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Carbohydrate Protease Conjugates: Stabilized Proteases for Peptide Synthesis
Wartchow, Charles A.,Wang, Peng,Bednarski, Mark D.,Callstrom, Matthew R.
, p. 2216 - 2226 (2007/10/02)
The synthesis of oligopeptides using stable carbohydrate protease conjugates (CPCs) was examined in acetonitrile solvent systems.CPC was used for the preparation of peptides containing histidine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan in the P1 position in 60-93percent yield.The CPC was used to synthesize peptides containing both hydrophilic and hydrophobic amino acids.The P2 specificity of papain for aromatic residues was utilized for the 2 + 3 coupling of Z-Tyr-Gly-OMe to H2N-Gly-Phe-Leu-OH to generate the leucine enkephalin derivative in 79percent yield.Although papain is nonspecific for the hydrolysis of N-benzyloxycarbonyl amino acid methyl esters in aqueous solution, the rates of synthesis for these derivatives with nucleophile leucine tert-butyl ester differed by nearly 2 orders of magnitude.CPC was used to prepare the aspartame precursor Z-Asp-Phe-OMe in 90percent yield.The increased stability of CPCs prepared from periodate-modified poly(2-methacrylamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose), poly(2-methacrylamido-2-deoxy-D-galactose), and poly(5-methacrylamido-5-deoxy-D-ribose), carbohydrate materials designed to increase the aldehyde concentration in aqueous solution, suggests that the stability of CPCs is directly related to the aldehyde concentration of the carbohydrate material.Periodate oxidation of poly(2-methacrylamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose) followed by covalent attachment to α-chymotrypsin gave a CPC with catalytic activity in potassium phosphate buffer at 90 deg C for 2 h.
NITROSATION OF PEPTIDE BONDS. CLEAVAGE OF NITROSATED PEPTIDES BY PYRROLIDINE AND α-AMINO ESTERS
Garcia, Jordi,Gonzalez, Javier,Segura, Ramon,Vilarrasa, Jaume
, p. 3121 - 3128 (2007/10/02)
The reaction of several α-amino acids and peptides (containing Gly, L-Ala, L-Leu, L- or DL-Phe, and/or L- or D-Val) with air-diluted nitrogen oxides has been studied to roughly mimic the N-nitrosation of peptide bonds that the contaminated urban air might produce in pulmonary tissues. Most N-protected α-amino acids give practically quantitative yields of N-nitroso derivatives. N-Protected dipeptides afford either dinitrosated peptides, mixtures of di- and mononitrosated compounds, selectively mononitrosated products, or no reaction at all, depending mainly on steric effects. The same trends are observed for some higher peptides.The (poly)nitrosated peptides, which retain the chirality of the starting materials, have been characterized by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy and are cleaved by pyrrolidine and amino esters under mild conditions to give (new) amides or peptides plus diazo derivatives.
