How Alcohol Chain-Length and Concentration Modulate Hydrogen Bond Formation in a Lipid Bilayer

ABSTRACT

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to measure the change in properties of a hydrated dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayer when solvated with ethanol, propanol, and butanol solutions. There are eight oxygen atoms in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine that serve as hydrogen bond acceptors, and two of the oxygen atoms participate in hydrogen bonds that exist for significantly longer time spans than the hydrogen bonds at the other six oxygen atoms for the ethanol and propanol simulations. We conclude that this is caused by the lipid head group conformation, where the two favored hydrogen-bonding sites are partially protected between the head group choline and the sn-2 …

Sarkozy's son splits with French leader's own anointed candidate in mayoral race

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's home base was in political disarray a month before municipal elections, with his son breaking ranks Sunday with the president's favored candidate for City Hall.

The race in the posh Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine _ where Sarkozy long served as mayor _ has shaped up as a test for the president, whose poll numbers have fallen recently and whose once-hearty appetite for reform has shrunk.

The elections in around 36,000 French cities, towns and villages are the first nationwide polls since Sarkozy was elected president last May _ and some in his conservative UMP party fear its candidates will be punished by voters who are …

The Best Banks 2006

THE BEST BANKS 2006: BALANCE SHEET SIZE MORE THAN RS 20,000 CRORE

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The leaders of the Big FIve on: Corporate strategy, consolidation, the environment and globalization.

The Daimler-Chrysler merger hammered one thing home to the auto industry - be prepared for dramatic changes in the business. From new hybrid vehicles, to the demise of some companies and never-before-thought-of marriages among others, that's the way of the burgeoning global auto industry.

As it begins to take shape, Toyota's President Hiroshi Okuda wants the automakers to join hands to solve environmental issues while at the same time looking for partners to accomplish the same mission with his company.

Volkswagen Chairman Ferdinand Piech believes the yellow-brick …

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Agriculture futures trade mixed on the CBOT

Agriculture futures were mixed early Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Wheat for December delivery lost 1 cent to $4.72 a bushel, while December corn gained 4 cents to $3.405 a bushel and November soybeans jumped 11.5 cents to $9.31 a bushel. Oats for December delivery rose 1.5 cents to $2.205 a bushel.

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S. Africa Aid Questioned // Chicago Hair-Care Grant Cited in Report

WASHINGTON A $500,000 grant to a Chicago-based foundation to teachhair care to South Africans is among a series of U.S. foreign aidgrants for South Africa under scrutiny by the Senate ForeignRelations Committee.

The committee has scheduled hearings into what its chairman, Sen.Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), called "abuses of U.S. foreign aid."

Targeted are grants made by the Agency for InternationalDevelopment under a policy of steering federal grants to blackorganizations in the United States. The policy was criticized by theagency's inspector general in a report that suggested it went beyondcongressional mandates on minority preferences.

Among the first grants …