Synthetic fluorescent analogs of the natural lipopeptide trichogin GA IV were used to investigate the peptide position and orientation in model membranes. A translocation assay based on Förster energy transfer indicates that trichogin is associated to both the outer and inner leaflet of the memb...

Trichogin GA IV is a special member of a class of peptaibols that are linear peptide antibiotics of fungal origin, characterised by the presence of a variable number of α-aminoisobutyric acid residues, an acyl group at the N-terminus and a 1,2-amino alcohol at the C-terminus. Most of the peptai...

Trichogin GA IV (GAIV) is an antimicrobial peptide of the peptaibol family, like the extensively studied alamethicin (Alm). GAIV acts by perturbing membrane permeability. Previous data have shown that pore formation is related to GAIV aggregation and insertion in the hydrophobic core of the memb...

Electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy (EC-STM) was employed to study the aggregation of trichogin OMe (TCG), an antimicrobial peptide, incorporated into a lipid monolayer. High-resolution EC-STM images show that trichogin molecules aggregate to form channels in the lipid monolayer. Two t...

The lipopeptaibol trichogin GA IV (TCG) can be incorporated in the lipid bilayer moiety of a mercury-supported tethered bilayer lipid membrane (tBLM) at a non-physiological transmembrane potential of about − 240 mV, negative on the trans side of the bilayer. Once incorporated in the tBLM, TCG is...

Peptaibiotics are a group of membrane active peptides of fungal origin. They typically contain α-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib; 1-letter code, U) and other non-coded residues (Toniolo and Brückner, 2009; Neumann et al., 2015; Benedett et al., 1982) [1], [2], [3] stabilizing their helical structure...

Peptaibiotics, non-ribosomally synthetized peptides from various ascomycetes, are uniquely characterized by di-alkylated α-amino acids, a rigid helical conformation, and membrane permeation properties. Although generally considered as antimicrobial peptides, peptaibiotics may display other toxi...

The antimicrobial action of peptides in bacterial membranes is commonly related to their mode of self-assembling which results in pore formation. To optimize peptide antibiotic use for therapeutic purposes, a study on the concentration dependence of self-assembling process is thus desirable. In ...

An accurate and reproducible high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method has been developed and validated for the direct separation of individual enantiomers of lansoprazole, a potent proton pump inhibitor belonging to the family of the substituted benzimidazoles. The enantiomers were ...

[1,2,4]-Triazole-[4,3-a]-quinoxaline is an important component of many drugs. The yield of the reported methods for triazole cyclization step was usually as low as 20%. In this article, the triazole cyclization step was successfully done by using microwave method with a high yield of 75% for the...

A rapid, sensitive and selective high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) assay was developed for the determination of the antiallergenic compound N-[4-(1H-imidazol-1-yl)butyl]-2-(1-methylethyl)-11-oxo-11H-pyrido[2,1-b] quinazoline-8-carboxamide (I), and its major metabolite, 2-(1-methylet...

End-group 1-cyano-1-methylethyl resonances from copolymers of phenyl methacrylate or methyl methacrylate with styrene have been examined using a phase-sensitive two-dimensional 13C1H shift-correlation experiment. Proton shift values for the methyl resonances, totally obscured on one-dimensiona...

Efficient preparations both of 2,3:5,6:3′,4′-tri-O-isopropylidenelactose dimethyl acetal (5, 95% yield) and its 6′-O-(1-methoxy-1-methylethyl) derivative (65% yield), useful intermediates for the conversion of lactose into biologically relevant oligosaccharides, by ‘one-pot’ acetonation pro...

Azo compounds are commonly used to study radical-mediated degradation of pharmaceutical compounds. The favorable chemical and physical properties of 2,2′-azobis(2-methylpropanenitrile) (AIBN) have made it one of the most widely used compound for these type of studies. This article describes the...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the inflammatory joint diseases in a heterogeneous group of disorders that share features of the destruction of the extracellular matrices of articular cartilage and bone. Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) enzymes (in particular MMP9), are crucial for RA. Given t...

A series of racemic 4-aryl-5-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-6-methyl-3,4-dihydro-2(1H)-pyridones have been prepared by means of a modified Hantzsch reaction using commercially available starting materials. An easy removal of the tert-butyl group of these pyridones and subsequent reaction with cesium carb...

The methyl xanthate ester is presented as a versatile protective group for alcohols. Hydroxyl groups can easily be transformed into methyl xanthate esters by several methods and are commonly used as an auxiliary in the Barton-McCombie reaction. We show that these methyl xanthate esters can readi...

The Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and FT-Raman spectra of 2-chloro-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione and 2-methyl-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione have been measured in the range of 4000–400 and 4000–100 cm−1, respectively. Complete vibrational assignment and analysis of the fundamental modes of the co...

o-Ferrocenylcarbonylbenzoic acid (η5-C5H5)Fe(η5-C5H4C(O)C6H4COOH) (I) and o-cymantrenylcarbonylbenzoic acid (II) were obtained from ferrocene or (η5-C5H5)Mn(CO)3, respectively, by the Friedel–Crafts reaction with phthalic anhydride. Methyl o-ferrocenylcarbonylbenzoate (η5-C5H5)Fe(η5-C5H4C(...

This paper provided spectroscopic data that is relevant with research article entitled “Synthesis and structural characterization of 6-(N-methyl-pyridin-2-ylcarbamoyl)-pyridine-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester Isomer” (Kadir et al., 2017) [1]. From the reported study, four new ligand of monoamid...