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1H NMR spectra of the encapsulation of ubiquitin within coordination spheres.
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Daishi Fujita,
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Kosuke Suzuki,
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Sota Sato,
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Maho Yagi-Utsumi,
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Yoshiki Yamaguchi,
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Nobuhiro Mizuno,
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Takashi Kumasaka,
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Masaki Takata,
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Masanori Noda,
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Susumu Uchiyama,
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Koichi Kato
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a) Ubiquitin ligand
2a. (
b) Ligand
1a. (
c) Ubiquitin-containing sphere
3a after treating ubiquitin ligand
2a with ligand
1a (30 equiv) and (17 equiv) in / (1:1, 0.5 ml) at 45 °C for 3 h. Downfield shifts of the signals of the rings (H
a, H
b) confirm the formation of Pd- bonds in coordination sphere
3a, and the simple spectrum indicates the quantitative self-assembly of ubiquitin-containing sphere
3a. All spectra recorded at 500 MHz, in :=1:1, at 300 K.
namibia africa
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windhoek
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I'm not sure yet exactly what the plan
is for tomorrow, but before I leave Namibia, let me post today's
pictures. First, a few shots of downtown Windhoek. It's really a pretty
Western looking city, and you can see the German influence and presence
clearly — there are more BMWs on the street here than I've seen in some
time!
After lunch we went out to a ranch perhaps twenty
minutes outside of town and took a drive across it. For starters we saw
plenty of nice rolling landscape full of antelope of various sorts and
lots of warthogs (although they're not easy to get a picture of; the
third one in this set below is an example).
Most of the antelope (I hope I'm not using the wrong
term) were in small groups, but sometimes we'd come across huge herds
of several hundred at a time.
Now, I've seen — and eaten — plenty of deer in my
life, so those weren't really all that exciting. However, at the far end
of the ranch we saw four rhinoceroses coming toward us! I don't know if
we were skirting with danger, but they seemed really docile and milled
around us (within a few feet) for about twenty minutes. It was a family
group with parents, a young child (a year and a half or so — you can see
it in the middle of the center photo below), as well as an older one.
Not long after that we came upon a large herd
(perhaps forty or fifty in all) of giraffes eating away at the trees and
foliage.
After the drive across the ranch, Rachel and I
decided to go and see a nearby lion feeding as well. After a short drive
and hike we made it to a large wall and surrounding cage with slots
about four feet by one foot knocked through it — meat, attached to a
chain, was tossed over this wall and a minute later we heard the deep
rumble of approaching lions. The male dragged the meat out to the women,
who immediate forbid him from eating it and consumed it, as he
occasionally tried to lick it, earning a swat in the face. Eventually he
decided it would make more sense to have a nap.
We drove home as the sun was starting to set, and
are now (as I write this, not as I post it) heading out for supper.
We're both very tired and not entirely looking forward to tomorrow's
time in the air.
As a point of trivia, most of the tourists here
appear to be German, and many services are in German, so my ability to
understand (if not speak) is quite useful and it's coming back very
quickly. As a second point of trivia, people here seem really freaked out by escalators,
pausing for a long time at the top and then making a nervous hop onto a
step they perceive of as “safe” — that's not just locals, but tourists
alike. It's very odd.
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