(n.) Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]
Example Sentences:
(1) A low-toxic dose of o-cresol (Img) abruptly activates the effect of the same dose of BP (1 mg) according to all parameters (increase of the frequency, coefficient of multiplicity and degree of malignancy of tumours, shortening of the latency period) and somewhat inhibits its activity when administered before or after BP.
(2) The compounds were: anisole, rho-cresol, butylated hydroxytoluene, butylated hydroxyanisole, 2-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol,2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-nitrosophenol and rho-methoxyphenol.
(3) Other analogs, m-cresol, m-ethylphenol, 4-ethylresorcinol, and phloroglucinol, mimic orcinol as effectors, in that they (a) accelerate electron flow from NADH to the flavin and (b) decrease the apparent K-m for NADH but not to the same extent as the substrates that are hydroxylated.
(4) The m-xylene-adapted microorganisms in the aquifer column degraded toluene, benzaldehyde, benzoate, m-toluylaldehyde, m-toluate, m-cresol, p-cresol, and p-hydroxybenzoate but were unable to metabolize benzene, naphthalene, methylcyclohexane, and 1,3-dimethylcyclohexane.
(5) When applied as diagnostic tests for the stagnant loop syndrome, the phenol excretion showed 2 false negative results, the p-cresol excretion 3 false negative and 2 false positive results, and the indican excretion 6 false positive results.
(6) Oxidation of the methyl group to 4-OH-benzaldehyde was catalyzed by p-cresol methylhydroxylase.
(7) In support of the formation of these metabolites, it has been demonstrated that phenobarbital induced rat liver microsomes readily convert 4-methyl-2-cyclohexenone (V) to 4-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-cyclohexenone (VII) and p-cresol (VIII) in the presence of NADPH and O2.
(8) The ring-fission product of catechol was formed from phenol by a fluorescent Pseudomonas, that of 3-methylcatechol was formed from o-cresol and m-cresol, and the ring-fission product of 4-methylcatechol was given from p-cresol.
(9) The separated flavoprotein subunit shows only 2% of the catalytic activity of the original enzyme on p-cresol and is characterized by converging lines in bisubstrate kinetic analysis, while the intact and reconstituted enzymes show parallel line kinetics in steady-state experiments.
(10) The Km for p=cresol 3.6 micron and for p=hydroxybenzyl alcohol, 15 micron.
(11) An additional metabolite, alpha, alpha, alpha-trifluoro-amino-5-nitro-p-cresol (G), accounts for 27% of urine 14C.
(12) Both hippuricuria and o-cresoluria end-of-work-shift values, corrected for creatinine and specific gravity, were significantly related to the mean daily environmental concentration of toluene, the correlation being weaker for o-cresol.
(13) It was concluded, therefore, that metabolically derived cresols are plausible candidates for the neuroexcitatory properties of toluene.
(14) An amperometric biosensor for determination of phenol, cresol, benzoate and 2-methyl-4-chlorophenol using Rhodococcus-cells and enzyme extracts of Rhodococcus has been developed.
(15) p-Cresol may therefore prove more sensitive than indican as an indicator of altered microbial metabolism due to saccharin.
(16) (+)-2,5-Dihydro-4-methyl- and (+)-2,5-dihydro-2-methyl-5-oxo-furan-2-acetic acid were formed in high yield as dead-end catabolites from cooxidation of cresoles.
(17) Phenol and m-cresol were inducers of meta pathway enzymatic activity.
(18) Gas-phase deuterium exchange studies (employing N2H3-DCI MS) of the isolated phenylthiohydantoin (Pth) derivatives of modified residue 13 demonstrate that p-cresol forms two chemically distinct covalent adducts and support the hypothesis that a (4-hydroxyphenyl)methyl radical is generated during catalysis.
(19) In the 4-chloro-m-cresol group, a slight elevation of erythrocytic porphyrins was seen, but the difference was not statistically significant.
(20) Ridgeback prawns formed beta-D-glucosides in small quantities, preferring conjugation of p-nitrophenol and 4-nitro-m-cresol to form sulphates and unknown conjugates through a unique conjugation pathway.
Isomeric
Definition:
(a.) Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often used with with. Specif.: (a) Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, but with different molecular weights; as, acetylene and benzine are isomeric (polymeric) with each other in this sense. See Polymeric. (b) Metameric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but which a different structure or arrangement of the ultimate parts; as, ethyl alcohol and methyl ether are isomeric (metameric) with each other in this sense. See Metameric.
Example Sentences:
(1) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(2) This is interpreted to mean that the release of fructose from the central complex is faster than the isomerization of the E-NADH complex.
(3) The optical and oxygen binding properties of the reconstituted myoglobins containing two isomeric monoformyl-monovinylhemins were found to be different.
(4) Line broadening detected in several of the high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectra was attributed to cis-trans isomerization.
(5) Two new isomeric delta-lactones 2 and 3 have been isolated from the marine fungus Helicascus kanaloanus (ATCC 18591).
(6) Two isomeric hydrolysis products of this compound with only three 3(R)-hydroxymyristic acid moieties attached to the disaccharide-1-phosphate were also identified.
(7) Studies on the metabolism of nicotine by rabbit liver microsomal fractions in the presence of 0.01 M sodium cyanide have led to the characterization of two isomeric cyanonicotine compounds.
(8) Kinetic methods are outlined for the distinction between two pathways of substrate binding, which include an isomerization either of the free enzyme or of the enzyme-substrate complex.
(9) In the case of H101S, a mutant protein with measurable isomerizing activity, substrate binding with novel fluorescent properties was observed, possibly the bound pyranose form of xylose under steady-state conditions.
(10) There were consistent isomeric preferences for the R(-) configuration of both DA analogs in stimulating adenylate cyclase (D-1 sites) and in competing for high affinity binding of 3H-spiroperidol (D-2 sites) and of 3H-ADTN (DA agonist binding sites) in striatal tissue, with lesser isomeric differences in the limbic tissue.
(11) Oligosaccharides 3 and 4 and oligosaccharides 5 and 6 were isolated as unresolved isomeric mixtures in fractions B3a and B4a, respectively.
(12) Subsequent fractionation of the original compound into its two isomeric forms resulted in the identification of the isomer primarily responsible for this convulsive activity.
(13) However, the 1500 K simulation produced higher energy structures, even after minimization; in addition, this highest temperature run had many cis-trans peptide isomerizations.
(14) From model compound data, it is shown that the expected rate for isomerism is in satisfactory agreement with the rates actually observed for protein folding.
(15) Re-analysis of PCP and PCP-Na samples with high PCDD contents on a high-resolution glass capillary column showed the presence of 3 hexa- and the 2 heptachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins with nearly constant isomeric ratios.
(16) Such a genomic structure does not appear to have been reported amongst the herpesviruses--all the genomes that do not isomerize either have repeat structures only at the termini, or if present internally, have only direct repeats.
(17) The isomeric N,N-dimethyl-4,5-diphenyl-1H-pyrazole-1-propanamine was completely inactive in the primary antidepressant screens.
(18) Correspondingly, in the case of the histidine-peptides examined only mixtures of the cyclic isomeric compounds were isolated and structurally characterized by 1H-NMR analysis.
(19) In contrast to the biphasic unfolding of the wild-type nuclease, the unfolding of the mutant is represented by a single-phase reaction, indicating that the biphasic unfolding for the wild-type protein is caused by cis-trans isomerization about the prolyl peptide bond in the native state.
(20) In order to prepare a completely light-stable rhodopsin, we have synthesized an analog, II, of 11-cis retinal in which isomerization at the C11-C12 cis-double bond is blocked by formation of a cyclohexene ring from the C10 to C13-methyl.