1.1. In the mitochondria, the biosynthesis of N-glycoprotein products, through the dolichol intermediates pathway, appears in the outer and in the inner membranes.2.2. The biosynthesis of dolichol-pyrophosphoryl-N-acetyl-glucosamine, dolichol-pyrophosphoryl-di-N-acetylchitobiose, dolichol-phosph...

Dolichols of Tetrahymena pyriformis were isolated and characterized by TLC, HPLC and mass spectrometry. Four strains of Tetrahymena were studied and found to have relatively small amounts of dolichol, from 0.26 to 2.60 mg dolichol/kg wet weight. All four strains had approximately the same relati...

Rats were treated with various inducers of the endoplasmic reticulum and peroxisomes and the properties and distributions of dolichol and dolichyl phosphate analyzed. The treatment of rats with carcinogenic agents 2-acetylaminofluorene, N-nitrosodiethylamine and 3-methylcholanthrene and with the...

The following study describes the discovery of a new inherited metabolic disorder, dolichol kinase (DK1) deficiency. DK1 is responsible for the final step of the de novo biosynthesis of dolichol phosphate. Dolichol phosphate is involved in several glycosylation reactions, such as N-glycosylation...

A set of glycosylinositol-phosphoceramides, belonging to a family of glycosylphosphatidyl-inositols (GPIs) synthesized in a cell-free system prepared from the free-living protozoan Paramecium primaurelia has been described. The final GPI precursor was identified and structurally characterized as...

The specificity of the transfer of monosaccharides from sugar nucleotides to dolichol monophosphate catalyzed by liver microsomes was studied. Besides uridine diphosphate glucose, uridine diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine and guanosine diphosphate mannose were found to act as donors for the format...

A double Hauser–Kraus annulation between biscyanophthalide 4 and the d-mannose derived enone 39 provides access to an advanced intermediate 54 that is an excellent scaffold to effect an enantioselective total synthesis of crisamicin A 1.

All of the stereoisomers of the components of the female-produced sex pheromone of a moth, Lyclene dharma dharma, were synthesized. They are (R)- and (S)-6-methyl-2-octadecanone, (6R,14R)-, (6R,14S)-, (6S,14R)-, and (6S,14S)-6,14-dimethyl-2-octadecanone, and (R)- and (S)-14-methyl-2-octadecanone...

Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy in the region 400–4000 cm−1, proton and carbon-13 NMR chemical shifts and UV–Vis. absorption wavelengths of 3-p-chlorobenzyl-4-(4-carboxybenzylidenamino)-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5-one molecule have been experimentally investigated. For monom...

Several analogs based on the lead structure of 1-(4-chlorobenzyl)-2-(pyrrolidin-1-ylmethyl)-1H-benzimidazole (clemizole) were synthesized and evaluated as novel inhibitors of heme oxygenase (HO). Many of the compounds were found to be potent and highly selective for the HO-2 isozyme (constitutiv...

The cytotoxic activity of a new series of 2-(4′-chlorobenzyl)-5,6-disubstituted imidazo[2,1-b][1,3,4]thiadiazoles against different human and murine cancer cell lines is reported. Among the tested compounds, two derivatives namely 2-(4-chlorobenzyl)-6-(2-oxo-2H-chromen-3-yl)imidazo[2,1-b][1,3,4...

In this study, 4,4'-(butane-1,4-diyl)bis(1-((1-(4-chlorobenzyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-5-yl)methyl)-3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5(4H)-one) was synthesized and characterized by FT-IR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR. In addition, quantum chemical calculations of the structure, vibrational frequencies, gauge incl...

In the present study, the partly and fully-substituted monospiro (4–6, 4a-6d), cis-dispiro (7–9), trans-dispiro (10–15) cyclotriphosphazenes were synthesized for the investigations of their chemical, stereogenic and biological properties. The cis/trans phosphazenes (7–12) have two stereogeni...

A series of novel asymmetric azo reagents, 1-(tert-butyl)-2-(4-substituted benzyl) azodicarboxylate, were prepared. The synthetic process has the advantage of simpleness, easy operation, mild reaction condition and high yield. The 1-(tert-butyl)-2-(4-chlorobenzyl) azodicarboxylate (tBCAD) was se...

A novel series of 3-hydroxyquinazoline-2,4(1H,3H)-diones derivatives has been designed and synthesized. Their biochemical characterization revealed that most of the compounds were effective inhibitors of HIV-1 RNase H activity at sub to low micromolar concentrations. Among them, II-4 was the mos...

We synthesized and evaluated inhibitory activity against T-type Ca2+ channels for a series of 1-alkyl-N-[2-ethyl-2-(4-fluorophenyl)butyl]piperidine-4-carboxamide derivatives. Structure–activity relationship studies have revealed that dialkyl substituents at the benzylic position play an importa...

N-Tolylsulfonyl- and N-butyloxycarbonyl-protected β-amino nitriles were prepared to study the effect of the N-protecting group on the biotransformation of the β-amino nitriles to the corresponding β-amino amides and acids. The bioconversions were carried out by using whole cells of Rhodococcu...

Induced circular dichroism (ICD) was observed in binaphthyl N-methyl amides of chiral primary amines. The CD spectra showed split curves centered at 225 nm. A good correlation was found between the sign of the exciton chirality of the binaphthyl derivative and the absolute configuration of the o...

The endogenous opioid system, essentially constituted by two opioid receptors which are stimulated by the natural internal effectors enkephalins (Met-enkephalin and Leu-enkephalin), is present at the different sites (peripheral, spinal, central) of the control of pain. We have demonstrated that ...

Suppression of glucose reabsorption through the inhibition of sodium-dependent glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) is a promising therapeutic approach for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. To investigate the effect of C6-substitution on inhibition of SGLT2 by N-indolylglucosides, a small library of...