ACS Chemical Biology, Vol. 2, Iss. 12 (Dec 21, 2007)

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Click Imaging of Biochemical Processes in Living Systems

Valery V. Fokin

Mechanisms of Resistance to an Amino Acid Antibiotic That Targets Translation

Sandro F. Ataide, Sharnise N. Wilson, Sandy Dang, Theresa E. Rogers, Bappaditya Roy, Rajat Banerjee, Tina M. Henkin, and Michael Ibba

Chem Rev. Vol. 107, No. 12, (Dec 2007)

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Asymmetric Catalysis Mediated by Synthetic Peptides
Elizabeth A. Colby Davie, Steven M. Mennen, Yingju Xu, and Scott J. Miller
pp 5759 - 5812

Organocatalytic Ring-Opening Polymerization
Nahrain E. Kamber, Wonhee Jeong, Robert M. Waymouth, Russell C. Pratt, Bas G. G. Lohmeijer, and James L. Hedrick
pp 5813 - 5840

JACS Vol. 129, No. 49, (Dec 12, 2007)

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Polymer-Caged Lipsomes: A pH-Responsive Delivery System with High Stability
Sang-Min Lee, Haimei Chen, Christine M. Dettmer, Thomas V. O'Halloran, and SonBinh T. Nguyen
pp 15096 - 1509

Considerations of Macromolecular Structure in the Design of Proton Conducting Polymer Membranes: Graft versus Diblock Polyelectrolytes
Emily M. W. Tsang, Zhaobin Zhang, Zhiqing Shi, Tatyana Soboleva, and Steven Holdcroft
pp 15106 - 15107

Site-Directed Conjugation of "Clicked" Glycopolymers To Form Glycoprotein Mimics: Binding to Mammalian Lectin and Induction of Immunological Function
Jin Geng, Giuseppe Mantovani, Lei Tao, Julien Nicolas, Gaojian Chen, Russell Wallis, Daniel A. Mitchell, Benjamin R. G. Johnson, Stephen D. Evans, and David M. Haddleton
pp 15156 - 15163

JACS Vol. 129, No. 48, (Dec 5, 2007)

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Protonation States of Buried Histidine Residues in Human Deoxyhemoglobin Revealed by Neutron Crystallography
Toshiyuki Chatake, Naoya Shibayama, Sam-Yong Park, Kazuo Kurihara, Taro Tamada, Ichiro Tanaka, Nobuo Niimura, Ryota Kuroki, and Yukio Morimoto
pp 14840 - 14841

Misfolding of Amyloidogenic Proteins at Membrane Surfaces: The Impact of Macromolecular Crowding
Marcus Bokvist and Gerhard Gröbner
pp 14848 - 14849

Total Synthesis and Antibacterial Properties of Carbaplatensimycin
K. C. Nicolaou, Yefeng Tang, Jianhua Wang, Antonia F. Stepan, Ang Li, and Ana Montero
pp 14850 - 14851

Anticancer and Antimicrobial Metallopharmaceutical Agents Based on Palladium, Gold, and Silver N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes
Sriparna Ray, Renu Mohan, Jay K. Singh, Manoja K. Samantaray, Mobin M. Shaikh, Dulal Panda, and Prasenjit Ghosh
pp 15042 - 15053

Science, VOL 318, ISSUE 5857, PAGES 1691-1793, 14 December 2007

RESEARCH POLICY: NIH Weighs Big Changes in Peer Review
Jennifer Couzin
pg. 1708-1709.

NASA Funding Slow, Not Steady, After Space Race
Michael J. Goldstein
pg. 1721-1722

Biomaterials, Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 625-770 (February 2008)

The use of biodegradable scaffold as an alternative to silicone implant arthroplasty for small joint reconstruction: An experimental study in minipigs
Pages 683-691
Eero Waris, Nureddin Ashammakhi, Mauri Lehtimäki, Riitta-Mari Tulamo, Minna Kellomäki, Pertti Törmälä and Yrjö T. Konttinen

Luminescence functionalization of mesoporous silica with different morphologies and applications as drug delivery systems
Pages 692-702
Piaoping Yang, Zewei Quan, Lanlan Lu, Shanshan Huang and Jun Lin

Science, Vol 318, Issue 5856, pages 1519-1648, 7 DECEMBER 2007

Editorial
Chinese Science on the Move
A. I. Leshner, and V. Turekian
pg. 5856

News of the Week
ACADEMIC FREEDOM: Thai Science Agency Clamps Down on Sensitive Research
R. Stone
pg. 5856

Books
FOR YOUNGER READERS: Science Books for Fun and Learning--Some Recommendations from 2007
H. Malcomson, S. Suter, and B. Jasny
pg. 1552-1554

Reports
Designing Superoleophobic Surfaces
A. Tuteja, W. Choi, M. Ma, J. M. Mabry, S. A. Mazzella, G. C. Rutledge, G. H. McKinley, and R. E. Cohen
pg. 1618-1622

Chemistry - A European Journal, ASAP article

Tuning the Charge Distribution and Photoswitchable Properties of Cobalt-Dioxolene Complexes by Using Molecular Techniques p(NA)
Alessandra Beni, Andrea Dei, Serena Laschi, Mario Rizzitano, Lorenzo Sorace

Chem. Commun., 2007, 5200 - 5202

Heat-set gels and egg-like vesicles using two component gel system based on chiral calix[4]arenes
Jin-Lan Zhou, Xian-Jie Chen and Yan-Song Zheng

Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 3833–3837

Bioinspired Surfaces with Switchable Adhesion

Shravanthi Reddy, Eduard Arzt, and Aránzazu del Campo*

ChemPhysChem, 2007, Volume 8 Issue 16 , 2367-2372

Embedding Magnetic Nanoparticles into Polysaccharide-Based Hydrogels for
Magnetically Assisted Bioseparation

Yuan-Yuan Liang, Li-Ming Zhang,* Wei Jiang, and Wei Li
University, Guangzhou, China

Macromolecules 2007, 40, 9084-9093

Codendronized Polymers: Wormlike Molecular Objects with a
Segmented Structure

Xingquan Xiong and Yongming Chen
Shu Feng and Wei Wang

ChemPhysChem, 2007, Volume 8 Issue 16 , Pages 2290 - 2307

Interrogation of Single Synthetic Polymer Chains and Polysaccharides by AFM-Based Force Spectroscopy
Marina I. Giannotti, G. Julius Vancso,
University of Twente, Netherlands

Macromolecules 2007, 40, 8855-8860

Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Magnesium Ketiminate
Complexes: Efficient Initiators for the Ring-Opening Polymerization
of L-Lactide

Hui-Yi Tang, Hsuan-Ying Chen, Jui-Hsien Huang, and Chu-Chieh Lin

Macromolecules 2007, 40, 8830-8832

Solvent-Promoted Self-Healing Epoxy Materials

Mary M. Caruso, David A. Delafuente, Victor Ho,
Nancy R. Sottos, Jeffrey S. Moore and
Scott R. White

Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, 2007, 111(48), 13491 - 13498

X-ray Absorption Microscopy of Bacterial Surface Protein Layers: X-ray Damage
Andreas Kade, Denis V. Vyalikh, Steffen Danzenbächer, Kurt Kummer, Anja Blüher, Michael Mertig, Alessandra Lanzara, Andreas Scholl, Andrew Doran, and Serguei L. Molodtsov

Institute of Solid State Physics, Dresden UniVersity of Technology, D-01062 Dresden, Germany,
BioNanotechnology and Structure Formation Group, Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden

Biochemistry 2007, 46, 13856-13863

Role of Helix Nucleation in the Kinetics of Binding of Mastoparan X to Phospholipid Bilayers
Jia Tang, Rachel S. Signarvic, William F. DeGrado, and Feng Gai

Cautionary tale from Angew. Chemie

1,7-Diaza[12]annulene Derivatives? 100-Year-Old Pyridinium Salts!
Manfred Christl, Prof. Dr. *





I hate to take someone else's journal, but this is a smackdown of Wagnerian proportions.

Acc. Chem. Res. 2007, 40, 1122–1129

Amino Acid Ionic Liquids
HIROYUKI OHNO* AND KENTA FUKUMOTO

The preparation of ionic liquids derived from amino acids, and their properties, are outlined. Since amino acids have both a carboxylic acid residue and an amino group in a single molecule, they can be used as either anions or cations. These groups are also useful in their ability to introduce functional group(s). Twenty different natural amino acids were used as anions, to couple with the 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium cation. The salts obtained were all liquid at room temperature. The properties of the resulting ionic liquids (AAILs) depend on the side groups of the amino acids involved. These AAILs, composed of an amino acid with some functional groups such as a hydrogen bonding group, a charged group, or an aromatic ring, had an increased glass transition (or melting) temperature and/or higher viscosity as a result of additional interactions among the ions. Viscosity is reduced and the decomposition temperature of imidazolium-type salts is improved by using the tetrabutylphosphonium cation. The chirality of AAILs was maintained even upon heating to 150 °C after acetylation of the free amino group. The amino group was also modified to introduce a strong acid group so as to form hydrophobic and chiral ionic liquids. Unique phase behavior of the resulting hydrophobic ionic liquids and water mixture is found; the mixture is clearly phase separated at room temperature, but the solubility of water in this IL increases upon cooling, to give a homogeneous solution. This phase change is reversible, and separation occurs again by raising the temperature a few degrees. It is extraordinary for an IL/water mixture to display such behavior with a lower critical solution temperature. Some likely applications are proposed for these amino acid derived ionic liquids.

Chem. Commun., 2007, 4602 - 4604.

One-step synthesis of monodisperse water-soluble dual-responsive magnetic nanoparticles
Ian Robinson, Cameron Alexander, Le T. Lu, Le D. Tung, David G. Fernig and Nguyen T. K. Thanh

Nature Chemical Biology 3, 761-762 (2007) doi:10.1038/nchembio.2007.47

Enzymatic catalysis on conducting graphite particles

Kylie A Vincent¹, Xiang Li¹, Christopher F Blanford¹, Natalie A Belsey¹, Joel H Weiner² and Fraser A Armstrong¹

A new concept for enzyme-catalyzed redox transformations features pairs of electron donor and acceptor enzymes attached to conducting particles. Electrons furnished by oxidation at one enzyme are used at the other. Graphite microparticles modified with hydrogenase and nitrate reductase or fumarate reductase catalyze reductions of nitrate or fumarate (Compound 1) by H₂.

Nature Chemical Biology 3, 785-794 (2007) doi:10.1038/nchembio.2007.46

Catalytic generation of N₂O₃ by the concerted nitrite reductase and anhydrase activity of hemoglobin

Swati Basu, Rozalina Grubina, Jinming Huang, Jeanet Conradie, Zhi Huang, Anne Jeffers, Alice Jiang, Xiaojun He, Ivan Azarov, Ryan Seibert, Atul Mehta, RakeshPatel, Stephen Bruce King, Neil Hogg, Abhik Ghosh, Mark T Gladwin^, and Daniel B Kim-Shapiro

Nano Letters, Vol. 7, Iss. 11, November 2007.

Active Nanodiamond Hydrogels for Chemotherapeutic Delivery

Houjin Huang, Erik Pierstorff, Eiji Osawa, and Dean Ho. pp 3305 - 3314.

Nanotube Radio

K. Jensen, J. Weldon, H. Garcia, and A. Zettl. pp 3508 - 3511.

Journal of Polymer Science: Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Vol. 45, Iss. 24, Dec-2007

Novel double hydrophilic block copolymers based on poly(p-hydroxystyrene) derivatives and poly(ethylene oxide)
Grigoris Mountrichas, Stergios Pispas
pp 5790-5799

Biomacromolecules, Vol. 8, Iss. 11, Nov-2007

New Ground for Organic Catalysis: A Ring-Opening Polymerization Approach to Hydrogels
Fredrik Nederberg, Vivian Trang, Russell C. Pratt, Andrew F. Mason, Curtis W. Frank, Robert M. Waymouth, and James L. Hedrick
pp 3294 - 3297

Steric Stabilization of Lipid/Polymer Particle Assemblies by Poly(ethylene glycol)-Lipids
Julie Thevenot, Anne-Lise Troutier, Laurent David, Thierry Delair, and Catherine Ladavière
pp 3651 - 3660

Shape Memory Behavior of Novel (L-Lactide-Glycolide-Trimethylene Carbonate) Terpolymers
Elisa Zini, Mariastella Scandola, Piotr Dobrzynski, Janusz Kasperczyk, and Maciej Bero
pp 3661 - 3667

organic letters, 2007, 9, 5039

Cu(II)-Selective Green Fluorescence of a Rhodamine-Diacetic Acid Conjugate

Xuan Zhang, Yasuhiro Shiraishi,* and Takayuki Hirai

ChemBioChem 2007, 8, 2063 – 2065

Tuning the Membrane Selectivity of Antimicrobial Peptides by Using
Multivalent Design

Zhigang Liu,[a] Anne W. Young,[a] Po Hu,[a]
Amanda J. Rice,[b] Chunhui Zhou,[a] Yingkai Zhang,[a]
and Neville R. Kallenbach*[a]

PNAS Nov 2007 Vol 104 No 48

Combined kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of α-helical membrane protein unfolding

Paul Curnow and Paula J. Booth

They're doing these measurements in a micelle system, which is cool I think.

PNAS Nov 27, 2007 Vol 104 No 48

Effect of flexibility and cis residues in single-moleculeFRET studies of polyproline

Robert B. Best, Kusai A. Merchant, Irina V. Gopich, Benjamin Schuler, Ad Bax, and William A. Eaton

J. Mater. Chem., 2007, 17, 4508 - 4520

Development and characterization of porous membranes with ‘‘sandwichlike’’
structure based on biocompatible, immiscible polymer blends

Vincenzo Lanzetta,a Paola Laurienzo,*b Giovanni Maglio,a Mario Malinconico,b Pellegrino Mustob and Immacolata Schiattarellaa

. Mater. Chem., 2007, 17, 4471 - 4476

Polymer microcapsules as mobile local pH-sensors

Oliver Kreft, Almudena Munoz Javier, Gleb B. Sukhorukovac and Wolfgang J. Parak

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2007, 51(12), p4518-4520.

RNAIII-Inhibiting Peptide Affects Biofilm Formation in a Rat Model of Staphylococcal Ureteral Stent Infection

Oscar Cirioni, Roberto Ghiselli, Daniele Minardi, Fiorenza Orlando, Federico Mocchegiani, Carmela Silvestri, Giovanni Muzzonigro, Vittorio Saba, Giorgio Scalise, Naomi Balaban, and Andrea Giacometti

J. Mater. Chem., 2007, 17, 4558 - 4562

Assembly of spherical micelles in 2D physical confinements and their replication into mesoporous silica nanorods


Arne Thomas,a Martin Schierhorn,b Yiying Wuc and Galen Stucky

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2007, 51(12), p. 4217-4224.

MINIREVIEW
Outbreaks Associated with Contaminated Antiseptics and Disinfectants

David J. Weber, William A. Rutala, and Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett

J. Mater. Chem., 2007, 17, 4864 - 4871

Water uptake of hydrophilic polymers determined by a thermal gravimetric analyzer with a controlled humidity chamber

Hanneke M. L. Thijs,a C. Remzi Becer,a Carlos Guerrero-Sanchez,a David Fournier,a Richard Hoogenbooma and Ulrich S. Schubert*ab

Organic letters, 2007, 9, 4729

Multisignaling Optical-Electrochemical Sensor for Hg2+ Based on a Rhodamine Derivative with a Ferrocene Unit
Hong Yang, Zhiguo Zhou, Kewei Huang, Mengxiao Yu, Fuyou Li,* Tao Yi, and
Chunhui Huang*