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Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T20:42:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigoric.pdf: 9183178 bytes, checksum: 1d5fba078a589cbc1810eea245d1e019 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-31 / Mechanical alloying is a powder processing technique involving cold welding, fracturing mechanisms and rewelding of powder particles in a ball mill. The present work applied this technique with the purpose of processing titanium, niobium and tin alloys, through planetary ball mill and attritor mill. The atomic percentages of these elements were varied in six differents ways. The niobium hydrate was used on production of some alloys in study, with the purpose to observe the effects during the milling and on the alloys obtained after sintering. Differences between processing in planetary ball mill and attritor mill, as well the cold welding influences on the kinetic parameters of milling process were approached. The use of niobium hydrate result in a decrease of powders average crystallite size, and an increase of micro hardness of sintered alloys. This work obtained beta titanium alloys and alpha-beta titanium alloys in namometric sizes. The average crystallite size, for milled powders, was 7,6 nm. / Mecano-síntese é uma técnica de processamento em pó que envolve a soldagem a frio, mecanismos de fratura e a resoldagem das partículas de pós, em moinhos de bolas. O presente trabalho utilizou esta técnica com o propósito de processar ligas de titânio, nióbio e estanho, através de moinhos de bolas planetário e de atrito. As porcentagens atômicas destes elementos foram variadas de seis maneiras diferentes. O hidreto de nióbio foi utilizado na produção de algumas ligas em estudo, com o propósito de se observar os efeitos durante a moagem e na liga obtida após a sinterização. Diferenças entre o processamento em moinho de bolas planetário e o moinho de atrito, assim como as influências da soldagem a frio nos parâmetros cinéticos do processo de moagem, foram abordadas. O uso do hidreto de nióbio resultou na diminuição do tamanho médio de cristalito dos pós, e em um acréscimo na microdureza das ligas sinterizadas. Neste trabalho foram obtidas ligas de titânio beta e de titânio alfa-beta, em tamanhos nanométricos. O tamanho médio do cristalito, para os pós moídos, foi de 7,6 nm.

Approximately one third of the genes for the completely sequenced bacterial genomes have an unknown, uncertain, or incorrect functional annotation. Approximately 11,000 putative proteins identified from the fully-sequenced microbial genomes are members of the catalytically diverse Amidohydrolase Superfamily. Members of the Amidohydrolase Superfamily separate into 24 Clusters of Orthologous Groups (cogs). Cog3653 includes proteins annotated as N-acyl-D-amino acid deacetylases (DAAs), and proteins within cog2355 are homologues to the human renal dipeptidase. The substrate profiles of three DAAs (Bb3285, Gox1177 and Sco4986) and six microbial dipeptidase (Sco3058, Gox2272, Cc2746, LmoDP, Rsp0802 and Bh2271) were examined with N-acyl-L-, N-acyl-D-, L-Xaa-L-Xaa, L-Xaa-D-Xaa and D-Xaa-L-Xaa substrate libraries. The rates of hydrolysis of the library components were determined by separating the amino acids by HPLC and quantitating the products. Gox1177 and Sco4986 hydrolyzed several N-acyl-D-amino acids, especially those where the amino acid was a hydrophobic residue. Gox1177 hydrolyzed L-Xaa-D-Xaa and N-acetyl-D-amino acids with similar catalytic efficiencies (~10⁴ M⁻¹s⁻¹). The best substrates identified for Gox1177 and Sco4986 were N-acetyl-D-Trp and N-acetyl-D-Phe, respectively. Conversely, Bb3285 hydrolyzed N-acyl-D-Glu substrates (kcat/Km ⁹́⁸ 5 x 10⁶M⁻¹s⁻¹) and, to a lesser extent, L-Xaa-D-Glu dipeptides. The structure of a DAA from A. faecalis did not help explain the substrate specificity of Bb3285. N-methylphosphonate derivatives of D-amino acids were inhibitors of the DAAs examined. The structure of Bb3285 was solved in complex with the N-methylphosphonate derivative of D-Glu or acetate/formate. The specificity of Bb3285 was due to an arginine located on a loop which varied in conformation from the A. faecalis enzyme. In a similar manner, six microbial renal dipeptidase-like proteins were screened with 55 dipeptide libraries. These enzymes hydrolyzed many dipeptides but favored L-D dipeptides. Respectable substrates were identified for proteins Bh2271 (L-Leu-D-Ala, kcat/Km = 7.4 x 10⁴ M⁻¹s⁻¹), Sco3058 (L-Arg-D-Asp, kcat/Km = 7.6 x 10⁵ M⁻¹s⁻¹), Gox2272 (L-Asn-D-Glu, kcat/Km = 4.7 x 10⁵ M⁻¹s⁻¹), Cc2746 (L-Met-D-Leu, kcat/Km = 4.6 x 10⁵ M⁻¹s⁻¹), LmoDP (L-Leu-D-Ala, kcat/Km = 1.1 x 10⁵ M⁻¹s⁻¹), Rsp0802 (L-Met-D-Leu, kcat/Km = 1.1 x 10⁵ M⁻¹s⁻¹). Phosphinate mimics of dipeptides were inhibitors of the dipeptidases. The structures of Sco3058, LmoDP and Rsp0802 were solved in complex with the pseudodipeptide mimics of L-Ala-D-Asp, L-Leu-D-Ala and L-Ala-D-Ala, respectively. The structures were used to assist in the identification of the structural determinants of substrate specificity.

ΔPhe an analogue of a coded amino acid phenylalanine (Phe) residue but with double bond between Cα and Cβ atoms, is one of the well studied residue among all the dehydro amino acids, as a conformation constraining amino acid. Due to the presence of double bond Cα=Cβ, and consequent conjugation of ΔPhe ring electrons with Cα=Cβ double bond, ΔPhe gains conformation restricting (constraining) characteristics compared to coded amino acid Phe. ΔPhe which assumes an achiral residue has all its atoms restricted to an approximate plane. Apart from the conformation constraining property, the designer friendly ΔPhe residue has its ability to i) engage in side chain aromatic interactions ii) act as nuclei for C-HLO/N-HLπ weak interactions involving the side chain and/ or backbone atoms, and iii) acquire ambidextrous conformation as observed in many model peptides. It is these properties, which makes ΔPhe, a residue of intense research in the field of de novo protein secondary and super secondary design. Analysis of solid state and solution state structures of containing ΔPhe residues suggests that ΔPhe, in general induces β-bend in short peptides and 310-helical conformation in longer peptides (>4).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma. / Bibliography: leaves 182-199.

A bifunctional imidazolium linker was used for the production of highly crosslinked element organic frameworks by Suzuki-coupling with tetrafunctional boronic acids. The resulting porous materials are good heterogeneous organocatalysts in the N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed conjugated umpolung of α,β-unsaturated cinnamaldehyde. / Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.