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Therefore, these results can significantly advance not only the fundamental understanding of the driving mechanism of the OLC but also the design rule of electrochemical membrane applications.During almost all 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has constituted the major risk for the worldwide health and economy, propelling unprecedented efforts to discover drugs for its prevention and cure. At the end of the year, these efforts have culminated with the approval of vaccines by the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) giving new hope for the future. On the other hand, clinical data underscore the urgent need for effective drugs to treat COVID-19 patients. In this work, we embarked on a virtual screening campaign against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Mpro chymotrypsin-like cysteine protease employing our in-house database of peptide and non-peptide ligands characterized by different types of warheads acting as Michael acceptors. To this end, we employed the AutoDock4 docking software customized to predict the formation of a covalent adduct with the target protein. In vitro verification of the inhibition properties of the most promising candidates allowed us to identify two new lead inhibitors that will deserve further optimization. From the computational point of view, this work demonstrates the predictive power of AutoDock4 and suggests its application for the in silico screening of large chemical libraries of potential covalent binders against the SARS-CoV-2 Mpro enzyme.We redevelop the variational free energy profile (vFEP) method using a cardinal B-spline basis to extend the method for analyzing free energy surfaces (FESs) involving three or more reaction coordinates. We also implemented software for evaluating high-dimensional profiles based on the multistate Bennett acceptance ratio (MBAR) method which constructs an unbiased probability density from global reweighting of the observed samples. The MBAR method takes advantage of a fast algorithm for solving the unbinned weighted histogram (UWHAM)/MBAR equations which replaces the solution of simultaneous equations with a nonlinear optimization of a convex function. We make use of cardinal B-splines and multiquadric radial basis functions to obtain smooth, differentiable MBAR profiles in arbitrary high dimensions. The cardinal B-spline vFEP and MBAR methods are compared using three example systems that examine 1D, 2D, and 3D profiles. Both methods are found to be useful and produce nearly indistinguishable results. The vFEP method is found to be 150 times faster than MBAR when applied to periodic 2D profiles, but the MBAR method is 4.5 times faster than vFEP when evaluating unbounded 3D profiles. In agreement with previous comparisons, we find the vFEP method produces superior FESs when the overlap between umbrella window simulations decreases. Finally, the associative reaction mechanism of hammerhead ribozyme is characterized using 3D, 4D, and 6D profiles, and the higher-dimensional profiles are found to have smaller reaction barriers by as much as 1.5 kcal/mol. The methods presented here have been implemented into the FE-ToolKit software package along with new methods for network-wide free energy analysis in drug discovery.The metabolomic profiling analyses of 11 vitamins' statuses of wheat grain in a subsample of 167 accessions from the INRAE worldwide bread wheat core collection planted in two contrasting environments in France (Le Moulon and Clermont-Ferrand) have been evaluated using a high-throughput liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) procedure. This has allowed us to perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for these nutritional traits of interest combining the phenotypic data with the genotypic data derived from the TaBW280K SNP chip. Considering both thresholds (P less then 0.0003 and R2 ≥ 8%), the GWAS identified between 1 and 22 marker-trait associations (MTAs) for the individual vitamins at the individual locations, and 12 SNP markers were stable and associated with vitamin contents across two environments. Desirable alleles and superior genotypes identified in the current analysis provide novel genetic data that can be used for future research on the genetics of vitamins and their application in wheat breeding.The design of unidirectional photomolecular motors demands a critical understanding of an ultrafast photochemical isomerization. An intermediate dark excited state mediates the reaction via a conical intersection (CI) with the ground state, but a correlation between molecular structure and photoisomerization efficiency has remained elusive. Here femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy captures vibrational spectra of the dark state in a set of molecular motors bearing different substituents. A direct correlation between isomerization quantum yield, dark state lifetime, and excited state vibrational spectrum is found. Electron withdrawing substituents lead to activity in lower frequency modes, which we correlate with a pyramidalization distortion at the ethylenic axle occurring within 100 fs. This structure is not formed with an electron donating substituent, where the axle retains double bond character. Further structural reorganization is observed and assigned to excited state reorganization and charge redistribution on the sub-picosecond time scale. The correlation of the dark state structure with photoconversion performance suggests guidelines for developing new more efficient motor derivatives.The catalytic enantioselective synthesis of α-chiral olefins represents a valuable strategy for rapid generation of structural diversity in divergent syntheses of complex targets. Herein, we report a protocol for the dual CuH- and Pd-catalyzed asymmetric Markovnikov hydroalkenylation of vinyl arenes and the anti-Markovnikov hydroalkenylation of unactivated olefins, in which readily available enol triflates can be utilized as alkenyl coupling partners. click here This method allowed for the synthesis of diverse α-chiral olefins, including tri- and tetrasubstituted olefin products, which are challenging to prepare by existing approaches.
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