Conserved and divergent chaperoning effects of Hsp60/10 chaperonins on protein folding landscapes.

The GroEL/ES chaperonin cavity surface charge properties, especially the negative charges, play an important role in its capacity to assist intracavity protein folding. Remarkably, the larger fraction of GroEL/ES negative charges are not conserved among different bacterial species, resulting in a large variation in negative-charge density in the GroEL/ES cavity across prokaryotes. Intriguingly, eukaryotic GroEL/ES homologs have the lowest negative-charge density in the chaperonin cavity.

Appraisal of Nano-Lipidic Astaxanthin cum Thermoreversible Gel and its Efficacy in Haloperidol Induced Parkinsonism.

Background: Parkinsonism has a toxic cascade of neurodegeneration, with akinesia as a major manifestation. Some antioxidants have shown promise against the disease. Astaxanthin is a powerful antioxidant, demonstrates free radical scavenging, and is also a potential neuroprotective agent.

Synthesis, X-ray, DFT and photophysical properties of some new ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazolidin-4-ones and their derivatives.

Cyclocondensation of thiosemicarbazone of 2-acetylferrocene with α-haloacids and α-haloketones afford new ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazolidin-4-ones and ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazoles respectively. Ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazolidin-4-one is easily converted into enamino ketone with N,N-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal (DMF-DMA). The compounds were characterized by spectroscopic means and the structure of the new ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazolidin-4-one (3a) was determined by means of X-ray crystallography.

Synthesis, structure and antimicrobial evaluation of new 3,3a,4,5-tetrahydro-2H-benzo[g]indazol-2-yl-thiazol-4(5H)-ones.

The reaction of semicarbazide or thiosemicarbazide with 2-arylidene-1-tetralones under alkaline condition affords 3,3a,4,5-tetrahydro-2H-benzo[g]indazole-2-carbo(thio)amides as a mixture of cis and trans diastereoisomers of 3-H and 3a-H. The synthesis of new indazolyl-thiazol-4(5H)-ones from the condensation of cis isomer and α-halo acids is reported. A DFT study along with X-ray single crystal data of a representative compound is presented.