a Gaussian distribution function. The assumption of the independence of local bends on neighbors lead to very simple formulae for the persistence length and the characteristic ratio. Emphasis, however, is placed on the application of the formulae for molecules of finite size where the persistence length and C∞ are not defined. The formulae are worked out for two models, which should serve as limits for the real physical situation.
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    Dispersion effect on turbidimetric size measurement (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 735-743 
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    Notes: If dispersion effects are not taken into account, the dimensions of particles in suspension estimated from spectrophotometric data (slope of the log OD versus log λ plot) are too low. By measuring dispersion curves for the medium and for the suspension, a consistent estimate of the size of latex particles of different diameter is obtained from the OD data.
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    13C nmr study of the helix-coil transition of poly-N5-(3-hydroxypropyl)-L-glutamine (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 765-768 
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    Notes: The helix-coil transition of poly-N5-(3-hydroxypropyl)-L-glutamine in methanol-water solutions has been observed using 13C nuclear magnetic resonance. Two signals appear in the α-CH region in the course of the transition; this is in contrast with previous proton magnetic resonance experiments carried out on this polymer in the same solvent system.
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    The V amylose-H2O system: Structural changes resulting from hydration (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 779-790 
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    Notes: X-ray diffraction and stereochemical analyses were used to study the hydrated structure of the helical amylose polymorph having a fiber repeat spacing of 8 Å. Intensity calculations using computer models confirmed six as the number of residues per turn and supported the space group P212121. Both diffraction intensity and stereochemical methods indicate the suitability of residue G3 from the potassium acetate complex of cyclohexaamylose as opposed to residues with longer O(4)-O(1) vectors. Comparison of the present results with those obtained for V amylose dehydrate indicated no major conformational differences between the two helix skeletons. A net helical rotation of approximately 30° accompanied the hydrate-dehydrate transition and the rotational position in the hydrate allowed packing that was less close. Hydration water molecules were not located; noncarbohydrate peaks on the electron density maps were primarily due to Fourier series termination errors.
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    A circular dichroism study of the primary structures of three crab satellite DNA's rich in A:T base pairs (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 843-852 
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    Notes: We have measured the circular dichroism spectra and have obtained melting curves for samples of purified satellite DNA's from three species of crab, Cancer borealis, Gecarcinus lateralis, and Callinectes sapidus. Although all three satellite DNA's have the same density in neutral CsCl, their circular dichroism spectra and melting and reassociation characteristics are different, as are other properties of these DNA's. The circular dichroism spectra are analyzed to give estimates of nearest-neighbor frequencies. We estimate that about 90% of the Cancer borealis satellite DNA and over 80% of the Gecarcinus lateralis satellite DNA consist of d(AT)n:d(AT)n sequences, while the serially repeating unit of the Callinectes sapidus satellite DNA may not contain any extended d(AT)n:d(AT)n sequences. The results from the circular dichroism spectra for the Cancer borealis, Gecarcinus lateralis, and the Callinectes sapidus satellite DNA's are in agreement with base composition analyses, which give 2.4, 8, and 25% G+C, respectively, for these DNA's.
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    Thermodynamic aspects of the gelatinization and swelling of crosslinked starch (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 879-890 
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    Notes: Samples of epichlorohydrin crosslinked potato starch were prepared by using a high ratio of starch to water and alkali concentration below the gelatinization level. This yielded crosslinked samples that were partially crystalline, and where the number of crosslinks could be varied between 1 and 20 crosslinks per 100 anhydroglucose units. The degree of swelling varied regularly with degree of crosslinking, and the molecular weight between crosslinks Mc as derived from swelling data in a good swelling agent compared favorably with Mc derived from chemical analysis.From the heat of gelatinization of the crosslinked starches, as observed in a differential scanning calorimeter, for gelatinization in glycerol, water, and dimethylsulfoxide, a model for the gel state of the crosslinked starch is proposed. It is concluded that the entropy of melting is the determining factor in establishing the temperature of gelatinization.
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    The interaction of β-cyclodextrin with dinucleoside phosphates (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 909-917 
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    Notes: Circular dichroism studies of the interaction of β-cyclodextrin with a series of eight dinucleoside phosphates, and with 3′-AMP are reported. From results with ApU and ApA, it is shown that β-cyclodextrin binding is sensitive to dinucleoside stacking in approximately the same way as optical measures of stacking. Some qualitative uses of β-cyclodextrin binding are suggested, based on the fact that the change in the CD spectrum caused by cyclodextrin binding is unique to each of the dinucleosides studied. Hoffman and Bock have previously suggested the use of β-cyclodextrin as a probe of nucleic acid structure. Their work indicated that only binding to adenosine and inosine would have to be considered. The present paper shows that binding to other bases cannot be neglected, and will impose serious restrictions on the use of β-cyclodextrin as a structural probe.
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    Synthesis of a novel fluorescent polyriboadenylic acid analog by polynucleotide phosphorylase (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 987-993 
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    Notes: Poly(1,N6-etheno-2-aza-adenylic acid) [poly(2-aza-εA)] was synthesized from 1,N6-etheno-2-aza-adenosine 5′-diphosphate (2-aza-εADP) and Escherichia coli polynucleotide phosphorylase. The values Km = 1.02 mM, V = 1.06 μmol hr-1 enzyme unit-1 were found for the polymerization reaction. In contrast to polyadenylic acid, this novel fluorescent polymer has a random structure in solution. The application of the 2-aza-εADP for localization of polynucleotide phosphorylase was also described.
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    Synthesis and optical studies of L-methionine oligopeptides in solution (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1011-1022 
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    Notes: A series of L-methionine oligomers [BOC-(Met)n-OMe] (n = 2-7) and the corresponding diastereomeric di- and tripeptides were synthesized using the mixed anhydride method. Oligomers prepared in this manner were optically pure and were obtained in reasonable yield. Preliminary optical examination of the peptides suggests that secondary structures may begin forming in the pentamer or hexamer in trifluoroethanol. BOC-(Met)4-OMe and BOC-(Met)5-OMe were also synthesized using an insoluble resin containing BOC-L-methionine as the nitrophenol active ester.
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    Sequential oligopeptides. Conformational studies of the oligopeptides and a polypeptide with the repeating sequence L-norvalyl-glycyl-L-proline (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1067-1078 
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    Notes: Conformational studies of a series of oligopeptides (from the tripeptide to the octadecapeptide) with the repeating sequence L-norvalyl-glycyl-L-proline and a polytripeptide with this sequence are reported. By means of chiroptical techniques, unordered conformations are found for all oligopeptides in water, trifluoroethanol, and ethylene glycol and for the water-insoluble polymer in trifluoroethanol. In ethylene glycol the polymer assumes a collagen-like structure. Infrared studies indicate that all the oligomers, in contrast to the polymer, are unordered in the solid state.
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    The thermal induced helix - β transition of poly(Nε-methyl-L-lysine) and poly(Nδ-ethyl-L-ornithine) in aqueous solution (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1109-1116 
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    Notes: Uncharged poly(Nε-methyl-L-lysine) (PMLL) and its isomer, poly(Nδ-ethyl-L-ornithine) (PELO), in alkaline solution (pH ca. 12) undergo a helix-to-β transition upon mild heating at 50°C or higher in a manner similar to that of poly(L-lysine) (PLL). The rate of conversion follows the order: PMLL 〈 PELO 〈 PLL. The helix can be regenerated upon cooling near zero degrees, for instance, after more than 12 hr at 2°C. At concentrations less than 0.02% the β form is intramolecular, but at higher concentrations both intra- and intermolecular β forms are generated. Poly(Nδ-methyl-L-ornithine) (PMLO), an isomer of PLL, behaves like poly(L-ornithine); uncharged PMLO in alkaline solution is partially helical and becomes disordered at elevated temperatures.
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    Side-chain effect on conformation of ionizable polypeptides in aqueous solution (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1161-1171 
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    Notes: In order to study the effect of side-chain length on the conformation of polypeptides, conformational changes of various ionic polypeptides with various lengths of side chain, poly-Nε-glutaryl-L-lysine (PGL), poly-Nδ-glutaryl-L-ornithine (PGO), poly-Nε-succinyl-L-lysine (PSL), and poly-Nδ-succinyl-L-ornithine (PGO), were investigated by ORD, potentiometric titration, and dilatometric measurements in aqueous solution. The results of optical rotation and potentiometric titration measurements indicate strongly that the α-helix stability increases in the sequence PSO 〈 PSL ∼ PGO 〈 PGL, which corresponds to increased side-chain length. The volume change associated with the helix-coil transition also increased in the above sequence. This series of polymers seems to be more hydrophobic compared with poly-L-glutamic acid or poly-L-lysine, as suggested from the values of enthalpy and entropy changes for coil-helix transitions.
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    Conformational change of poly-Nε-glutary-L-lysine and poly-Nε-succinyl-L-lysine in aqueous salt solutions (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1195-1203 
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    Notes: The conformational changes of poly-Nε-glutaryl-L-lysine (PGL) and poly-Nε-succinyl-L-lysine (PSL) in various salt solutions were studied by use of ORD and potentiometric titration measurements. The addition of alkali metal salts to the fully ionized PGL or PSL solution caused helix formation. The helical content of the polymers increases in the following sequences: at salt concentration 0-2 M, CsCl 〈 KCl 〈 LiCl 〈 NaCl; and at 2-3 M, LiCl 〈 CsCl 〈 KCl ∼ NaCl. The preferential binding of the solvent components with various alkali metal salts of PGL or PSL was measured in LiCl, NaCl, and KCl solutions by means of equilibrium dialysis and differential refractometry. It was found that with increasing salt concentration, the polymers were preferentially hydrated in NaCl and KCl soultions; however the salt was preferentially bound to the polymers in LiCl solution. Such preferential binding was suggested to be closely related to conformational change. The addition of CaCl2 to polymer solutions led to the stabilization of the helical structure of PGL or PSL.
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    Dispersion equation and polarizability of bovine serum albumin from measurements of refractive indices (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1261-1267 
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    Notes: Refractive indices of bovine serum albumin solutions in saline and in 2-chloro ethanol are measured for the spectral region 1770-10000 Å by a reflectance method. A procedure for the determination of a dispersion formula for binary mixtures is developed and applied. The electronic polarizability of bovine serum albumin is determined and is found to be almost independent of the solvent and concentration. Hence it follows that the electronic polarizability of bovine serum albumin is almost independent of the molecular environment.
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    Masthead (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974) 
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    Structure of aggregates and helix-coil transition of polypeptides by dielectric measurements. II. Poly-D,L-phenylalanine and poly-β-benzyl-L-aspartate in chloroform-dichloroacetic acid mixturesResults presented at Makromolekulares Kolloqium, Freiburg, Germany, February 1971. (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1309-1316 
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    Notes: The dielectric absorption of poly-DL-phenylalanine and poly-γ-benzyl-L-aspartate (PLAB) was measured in very dilute solutions to determine the type of molecular association and to locate the helix-coil transition. Both polypeptides were present as associated helices in chloroform. The mode of aggregation, which was determined by measuring the dipole moment and the critical frequency, did not depend on the polarity of the side chain but rather on that of the solvent.In both polymers, the dissociation of the aggregates in chloroform was observed on addition of small amounts of dichloroacetic acid; further addition of the acid lead to the helix-coil transition.No second region of dielectric absorption that might be related to the kinetics of the transition was found during the helix-coil transition of PBLA.
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    Molecular conformation of polysaccharides in solution. Changes in the optical rotation and in the elution pattern of gel filtration (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1357-1366 
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    Notes: Molecular conformation of some polysaccharides in aqueous solution in evidenced by changes in the optical rotation and in the elution pattern of gel filtration. The changes in the specific rotation against that in water are expressed as a molar conformational value [K]D21: -495° for colominic acid in 1.0 N NaOH solution, and -180° for hyaluronate (HA), +85° for corneal keratin sulfate, and +234° for amylose in 8 M urea solution. The gel filtration of amylose and HA dissolved in 8 M urea solution shows elution patterns distinctly different from those dissolved in water. The phenomena are attributable to a molecular conformational transition of polysaccharide molecules in aqueous solution.
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    Conformation and packing analysis of polysaccharides and derivatives. I: MannanDedicated to Professor E. Husemann on the occasion of her 65th birthday. (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1127-1139 
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    Notes: A previously described procedure for simultaneous optimization of bond lengths and angles was used to test different models for mannan I. Potential hydrogen bonds and the glycosidic angle were included in the optimization. A conformational model with bifurcated intramolecular hydrogen bonds of the type observed in the methyl cellobioside methanol complex showed the best agreement with available exprerimental data. The coordinates of this model were provided by computer calculations. The available X-ray data, however, were not sufficient for selecting this model; rather, ir data were necessary to furnish the needed information. The different conformational models tested all showed an almost constant virtual bond length O(1)-O(4) of the β-pyranose residue. This was in contrast to the previously obtained results for the α-pyranose residues.
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    Frequency dependence of the proton magnetic relaxation in aqueous solutions of haemoproteins (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1187-1193 
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    Notes: The longitudinal proton magnetic relaxation times T1 were measured for ferri (met)-and carbonmonoxy-bovine haemoglobin and equine myoglobin in 0.1 M KH2PO4 aqueous solutions near pH 6 at 5°C and 35°C from 1.5- to 60-MHz Larmor frequencies. It is concluded that the correlation time τC for the dipole-dipole interaction of electron and nuclear spins is in fact the electron (ferric) spin relaxation time τS being close to 1.5 × 10-10 sec for both metHb and metMb at 5°C. At 35°C the paramagnetic relaxation rates are not determined solely by the relaxation of protons exchanging from the haem pocket with bulk solvent. Hence, τC at 35°C cannot be calculated from the dispersion data obtained at this temperature. The relevance of this for the determination of interspin distances r is discussed.
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    Solvent effects on the orientaion of naphthalene rings in the side chain of poly-γ-1-naphthylmethyl-L-glutamate (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1213-1222 
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    Notes: The orientation of naphthalene rings in the side chain of poly-γ-1-naphthylmethyl-L-glutamate (PNLG) in mixed solvents of dichoroethane (DCE) and hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) has been studied together with its conformation by infrared, circular dichroism, and fluorescence spectra. The CD pattern of PNLG varies with the solvent composition while it maintains the α-helical conformation. The fluorescence spectra of PNLG in solution show excimer emission of the naphthalene chromophores. The ratio of intensity of the excimer emission to that of the normal fluorescence decreases as the HFIP component in the solvent increases. It is suggested that the naphthalene rings in the side chain of α-helical PNLG are more rigidly orientated in the solvents of higher HFIP ratio.
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    Optical rotatory properties of L-cystine conformational isomers. Theoretical analysis (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1269-1290 
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    Notes: The near ultraviolet chiroptical properties of L-cystine conformational isomers are examined on a static, “one-electron” model in which the disulfide moiety is the chromophoric group and the atoms of the L-alanyl fragments are treated as perturbers. The zeroth order chromophoric wave functions are calculated on a semiempirical molecular orbital model in which excited states are constructed in the virtual orbital-configuration interaction approximation. The perturbing environment is represented by point charges located at the atomic centers of the L-alanyl fragments. Chromophore-perturber interactions are expressed as charge-multipole moments with only the charge-dipole and charged-quadrupole terms being retained in the calculations. Vicinal contributions to the rotatory strengths of the five lowest energy disulfide transitions are computed for 30 conformational isomers of the L-cystine dizwitterion. The results provide support for the view that vicinal or peripheral effects can account entirely for the observed near ultraviolet (λ 〉 230 nm) chiroptical properties of L-cystine and its derivatives and that these properties are diagnostic of conformational features external to the disulfide moiety.
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    A demonstration of two-component behaviour of the circular dichroic spectra of poly(L-tyrosine, 3-bromo-L-tyrosine) in trimethylphosphate (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1341-1346 
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    Notes: The circular dichroic spectrum of poly(Tyr,TyrBr) in trimethylphosphate from 180 to 320 nm is found to be a linear function of composition from 25 to 68% TyrBr, and the spectra of the Tyr and TyrBr components are resolved. For Tyr the resolved spectrum is in agreement with available CD spectra of poly(Tyr). These results are interpreted to mean that the side-chain conformations of Tyr and TyrBr are not affected by the other component, and that for Tyr the conformation is the same as in poly(Tyr). It is also concluded that poly(Tyr,TyrBr) is helical with the same helix sense as poly(Tyr). The restrictions on the side-chain conformations are discussed, and it is suggested that the Tyr and TyrBr side chains are all in the same χ1 region.
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    Calculations of the circular dichroism of double-helical nucleic acids. I. Effects involving π → π* transitions (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1377-1389 
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    Notes: The circular dichroism of double-helical nucleic acids was calculated as a function of geometry using the theory of Tinoco and Johnson. This theory does not include contributions of near ultraviolet transitions that are not π → π* in nature. The calculated circular dichroism shows a strong dependence on the distance of base pairs from the helix axis and the tilt of the base pair. Smaller dependences are predicted for the propeller-like twist of a base pair and for variation of the angular increment per base pair. Moderately good agreement between calculated and many experimentally observed spectra could be generated.
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    Collagenase induced changes in the circular dichroism spectrum of collagen (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1427-1434 
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    Notes: The maximum at 220 nm in the circular dichroism spectrum of native collagen solution changed to a negative value after heat denaturation or collagenase hydrolysis. The enzyme induced rate of CD change at 220 nm was shown to be first order in collagen concentration. The specific rate constant k is actually a combined rate constant kfast and kslow in which the ratio kf/ks is 4.1. The initial rates were linear with respect to enzyme concentration, and the Km was found to be 5.5 × 10-7 M. The rate of ultraviolet hyperchromicity at 220 nm on collagen hydrolysis was determined. The kfast was the same as that obtained by CD. The kf/ks ratio was 4.6. Both methods may be readily used to assay for collagenase activity.
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    Crystal and molecular structure of the amylose-DMSO complex (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1461-1482 
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    Notes: The crystal and molecular structure of the complex of amylose with dimethyl sulfoxide has been studied by a combination of stereochemical analysis, potential energy, and X-ray diffraction methods. The complex crystallizes in a pseudotetragonal unit cell with a = b = 19.17 Å and c (fiber axis) = 24.39 Å, with two antiparallel chains per unit cell and space group P212121. The amylose chain is a left-handed 61(1.355) helix with three turns per crystallographic repeat. The O(6) rotational position is approximately gt. Dimethyl sulfoxide is located inside the helix with one DMSO molecule for every three glucose residues. An additional four DMSO molecules and eight water molecules each are located in the large interstices between chains, and it is the interaction of these molecules with the helix that results in the pseudotetragonal chain packing. The interstitial DMSO is the source of the previously reported additional layer lines, which are not consistent with the 8.13-Å amylose repeat distance. The final R factor for the layers with amylose contribution to the structure factors was 0.29, while the overall R factor was 0.35. The stereochemical packing analysis provided suitable phasing models for the subsequent X-ray refinement.
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    On the electric polarization of DNA (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1549-1556 
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    Notes: Dielectric dispersion of DNA was studied in the frequency range 100 Hz-100 kHz at four different temperatures (6-30°C). The dielectric increment ε0-ε∞ increased with the rise of temperature. The relaxation time, on the other hand, decreased. Both the increase in dielectric increment and the decrease in relaxation time could not be explained on the basis of the counterion polarization theory. Dipole moment was estimated from Kirkwood theory. It was found to decrease systematically with temperature. Even at 0°C there was a dipole moment of 104D.
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    Intramolecular distances determined by energy transfer. Dependence on orientational freedom of donor and acceptor (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1573-1605 
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    Notes: The dependence of Förster long-range resonance energy transfer efficiency on the orientational freedom of donor D and acceptor A molecules attached to a macromolecular substrate is examined. The usefulness of polarized emission measurements in determining the mutual orientation as well as the degree of orientational freedom of D and A and thereby deriving maximum and minimum values for the D-A separation from the transfer efficieny is demonstrated.
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    Water sorption on deoxygenated hemoglobins CC, SC, SS, AS, and AA (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1653-1659 
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    Notes: Five human hemoglobins whose genetic relationship to one another involves one set of alleles, hemoglobins CC, SC, SS, AS, and AA, were studied in the deoxygenated form within a McBain gravimetric sorption system at 28°C. Water was used as the adsorbate at relative vapor pressures ranging from 0.11 to 0.39. The results of this study are reported and compared with a similar study on the ferric form of these same five hemoglobins. For both forms of hemoglobin studied, a slight increase was measured in the number of polar sites accessible to H2O vapor for those genotypes in which the substituent in the sixth position from the N terminus of the two β chains had a positively charged side chain, i.e., hemoglobin C. Those samples containing hemoglobin S (less soluble in the deoxy form) show an increased BET monolayer coverage in the deoxy as compared to the ferric form. For each genotype, the deoxygenated form had more polar sites accessible to H2O vapor than its ferric form. This finding is in agreement with an increase in the size of the central cavity as shown by crystallographic analysis.
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    Helix-coil transition in nucleoprotein. Effect of ionic strength on thermal denaturation of polylysine-DNA complexes (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1681-1697 
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    Notes: Thermal denaturation of direct-mixed and reconstituted polylysine-DNA complexes in 2.5 × 10-4 M EDTA, pH 8.0 and various concentrations of NaCl has been studied. For both complexes, increasing ionic strength of the solution raises Tm, the melting temperature of free base pairs. The linear dependence of Tm on log Na+ indicates that the concept of electrostatic shielding on phosphate lattice of an infinitely long pure DNA by Na+ can be applied to short free DNA segments in a nucleoprotein. For a direct-mixed polylysine-DNA complex, the melting temperature of bound base pairs Tm′ remains constant at various ionic strengths. On the other hand, the Tm′ in a reconstituted polylysine-DNA complex is shifted to lower temperature at higher ionic strength. This phenomenon occurs for reconstituted complex with long polylysine of one thousand residues or short polylysine of one hundred residues. It is shown that such a decrease of Tm′ is not due to a reduction of coupling melting between free and bound regions in a complex when the ionic strength is raised. It is also not due to intermolecular or intramolecular change from a reconstituted to a direct-mixed complex. It is suggested that this phenomenon is due to structural change on polylysine-bound regions by ionic strength. It is suggested further that Na+ may replace water molecules and bind polylysine-bound regions in a reconstituted complex. Such a dehydration effect destabilizes these regions and lowers Tm′. This explanation is supported by circular dichroism (CD) results.
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    Theoretical investigation of semiconductive properties in proteins. I. Electrical conductivity, charge carrier mobilities, and free paths in β-polyglycine (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1731-1737 
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    Notes: Theoretical values are reported for the specific conductivity, charge carrier mobilities, and delocalized free paths in β-polyglycine using the parallel-chain pleated sheet conformation and the all-valence electron energy band structure obtained previously. The mobilities are found to be much larger along the polypeptide backbones than in the direction of the hydrogen bonds. This indicates a mechanism of conduction in which the former path is favored for electronic delocalization. The preexponential factor of the specific conductivity obtained theoretically agrees well with experimental results.
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    Critical chain length for helix formation in L-methionine oligopeptides (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1747-1750 
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    Notes: The circular dichroism of a series of L-methionine oligopeptides [BOC-(Met)n-OMe] was examined in trifluoroethanol and hexafluoroacetone sesquihydrate. The results indicate that the trimer through the hexamer exists predominantly in disordered conformations in these solvents. An abrupt change in the CD pattern at the heptamer in trifluoroethanol suggests that L-methionine oligopeptides begin forming helices at this chain length.
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    The state of water on hydrated collagen as studied by pulsed NMR (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1767-1776 
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    Notes: The spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) of water adsorbed on collagen fibers was determined at six frequencies and temperatures varying from 25° to -80°C. Care was taken to eliminate the contributions to the signal of protons other than those in the adsorbed water. Quantitative calculations were made on T1 and the results were compared with the experimental data. It is suggested that a maximum of about 0.50-0.55 g water per g collagen forms a hydration layer, which cannot be frozen down to -90°C and exhibits a distribution of motional correlation times. For collagen samples containing a larger quantity of adsorbed water, the additional water molecules behave like ordinary isotropic water, having a single correlation time and a freezing temperature of about -10°C.
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    Raman studies of nucleic acids. XII. Conformations of oligonucleotides and deuterated polynucleotides (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1821-1845 
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    Notes: Laser Raman spectra of the trinucleoside diphoshate ApApA and dinucleoside phosphates ApU, UpA, GpC, CpG, and GpU are reported and discussed. Assignments of conformationally sensitive frequencies are-facilitated by comparison with spectra reported here of poly(rA), poly(rC), and poly(rU) in deuterium oxide solutions. The significant spectral differences between ApU and UpA, and between GpC and CpG, reveal that the sequence isomers have nonidentical conformations in aqueous solution. In UpA at low temperature the bases are stacked and the backbone conformation is similar to that found in ordered polynucleotide structures and RNA. In ApU no base stacking can be detected and the backbone conformation differs from that found in UpA, both in the orientation of phosphodiester linkages and in the internal conformation of ribose. At the conditions employed neither ApU nor UpA exhibits base pairing in aqueous solutions. In both GpC and CpG the bases are stacked and the phosphodiester conformations are similar to those encountered for UpA and RNA. However, major differences between spectra of GpC and CpG indicate that the geometries of stacking and ribosyl conformations are different. In GpC the Raman data favor the formation of hydrogen bonded dimers containing GC pairs. Protonation of C in GpC is sufficient to eliminate the ordered conformation detected by Raman spectroscopy. Despite the ordered backbone conformation evident in GpU, this dinucleoside apparently contains neither stacked nor hydrogen bonded bases at the conditions employed here. The Raman data also confirm the stacking interactions in ApApA, poly(rA), and poly(rC) but suggest that the backbone conformation in poly(rC) differs qualitatively from that found in most ordered polynucleotide structures and is thermally more stable. The present results demonstrate the sensitivity of the Raman technique to sequence-related structural differences in oligonucleotides and provide additional spectra-structure correlations for future conformational studies of RNA by laser Raman spectroscopy.
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    Assignment of the proton nmr chemical shifts of the T—N3H and G—N1H proton resonances in isolated AT and GC Watson-Crick base pairs in double-stranded deoxy oligonucleotides in aqueous solution (1974)
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    Biopolymers 13 (1974), S. 1943-1964 
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    Notes: The 300-MHz proton nmr spectra (between 11 and 14 ppm) of a series of double-stranded deoxy oligonucleotides of known sequence have been recorded in H2O solution. These resonances have been assigned to the G—N1H and T—N3H protons of specific base pairs from an evaluation of the temperature dependence of the ring NH linewidths and from the selective ring NH chemical shift changes on actinomycin-D binding. The deoxy oligonucleotides exist predominantly in the DNA-B conformation as evaluated from antibiotic binding studies. Ring-current calculations have been utilized to evaluate the up-field shifts of the G—N1H and T—N3H protons in Watson-Crick base pairs due to the ring currents from the pyrimidine and purine rings of nearest neighbor base pairs in regular DNA-B- and RNA-A-type helices. The perturbations on these up-field ring-current contributions that arise from twisting and tilting a base pair adjacent to the ring NH under study have been evaluated and found to change the calculated chemical shift by ±0.6 ppm for twist and tilt distortions of 〈30°C in a single adjacent base pair. A knowledge of the experimentally assigned ring NH chemical shifts of specific base pairs in known sequences of double-stranded deoxy oligonucleotides coupled with the ring-current tables for the DNA-B helical structure permit the assignment of 13.6 ± 0.1 ppm and 14.6 ± 0.2 ppm for the G—N1H proton of an isolated GC base pair and the T—N3H proton of an isolated AT base pair, respectively.
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    Editorial (1963)
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    Theory of the helix-coil transition in DNA considered as a copolymer (1963)
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    Notes: The grand-partition-function theory of the preceding paper is used to derive expressions for the number of base pairs bonded in DNA with explicit consideration of the copolymeric nature of the DNA. The following features of the DNA molecule are taken into account: (1) the DNA's from different sources have different ratios of a-t and g-c pairs; (2) the a-t pair is weaker than the g-c pair; (3) the nearest-neighbor frequencies of the two kinds of base pairs are nonrandom; (4) the stacking energies (nearest-neighbor energies) of the various combinations of pairs may be different. An ensemble is constructed in which the features (1) through (4) are introduced by means of statistical weights on the various pairs and combinations of pairs, and an expression for the corresponding partition function is written. Expressions are derived for the number of bonded base pairs and the number of helical sequences.
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    The presence in collagen of γ-glutamyl peptide linkagesSupported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, A-3172, H-4762, H-3838, M-2565, M-2562. The material in this paper is taken from a thesis submitted by Carl Franzblau in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Sue Golding Graduate Division of Medical Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University. (1963)
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    Notes: A method is described for formation of hydroxamic acids by direct coupling, in aqueous medium, of hydroxylamine hydrochloride and the sodium salt of a carboxylic acid. The reaction is mediated by a water-soluble carbodiimide, 1-cyclohexyl-3-[2-morpholinyl-(4)-ethyl]-carbodiimide metho-p-toluene sulfonate. Using model compounds, the production of α-, β- and γ-acyl hydroxamic acids was studied. Hydroxamic acid derivatives of α-polyglutamic and γ-polyglutamic acids were also prepared. Dinitro-phenylhydroxamate derivatives were prepared and subjected to Lossen rearrangement, and the reaction mixtures hydrolyzed. Analysis showed that α-polyglutamic acid yielded as many molecules of α,γ-diaminobutyric acid as there had been glutamic acid residues in the form of the dinitrophenylhydroxamate, and gave rise to no ammonia and succinic semialdehyde. In contrast, γ-polyglutamic acid yielded exactly twice the molar quantity of ammonia as there had been glutamic acid residues in the form of dinitrophenylhydroxamate, and also gave rise to significant quantity of succinic semi-aldehyde but no α,γ-diaminobutyric acid. Since production of the latter is characteristic of α-glutamyl hydroxamates and production of the former is associated with γ-glutamyl hydroxamates, the results indicated that the side-chain carboxyl groups of either polymer retained their identities during formation of the hydroxamic acid derivative, and no interchange had occurred between α- and γ-carboxyl groups. These methods were then used to establish that gelatin of ichthyocol contains (per 1000 total residues) at least 20 residues of glutamic acid in γ-peptide linkage. Due to the incomplete dinitrophenylation of the hydroxamic acid derivative of the protein, gelatin of calf skin collagen gave a lower figure of 10 such linkages per 1000 total amino acid residues-a value which must be considered a minimum value. These results show that γ-glutamyl peptide bonds exist in collagen.
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    Theory of helix-coil transitions involving complementary poly- and oligo-nucleotides. I. The complete binding caseThis investigation was supported in part by Research Grant A-4283 from U. S. Public Health Service.Based upon a portion of a Ph.D. thesis to be submitted by W. S. M., Jr., to Brown University. (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 133-143 
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    Notes: A statistical thermodynamic treatment of thermally induced helix-coil transitions is formulated with the matrix method for an (ensemble) of system(s) in which one strand of a double helix consists of a homopolymeric polynucleotide and the other strand comprises a number of complementary oligonucleotides. Each oligonucleotide is considered to be completely bound to the longer chain when in the helical configuration and completely free from it when in the randomly coiled configuration. The case of partial binding; i.e., “dangling,” is treated in a later paper. Taken into account in both cases are intrachain “stacking” interactions between nearest neighbor residues and interchain hydrogen bonding.An approximate treatment of the characteristic equation of the formulation indicates that the reciprocal of the transition temperature (1/T0) is a linear function of the reciprocal of the degree of polymerization (D.P.) of the oligonucleotides. In the same approximation, 1/T0 is also a linear function of the negative logarithm of the absolute activity of the oligonucleotides. Transition curves obtained by exact calculation on a computer are presented for various degrees of polymerization of both the oligo- and polynucleotides. These curves show a sharpening of the transition with increasing D.P. of the long chain and the aforementioned reciprocal D.P. dependence of 1/T0.
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    Dielectric dispersion of polyglutamic acid solution (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 171-182 
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    Notes: The dielectric dispersion of polyglutamic acid (PGA) was studied in the pH range of 4-9.8. Three different dispersion curves were obtained. Above pH 6.0, where PGA has a random coil configuration, the dielectric dispersion is characterized by a large dielectric increment (ca. 450) and a relaxation time of 10-12.7 × 10-6 sec. Between pH 6.0 and 5.0, where PGA is in a transitional state with small viscosity, a dispersion curve with very small dielectric increment and also small relaxation time was observed. Below pH 5.0, where PGA has a helical configuration, the dispersion is characterized by a relaxation time of 10-12 × 10-6 sec. and a dielectric increment of about 120. The dipole moment of coil and helical forms of PGA were calculated by using Allgen's equation, and qualitative discussions of these dielectric properties are presented.
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    Absorption spectra of nucleotides, polynucleotides, and nucleic acids in the far ultraviolet (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 193-208 
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    Notes: Ultaviolet absorption spectra down to 185 mμ are presented for a number of nucleic acids and synthetic polynucleotides in the helical and random forms, and of their constituent mononucleotides, as well as the corresponding nucleosides and free bases. A short wavelength absorption band is in all cases observed with a maximum varying between about 187 and 201 mμ. These bands are more intense than those near 260 mμ. The helical polymers show a hypochromic effect in this region of a somewhat similar magnitude to that in the 260 mμ region. Other spectral phenomena accompanying denaturation and degradation are described.
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    The inactivation of soluble ribonucleic acid by formaldehyde (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 209-229 
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    Notes: The inactivation of sRNA by reaction with formaldehyde has been reported as it occurs under various conditions giving differing amounts of secondary structure. The theory of inactivation of an active macromolecule by a chemical reaction is developed. Results obtained with a partially melted out secondary structure show that formaldehyde inactivates sRNA by a single reaction at any one of about ten sites, while reaction at other sites does not affect the activity of the sRNA. In the presence of Mg++ at neutral pH, a large proportion of the active molecules are completely protected against inactivation. From the correlation between the amount of secondary structure and the difficulty of inactivation, it is shown that at least a portion of the secondary structure of sRNA is essential to its amino acid acceptor ability. A comparison of results of various workers shows that formaldehyde does not alter RNA as drastically as other reagents and thus enables more discrimination between sites of reaction which are essential and those which are not essential to biochemical activity.
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    Editorial (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 295-295 
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    Infrared spectra and molecular conformations of D,L-copoly-γ-benzylglutamates (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 297-317 
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    Notes: Infrared absorption and x-ray diffraction measurements have been made of D,L-copoly-γ-benzylglutamate fibers (cast from dioxane solutions) with various D/L ratios and with various degrees of polymerization. It was found that each chain of these copolymers consists of a random coil portion and an α-helix portion and that the conformation of the latter is similar to the α-helix of pure poly-γ-benzyl-L-glutamate. It was also found that the fraction of the α-helix portion increases with the degree of polymerization of the copolymer. A simplified polymerization mechanism has been proposed for mixtures of D- and L-amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides. A model of the molecular conformation of the D,L-copolypeptide chains derived from this proposed polymerization mechanism is in good agreement with infrared, x-ray, and other measurements. Based on the results of these observations, we discuss the number of L- or D-residues linked in succession that is required for initiating the formation of an α-helix during the course of polymerization.
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    Optical properties of the poly-L-proline and collagen helicesThis research was supported in part by U.S. Public Health Service grants A5852 and 9202. Contribution No. 232 of the Graduate Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham 54, Massachusetts. (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 319-330 
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    Notes: Poly-L-proline I and II, polyphydroxy-L-proline II, polysarcosine, and collagen, as well as two model amides have been examined by far ultraviolet spectrophotometry. Absorption spectral data are presented. Neither in solution nor in oriented films of poly-L-proline I and II is there any indication of excition resonance splitting of the peptide absorption band. In collagen there is some, in the poly-L-prolines only minimal, hypochromicity. These observations, at least in poly-L-proline II, run counter to theory. Optical rotatory dispersion measurements in the ultraviolet indicate simple dispersion in collagen and poly-L-proline II down to at least 232 mμ. The Cotton effect (trough at 233 mμ) observed in α-helical polypeptides and proteins is absent. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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    Dilatometric and refractometric studies of the helix - coil transition of poly-L-glutamic acid in aqueous solutionThis work was supported by grants from the U. S. Public Health Service (GM-K3-3441, GM-10880, HE-06285). (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 359-370 
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    Notes: The helix - coil transition of poly-L-glutamic acid (PGA) in aqueous solutions was followed by volume changes, ΔV, and also differential refractive indices, Δn. The increase in ΔV or decrease in Δn upon mixing the sodium salt of PGA with dilute HCl gave three straight lines between pH 7 and 4, the two breaks corresponding to the transition zone observed by other physical methods. For the reaction: —COO- + H+ → —CO-OH, ΔV per mole of H+ bound was 11.4 and 11.1 ml. in 0.01 and 0.2M NaCl solutions, respectively. An additional conformational change of about 0.5-1 ml. per amino acid residue was observed for the reaction: coil → helix, after taking electrostatic interaction into consideration. This was probably due to the release of the water of hydration at the amide linkages when the polypeptide coil is converted into the α-helix, or even the occurrence of voids in the polypeptide chain as a result of imperfect packing of the atoms, although the origin of this volume change is still not fully understood at the present time. The volume changes as calculated from Δn by assuming a constant polarizability of the polymer was found to be higher for the association reaction than those mentioned above. On the other hand, the calculated ΔV for the transition was in fair agreement with those by direct measurements.
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    Optical properties of chromophore-macromolecule complexes: Absorption and fluorescence of acridine dyes bound to polyphosphates and DNAThe work described in this paper was sponsored in part by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and in part by the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California. (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 401-417 
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    Notes: Dye-macromolecule complexes provide good models for the study of the effects of coupling between chromophores. In addition to modifications of the visible and UV absorption spectra of the dyes at small interchromophore distances, very efficient energy transfer has been demonstrated at longer distances. The probability of nonradiative transition increases with the number of excitation transfers so that an array of oscillators close to one another becomes nonfluorescent. The insertion of a dye molecule, acting as a trap for the excitation energy, in the highly ordered system of chromophores constituted by the purine and pyrimidine bases of native DNA has given results supporting the intercalation model of Lerman and providing an experimental approach to the problem of the path length of energy migration in the DNA molecule. The average excitation path length seems to be of the order of only ten base pairs, a result which can explain the lack of fluorescence of the DNA.
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    Sedimentation and diffusion of polyelectrolytes. Part II. Experimental studies with poly-L-lysine hydrohalides (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 473-495 
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    Notes: The sedimentation, diffusion, and osmotic behavior of poly-L-lysine hydrochloride is examined over a wide range of ionic strengths and in solutions which range in relative composition from a swamping excess of added salt (suppression of charge effect) to salt-free solutions (maximum effect). The charge effect is found to essentially obey the theoretical treatment proposed in Part I of this work. The frictional coefficient of the macroion in salt-free solutions is comparable to that of the fully stretched chain. In excess of salt the friction is appreciably smaller, its magnitude not varying greatly with ionic strength. The molecular weight is determined osmotically and also from diffusion-sedimentation, with the charge effect suppressed by addition of salt or eliminated through the use of non-ionized forms of the polymer; a reasonable agreement is obtained between the methods. The influence of small ions on sedimentation is also examined. The secondary salt effect is found to be much smaller than that predicted theoretically; on the other hand, the substitution of different counterions in the absence of secondary salt effect gives rise to changes of the expected magnitude.
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    The initial reaction in strong-base catalyzed polymerizations of α-amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 500-502 
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    Properties of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate. I. General considerations concerning the naturally occurring polymerPortions of this work were taken from a thesis by R. Alper submitted to the Graduate School, Syracuse University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Presented before the Polymer Division at the 145th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New York, September 1963. (1963)
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    Notes: Poly-β-hydroxybutyric acid has been isolated from two bacterial sources by two different procedures. Molecular weight and intrinsic viscosity for the two samples were vastly different. This was blamed on degradation occurring during polymer isolation. An optical rotatory dispersion curve for the high molecular weight sample showed a sharp increase in specific rotation at wavelengths less than 450mμ. From this fact and the reported optical activity of the monomer it is concluded that the polymer is stereo-regular. X-ray examination of the “native” and “regenerated” polymer yielded the same crystalline pattern. Electron diffraction and x-ray data on single crystals of the polymer indicate a fiber repeat of 5.9 A. The value can only be reconciled with some kind of helical conformation in the solid state.
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    Studies of the conformation of amylose in solutionPaper presented in part before the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry, 140th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, September 1962. This work was supported by a Grant from the Corn Industries Research Foundation. (1963)
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    Notes: It has been suggested previously that water is a nearly indifferent solvent for amylose on the basis that the exponent a of the Mark-Houwink equation is very nearly 0.50 and the second virial coefficient A2 is extremely small. It is shown that such solutions do not show the expected precipitation on cooling and the temperature coefficient of the intrinsic viscosity is small and negative. It is suggested that water is both an indifferent and a nearly athermal solvent for this polymer. Various lines of evidence suggest the polymer to exist as a very stiff coil in this and in other solvents. Variations in the intrinsic viscosity and radius of gyration in various solvents show the importance of skeletal effects in addition to the usual osmotic effects. Application of the Porod-Kratky wormlike coil model leads to unreasonably short persistence lengths if the contour length is based on a fully extended conformation but large and reasonable values of the order 40-70 A. if it is assumed that the basic conformation is the helical one observed in various amylose complexes in the crystalline state. As was previously known, the specific optical rotation decreases sharply in aqueous solutions above approximately pH 12. Accompanying this change in rotation there is first a decrease, then an increase in intrinsic viscosity. This later behavior is strikingly reminiscent of the known behavior of polyglutamic acid in the pH-dependent transition from helix to coil. It is concluded that the conformation is that of a stiff coil with essentially helical backbone contour in neutral solution, and the decrease in rotation and in intrinsic viscosity at high pH results from a partial breakdown of the helical structure with a concomitant increase in backbone flexibility. The increase in viscosity and radius of gyration in extreme alkaline solution is probably due to a polyelectrolyte expansion of the polymer coil. Some other miscellaneous observations which are in accord with this model are also pointed out.
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    Masthead (1963)
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    Effect of hydrophobic bonding on the stability of poly-L-alanine helices in water (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 419-429 
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    Notes: The Lifson-Roig theory for the helix-random coil transition in polyglycine has been modified to take side-chain interactions into account. The modified theory is developed specifically for poly-L-alanine which probably contains a β1-α4 hydrophobic bond. A conditional probability, expressing the strength of such a hydrophobic bond, is evaluated from the Nemethy-Scheraga data for the free energy of formation of the bond. This, together with the conditional probabilities for the states of the backbone chain, permit an evaluation of the partition function and properties of the helix-random coil transition. It is seen that the hydrophobic bond renders the poly-L-alanine helix much more stable than the corresponding polyglycine one, in agreement with data obtained by Gratzer and Doty.
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    Polynucleotides. VI. Molecular properties and conformation of polyribouridylic acidThe last paper in this series was by J. R. Fresco and J. Massoulié, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 85, 1352 (1963).This investigation was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the United States Public Health Service, and the American Heart Association. (1963)
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    Notes: Optical, hydrodynamic, and titration properties of polyribouridylic acid (poly U) were investigated in 0.2M Na+, pH 6. Above 15°C., poly U was shown to be a randomly coiled single chain, devoid of secondary structure. There is no shear rate dependence of viscosity; molecular weight is independent of ionic strength; there is virtually no conformationally dependent hypochromicity; no anomalous optical rotatory dispersion; and no anomalous titration behavior. The dependence of the sedimentation constant and intrinsic viscosity on molecular weight was determined. Poly U was shown to be the most highly expanded of all synthetic and naturally occurring randomly coiled polynucleotides.
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    Masthead (1963)
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    Synthesis of poly-L-lysine and poly-L-lysyl albumin via ∊,N-trifluoroacetyl-α,N-carboxy-L-lysine anhydrideThis investigation was supported in part by research grants (AI-04715 and 235103) from the National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service. (1963)
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    Biopolymers 1 (1963), S. 517-525 
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    Notes: Free poly-L-lysine base has been synthesized from ∊,N-trifluoroacetyl-α,N-carboxy-L-lysine anhydride via poly-∊,N-trifluoroacetyl-L-lysine (IV). No racemization occurred during the removal of trifluoroacetyl groups from IV with 1M piperidine. Measurements of optical rotatory dispersion suggest that IV exists in methanol in a helical form. The synthesis of poly-L-lysyl rabbit serum albumin is also described.
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    Volume changes accompanying thermal denaturation of deoxyribonucleic acid. II. Denaturation at alkaline pH (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 445-457 
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    Notes: The change in apparent molal volume φ of DNA on thermal denaturation in carbonate buffer at pH 11.0 has been determined by the dilatometric method. It was found that φ increases sigmoidally during the helix-coil transition. Several methods, including a colorimetric technique that closely simulates the conditions used in the dilatometric experiments, were employed to estimate the protons lost by the DNA during the transition. These measurements indicated that the extent of the proton loss depends on the counterion present, increasing in the order Li+ 〈 Na+ 〈 K+ 〈 Cs+. The major part of the volume changes observed during the denaturation is due to the volume changes expected to accompany the transfer of protons from the bases guanine and thym ne to carbonate ions. As has been previously reported for the denaturation of DNA at neutral pH, the volume change directly due to the change in shape of the polymer molecules is so small as to be experimentally undetectable.
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    Location of proline derivatives in conformational space. II. Theoretical optical activity (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 569-588 
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    Notes: The coupling of theoretical optical calculations with experimental data provides a check of the validity of the theory or provides conformational information. The theory was validated by studies in which the approximate conformation was located independently. These studies have shown that a theory restricted to the two lowest energy transitions for each chromophore gives qualitative agreement with experiment. On the other hand, for some of the proline derivatives, the theoretical treatment allows detailed conformational assignments. Both successes and failures in correlating theory with experiment are discussed. The results presented provide a basis for assessing the prospects for relating protein and polypeptide optical activity to their conformations.
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    Ethidium bromide-DNA complex: Wavelength dependence of pyrimidine dimer inhibition and sensitized fluorescence as probes of excited states (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 639-653 
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    Notes: Ethidium bromide inhibits the formation of ultraviolet-induced pyrimidine dimers in DNA. The efficiency of dimer inhibition increases with increasing energy of the exciting photons. The efficiency of energy transfer from the DNA singlet to the dye singlet, as monitored by sensitized fluorescence, is independent of wavelength. The efficiency of singlet-singlet transfer agrees with that for dimer inhibition at photon energies corresponding to excitation of the lowest singlet state of DNA. Our results support a model in which dimers are formed both directly from the singlet state and also from the triplet state, with triplets arising from higher vibrational levels of the singlet.
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    Testing of A size criterion for DNA-hydrocarbon binding (1970)
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    Notes: The intercalation model of DNA-hydrocarbon binding appears reasonable, but rests on indirect evidence only. To test the model, a size criterion for binding has been proposed. The size criterion is based on the assumption that hydrophobic forces play a major role in the binding of hydrocarbons to DNA. It states that hydrocarbons which are small enough to intercalate into DNA and be well protected from contact with the medium, will be found to bind to DNA; those that are too large will not. We report results on the binding of fourteen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to DNA. Predictions based on the size criterion were found to be valid in all cases tested.
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    Cooperative binding of adenosine by polyuridylic acid: A further analysis (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 697-715 
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    Notes: The dialysis data of Huang and Ts'o for the cooperative binding of adensine to polyuridylic acid are analyzed here using a grand-partition function Ising model method similar to that originally employed for polyelectrolytes by Rice and Nagasawa. An appropriate modification permitting the treatment of the sliding degeneracy of the two polyuridylic acid strands is also included. In addition to the previously estimated stacking energy of about -6 kcal/mole one also obtains the free energy change F̄ for the transfer of a single adenosine molecule from a fixed site in solution to a fixed site on the polyuridylic acid. This binding energy falls in the range F̄ = -140 to +620 cal/mole, indicating that binding in the 1:2 (purine: pyrimidine) complex is either very weak or repulsive. The absence of any comparable cooperative stacking of adenosines in solution at the same concentration together with the likely repulsive character of the binding implies that the stacking energy must contain a significant contribution from other processes than simple stacking of adenosines. A generalization of the theory to treat multicomponent binding and longer-range interactions is effected, and the form applicable to simultaneous binding of both adenosine and guanosine by polyuridylic acid is presented.
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    PMR chemical shifts of TFA in poly(γ-benzyl L-glutamate) solutions (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 739-744 
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    Notes: The present communication describes a new way of studying helix-random coil transformations of polypeptide, poly-(γ-benzyl L-glutamate), in benzene-trifluoracetic acid (TFA) and chloroform-TFA systems. The difference between the PMR chemical shift of TFA with and without the polypeptide, measured as Δ, may be used to follow the conformational transition. This technique is particularly useful for concentrated solutions, where the PMR peaks of the polymer are so broad that no valuable information may be derived. As the TFA content increases in the system (at constant polymer concentration), Δ decreases normally whether the polymer is helical or random. However, Δ changes in a different way in the helix-random coil transition region, and actually increases with increasing TFA content. This peculiar behavior is explained in terms of the solvation of the helix and random coil structures.
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    NMR study of the slowly exchanging hydrogens of 640 Å steerskin collagen (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 745-748 
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    Solution properties of synthetic polypeptides. VI. Helix-coil transition of poly-N5-(3-hydroxypropyl)-L-glutamine (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 717-738 
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    Notes: A new procedure for evaluating u and σ characterizing σ-helix-forming polypeptides in solution was derived from Nagai's theory for the helix-coil transition of such polymers. Here u is the activity for helix formation from random coil, and σ is the helix initiation parameter. The necessary data are the helical content fN at fixed solvent and temperature as a function of N, where N is the degree of polymerization of the polypeptide sample. Such data were obtained from ORD measurements on a number of fractionated samples of poly-N5-(3-hydroxypropyl)-L-glutamine (PHPG) in mixtures of water and methanol covering the complete range of composition and at various termperatures (5-40°C). When analyzed in terms of the proposed procedure, they yielded values of σ which were in the range (3.2 ± 0.6) × 10-4, substantially independent of solvent composition and temperature. These values were much larger than those obtained recently for σ of poly(β-benzyl-L-aspartate) in m-cresol and in a mixture of chloroform and DCA. The data for [η] and s0 (limiting sedimentation coefficient) as functions of molecular weight indicated that the molecular shape of PHPG in pure methanol is essentially rodlike, whereas that in pure water is not entirely randomly coiled but rather may be regarded as an interrupted helix. These indications were consistent with the results from ORD measurements. When plotted against the corresponding values of fN, the values of [η] and [s0] for PHPG in mixtures of water and methanol of various compositions and temperatures formed smooth composite curves, and we attributed these phenomena to the fact that σ of PHPG was nearly constant under these solvent conditions. Here [s0] stands for a reduced limiting sedimentation coefficient which is equal to the inverse friction factor of the solute molecule.
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    Masthead (1970)
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    Interaction of nucleic acids. VI. Interaction of purine with nucleic acids (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 765-782 
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    Notes: The interaction of purine with DNA, tRNA, poly A, poly C, and poly A. poly U complex was investigated. In the presence of purine, the nucleic acids in coil form (such as denatured DNA, poly A and poly C in neutral solutions, or tRNA) have lower optical rotations. In addition, hydrodynamic studies indicate that in purine solutions the denatured DNA has a higher viscosity and a decreased sedimentation coefficient. These findings indicate that through interaction with purine, the bases along the poly-nucleotide chain are unstacked and are separated farther from each other, resulting in increased assymmetry (and possibly volume) of the whole polymer. Thus, the de-naturation effect of purine reported previously can be explained by this preferential interaction of purine with the bases of nucleic acids in coil form through a hydrophobic-costacking mechanism. Results from studies on optical rotation and helix-coil transition show that the interaction of purine is greater with poly A than with poly C. The influence of temperature, Mg++ concentration, ionic strength, and purine concentration on the effect of purine on nucleic acid conformation has also been investigated. In all these situations the unraveling of nucleic acid conformation occurs at much lower temperatures (20-40°C lower) in the presence of purine (0.2-0.6M).
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    Configurational statistics of polysaccharide chains. Part II. CelluloseContribution No. 286 from Centre of advanced study in physics, University of Madras, India. (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 783-790 
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    Notes: The characteristic ratio of unperturbed cellulose chain was computed as a function of the angle τ at, the bridge oxygen atom and the degree of polymerization. Very high values of the order of 40 or more, depending on the angle at the bridge oxygen atom, have been obtained for this ratio, indicating that cellulose chains are highly extended. The average dimensions of cellulose chains are found to be sensitive even for small changes in the angle at the bridge oxygen, and these chains attain the character of a random coil in very high molecular weight range (degree of polymerization greater than 2000). The large differences in the unperturbed dimensions of cellulosic chains observed in different solvents have been attributed to the possible small changes in the angle τ caused by specific solvent, interactions.
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    Effect of side-chain hydrophobic bonding on the stability of homopolyamino acid α-helices: Conformational studies of poly-L-leucine in waterPresented before the Division of Biological Chemistry at the 154th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, September 1967. (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 749-764 
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    Notes: The conformational properties of block copolymers of poly-L-leucine in water have been examined. The degree of polymerization of the poly-L-leucine block was 11 and 21, respectively, for samples prepared by the Merrifield procedure, and 56 for a sample prepared by the polymerization of leucine N-carboxyanhydride. The optical rotatory dispersion parameter b0 was used to obtain the helix content θh at various temperatures. Application of the Lifson-Roig theory gave the following parameters for the transition of a residue from a coil to a helical state: v = 0.05-0.011, ΔH = +100 cal/mole, ΔS = +0.70-1.00 e. u. These parameters, as well as those for other polyamino acids, are accounted for by hydrophobic bonds involving the nonpolar side chains in the helical and randomly coiled forms. From the data for poly-L-alanine and theoretical values of the thermodynamic parameters for hydrophobic bond formation, the parameters for formation of a polyglycine helix are computed. By separating the contributions of the backbone, it is possible to obtain a set of thermodynamic parameters for the side-chain contributions of a number of polyamino acids. Increased size of the nonpolar side chain (with a larger contribution from hydrophobic bonding) makes a larger contribution to the stability of the α-helix which is reflected, among other ways, in a higher helix content at given temperature.
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    Polymerization of amino acid derivatives by polymer catalysts. V. Polymerization of DL-β-phenylalanine N-carboxyanhydride by several poly(N-alkylamino acid) diethylamides (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 791-797 
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    Notes: The polymerization of DL-β-phenylalanine N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) initiated by poly(N-benzylglycine)diethylamide (DEA) and poly(N-methyl-DL-alanine)DEA has been investigated. As previously reported, polysarcosine DEA, poly-N-ethylglycine DEA, and poly-N-n-propylglycine DEA showed marked accelerations in the polymerization of DL-β-phenylalanine NCA as compared with the polymerization initiated by low molecular weight, amines having similar base strength. However, this phenomenon (the chain effect) was not observed with the two polymer catalysts studied in the present investigation With poly-N-methyl-DL-alanine DEA, adsorption of DL-β-phenylalanine NCA onto the polymer chain takes place, though not so effectively as with other polypeptides, so the absence of chain effect was ascribed to a reduced flexibility of the polymer chain. With poly(N-benzylglycine)DEA, the reactivity of terminal base group was found to be much lower than that of other polymer catalysts. However, the absence of the chain effect would be attributed to the rigidity of polymer chain of poly-N-benzylglycine DEA due to the bulkiness of the N-benzyl group.
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    Ionic polysaccharides. III. Dilute solution properties of hyaluronic acid fractions (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 799-810 
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    Notes: Molecular weights by osmometry (M̄n), light scattering (M̄w), and sedimentation-diffusion (MsD) were determined for selected fractions and unfractionated samples of hyaluronic acid in the molecular weight range 3 × 104-1.7 × 106. For the determination of MsD from the sedimentation coefficient s, a calibration procedure based on the data of Laurent, Ryan, and Pietruszkiewicz gave the following relations in 0.2M NaCl: log (s-1)0 = 14.681 - 0.413 log MsD and log D0 = -3.828 - 0.568 log MsD, where subscript, zero refers to zero concentration and D is the diffusion coefficient. The average Mandelkern-Flory parameter β in 0.2M NaCl is 3.0 × 106. Data for the intrinsic viscosity [η] may be fitted for M 〉 105 by [η] = K′Ma, where K′, a are in 0.2M NaCl, 0.0228, 0.816; in 0.5M NaCl, 0.0318, 0.777; in 0.1 M HCl, 0.0279, 0.763, respectively. Below M = 105, [η] appears to fall below the values calculated, possibly due to non-Gaussian behavior of short chains. The second virial coefficient A2 in 0.5M NaCl approaches the ideal Donnan value, decreasing slightly with increasing molecular weight. The friction parameter P is about 20% smaller than that of uncharged polymers of similar dimensions. The flexible coiling nature of this polymer is confirmed.
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    Sedimentation of ribosomal ribonucleic acid from ribonuclease treated and untreated ribosomes (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 843-864 
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    Notes: The formation of a slowly sedimenting form of 23-S ribosomal RNA from E. coli has been investigated by analytical ultracentrifugation and thermal denaturation in aqueous solution and in formamide. Evidence is presented that the slow form of 23-S arises as a result of nucleate damage to the RNA in the 50-S ribosome. The 30-S ribosome (and 16-S RNA), is unaffected. The slow form of 23-S RNA cannot be demonstrated under conditions of complete denaturation in formamide, but only by partial denaturation in aqueous solution of low ionic strength (〈 0.01M Na). Apparent maintenance of the integrity of 23-S RNA in formamide after nuclease treatment suggests that this may not be a simple linear molecule. An alternative model is suggested containing a circular element in the structure.
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    Mechanochemical study of wet-spun lithium-DNA fibers (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 825-842 
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    Notes: Uniform LiDNA fiber specimens of nearly 20 m length have been prepared with a wet-spinning method developed by the author. Samples immersed in the spinning bath (80% ethyl alcohol containing 0.4M LiCl) have been subjected to mechanochemical study involving stretching, relaxation, and contraction measurements. A special technique was developed to transfer the sample from the Teflon-coated cylinder used in spinning to the sample column of the mechanochemical apparatus without stretching or removing the sample from the spinning bath. Force-strain curves of samples consisting of two fiber bundles showed an initial region of low slope followed by a region of high slope and a second region of low slope up to rupture. Some thicker specimens showed an aging effect which abolished the initial low-slope region and was interpreted as indicative of crystallization. Force-strain curves of two-bundle samples showed a strong influence of temperature with a complete loss of tensile strength of the LiDNA fibers in the spinning bath at about 55°C. Furthermore, samples at zero strain exhibited a contractile force when subjected to temperatures above about 40°C; the contractile process was pronounced with samples kept above 48°C. On contraction these samples obtained a zero-force length 20-30% of the original. These data are taken as evidence for a helix-to-coil transition occurring in the DNA, the low melting temperature being caused by the chemical influence of the ambient aqueous alcohol-LiCl bath.
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    Low-angle light-scattering studies on alkali- and heat-denatured DNA (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1029-1038 
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    Notes: The molecular weight of native DNA is shown to decrease by at least a factor of two on denaturation by heat or alkali. This result is obtained only if low-angle (〈30°) light-scattering measurements are used. High-angle measurements (〉30°) do not reveal a decrease in molecular weight on denaturation due to the incorrect value for native DNA. The dn/dc value for both native and denatured DNA is 0.166 ml/g ± 0.003 ml/g. Methods are described for the clarification of native and denatured DNA solutions for light scattering by the use of membrane filters.
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    Electric dichroism studies: Interaction of trifluoroacetic acid with poly(gamma;-benzyl L-glutamate) (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 991-1000 
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    Notes: Electric dichroism studies on poly(γ-benxyl L-glutamate) show that the addition of small amounts (up to 5%) of trifluoroacetic acid causes complete disappearance of dichroism in contrast to the electric birefringence, which drops to an observable plateau at 20% of its initial value. This loss of dichroism cannot be explained simply by a decrease in the effective dipole moment of the benzyl ester side chains, and the nature of this interaction is explored by nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectral studies. Theories of the helix-coil transition which require an initial protonation of the helix backbone to form a more flexible rod consisting of helical segments interrupted by regions of random coil are shown to be inadequate to describe the changes in poly(γ-benzyl L-glutamate) effected by small amounts of trifluoroacetic acid. Rather, trifluoroacetic acid in small amounts interacts with the ester carbonyl oxygen in the side chain, either by hydrogen bonding or protonation, before there is evidence of any effect on the backbone or of loss of helix content.
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    Raman spectra of poly-L-lysines (1970)
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    Biopolymers 9 (1970), S. 1229-1237 
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    Notes: The Raman spectra of poly-L-lysine hydrochloride and poly-∊-carbobenzoxy-L-lysine in the solid state have been obtained and are consistent with the presence of an α-helical structure. The Raman spectrum of poly-L-lysine in aqueous solution suggests the presence of random coil structures.
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