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Two quantum mechanical (QM)-cluster models are built for studying the acylation and deacylation mechanism and kinetics of Streptomyces R61 DD-peptidase with the penicillin G at atomic level detail. DD-peptidases are bacterial enzymes involved in the cross-linking of peptidoglycan to form the cell wall, necessary for bacterial survival. The cross-linking can be inhibited by antibiotic beta-lactam derivatives through acylation, preventing the acyl-enzyme complex from undergoing further deacylation. The deacylation step was predicted to be rate-limiting. Transition state and intermediate structures are found using density functional theory in this study, and thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the proposed mechanism are evaluated. The acyl-enzyme complex is found lying in a deep thermodynamic sink, and deacylation is indeed the severely rate-limiting step, leading to suicide inhibition of the peptidoglycan cross-linking. The usage of QM-cluster models is a promising technique to understand, improve, and design antibiotics to disrupt function of the Streptomyces R61 DD-peptidase. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Predicting bull fertility prior to breeding is a current challenge for the dairy industry. The use of molecular biomarkers has been previously assessed. However, the integration of this information has not been performed to extract biologically relevant markers. The goal of this study was to integrate DNA methylation data with previously published RNA-sequencing results in order to identify candidate markers for sire fertility. A total of 1765 differentially methylated cytosines were found between high- and low-fertility sires. Ten genes associated with 11 differentially methylated cytosines were found in a previous study of gene expression between high- and low-fertility sires. Additionally, two of these genes code for proteins found exclusively in bull seminal plasma. Collectively, our results reveal 10 genes that could be used in the future as a panel for predicting bull fertility. © 2020 Stichting International Foundation for Animal Genetics.Theoretical investigations have elucidated the mechanism of metal-free electrophilic phosphinative cyclization of alkynes reaction reported by Miura and coworkers. Two competitive mechanisms I and II were explored without or with 2,6-lutidine. Both of I and II involve transformation of P(V) to P(III), electrophilic addition, ring opening and cyclization/cyclization, hydrogen-transfer, and oxidation. The rate-determining step of mechanism I and competitive less-step II is electrophilic [2 + 1] cycloaddition and electrophilic addition via single CP bond formation with activation barrier of 13.5 and 10.6 kcal/mol, respectively. Our calculation results suggested that the cumulative effect of the isomer of 2,6-lutidine and Tf2 O as well as TfO- affects the title reaction to some extent, and simultaneously activates key reaction sites and reverses the polarities of them via the formation of abundant noncovalent interactions to decrease activation barriers of TSs. In addition, the effects of two series substituents on reactivity of phosphine oxide were investigated. Therefore, our study will serve as useful guidance for more efficient metal-free synthesis of organophosphorus compounds mediated by pyridine reagents. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.High expression of 2',5'-oligoadenylate synthetase 1 (OAS1), which adds AMP residues in 2',5' linkage to a variety of substrates, is observed in many cancers as a part of the interferon-related DNA damage resistance signature (IRDS). Poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) is rapidly synthesized from NAD+ at sites of DNA damage to facilitate repair, but excessive PAR synthesis due to extensive DNA damage results in cell death by energy depletion and/or activation of PAR-dependent programmed cell death pathways. We find that OAS1 adds AMP residues in 2',5' linkage to PAR, inhibiting its synthesis in vitro and reducing its accumulation in cells. Increased OAS1 expression substantially improves cell viability following DNA-damaging treatments that stimulate PAR synthesis during DNA repair. We conclude that high expression of OAS1 in cancer cells promotes their ability to survive DNA damage by attenuating PAR synthesis and thus preventing cell death. © 2020 The Authors.In this work, we take a different angle to the benchmarking of time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) for the calculation of excited-state geometries by extensively assessing how accurate such geometries are compared to ground-state geometries calculated with ordinary DFT. To this end, we consider 20 medium-sized aromatic organic compounds whose lowest singlet excited states are ideally suited for TD-DFT modeling and are very well described by the approximate coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CC2) method, and then use this method and six different density functionals (BP86, B3LYP, PBE0, M06-2X, CAM-B3LYP, and ωB97XD) to optimize the corresponding ground- and excited-state geometries. The results show that although each hybrid functional reproduces the CC2 excited-state bond lengths very satisfactorily, achieving an overall root mean square error of 0.011 Å for all 336 bonds in the 20 molecules, these errors are distinctly larger than those of only 0.004-0.006 Å with which the hybrid functionals reproduce the CC2 ground-state bond lengths. selleck Furthermore, for each functional employed, the variation in the error relative to CC2 between different molecules is found to be much larger (by at least a factor of 3) for the excited-state geometries than for the ground-state geometries, despite the fact that the molecules/states under investigation have rather uniform chemical and spectroscopic character. Overall, the study finds that even in favorable circumstances, TD-DFT excited-state geometries appear intrinsically and comparatively less accurate than DFT ground-state ones. © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Computational Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.INTRODUCTION Persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often limited in performing their activities of daily living (ADLs). However, it remains unknown whether and to what extent problematic ADLs change over time and whether exacerbation-related hospitalisations affect problematic ADLs. Therefore, we investigated self-reported problematic ADLs of persons with COPD during 1 year of usual care (i.e. without a specific experimental intervention). METHODS Stable persons with moderate to very severe COPD (n = 137) were included in this longitudinal study (registered in the Dutch Trial Register [NTR 3941]). Participants were visited at home at baseline and after 1 year. Participants with an exacerbation-related hospitalisation during follow-up were visited additionally within 2 weeks after hospital discharge. During all visits, participants' personalised problematic ADLs were assessed using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), and perceived performance and satisfaction of important problematic ADLs were rated on a 10-point scale.
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