By Alberte Pullman (auth.), Bernard Pullman (eds.)
The retaining of the eighth Jerusalem Symposium used to be saddened by means of the surprising dying of Professor Ernst D. Bergmann on the very eve of this assembly. With him disappeared one of many prime global scientists within the box of actual chemistry and biochemistry. His innumerable acquaintances and admirers over the complete global mourn him profoundly. All those that knew him in my view and between them the contributors within the past Jerusalem Symposia will take into account for ever the outstanding features of the scientist and the bizarre human heat of the fellow. With Ernst D. Bergmann the nation of Israel misplaced one of many founders of its technological know-how and one among its so much exceptional and popular representatives. The spirit which he suc ceeded to inoculate into his a number of disciples and scholars will, in spite of the fact that, proceed to perpetuate his identify and his paintings. The Jerusalem Symposia will proceed as a residing testimony to his impressive suggestion. sooner than loss of life, Professor Bergmann has ready a couple of beginning feedback for the eighth Jerusalem Symposium. they're reproduced right here. BERNARD PULLMAN starting phrases ready by way of the past due Professor Ernst David Bergmann It provides me nice excitement to welcome you all on behalf of the President and the Rector of the Hebrew college that is co-sponsoring this assembly, and of the President and Council of the Israel Academy of Sciences and arts which for the 8th time has positioned its premises at our disposal.
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We used our H-bonding and electrostatic potential study of H 2 S 3 to find appropriate charges for cysteine and methionine. These charges are available on request. We then used the CPA heavy atom coordinates of Quicho and Lipscomb [6] for the native protein and Lipscomb et al. [7] for the substrate bound protein and added hydrogens at standard bond lengths and angles. Glutamine and Asparagine side chain ami des were oriented to optimize their nearest neighbor interactions. Including the metal and hydrogens, CPA contains 4790 atoms.
The molecular dipole and quadrupole moments were calculated by placing appropriate point dipoles along and at the mid-points of the polar bonds. Also a consistent method of defining the centre of the molecule from the atomic co-ordinates was incorporated using the Van der Waals radii of the atoms. All the standard parameters used are shown in Table I. :nded to include the calculation of the solvent dependence of reaction rates from a knowledge of the transition state geometry [9]. Table II gives an example, the conformational equilibrium between the di-equatorial and ill-axial forms of trans 1,2-dihalocyclohexanes, which are particularly favourable cases to examine as the observed energy differences could be measured accurately and unequivocally by direct integration of the low temperature 1 H NMR spectra [10]' The solvent dependence of the equilibrium is quite large, the variation in AG being ca.
I ... \ " \ ..... _0_ J' 10 o -30 -20 -10 o 10 20 30 40 o X (A) Fig. 1. Electrostatic potential of CPA, Z= -10 A using STO-3G charges, resolution=2 A. _----I_---I -40 -30 -20 o 10 20 30 40 -10 o X (A) Fig. 2. Same as Figure I, using 431 G charges. 34 PETER KOLLMAN ET AL. this map, many of the important residues in CPA catalytic activity are indicated. If the Zn + 2 is removed, this leaves the apo enzyme, which appears to have a similar structure to the native [6]. Figure 4 shows the active site of the apo enzyme, which has been found to bind substrate, but to have no catalytic activity.
