Page 2626. The second sentence of the last paragraph in the section, Model of Quinoline Binding to the Crystal Faces of -Hematin, "During this process a quinoline molecule may also bind to a -hematin molecular dimer before the latter is adsorbed on a crystal surface, as proposed by Sullivan and Chong, 29 but which has a kinetic disadvantage...", is to be replaced by the following:During this process a quinoline molecule may also bind to a free heme (monomer or dimer), as proposed by O'Neill et al. (O'Neill, P. M.; Willock, D. J.; Hawley, S. R.; Bray, P. B.; Storr, R. C.; Ward, S. A.; Park, B. K. J. Med. Chem. 1997, 40, 437-448) and Sullivan and Chong, 29 before a drug-heme complex may be adsorbed onto the crystal surface. However, in the event of such a quinoline-dimer complexation, it would incur a kinetic disadvantage...
The nucleation of malaria pigment (hemozoin) and β-hematin crystals (synthetic hemozoin) can be promoted by lipid molecules. To determine the orientation of β-hematin crystals nucleated by 1-myristoyl-glycerol (MMG) on the water surface, we undertook a grazing incidence synchrotron X-ray diffraction and X-ray reflectivity study. Our results indicate that premixed R-hematin with MMG yielded β-hematin nanocrystals oriented with the {100} face parallel to water surface, which we explain insofar that the spreading solution allows MMG molecular aggregation into clusters exposing OH groups and oxygen lone-pair electrons that interact with hematin molecules. Hematin molecules, which did not interact with MMG clusters, do not yield β-hematin, but rather an unknown crystalline phase. Independently, evidence is presented that self-assembled functionalized alkanethiol monolayers (SAMs) exposing OH groups induce β-hematin nucleation primarily via its {100} face, whereas those exposing CH 3 induce nucleation of either the {100} or {010} face, preferentially {010}. The results can be explained in terms of a difference in affinity of the SAMs to these two crystal faces. The two sets of β-hematin nucleation experiments, conducted under different conditions, strengthen the notion that MMG molecules, mimicking a digestive vacuole lipid surface, induce, via stereospecific interactions, oriented nucleation of β-hematin at the {100} face.
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