• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.1525-1530
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• 2004

Mutagen X (MX) exists in our drinking water as the bi-products of chlorine disinfection. Being one of the most potent mutagen, it attracted much attention from many researchers. MX and its analogs are synthesized and modeled by quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) methods. As a result, factors affecting this class of compounds have been found to be steric and electrostatic effects. We tried to collect all the data available from the literature. With both CoMFA and CoMSIA various combinations of physiochemical parameters were systematically studied to produce reasonable 3-dimensional models. The best model for CoMFA gave $q^2$ = 0.90 and $r^2$ = 0.97, while for CoMSIA $q^2$ = 0.85 and $r^2$ = 0.94. So the models seem to be reasonable. Unlike previous result of CoMFA, in our case steric parameter alone gave the best statistics. Although the steric contribution was found to be the most important in both CoMFA and CoMSIA, steric parameter along with electrostatic parameter produced slightly better model in CoMSIA. Overall, steric contribution is clearly the most important single factor. However, when we compare chlorine and bromine substitution, chlorine substitution can be more mutagenic. This indicates that other factors such as electrostatic effect also influence the mutagenicity. From the contour maps, steric contribution seems to be focused on rather small area near C6 substituent of the furanone ring, rather than C3 substituent. Therefore the locality of steric contribution can play a significant role in mutagenicity.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.320-328
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• 2008

We established a thermodynamic framework of group contribution method based on modified double lattice (MDL) model. The proposed model included the long-range interaction contribution caused by the Coulomb electrostatic forces, the middle-range interaction contribution from the indirect effects of the charge interactions and the short-range interaction from modified double lattice model. The group contribution method explained the combinatorial energy contribution responsible for the revised Flory-Huggins entropy of mixing, the van der Waals energy contribution from dispersion, the polar force, and the specific energy contribution from hydrogen bonding. We showed the solvent activities of various polymer solution systems in comparison with theoretical predictions based on experimental data. The proposed model gave a very good agreement with the experimental data.

• 약학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.87-100
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• 1989

Salicylic acids as anti-inflammatory agents were analyzed by ab initio, quantum chemical methods to study the possible modes of binding to the receptor. As the result of multiple regression analysis of reactivity indices and interpretation of normalized frontier orbital charges of drugs, potency seems to be related to energy of HOMO and LUMO at the 5 position of benzene ring, and in the 5-phenyl substituted case, the para position of substituting ring is important. The binding occurs first at the positive site of its receptor. The charge density exhibited by the frontier orbitals suggests that charge moves from receptor site to carboxyl group. The electrostatic orientation effect makes an important contribution to the binding of the active molecules to their receptors. Also the electrostatic potential model may be able to rationalize the source of activity or inactivity of the drugs under investigation.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.560-568
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• 2014

단백질 폴딩 반응에서 정전기적 상호작용의 역할을 라이신 29를 알라닌으로 치환한 변이 유비퀴틴을 사용하여 탐색하였다. 유비퀴틴의 입체구조에서 라이신 29의 곁사슬은 글루탐산 16과 아스파르산 21의 곁사슬과 근접한 거리에 있어서 곁사슬끼리 정전기적 상호작용을 통하여서 삼차원 입체구조를 안정화시킬 것으로 예측되었다. 라이신을 알라닌으로 치환하여 정전기적 상호작용을 제거하였을 때 유비퀴틴의 native state의 구조적 안정성이 ~20% 감소한 점은 라이신 29에 의한 정전기적 상호작용이 단백질 삼차구조의 안정성에 상당히 기여하고 있다는 점을 시사하였다. 폴딩 반응의 진행 과정을 stopped-flow 장치로 측정한 folding kinetics 실험은 이전에 관찰된 것과 마찬가지로 unfolded state에서 native state로 진행하는 과정에 중간단계를 거치는 three-state on-pathway 메커니즘을 따르는 것으로 나타났다. 더욱이 라이신 29에 의한 정전기적 상호작용이 중간단계의 구조적 안정성에 기여하는 정도가 native state의 구조적 안정성에 기여하는 정도의 ~55%인 것으로 나타났다. 이는 유비퀴틴 폴딩의 중간단계의 구조도 라이신 29에 의한 정전기적 상호작용에 의하여 상당히 안정화 된다는 것을 의미하며 따라서 정전기적 상호작용이 단백질 삼차원 입체구조의 골격이 완성된 폴딩의 마지막 단계에 형성되어 단백질 native state의 안정성에만 기여하는 것이 아니라 중간단계가 형성되는 폴딩 반응의 초기에도 형성되어 폴딩 반응을 이끌어가는데도 기여한다는 것을 의미한다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제60권1호
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• pp.82-87
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• 2016

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.433-433
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• 2016

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) emitter has widely become an attractive mechanism that draws growing interests for cold cathode field emission. CNT yarns have demonstrated its potential as excellent field emitters. It was demonstrated that a small focal spot size was achieved by manipulating some electrical parameters, such as applied bias voltage at the mesh gate, and electrostatic focal lenses, geometrical parameters, such as axial distances of the anode, and the electrostatic focal lens from the cathode assembly, and the dimension of the opening of the electrostatic lens. Electrical-optics software was used to systematically investigate the behavior of the electron beam trajectory when the aforementioned variables were manipulated. The results of the experiment agree with the theoretical simulation results. Each variable has an individual effect on the electron beam focal spot size impinging on the target anode. An optimum condition of the parameters was obtained producing good quality of X-ray images. Also, MWCNT yarn was investigated for field emission characteristics and its contribution in the X-ray generation. The dry spinning method was used to fabricate MWCNT yarn from super MWCNTs, which was fabricated by MW-PECVD. The MWCNT yarn has a significant field emission capability in both diode and the triode X-ray generation structure compared to a MWCNT. The low-voltage-field emission of the MWCNT yarn can be attributed to the field enhancing effect of the yarn due to its shape and the contribution of the high-aspect-ratio nanotubes that protrude from the sides of the yarn. Observations of the use of filters on the development of X-ray images were also demonstrated. The amount of exposure time of the samples to the X-ray was also manipulated. The MWCNT yarn can be a good candidate for use in the low voltage field emission application of X-ray imaging.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.145-148
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• 1985

The effect of anionic polyelectrolytes, poly(styrenesulfonate) (PSS) and poly(vinylsulfonate) (PVS), on the charge transfer complexing between indole derivatives and methyl viologen($MV^{++}$) cation was investigated. The results were compared with effect of NaCl and an anionic surfactant, sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS). Both PSS and PVS enhanced the complex formation of neutral species (indole and indole acetate at low pH), zwitter ionic tryptophan, and positively charged tryptamine and tryptophan at low pH with $MV^{++}$. This result was attributed to the contribution of hydrophobic interaction, in addition to electrostatic interaction. The enhancing effect of PSS was much higher than that of PVS reflecting the higher hydrophobicity of PSS. The interaction between indole acetate anion and $MV^{++}$ was greatly reduced by addition of PVS and PSS. The higher charge density of PVS was appeared as greater reducing effect indicating the importance of electrostatic force in this case. In all cases, the effect of polyelectrolytes showed maxima, and further addition of PVS and PSS decreased the effect. This behavior was explained in terms of distribution of indole derivatives and $MV^{++}$ in domain of polyanions. The complex formation constants and molar absorptivities of complexes were determined, and the values were compared with those in water and SDS solutions.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.1073-1077
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• 2002

Binding of dodecyl trimethylammonium bromide (DTAB) to human and bovine hemoglobin and globin samples has been investigated in 50 mM glycine buffer pH = 10, I = 0.0318 and 300 K by equilibrium dialysis and temperature scanning spectrophotometry techniques and method for calculation of average hydrophobicity. The binding data has been analyzed, in terms of binding capacity concept $({\theta})$, Hill coefficient (nH) and intrinsic Gibbs free energy of binding $({\Delta}Gbv).$ The results of binding data, melting point (Tm) and average hydrophobicity show that human hemoglobin has more structural stability than bovine hemoglobin sample. Moreover the results of binding data analysis represent the systems with two and one sets of binding sites for hemoglobin and globin, respectively. It seems that the destabilization of hemoglobin structure due to removal of heme group, is responsible of such behavior. The results indicating the removal of heme group from hemoglobin caused the depletion of first binding set as an electrostatic site upon interaction with DTAB and exposing the hydrophobic patches for protein.

• Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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• 제73권9호
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• pp.1315-1323
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• 2018

The classical-fluids density functional theory has been developed for studying the structural and the electrical properties of electrolyte solutions containing uniformly charged hard-spherical ions. The modified fundamental-measure theory has been used to evaluate the hard-sphere contribution. The mean-field approximation has been employed to calculate the cross correlation between the hard sphere contribution and the Coulomb interaction. The Poisson equation for ions carrying charges that are spatially separated has been solved. The present theory shows reasonably good agreement with the corresponding Monte Carlo simulation results. The calculated results show that the attraction between like-charged planar surfaces is the result of the intra-ionic correlation and depends strongly on the ion size, valence, mole fraction, and charge distribution of electrolytes.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.143-149
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• 1995

낮은 농도에서 유기색소와 계면활성제 계의 흡수거동을 계산하기 위해 간단한 모델을 사용해보았다. 실험에서 얻어진 값에 3개의 파라미터가 포함되어 있는 결과식을 적용함으로써 이온쌍형성$(K_O)$, 회합체에 계면활성제 분자첨가의 경우$(K_S)$, 그리고 색소회합반응$(K_D)$에 대한 평형상수들을 계산하였으며 이값들을 이용하여 자유에너지를 계산하였다. $K_O$와 K_S$의 값들은 소수성에 원인이 있는 정전기적 상호작용에서 기대했던 것들보다 컸었고, $K_D$값들은 정전기적 반발력의 차폐효과로 간주할 수 있는 순수한 수용액에서의 알려진 회합값보다 약 10~20배 정도 높았다.