Studio della stabilità delle travi reticolari miste

Nella presente tesi sono state modellate in Ansys due tipologie di travi P.R.E.M comunemente utilizzate nella pratica. Lo scopo è stato quello di determinare i parametri che maggiormente influenzano la stabilità delle due tipologie di travi in fase 1. I parametri analizzati sono stati: l'altezza della trave, l'altezza dell'irrigidimento verticale e il tipo di caricamento (simmetrico e eccentrico). Il processo di calcolo è stato automatizzato interfacciando Matlab ed Ansys.

Studio della subunità epsilon della DNA polimerasi III di Escherichia coli: stabilità e interazione con la subunità polimerasica

Faithful replication of DNA from one generation to the next is crucial for long-term species survival. Genomic integrity in prokaryotes, archaea and eukaryotes is dependent on efficient and accurate catalysis by multiple DNA polymerases. Escherichia coli possesses five known DNA polymerases (Pol). DNA polymerase III holoenzyme is the major replicative polymerase of the Escherichia coli chromosome (Kornberg, 1982). This enzyme contains two Pol III cores that are held together by a t dimer (Studwell-Vaughan and O’Donnell, 1991). The core is composed of three different proteins named α-, ε- and θ-subunit. The α-subunit, encoded by dnaE, contains the catalytic site for DNA polymerisation (Maki and Kornberg, 1985), the ε-subunit, encoded by dnaQ, contains the 3′→5′ proofreading exonuclease (Scheuermann, et al., 1983) and the θ-subunit, encoded by hole, that has no catalytic activity (Studwell-Vaughan, and O'Donnell, 1983). The three-subunit α–ε–θ DNA pol III complex is the minimal active polymerase form purified from the DNA pol III holoenzyme complex; these three polypeptides are tightly associated in the core (McHenry and Crow, 1979) Despite a wealth of data concerning the properties of DNA polymerase III in vitro, little information is available on the assembly in vivo of this complex enzyme. In this study it is shown that the C-terminal region of the proofreading subunit is labile and that the ClpP protease and the molecular chaperones GroL and DnaK control the overall concentration in vivo of ε. Two α-helices (comprising the residues E311-M335 and G339-D353, respectively) of the N-terminal region of the polymerase subunit were shown to be essential for the binding to ε. These informations could be utilized to produce a conditional mutator strain in which proofreading activity would be titrated by a a variant that can only bind e and that is polymerase-deficient. In this way the replication of DNA made by DNA Pol-III holoenzyme would accordingly become error-prone.

Cocristalli di acidi dicarbossilici: sintesi, caratterizzazione e stabilità allo stato solido

It is well-known that crystalline materials obtain their fundamental physical properties from the molecular arrangement within the solid, and altering the placement and or interactions between these molecules can impact the properties of the particular solid. Solid state chemistry looks at an attempt to alter the chemical and physical solid-state properties of APIs through many different strategies as the formation of salts, polymorphs, hydrates, solvates, and cocrystals. The final aim of this work is to study the chemical and physical propriety of new crystal structures. The work consists of three parts. The first is the cocrystallization of α,ω-alkanedicarboxylics acids with pirimidine. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis of this adduct have been carried out at RT, 150 and 200 K. The cocrystals show an alteration of their melting point similar to pure acids. The two significant deviations are for the cocrystals with succinico and glutarico acids. The second object of work is the structure determination of β polymorph undecandioic acids. In literature is known the other polymorph α. We observed that the thermodynamic relation for this dimorphics system is monotropic. In the third part we synthesized and analyzed the stability of four new salts of serine and oxalic acid. This project highlights the advantage of the solid state synthesis.