• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.618-625
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• 1991

A general expression adopting a nonmultipole expansion method is derived for pseudocontact contribution to the NMR chemical shift arising from the electron orbital angular momentum and electron spin dipolar-nuclear spin angular momentum interaction of $3d^9$ system in a strong crystal field of tetragonally distorted tetrahedral symmetry. From this expression all the multipolar term are determined and the exact solution of ${\Delta}$B/B(ppm) is compared with the multipolar term. The $1/R^5$ term in the multipolar terms contributes dominantly to the NMR chemical shift but the other terms are certainly significant except that of the <111> axis. In addition, an analysis of the temperature dependence of the NMR chemical shift further illustrates that considerable care must be taken in interpeting NMR results in paramagnetic system.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.8-11
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• 2021

Transthyretin (TTR) is an important transporter protein for thyroxine (T4) and a holo-retinol protein in human. In its native state, TTR forms a tetrameric complex to construct the hydrophobic binding pocket for T4. On the other hand, this protein is also infamous for its amyloidogenic propensity, which causes various human diseases, such as senile systemic amyloidosis and familial amyloid polyneuropathy/cardiomyopathy. In this work, to investigate various structural features of TTR with solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, we conducted backbone NMR signal assignments. Except the N-terminal two residues and prolines, backbone 1H-15N signals of all residues were successfully assigned with additional chemical shift information of 13CO, 13Cα, and 13Cβ for most residues. The chemical shift information reported here will become an important basis for subsequent structural and functional studies of TTR.

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society Conference
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• 2000.01a
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• pp.3-4
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• 2000

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.1231-1233
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• 1997

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.671-673
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• 1996

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.685-687
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• 1994

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.599-602
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• 1999

Chitosan was depolymerized by using nitrous acid. In order to synthesize new fluorinated chitosan oligomer(FCO) derivative, free amine groups of resulting low molucular weight chitosan oligomers were reacted with trifluoroacetic anhydride. The structure changes in the samples were conformed by using FT-IR, $^{1}H\;NMR$, $^{13}C\;NMR$ and $^{19}F\{^{1}H\}NMR$. Antiviral activity of FCO was studied by measuring DAN amounts of the replication viruses at 36 hr after the cells were infected with the viral solution containing FCO of various concentrations. The viral replications in the cells infected with the viral solution containing FCO were proportionally decreased with the FCO does, compared to those of the control groups, indicating that FCO efficiently inhibits viral infection. In particular, viral replication was decreased to 40% in the 1% FCO-treated cells.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.38-47
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• 2005

Axin is a scaffold protein of the APC/axin/GSK complex, binding to all of the other signalling components. Axin interacts with Glycogen synthase kinase 3$\beta$ (GSK 3$\beta$) and functions as a negative regulator of Wnt signalling pathways. To determine the solution structure of the GSK3$\beta$ binding regions of the axin, we initiated NMR study of axin fragment comprising residues 3$Val^{388} - Arg^{401}$using circular dichroism (CD) and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. The CD spectra of 3$axin^{pep}$ in the presence of 30% TFE displayed a standard 3$\alpha$-helical conformation, exhibiting the bound structure of 3$axin^{pep}$ to GSK3$\bata$. On the basis of experimental restraints including $NOE_s$, and $^3J_{HN\alpha} $ coupling constants, the solution conformation of $axin^{pep}$ was determined with program CNS. The 20 lowest energy structures were selected out of 50 final simulated-annealing structures in both water and TFE environment, respectively. The $RMSD_s$ for the 20 structures in TFE solution were 0.086 nm for backbone atoms and 0.195 nm for all heavy atoms, respectively. The Ramachandran plot indicates that the $\varphi$, $\psi$ angles of the 20 final structures is properly distributed in energetically acceptable regions. $Axin^pep$ in aqueous solutions consists of a stable $\alpha$-helix spanning residues form $Glu^{391}$ to $Val^{391} $, which is an interacting motif with GSK3$\beta$.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.196-202
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• 1997

New vanadium(V) complex, $(NH_4)_2[VO_2NTA]$, has been synthesized and its structure has been determined by solution and solid-state NMR spectroscopies as well as X-ray crystallography. The unit cell of the monoclinic crystals contains four complexes with $a=6.923(1){\AA}$, $b=8.824(2){\AA}$, $c=19.218(11){\AA}$ and ${\beta}=91.60(3)^{\circ}$ in the space group of $P2_1/n$. The $[VO_2NTA]^{2-}$ anion has distorted octahedral geometry with cis-$VO_2$ moiety. It is confirmed that the octahedral geometry is retained in both of solution and solid-state complexes.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.170-177
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• 1999

Asymmetric membranes for pervaporation were prepared with poly sulfone and sulfonated poly sulfone in order to separate water from 90% by weight butanol solution. Chlorosulfonic acid was reacted with trimethylchlorosilane for using as a sulfonating agent. The prepared polymers were characterized with FT-IR and $^1H$-NMR. The thermal properties of the polymers were examined with DSC and TGA. Back titration method was used for the evaluation of the degree of sulfonation or the ion ex¬change capacity. N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) and diethyleneglycol dimethyl ether (DGDE) cosolvent were used for the preparation of asymmetric membranes. The cross section and skin layer of the mem¬branes were examined with scanning electron michroscopy to investigate membrane structure formed with cosolvent composition in the casting solution. In this article, the selectivity of the dense films were not different from each other so much. However, the permeation rates were significantly increased as much as 80 times compared to that of dense film.