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  • 101
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 46-58 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Various bifunctional amino-protecting groups such as the phthaloyl, succinyl, and glutaryl group were investigated as potential linker molecules for attachment to solid-support materials. Pentane-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid 1,3-anhydride (16) offered the best properties and reacted with the amino groups of differently sugar-protected adenosine (see 20 and 22), cytidine (see 29), and guanosine derivatives (see 32) to the corresponding 2-(2-carboxyethyl)glutaryl derivatives 23, 24, 30, and 33. The usefulness of the new linker-type molecules was demonstrated by the solid-support synthesis of the potentially antivirally active 3′-deoxyadenylyl-(2′-5′)-2′-adenylic acid 2′-{2-[(adenin-9-yl)methoxy]ethyl} ester (38) starting from the 2′-end with N6,N6-[2-(2-carboxyethyl)glutaryl]-9-{{2-[(4,4′-dimethoxytrityl)ethoxy]methyl}adenine (12).
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  • 102
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 85-92 
    ISSN: 0018-019X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: An efficient stereocontrolled synthesis of (S)-N-Cbz-serine (Cbz = benzyloxycarbonyl; 12) and of its (R)-enantiomer is reported. Kinetic resolution of the easily available racemic 3-(hydroxymethyl)-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ones is performed in the key step via acetylation by the immobilized Mucor miehei lipase (Lipozyme IM) at 60°. This method is characterized by high enantiomer purity (ee's ges; 99%) of the intermediary alcohols (+)-8 and (+)-9 and acetates (-)-10 and (-)-11, as well as of the final products (S)- and (R)-N-Cbz-serine, simple recycling of the biocatalyst, complete recovery of 2-aminobenzophenones (3 and 4) and their recycling into production of 1,4-benzodiazepines, and possibility to selectively racemize ‘wrong’ enantiomers of the alcohols 8 and 9 in the presence of Amberlite CG 400.
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  • 103
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 163-173 
    ISSN: 0018-019X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: The fate of an insect juvenile hormone analog applied to the insect body of the flesh fly (Sarcophaga bullata) or the tsetse fly (Glossina palpalis), respectively, was studied using three different radiolabeled positions in the parent biologically active compound 1. Several metabolites were found and analyzed. A mechanism of degradation of the applied molecule was designed using a combination of several radioanalytical methods. A unique monitoring of the applied compound and its metabolites was provided, based on the different radiolabeling of the structure (cf. 1a-1c), and established their fate in an insect body during a 10-day experiment. A 14C and 3H radiolabeling, respectively, was employed to synthesize three different radiolabeled forms 1a-1c derived from the parent non-labeled 1. A combination of three different ways of radiolabeling resulted in an advantage in tracing the metabolic pathway of degradation of the employed compound 1 in its radiolabeled forms 1a-1c.
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  • 104
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 187-187 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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  • 105
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    Notes: Previous work has indicated orbital-symmetry effects upon forward electron transfer in bimolecular systems, with magnitude similar to that encountered in rigid monomolecular systems. The present work, which employs back electron transfer, supports and extends these earlier findings.
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  • 106
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 695-717 
    ISSN: 0018-019X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: According to ab-initio calculations, the CF…HO H-bond in 1,3-diaxial 3-fluorocyclohexanol is characterized by d(F…H) = 2.08 Å, and ∠ (F…H—O) = 138°, and by ΔE between 1.2 and 4.1 kcal/mol, depending upon the reference system. Relative to the OH stretching frequency of axial cyclohexanol, the OH stretching frequency of 1,3-diaxial 3-fluorocyclohexanol is shifted by Δω = 7 cm-1. The rigid fluoro diols D-4 and L-4 were prepared from tetrahydroxy-p-benzoquinone in 11 steps and 1% overall yield. The IR spectrum of 4 in CCl4 soln. is characterized by Δν = 7 cm-1 for the axial and Δν = 44 cm-1 for the equatorial OH group. A relatively strong intramolecular CF…HO bond of 4 in CCl4 is evidenced by the large through-space coupling 5J(F,HO) of 9.3 Hz. Nevertheless, this FHO bond is disrupted in ethereal solvents, while the bifurcated O…HO bond subsists. In CCl4, the carbene generated from the glucosylidene-derived diazirine 5 reacted more rapidly with the axial OH group of D-4 and L-4 than with the equatorial one. This regioselectivity is in keeping with the weaker H-bond of the axial OH group. The regioselectivity is lower in ethers, but its solvent dependence does not parallel solvent basicity. This is not satisfactorily explained by the differential interaction of the ether solvents with the axial and equatorial OH groups, as evidenced by the solvent dependence of their chemical shift, but must also reflect the different interaction of the solvents with the carbene derived from 5, leading to ylides. The lower solvent dependence of the anomeric selectivity for the glycosidation of the equatorial OH group is a consequence of the coordination of the intermediate oxycarbenium ion with O—C(1) and O—C(3) rather than with the solvent. Under conditions of competitive glycosylation in CCl4, the fluoro alcohol D-22 reacted more slowly than the alcohol L-24, evidencing the intramolecular F…HO H-bond.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 40-45 
    ISSN: 0018-019X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Khusimone (1), one of the main odor-donating compounds of vetiver oil, is subject of the following study on structure/odor relationship. The omittance of the methano bridge of the tricyclic khusimone should lead to the bicyclic partial structure (-)-2. Unexpectedly, (-)-2 could not be obtained since epimerization favored (-)-16. The stereochemical key step of the synthesis of the hydrazulene nucleus is based on a highly diastereoselective conjugate addition to a chiral oxocyclopent-1-ene-1-carboxylate.
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  • 108
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: A convenient preparation of (1R,2S,3R,4S)-3-(neopentyloxy)isoborneol (= (1R,2S,3R,4S)-3-(2,2-dimethyl-propoxy)-1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-ol; 1a), a valuable chiral auxiliary, is described. The synthesis involves six steps starting from the readily available camphorquinone (5) and gives 1a in 48% overall yield. The key step is the chemoselective hydrolysis of the less hindered 1,3-dioxolane moiety in the camphorquinone di-acetal 4.
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  • 109
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: A novel general synthesis of 2,4,5-tri- and 2,4,5,6-tetrasubstituted pyrimidines 5a-d and 7a, e, f, g by condensation of thiouronium salts of type 3 with (ethoxymethylidene)malononitrile (4) and [bis(methylthio)methylidene]malononitrile (6), respectively, was first established in solution (Scheme 1) and successfully transferred onto solid support by using the polymer-bound thiouronium salt 11 (Scheme 3). Further investigations were directed toward a multidirectional cleavage procedure of the 2-(alkylsulfinyl) intermediates, obtained from the 2-(alkylthio)pyrimidines 7a (Scheme 2) or 12 and 14 (Schemes 3 and 4), with different nucleophiles to form highly substituted pyrimidines. In addition, fused-heterocycle derivatives 22a--h, 24a-c, and 26a-e were generated in good-to-excellent yields by condensation of 7a, e, h with versatile isocyanates and isothiocyanates, with subsequent alkylation (Scheme 5).
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  • 110
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 661-669 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Introduction of the non-complexing chiral (S)-2-methylbutoxy substituent close to the complexing site of a bis[(bipyridinyl)methoxy]calixarene podand resulted in the induction of an enantiomeric excess of ca. 30 % in the corresponding chiral CuI complex. Structural investigations by high-resolution NMR studies led us to propose the left-handed prohelical [CuI(bpy)2] substructure for the major enantiomer.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 792-792 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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  • 112
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 812-827 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: The insecticidal polyether antibiotic X-206 (1) complexes potassium ions using nearly all of its O-atoms either for binding to the metal ion or for participation in a H-bonding network which helps to hold X-206 in the ionophoric tertiary structure. The group OH—C(22) is not involved in these processes. It was supposed that derivatization of this group would not affect the ionophoric properties and would produce insecticidally active compounds. The chemistry leading to selective modification of OH—C(22) via the intermediate 6 was developed. The potassium-binding properties and insecticidal activities of the MeCOO—C(22) and MeO—C(22) compounds 3 and 11, respectively, confirmed that derivatization of the peripheral OH—C(22) was a valid strategy for the synthesis of biologically active compounds.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 865-880 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: The lactam 21 was obtained in an overall yield of 72% from the hydroxy amide 16 by oxidation with the Dess-Martin periodinane, acid-catalysed isomerization of the oxidation products in toluene, whereupon 18/19 precipitated, and reductive dehydroxylation of 18/19 (Et3SiH/BF3 · OEt2; Scheme 1). The amide 16 was obtained by ammonolysis of the N-acetylglucosamine-derived lactone 15. Depending on the oxidation method, 16 yielded the keto amide 17, the hydroxy lactams 18/19, and the pyrrolidinecarboxamide 20 in widely different proportions. The pyrrolidinecarboxamide 20 was not reduced under the conditions of the reductive dehydroxylation. Hydrogenolysis of the benzyl-protected lactam 21 gave the trihydroxy lactam 22, while reduction with NaBH4/BF3 · OEt2 led to the 2-acetamidopiperidine derivative 24 (Scheme 2). Selective (tert-butoxy)carbonylation of the lactam 21 (→ 25) followed by NaBH4 reduction and acid-catalysed solvolysis in EtOH led to the α-ethoxycarbamates 28/29. Similarly, (tert-butoxy) carbonylation of 1 (→ 31) followed by reduction to 32/33 and glycosidation yielded the ethoxycarbamate 34. Treatment of the GlcNAc-derived ethyl glycosides 28/29 with Me3SiCN/BF3 · OEt2 gave the equatorial amino nitrile 30. Under similar conditions, the Glc-derived glycoside 34 led to the iminooxazolidinone 35. In the presence of a larger proportion of Me3SiCN at 5°, 34 was transformed into the axial, selectively monodebenzylated amino nitrile 36.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 889-901 
    ISSN: 0018-019X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: The reaction of 2-(trimethylsilyl)thiazole (2-TST) with several ketones was tested in the presence or absence of aldehydes. The keto aldehyde 5 (Scheme 2) was prepared from 1 via the hydroxy aldehyde 4 in 3 steps. It reacted with 2-TST to give, after desilylation and acetylation, the bis-thiazole 6. The ketone 11, obtained from 4 in 3 steps, reacted with 2-TST to give, after desilylation, 12. The ketofuranose 17 (Scheme 3) reacted with 2-TST to yield exclusively the more stable D-gluco epimer 18. The reaction of the ketone 11 (Scheme 2) with 2-TST was faster in the presence of 1 equiv. of the keto aldehyde 5, suggesting that an aldehyde promotes the indirect and intermolecular addition of 2-TST to a ketone. We have studied the effect of several aldehydes on the rate of the reaction of the ketones 11 and 17 with 2-TST at different temperatures and at different concentrations of the ketones and of the aldehydes. Electrophilic aldehydes, and particularly 2-fluorobenzaldehyde (0.1 equiv.), promote the addition of 2-TST to electrophilic ketones.
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  • 115
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: The synthesis of the Fmoc-protected amino acid 2 is presented. First attempts of amide-bond formation to the homodimer 4 in solution showed only poor coupling yields indicative for the low reactivity of the amino and carboxy groups in the building blocks 1 and 2, respectively (Scheme 1). Best coupling yields were found using dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) without any additive. The oligomerization of building block 2 adopting the Fmoc ((9H-fluoren-9-ylmethoxy)carbonyl) solid-phase synthesis yielded a mixture of N-terminal-modified distamycin-NA derivatives. By combined HPLC and MALDI-TOF-MS analysis, the N-terminal functional groups could be identified as acetamide and N,N-dimethylformamidine functions, arising from coupling of the N-terminus of the growing chain with residual AcOH or DCC-activated solvent DMF. An improved preparation of building block 2 and coupling protocol led to the prevention of the N-terminal acetylation. However, ‘amidination’ could not be circumvented. A thus isolated tetramer of 2, containing a lysine unit at the C-terminus and a N,N-dimethylformamidine-modified N-terminus, not unexpectedly, showed no complementary base pairing to DNA and RNA, as determined by standard UV-melting-curve analysis.
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  • 116
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    Notes: (S)-4,4,4-Trifluoro-3-hydroxybutanoic acid was used as a starting material for the synthesis of dendritic branches (16-21, 30-32) which were attached to a chiral triol (6 or ent-6), derived from (R)-3-hydroxybutanoic acid, to give CF3-substituted dendrimers (33-36, 38-40) and dendritic compounds (37) of 1st and 2nd generation. The key steps in these syntheses are diastereoselective aldol additions of dioxanone enolates (building blocks and intermediates 6-15, 22, 23, and 25-28) and Williamson etherifications of benzylic-branch bromides with triols (intermediates and products 16-21, 28, and 30-40). The surfaces of the dendrimers are covered with MeO (33-35, 38-40) or allyloxy groups (36 and 37). The new dendrimers are characterized by NMR and mass spectroscopy. 19F-NMR Signals of the CF3 groups reveal constitutional heterotopicities caused by substituents which are separated from the F-nuclei by up to 15 bonds (through a 1,1′-biphenyl-4,4′-diyl spacer!) (Fig. 6).
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  • 117
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    Notes: An explanation for the very high diastereoselectivity observed for the reactions of carbonyl-substituted (arylsulfinyl)methyl radicals is presented, based on experimental results and semiempirical calculations. The influence of dipole-dipole interactions, allylic 1,3-strain (A1,3 strain), allylic 1,2-strain (A1,2 strain), and coulombic interactions is discussed based on stereoselectivities observed with (alkoxycarbonyl)-, cyano-, and aryl-substituted (arylsulfinyl)methyl radicals. In the second part, the effect of solvents and Lewis acids on the stereoselectivity of reactions of (arylsulfinyl)- and (alkylsulfinyl)benzyl radicals has been examined.
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  • 118
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1070-1076 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: Compounds 6-13 were prepared starting from 1-(triphenlymethyl)-protected 1H-imidazoles 14 and 15 in several steps. Lithiation with BuLi in THF followed by reaction with (triphenylmethoxy)acetaldehyde (16) afforded 17 and 18, respectively. O-Methylation of 17 and 18 gave diethers 19 and 20, respectively. The N- and O-trityl protecting groups of 17-20 were cleaved by acid treatment to give deprotected compounds 21-24. Acylation with equimolar amounts (for mono- or di-O-acylation) of the corresponding acyl chlorides yielded 1H-imidazoles 6-13. Compounds 7, 8, 10, and 11 exhibited moderate protein kinase C inhibition.
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  • 119
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    Notes: The indolomorphinans 4-7 were prepared from their corresponding morphinan-6-one derivatives 8-11 via Fischer indole synthesis. Compounds 4 and 5 exhibited higher antagonist potency at δ opioid receptors in the mouse vas deferens preparation than the reference drug HS 378 (2), while compounds 6 and 7 were less potent.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1088-1094 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: 8-Fluoro-6-(methoxymethoxy)quinoline (1) was synthesized, and the reactivity of 1 against organolithium compounds was studied under different reaction conditions. With BuLi, directed ortho-metalation (DoM) was accompanied by 1,2-addition to the C=N bond. 1,2-Addition was exclusively observed with t-BuLi. Selective ortho-metalation was achieved with MeLi (Table). Based on these findings, a short and high-yielding synthesis of the highly functionalized quinolines 12a-c was developed.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1105-1116 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: The new derivatives 7a-c, of vitamin B12, with a peripheral tris(oxyethylene) chain linked to the corrin ring by an amide or ester group, are prepared, and their ligand-exchange reactions are investigated. Upon reduction of the aqua-cyano complexes 8a-c with NaBH4, cleavage of the ‘outer’ ester and amide group is observed.
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  • 122
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    Notes: Investigation of the inhibition of δ-chymotrypsin with the four novel, optically active, axially and equatorially substituted cis-3-(2,4-dinitrophenoxy)-2,4-dioxa-3λ5-phosphabicyclo[4.4.0]decan-3-ones (= 3-(2,4-dinitrophenoxy)hexahydro-4H-1,3,2-benzodioxaphosphorin 2-oxides) showed only the equatorially substituted enantiomer (-)-4b to be an irreversible inhibitor of the enzyme, and (-)-4b at pH 7.8 revealed a quickly rising resonance at -2.49 ppm assigned to the hydrolysis product 8 and later, while inhibition proceeded, a second one at -4.08 ppm. attributed to the δ-chymotrypsin adduct 7 (Scheme 3). Comparision of the latter signal with the 31P-NMR chemical shifts of the covalent phosphoserine model compounds (-)-6a (-5.67 ppm, axial substitution) and (+)-6b (-4.02 ppm, equatorial substitution) suggests that the inhibition proceeded via neat retention of the configuration at the P-atom of (-)-4b yielding the equatorially substituted covalent Ser195 adduct 7.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1139-1155 
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    Notes: The synthesis of 8-azaadenosine (1a; z8A) has been performed by SnCl4-catalyzed glycosylation of 8-azaadenine (4) with 1,2,3,5-tetra-O-acetyl-β-D-ribofuranose (5), followed by the separation of the regioisomers 6 and 7 and subsequent deacetylation. The ribonucleoside 1a as well as its 2′-deoxy derivative 1b (z8Ad) were converted into oligonucleotide building blocks-the phosphonate 2 as well as the phosphoramidites 3 and 19. They were used to prepare the oligoribonucleotide (z8A-U)6 and oligodeoxyribonucleotides. The Tm values and the thermodynamic data of duplex formation of the modified duplexes showed no significant changes compared to those containing Ad or A residues. This indicates that the stereoelectronic effect of the 8-azaadenine base which was found for the monomeric nucleoside has only a minor influence on the duplex stability.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1156-1180 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: Short, dye-labeled oligonucleotides have been used as primers in template-controlled polymerization reactions of RNA. The synthesis of appropriate acridine derivatives and their attachments to nucleic acids is described. In the nonenzymatic oligomerization of 2-methyl-1H-imidazole-activated guanosine 5′-monophosphate, two observations deserve special notice: (1) reaction rates are almost unchanged by variations of the Na+ concentration; (2) the conformational type of the primer-template duplex (A vs. B) has considerable influence on the rates and yields of RNA oligomerization. When the incorporation of cytidine was studied in the presence of 1M Na+ or K+, the process was almost inhibited by quadruplex formation of the oligo-dG template. However, if these cations were omitted, an efficient primer extension could be observed using template concentrations as high as 100 μM. The chances for nonenzymatic self-replication of RNA thus might be distinctly better than previously assumed.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1207-1214 
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    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: The reaction of ω-keto amides with Lawesson's reagent (LR: 2,4-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,2,4-dithiadiphosphetane 2,4-disulfide) is described. Treatment of 3-keto amides (2-acylacetamides) 1 with LR gave the corresponding 3-keto thioamides 2, along with 1,2-dithiole-3-thiones 3. Treatment of 4-keto amides, 3-acyl propionamides 5, with LR yielded five-membered heterocycles, pyrroles 6 and/or 2-aminothiophenes 7. 5-Keto amides, 3-benzoyl butyramides 8, reacted with LR to give dihydrothiopyran-2-thione 9 as the sole product, but in low yield. 2-Acylbenzamides 10 also reacted with LR to afford 3-mercaptoisoindolin-2-ones 11 or dihydroisobenzothiophene-1-thiones 12.
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  • 126
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    Notes: A novel and more efficient synthesis of 14-alkoxy-substituted indolo- and benzofuro-morphinans in three steps starting from either naltrindole (1) or naltriben (2), using methoxymethyl or silyl protecting groups, is reported. The 14-O-alkyl group is introduced at the penultimate step of the procedure. This is an additional advantage of the described procedure since the late introduction of the 14-O-alkyl group makes it much easier to produce a greater diversity of 14-alkoxy derivatives in this series of δ opioid receptor antagonists. Thus, compounds 14-19, 20-25, and 27-29 were synthesized.
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    Notes: Variously β-substituted (2R)-N-[(E)-α,β-enoyl]bornane-10,2-sultams were oxidized with OsO4/4-methylmorpholine 4-oxide in a highly stereoselective manner. In all cases, the attack occurred on the C(α)-re face. The absolute configurations of all products were determined by chemical correlation. Mechanistic considerations about the reactive conformation as well as fully refined X-ray crystal structures of the dihydroxylated products are discussed. New neutral conditions for sultam acylation, applicable to the preparation of the taxol and Taxotere® C(13) side chain as well as of Cardizem® and chloramphenicol precursors, are also presented.
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    Notes: α-Bromination of 9-acetoxy rubanone 2 and subsequent reaction with secondary amines gave bicyclic α-amino ketones as a kinetic product and a 4-oxa-1-azatwistan-2-one 6 under thermodynamic conditions. This two-step procedure represents a concise 1,2-carbonyl transposition and provides a short route to lactam alkaloids.
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    Notes: Macrocyclic [4n + 2]-Hückel Aromatic Systems up to n = 9 and [4n] Antiaromatic Systems up to n = 10: Homologous Sequences from Tetraepoxy[24]annulene(2.0.2.0) to Tetraepoxy[40]annulene(12.0.12.0) and from the ‘Tetraoxa[22]porphyrin(2.0.2.0)-’ to the ‘Tetraoxa[38]porphyrin(12.0.12.0’-Dication1)2)Tetraepoxy[32]annulene(8.0.8.0) 3, tetraepoxy[36]annulene(10.0.10.0) 4, and tetraepoxy[40]annulene(12.0.12.0) 5 are synthesized and oxidized to give the ‘tetraoxa[30]-’, ‘tetraoxa[34]-’, and ‘tetraoxa[38]porphyrin’ dications 8-10. The annulenes as well as the ‘porphyrins’ are mixtures of at least two different configurational isomers, which can be analyzed by 1H-NMR techniques. Together with systems described already earlier, a complete homologous sequence from tetraepoxy[24]annulene(2.0.2.0) to tetraepoxy[40]annulene(12.1.12.0) and from ‘tetraoxa[22]porphyrin(2.0.2.0)’ to ‘tetraoxa[38]porphyrin(12.0.12.0)’ dications are available for the first time. The UV/VIS-absorptionmaxima in the annulene series are shifted to longer wavelengths with an increment of 12 nm per additional C=C bonds, and the Δδ values of the 1H-NMR spectra demonstrate a decreasing paratropic character (Δδ = 5.97 (1), 2.80 (3), and 4.23 ppm (4). The averaged λmax values of the Soret bands of the ‘tetraoxaporphyrin’ dications show a linear bathochromic shift with an increment Δδ of 58 nm per two additional double bonds, the absorptions of the most intensive Q-bands also increase linearly with an increment of ca. 160 nm. The Δδ values of the 1H-NMR spectra of the ‘tetraoxaporphyrin’ dications are increasing with the ring size (Δδ = 24.04 (7a) to 25.17 (9a) ppm), respectively, decreasing (Δδ = 21.55 (6) to 21.50 (9b) ppm) with a small maximum of 22.60 ppm for 7b, depending on the configuration of the isomers. The results confirm the antiaromatic character of the annulenes with up to 40π electrons and the aromatic character of the ‘tetraoxaporphyrin’ dications with up to 38π electrons.
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    Notes: A broad variety of new acyclic vinyl ethers (see 6-41) have been synthesized via the vinyl-interchange reaction of ethyl vinyl ether at room temperature using mercury(II) trifluoroacetate as a highly efficient catalyst. The appropriate vinyl ethers were reacted under acidic conditions with 3′,5′-O-silyl-protected uridine 42 to the corresponding 2′-O-(1-alkoxyethyl) derivatives 43-83 which gave, on desilylation of F- ions, in high yields the uridine-2′-O-acetal derivatives 84-124. The relative stabilities of the newly synthesized compounds under acidic and basic conditions were determined using TLC and HPLC techniques. Protected protecting groups offer the best properties for oligoribonucleotide syntheses. Interestingly, the very acid-stable acetals of the β-substituted ethyl-type 118-121 and 123 can be cleaved by a β-elimination process providing a series of base-labile acetals of potential synthetic value.
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    Notes: Enantioselectivity of acetylation by vinyl acetate/AcOEt catalyzed by immobilized Candida antarctica lipase (Novozym 435) is studied for rac-3-(hydroxymethyl)-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ones 7, 9, 14 (n = 1; number of CH2 groups in the chain at C(3)), 20 (n = 2), and for prochiral 3,3-bis(hydroxymethyl) derivative 16. Enantiomeric excess (ee [%]) is correlated with conformational properties of substrates (relative conformation, energy difference between two boat-like ground-state conformations, ring-inversion barrier) as determined by DNMR and MM2 calculations. (3S)-Enantiomers of acetates (+)-8, (+)-10, (+)-15, and (+)-21 were preferentially formed. In the case of the acetate (-)-17 (ee 90.2%), formation of the (3R)-enantiomer was favored. C(3)—OH Group with hemiaminal-like character in rac-3 (n = 0) cannot be acetylated by any of 23 tested lipases and four esterases. For racemic alcohols 7, 9, 14, and 20, preferred acetylationof the (3S)-enantiomers, present in solution in absolute (M)-conformation, was established; only in prochiral diol 16 (n = 1) the CH2OH group in the (pro-R)-position is prevalently acetylated, presumably due to the binding to the enzyme, in absolute (P)-conformation. Temperature dependence of enantioselectivity revealed inverse correlation of the E value of rac-9, and ee values for prochiral 16, with T[K], indicating prevalent contribution of the enthalpy term to enantioselection. Absolute conformation (M/P) and absolute configuration at C(3) of all products was determined by combining CD and 1H-NMR data.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 35-39 
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    Notes: In spite of the higher reactivity of styrene with respect to ethene for the alternating copolymerization with carbon monoxide, catalyzed by chiral (dihydrooxazole)(phosphino)palladium complexes, ethene is preferentially (and randomly) enchained in terpolymerization experiments; enantioface selection for styrene is comparably high in both copolymerization and terpolymerization processes.
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    Notes: The successful application of the Arndt-Eistert protocol starting from commercially available N-{[(9H-fluoren-9-yl)methoxy]carbonyl}-protected (Fmoc) α-amino acids leading to enantiomerically pure N-Fmoc-protected β-amino acids in only two steps and with high yield is reported.
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    Notes: 8,19-Dimethyl-tetraepoxy[22]annulen(2.1.2.1): The First Tetraepoxy-Bridged Aromatic[22]AnnuleneBy McMurry reaction of 5,5′-ethylidenebis[furan-2-carbaldehyde] (15), a syn/anti mixture 16 of (E,E)- and (Z,Z)-8,19-dihydro-8,19-dimethyl-tetraepoxy[22]annulene is obtained. The (E/E)-isomers 16 are the first rotation- ally active noncyclic conjugated macrocycles, where the (E)-ethenediyl moieties rotate around the connecting single bonds. The dihydro-tetraepoxy[22]annulenes 16 are dehydrogenated by (Ph3C)BF4 as well as by O2 to give the tetraepoxy[22]annulene 11. The spectroscopic data support the character of 11 as an aromatic, diatropic ring system, which is rather sensitive towards O2. In the oxidation mixture obtained from 11, beside polymeric products, two compounds 19 and 20 can be isolated, carrying one and two CHO groups, respectively, resulting by oxidation of one or both Me-groups but having retained the aromatic 22π system of 11.
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    Notes: Three double-decker cyclophane receptors, (±)-2, (±)-3, and (±)-4 with 11-13-Å deep hydrophobic cavities were prepared and their steroid-binding properties investigated in aqueous and methanolic solutions. Pd°-Catalyzed cross-coupling reactions were key steps in the construction of these novel macrotricyclic structures. In the synthesis of D2-symmetrical (±)-2, the double-decker precursor (±)-7 was obtained in 14% yield by fourfold Stille coupling of equimolar amounts of bis(tributylstannyl)acetylene with dibromocyclophane 5 (Scheme 1). For the preparation of the macrotricyclic precursor (±)-15 of D2-symmetrical (±)-3, diiodocylophane 12 was dialkynylated with Me3SiC≡CH to give 13 using the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction; subsequent alkyne deprotection yielded the diethynylated cyclophane 14, which was transformed in 42% yield into (±)-15 by Glaser-Hay macrocyclization (Scheme 2). The synthesis of the C2-symmetrical conical receptor (±)-4 was achieved via the macrotricyclic precursor (±)-25, which was prepared in 20% yield by the Hiyama cross-coupling reaction between the diiodo[6.1.6.1]paracyclophane 19 and the larger, dialkynylated cyclophane 17 (Scheme 4). Solid cholesterol was efficiently dissolved in water through complexation by (±)-2 and (±)-3, and the association constants of the formed 1:1 inclusion complexes were determined by solid-liquid extraction as Ka = 1.1 × 106 and 1.5 × 105 l mol-1, respectively (295 K) (Table 1). The steroid-binding properties of the three receptors were analyzed in detail by 1H-NMR binding titrations in CD3OD. Observed steroid-binding selectivities between the two structurally closely related cylindrical receptors (±)-2 and (±)-3 (Table 2) were explained by differences in cavity width and depth, which were revealed by computer modeling (Fig. 4). Receptor (±)-2, with two ethynediyl tethers linking the two cyclophanes, possesses a shallower cavity and, therefore, is specific for flatter steroids with a C(5)=C(6) bond, such as cholesterol. In contrast, receptor (±)-3, constructed with longer buta-1,3-diynediyl linkers, has a deeper and wider hydrophobic cavity and prefers fully saturated steroids with an aliphatic side chain, such as 5α-cholestane (Fig. 7). In the 1:1 inclusion complexes formed by the conical receptor (±)-4 (Table 3), testosterone or progesterone penetrate the binding site from the wider cavity side, and their flat A ring becomes incorporated into the narrower [6.1.6.1]paracyclophane moiety. In contrast, cholesterol penetrates (±)-4 with its hydrophobic side chain from the wider rim of the binding side. This way, the side chain is included into the narrower cavity section shaped by the smaller [6.1.6.1]paracyclophane, While the A ring protrudes with the OH group at C(3) into the solvent on the wider cavity side (Fig. 8). The molecular-recognition studies with the synthetic receptors (±)-2, (±)-3, and (±)-4 complement the X-ray investigations on biological steroid complexes in enhancing the understanding of the principles governing selective molecular recognition of steroids.
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    Notes: Methyl (E)-2-(acetylamino)-3-cyanoprop-2-enoate (2a), and its 2-benzoyl analog 2b ere prepared from the corresponding methyl (Z)-2-(acylamino)-3-(dimethylamino)propenoates 1 Multifunctional compounds 2 are versatile synthons for preparation of polysubstituted heterocyclic systems such as pyrroles 4, pyrimidines 5 and 6, pyridazines 7, pyrazoles 8, 9, and 11, and isoxazoles 10.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 251-267 
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    Notes: Oxy anions 3 generated from 1,2-dihydrocyclobutabenzen-1-ones 1 through addition of a charged nucleophile or from 1-hydroxy-1,2-dihydrocyclobutabenzenes 2 by deprotonation with base lead to stable products through distal and/or proximal cleavage of the strained four-membered ring via benzyl carbanion 4 and/or aryl carbanion 5. A systematic study of this process reveals the relative stability of the two isomeric carbanions 4 and 5 as a key factor in determining the course of the ring-cleavage reaction. While benzyl carbanions 4 can be trapped with carbon electrophiles, attempts at trapping aryl carbanions 5 with electrophiles other than H+ failed. In protic solvents, the magnesium salt of the tertiary alcohol 2 shows an increased rate of proximal cleavage as compared to its alkali salts. From this, we conclude that, in contrast to benzyl carbanions 4, free aryl carbanions 5 are of transient existence only. Proximal C,C-bond cleavage seems to occur either through protonation of 5 from a fast, reversible equilibrium 3⇌5 in which 3 strongly predominates, or in protic solvents possibly even through a rate-limiting protonation of 3 at the aromatic C-atom, bypassing free anion 5 altogether. Thus, additional factors other than just the relative stability of isomeric carbanions 4 and 5 are of importance in determining the regiochemistry of the base-induced C,C-bond cleavage in ketones 1 and in alcohols 2.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 317-323 
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    Notes: The decomposition of diazo ester 2b with chiral RhII catalysts proceeded via intramolecular aromatic carbenoid insertion to the racemic pyrrole derivative 5b in 72% yield. In contrast, the benzoylated precursor 16 afforded no ketorolac 1b when exposed to RhII. Methyl 2-diazo-4-phenylbutyrate (19), in turn, reacted, by 1,2-hydrogen migration rather than by aromatic substitution, to 20.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 330-341 
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    Notes: In this study, we compared the lipophilicity of O-glucuronides and their aglycones. Distribution coefficients (log D) and P values of neutral species (log P) were determined by centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC) in octanol/buffer systems. Two-phase potentiometry was also used to measure the log P value of some lipophilic solutes. The experimentally determined global influence of glucuronidation on lipophilicity, obtained as the difference (decrement) log P(glucuronide) - log P(aglycone), was found to be -1.30 ± 0.16 (n = 4) for glucuronides of alcohols (methyl, menthyl, neomenthyl, and chloramphenicol O-glucuronide). The mean decrement was -2.06 ± 0.31 (n = 9) for glucuronides of phenols (phenyl, p-nitrophenyl, 1-naphthyl, 6-bromo-2-naphthyl, 4-methylumbelliferyl, 3-coumarinyl, phenolphthalein, 4′-benzophenonyl O-glucuronide, and diflunisal phenolic glucuronide). For the acylglucuronide of diflunisal and its rearrangement isomers, the mean decrement was -1.80 ± 0.08 (n = 4; range -1.7 to -1.9). Differences in through-bond proximity effects as parametrized in the CLOGP algorithm seem to account for much of this difference. Conformational factors may also play a role, although it appears modest and unassessable for the glucuronides investigated here. The results imply that in vivo glucuronidation should have a stronger influence on the excretion of phenols than on that of alcohols.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 475-490 
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    Notes: To check if the strong inhibition of N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase by the tetrazole 8 and the imidazoles 9 and 10 correlates with the presence of a heteroatom corresponding to the glycosidic O-atom, we prepared the GlcNAc-derived pyrroles (tetrahydroindolizines) 18, 19, 27, 28, 34, and 35, lacking such a heteroatom. For this. the glucose-derived pyrroles 11-13 were treated with a Lewis acid in the presence of trimethylsilyl azide. Conditions of kinetic control favored the formation of the gluco-azides 14, 23, and 30, while thermodynamic control favoured the manno-azides 20, 29, and 36. Reduction of the azides 14, 20, 23, 30, and 36 by Pd/C-catalyzed hydrogenolysis or, better, with propanedithiol and Et3N, followed by acetylation or trifluoroacetylation and hydrogenolytic debenzylation, gave the deprotected acetamido- and trifluoroacetamido-pyrroles 18, 19, 22, 27, 28, 34, 35 40, and 41. As compared to the tetrazole 8 and the imidazole 9, the pyrroles 18, 19, 27, 28, 34, and 35 are only modest inhibitors of N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase from bovine kidney (Ki values between 10 and 75 μM). indicating the necessity of a heteroatom at the glycosidic position. Ki Values between 100 and 160 μM for the inhibition of N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase from jack beans were determined for the pyrroles 19, 34, and 35. The trifluoroacetamides inhibited both enzymes about twice as strongly as the corresponding acetamides.
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    Notes: Pirlindole is an antidepressant drug. It acts principally as reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase-A (RIMA) and appears relatively potent in comparison with reference drugs. Pirlindole possesses stereogenic center but is generally used as racemate. In this work, the first preparative resolution of its enantiomeric couple is described. Whereas selective crystallization of salts of chiral acid failed, two asymmetric synthetic pathways were also examined; however, without success. Finally separation and isolation of enantiomers of pirlindole was completed by using the derivatization method coupled with preparative HPLC. Optical purity of each isomer was determined by chiral HPLC. The specific rotation of each antipode was also determined.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 602-602 
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    Notes: The synthesis of new ‘bridged’ β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) ‘dimers’ 7-12 was successfully achieved by two one-pot reactions from β-CD (3) and 6A-azido-6A-deoxy-β-CD (4). The ‘phosphine imine’ reaction was shown to be a superior approach compared to the Mitsunobu reaction as coupling strategy for the preparation of these ‘dimers’. NMR Data, along with molecular-modelling calculations, suggest a ‘helical-like’ arrangement for the phenanthroline-diyl-linked ‘dimer’ derivative 9. Complexation properties of 9 were established by UV-VIS-spectrophotometric titration toward four metals. Among them CuII or EuIII ions were complexed selectively by 9, but no complexation occurred with LaIII and ZnII. In addition a specific and interesting esterase activity toward the phosphodiester bond of bis(4-nitrophenyl) phosphate anion was found in the case of the CuII complex of 9.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1117-1126 
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    Notes: Three new derivatives of vitamin B12 with a pyrrole head group attached to the corrin ring have been prepared. Ligand-exchange reactions and reduction provided reactive CoIII and CoII complexes. Their electro-chemical properties and their potential for fixation at the surface of electrodes by electropolymerization were studied.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1201-1206 
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    Notes: The kinetics of isomerization of deuterium and hydrogen oxoperoxonitrate, ONOOD and ONOOH, respectively, to trioxonitrate(1-), NO3-, and a deuteron or proton have been studied. Analysis of the pH-rate profiles result in a normal equilibrium isotope effect (KH/KD) of 3.3. The kinetic deuterium isotope effect for the isomerization reaction is 1.6 ± 0.2 between 5 and 55°. The activation enthalpies of isomerization of ONOOD and ONOOH are identical within the error of the measurement, 86.2 ± 0.5 and 86.5 ± 0.5 kJmol-1, respectively. A secondary kinetic isotope effect of 1.6 is compatible with a mechanism of isomerization where the terminal peroxide O-atom shifts to the N-atom.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1242-1253 
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    Notes: The acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of (3S,5R,6S,3′S,5′R)-5,6-epoxycapsanthin (5) led to (3S,5R,6R,3′S,5′R)-(7) and (3S,5R,6S,3′S,5′R)-capsokarpoxanthin (8). In addition, (3S,5R,8R,3′S,5′R)- (9), (3S,5R,8S,3′S,5′R)-capsochrome (10), and (3S,5R,6R,3′S,5′R)-3,6-epoxycapsanthin (6) afforded (3S,5S,6R,3′S,5′R)-capsokarpoxanthin (12) (3S,5S,8S,3′S,5′R)- (13) and (3S,5S,8R,3′S,5′S)-capsochrome (14) as well as (3S,5S,6R,3′S,5′R)-3,6-epoxyepicapsanthin (15). Compounds 5-15 were isolated in crystalline form and characterized by their UV/VIS, CD, 1H- and 13C-NMR, and mass spectra.
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    Notes: Blood-protein adducts are used as dosimeter for modifications of macromolecules in the target organs where the disease develops. The functional groups of cysteine, tyrosine, serine, lysine, tryptophan, histidine and N-terminal amino acids are potential reaction sites for isocyanates. Especially the N-terminal amino acids, valine and aspartic acid of hemoglobin and albumin, respectively, are reactive towards electrophilic xenobiotics. To develop methods for the quantification of such blood-protein adducts, we treated 4-chlorophenyl isocyanate (1) with the tripeptide L-valyl-glycyl-glycine (2a) and with single amino acids yielding N-[(4-chlorophenyl)carbamoyl]valyl-glycyl-glycine (3a), N-[(4-chlorophenyl)carbamoyl]valine (3b), N-[(4-chlorophenyl)carbamoyl]aspartic acid (3c), N-(4-chlorophenyl)carbamoyl glutamic acid (3d), N-acetyl-S-[(4-chlorophenyl)carbamoyl]cysteine (3e), and N-acetyl-O-[(4-chlorophenyl)carbamoyl]serine (3f), Nα-acetyl-Nε-[(4-chlorophenyl)carbamoyl]lysine (3g). For several chemicals, it was shown that blood-protein adducts are good dosimeters of exposure and dosimeters for the target dose. The hydrolysis of the N-terminal adducts of isocyanates release hydantoins which can be separated from the rest of the protein and analyzed using GC/MS or HPLC. This was achieved with 3a. The released hydantoin could be analyzed using GC/MS. We propose to analyze the N-terminal adducts of isocyanates with blood protein to distinguish between arenamine and arylisocyanate exposure.
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    Notes: The synthesis of 3H-naphtho[2,1-b]pyrans 9-21 linked to a thiophene moiety is described. Two different synthetic approaches were applied to prepare these novel functionalized compounds, and their spectrokinetic properties in solution are reported.
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    Notes: The synthesis of oligonucleotides containing 2′-deoxy-5-methylisocytidine and 2′-deoxyisoguanosine using phosphoramidite chemistry in solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis is described. Supporting previous observations, the N,N-diisobutylformamidine moiety was found to be a far superior protecting group than N-benzoyl for 2′-deoxy-5-methylisocytidine. 2′-Deoxy-N2-[(diisobutylamino)methylidene]-5′-(4,4′-dimethoxytityl)-5-methylisocytidine 3′-(2-cyanoethyl diisopropylphosphoramidite) (1c) incorporated multiple consecutive residues during a standard automated synthesis protocol with a coupling efficiency 〉 99% according to dimethoxytrityl release. Extending coupling times of the standard protocol to ≥ 600s using 2′-deoxy-N6-[(diisobutylamino)methylidene]-5′-O-(dimethoxytrityl)-O2-(diphenylcarbamoyl)isoguanosine, 3′-(2-cyanoethyl diisopropylphosphoramidite) (7e) led to successful incorporation of multiple consecutive 2′-deoxyisoguanosine bases with a coupling efficiency 〉 97% according to dimethoxytrityl release.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 845-852 
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    Notes: Studies towards the synthesis of a chiral primary α-phosphinoalkanamine 1a are reported. O-Activated. N-carbamate-protected phenylalaninol 3a did not undergo SN reaction with KPPh2: instead, after N-deprotonation, intramolecular substitution led to formation of the aziridine derivative 5a (Scheme 2). N-Phthalimido-protected, O-activated phenylalaninol 3b also underwent an intramolecular process on treatment with KPPh2, i.e., an unusual aryl-acyliminium cyclization furnishing the (epoxymethano)isoindolo[1,2-a]isoquinolinone 7 (Scheme 3). In a reaction with KPPh2, the N,N-dibenzyl-protected and activated phenylalaninol 3d finally yielded the intermolecular SN reaction product 2a (Scheme 4). However, debenzylation by catalytic hydrogenation turned out to be impossible.
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    Notes: Selective NMR decoupling and nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) experiments with phycocyanobilin (PCB) show proton-proton interactions between the terminal rings A and D, viz. the chiral C(2) methine center and the ethyl substituent at C(18), as a result of the helical conformation of this open-chain tetrapyrrole in solution. Quantitative NOE measurements and a combination of force-field and semiempirical calculations (FSC) afford inter-proton distances across the helical gap of 4.2-4.6 (NOE) and 3.2-4.2 A° (FSC). The NOE and FSC, in conjuction with a qualitative evaluation of the steric interactions in the two optimized helices, suggest furthermore that, in solution, the helix M is somewhat more stable than P. The coexistence of at least two diastereoisomers is corroborated also by the circular dichroism (CD) spectra of PCB in MeOH/EtOH which point to a temperature-dependent equilibrium in solution, and by a considerable increase of this CD upon changing the solvent from the achiral alcohols to ethyl (-)-(S)-lactate which reflects a selective solvent-induced CD differentiating between diastereoisomers.
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    Notes: Enantiomerically pure β-amino-acid derivatives with the side chains of Ala, Val, and Leu in the 2- or 3-position (β2- and β3-amino acids, resp.), as well as with substituents in both the 2- and 3-positions (β2,3-amino acids, of like-configuration) have been prepared (compounds 8-17) and incorporated (by stepwise synthesis and fragment coupling, intermediates 24-34) into β-hexa-, β-hepta-, and β-dodecapeptides (1-17). The new and some of the previously prepared β-peptides (35-39) showed NH/ND exchange rates (in MeOH at room temperature) with τ1/2 values of up to 60 days, unrivalled by short chain α-peptides. All β-peptides 1-7 were designed to be able to attain the previously described 31-helical structure (Figs. 1 and 2). CD Measurements (Fig. 4), indicating a new secondary structure of certain β-peptides constructed of β2- and β3-amino acids, were confirmed by detailed NMR solution-structure analyses: a β2-heptapeptide (2c) and a β2,3-hexapeptide (7c) have the 31-helical structure (Figs. 6 and 7), while to a β2/β3-hexapeptide (4) with alternating substitution pattern H-(β2-Xaa-β3-Xaa)3-OH a novel, unusual helical structure (in (D5)pyridine, Fig. 8; and in CD3OH, Figs. 9 and 10) was assigned, with a central ten-membered and two terminal twelve-membered H-bonded rings, and with C=O and N—H bonds pointing alternatively up and down along the axis of the helix (Fig. 11). Thus, for the first time, two types of β-peptide turns have been identified in solution. Hydrophobic interactions of and hindrance to solvent accessibility by the aliphatic side chains are discussed as possible factors influencing the relative stability of the two types of helices.
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    Notes: Tetraepoxy[22]annulene(2.2.2.0): a Tetraepoxy-Bridged Neutral Aromatic [22]Annulene of a New TypeWe describe the synthesis of tetraepoxy[22]annulene(2.2.2.0) 4, the first aromatic annulene of type B by a cyclizing twofold Wittig reaction of 2,2′-bifuran-5,5′-dicarbaldehyde (5) and the bis[phosphonium] salt 8. The configuration of 4, mainly determined by NMR spectroscopy is (Z,E,Z). According to the UV/VIS spectrum and the 1H-NMR data, the electronic situation in 4 is quite different from that of tetraepoxy[22]annulene(3.0.3.0) 2 and tetraepoxy[22]annulene(2.1.2.1) 3. According to variable-temperature 1H-NMR spectroscopy, 4 is a highly dynamic system, where the (E)-double bond rotates around the adjacent σ-bonds. At ca. -130°, this dynamic process is frozen, and 4 appears as a diatropic aromatic system; the free activation energy of the rotation ΔG≠ is ca. 8.75 kcal/mol.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1181-1200 
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    Notes: In the center of the immune system, there are major histocompatibility (MHC) protein/nonapeptide complexes which are recognized by T cell. The nonapeptides consist of three regions, an N-terminal one containing three amino-acid residues with a mandatory arginine in position 2, a C-terminal one with a lysine or arginine in position 9, and a central, variable one of five residues (cf. Fig. 1). We have now synthesized the first conjugates (1-4) of oligopeptides with oligo[(R)-3-hydroxybutanoates] (OHB) as analogs of MHC-binding peptides. Of the approaches chosen (Scheme 1), a fragment coupling of a hydroxy-butanoyl-amido ester (17 and 19) with an [(aminoalkanoyl)oxy]butanoyl chloride (27; Scheme 3), followed by two peptide-coupling steps (Scheme 4), turned out to be most efficient. The conjugates H-Gln-Arg-Leu-(HB)3,4-Lys-OH (1 and 2) and H-Ala-Arg-Leu-(HB)3,4-Lys-OH (3 and 4) were thus obtained in pure form. The conjugates 1 and 2 with N-terminal glutamine have a tendency to undergo cyclization with formation of a pyroglutamate residue (ef. Fig. 2). CD Measurements at different temperatures and so-called epitope-stabilization assays show that the complexes of the conjugates 2 and 4, containing four HB units, with the HLA-B27 class-I-MHC protein are more stable than those of a model nonapeptide (C50 values of 2.25 and 1.60 μM vs. 10 μM), while the conjugates 1 and 3 with three HB units incorporated form less stable complexes (C50 values of 30 and 21 μM). The tetra(hydroxybutanoate)-peptide conjugates 2 and 4 are the first nonapeptide analogs for which the modification of the central part leads to increased affinities for a class-I-MHC protein, as compared to a model nonapeptide.
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    Notes: 6-Epikarpoxanthin ((all-E,3S,5R,6S,3′R)-5,-6-dihydro-β,β-carotene-3,5,6,3′-tetrol, 5), 5,6-diepikarpoxanthin ((all-E,3S,5S,6S,3′R)-5,6-β,β-carotene-3,5,6,3′-tetrol, 13), 5,6-diepilatoxanthin ((all-E,3S,5S,6S,3′S5′R,6′S)-5,6′-epoxy-5,6,5′,6′-tetrahydro-β,β-carotene-3,5,6,3′-tetrol, 14), and 5,6-diepicapsokarpoxanthin ((all-E,3S,5S,6S,3′S,5′R)-5,6-dihydro-3,5,6,3′-tetrahydroxy-β,κ-caroten-6′-one, 15) were isolated from red spice paprika (Capsicum annuum var. longum) and characterized by their UV/VIS, CD, 1H- and 13C-NMR, and mass spectra. Our investigations demonstrate that the configuration of the 3,5,6-trihydroxy-5,6-dihydro-β-end group may differ depending on the biological source.
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    Notes: The X-ray analyses of (η3-allyl){4-benzyl-2-[2-(diphenylphosphino-κP)phenyl]-4,5-dihydro-4-4-methyloxazole-κN}palladium(II) hexafluorophosphate (5) and the analogous [Pd(η3-1,3-diphenylallyl)] complex 6 are presented. A comparison with the (η3-allyl)- and (η-1,3-diphenylallyl)palladium complexes 2 and 3, respectively, containing the 4-monosubstituted 4,5-dihydro-2-(phosphinoaryl)oxazole ligand 1a reveals important structural differences (Fig. 3). 1H-NMR Spectroscopic investigation confirm that the 4,4-disubstituted 4,5-dihydro-2-(phosphinoaryl)oxazole ligand 4 of 5 and 6 shows the same conformation in solution as in the solid state (Table 2). The application of ligand (S)-4 in the Pd-catalyzed allylic substitution demonstrates a configurational relationship between the orientation of the allyl ligand in the intermediate (cf. complex 6) and the absolute configuration of the allylic-substitution product (Table 3).
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    Notes: Some new (2′-5′)triadenylates 13-16, containing at the 2′-terminal end 3′-fluoro-2′,3′-dideoxyadenosine derivatives, have been synthesized by the phosphotriester method. The selectively blocked nucleosides 2, 4, 5, and 7, were synthesized from the corresponding unprotected nucleosides 1, 3, and 6. The synthesized trimers 13, and 14 were 4- and 8-fold, respectively, more stable towards phosphodiesterase from Crotalus durissus than the natural trimer 17. In comparison to trimer 17 the new compounds 13-15 inhibit HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) activity, and 15 and 16 the HIV-1 induced syncytia formation 2-3 fold whereas none of 13-16 can improve R Nase L activity.
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    Notes: The first asymmetric α-alkylations of lithiated sulfonamides bearing the chirality information within the amine moiety under high asymmetric inductions (de 83-95%) are described. Racemization-free acidic hydrolysis led to the title compounds 11 in acceptable overall yields and with high enantiomeric purity (ee 91- ≥ 98%; Scheme 2). As a novel chiral auxiliary, the primary amine (S,S)-or (R,R)-2 was synthesized employing the classical Erlenmeyer phenylserine synthesis (Scheme 1).
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1337-1348 
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    Notes: This theoretical study focuses on two indole derivatives, melatonin (1) and carvedilol (8), with the objective of improving our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying their radical-scavenging activity. Quantum-mechanical calculations were carried out using the AM1 semi-empirical method, some results being confirmed by ab initio (3-21G) calculations. The quantum-chemical descriptor Δ Hox (relative adiabatic oxidation potential) and the shape of the SOMO (singly occupied molecular orbital) indicate that the stabilization of its radical cation can partially explain the well-documented antioxidant efficacy of melatonin. This stablization may result from electrostatic interactions and from a hyperconjugative effect existing in a family of conformers of the melatonin radical cation having the side chain almost perpendicular to the plane of the aromatic rings. Furthermore, 6-hydroxymelatonin (7) appears to be a better free-radical scavenger than melatonin (1) in agreement with experimental results. According to the theoretical parameters Δ Hox and Δ Habs (relative bond dissociation enthalpy), carvedilol (8) is not a good antioxidant, in contrast to its ring-hydroxylated metabolites whose powerful antioxidant effects are explained by the formation of an oxyl radical stabilized by delocalization over the carbazole nucleus.
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    Notes: The reaction of α-nitro ketones to the corresponding α-hydroxy ketones under basic aqueous conditions, a novel transformation, was studied. The investigation revealed that the reaction is only possible with α-nitro ketones that are CH-acidic in the α′-position and readily deprotonated under the reaction conditions. The NO2/OH exchange was established to proceed with retention of configuration at the stereogenic center, and labeling experiments have shown that the OH O-atom originates, to a great extent, from the solvent. In particular, the stereochemical course of the reaction and the incorporation of external nucleophiles led us to propose a mechanism that involves neighboring-group participation. The product formation is explained by a double SN2 reaction, which proceeds via a Favorskii-like cyclopropanone intermediate.
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    Helvetica Chimica Acta 81 (1998), S. 1521-1527 
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    Notes: We report on the synthesis of a receptor 4 for β,β-carotene (1), and on the binding interaction between the two which yields inclusion complex 5. The cyclodextrin ‘dimer’ 4 was obtained via condensation of the corresponding 4,4′-(porphyrin-5,15-diyl)bis phenol 8 with 6A-deoxy-6A-iodo-β-cyclodextrin (6) in the presence of Cs2CO3. Fluorescence studies of the binding interaction between ‘dimer’ 4 and β,β-carotene (1) gave a binding constant Ka of (2.4 ± 0.1) · 106 M-1.
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    Notes: The lithium enolate of (±)-6-endo-chloro-5-exo-(phenylseleno)-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one (16) added to furan-2-carboxaldehyde giving a single aldol 19 (Schemes 1 and 2) that was converted with high stereoselectivity into (±)-(1RS,3SR,4SR,5RS,6SR)-5-exo-{(RS)-[(tert-butyl)dimethylsilyloxy](furan-2-yl)methyl}-6-endo-(methoxymethoxy)-2-oxo-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-3-exo-yl 4-bromobenzenesulfonate (46). Highly regioselective Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of 46 provided the corresponding β-DL-altrofuranurono-6,1-lactone 49, the methanolysis of which gave (±)-methyl 1,5-anhydro-3-{(SR)-[(tert-butyl)dimethylsiloxy](furan-2-yl)methyl}-3-deoxy-2-O-(methoxymethyl)-α-DL-galactofuranuronate (51). Reduction of 51 followed by protection furnished (±)-1,4-anhydro-3-{(SR)-[(tert-butyl)dimethylsilyoxy](furan-2-yl)methyl}-3-deoxy-2,6-bis-O-(methoxymethyl)-α-DL-galactopyranose (54). Clean oxidation of the furan unit in (54). Clean oxidation of the furan unit in 54 was possible with dimethyldioxirane, giving the corresponding (Z)-4-oxoenal 59 that was converted into pyrroles such as (±)-1,4-anhydro-3-{(SR)-[(tert-butyl)dimethylsilyloxy](1-benzyl-1 H-pyrrol-2-yl)methyl}-3-deoxy-2,6-bis-O-(methoxymethyl)-α-DL-galactopyranose (58; Scheme 5), or into pyrrolidin-3,4-diols by dihydroxylation of (±)-1,4-anhydro-3-{(1′RS,2′RS,Z)-1′-[(tert-butyl)-dimethylsilyloxy]-2′,5′-bis[(methylsulfonyl)oxy]pent-3′-enyl}-3-deoxy-2,6-bis-O-(methoxymethyl)-α-DL-galactopyranose (70; Schemes 6 and 7). After adequate protection (→ 70), selective displacement of one of the mesylate moieties with LiN3, followed by hydrogenation of the corresponding primary azide and intramolecular substitution, led to four protected, stereoisomeric C-linked imino disaccharides (Scheme 7); the latter were deprotected under acidic conditions to give (±)-3-deoxy-3-[(1′SR)-2′,5′-dideoxy-2′,5′-imino-α-LD-ribitol-1′-C-yl]-DL-galactose (3), (±)-3-deoxy-3-[(1′SR)-2′,5′-dideoxy-2′,5′-imino-α-DL-arabinitol-1′-C-yl]-DL-galactose (4), (±)-3-deoxy-3-[(1′SR)-2′,5′-dideoxy-2′,5′-imino-β-DL-ribitol-1′-C-yl]-DL-galactose (5), and (±)-3-deoxy-3-[(1′SR)-2′,5′-dideoxy-2′,5′-imino-β-DL-arabinitol-1′-C-yl]-DL-galactose (6). These unprotected C-linked imino disaccharides were more stable as ammonium chlorides in H2O. Neutralization of 4 · HCl, followed by NaBH4 reduction, gave (±)-(1RS,2SR,6SR,7RS,8RS,8aSR)-1,2,3,5,6,7,8,8a-octahydro-7-[(1SR,2SR)-1,2,3-trihydroxypropyl]indolizine-1,2,6,8-tetrol (14), a new octahydroindolizinepolyol (Scheme 8). Methyl glycosides of C-linked imino disaccharides 3-6 were also obtained, such as (±)-methyl 3-deoxy-3-[(1′SR)-2′,5′-dideoxy-2′,5′-imino-α-LD-ribitol-1′-C-yl]-β-DL-galactofuranoside (7), (±)-methyl 3-deoxy-3-[(1′SR)-2′,5′-dideoxy-2′,5′-imino-β-LD-arabinitol-1′-C-yl]-β-DL-galactofuranoside (8) and -α-DL-galactofuranoside (9), (±)-methyl 3-deoxy-3-[(1′SR)-2′,5′-dideoxy-2′,5′-imino-α-DL-arabinitol-1′-C-yl]-β-DL-galactofuranoside (11) and -α-DL-galactopyranoside (10), and (±)-methyl 3-deoxy-3-[(1′SR)-2′,5′-dideoxy-2′,5′-imino-β-DL-ribitol-1′-C-yl]-β-DL-galactofuranoside (13) and -α-DL-galactopyranoside (12). All these new C-linked imino disaccharides can be obtained in their enantiomerically pure form either starting with enantiomerically pure 7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptain-2-one derivatives (‘naked sugars of the first generation’) or using the method of Johnson and Zeller applied to the racemic protected aldol 3-exo-{[(tert-butyl)dimethylsiloxy](furan-2-yl)methyl}-6-endo-chloro-5-exo-(phenylseleno)-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one (22; see Scheme 2). The unprotected C-linked imino disaccharides 3-13 and octahydroindolzinetetrol 14 were tested for their inhibitory activity toward 25 commercially available glycohydrolases. Only compound 3 which mimics the mannopyranosyl-cation intermediate during the hydrolysis of an α-mannopyranosyl-(1 → 3)-galactose has a weak, but specific α-mannosidase inhibitory activity.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 57 (1998), S. 590-599 
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    Keywords: protein refolding ; hollow-fibre membrane ; dialysis ; carbonic anhydrase ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: We have used a cellulose acetate, hollow-fibre (HF) ultrafiltration membrane to refold bovine carbonic anhydrase, loaded into the lumen space, by removing the denaturant through controlled dialysis via the shell side space. When challenged with GdnHCl-denatured carbonic anhydrase, 70% of the loaded protein reptated through the membrane into the circulating dialysis buffer. Reptation occurred because the protein, in its fully unfolded configuration, was able to pass through the pores. The loss of carbonic anhydrase through the membrane was controlled by the dialysis conditions. Dialysis against 0.05 M Tris-HCl for 30 min reduced the denaturant around the protein to a concentration that allowed the return of secondary structure, increasing the hydrodynamic radius, thus preventing protein transmission. Under these conditions a maximum of 42% of carbonic anhydrase was recovered (from a starting concentration of 5 mg/mL) with 94% activity. This is an improvement over refolding carbonic anhydrase by simple batch dilution, which gave a maximum reactivation of 85% with 35% soluble protein yield. The batch refolding of carbonic anhydrase is very sensitive to temperature; however, during HF refolding between 0 and 25°C the temperature sensitivity was considerably reduced. In order to reduce the convection forces that give rise to aggregation and promote refolding the dialyzate was slowly heated from 4 to 25°C. This slow, temperature-controlled refolding gave an improved soluble protein recovery of 55% with a reactivation yield of 90%. The effect of a number of additives on the refolding system performance were tested: the presence of PEG improved both the protein recovery and the recovered activity from the membrane, while the detergents Tween 20 and IGEPAL CA-630 increased only the refolding yield. ©1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 57: 590-599, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 119-120 
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 658-662 
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    Keywords: T4 lysozyme ; silica nanoparticles ; synthetic enzyme variants ; surface-induced conformational change ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Maintaining a specific molecular conformation is essential for the proper functioning of an enzyme. A substantial loss of catalytic activity can occur from the displacement caused by even a single amino acid substitution. Activity may also be lost as an enzyme undergoes a conformational change during adsorption. In this study, we investigated the effect of thermostability on the activities of three T4 lysozyme variants after adsorption to 9 nm colloidal silica particles. Less-stable T4 lysozyme variants lost more activity after adsorption than did more stable variants, apparently because they experienced more extensive structural alteration. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58: 658-662, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 139-148 
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    Keywords: metabolic engineering ; pathway analysis ; metabolic and energetic model ; physiological state ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: In this work, an integrated modeling approach based on a metabolic signal flow diagram and cellular energetics was used to model the metabolic pathway analysis for the cultivation of yeast on glucose. This approach enables us to make a clear analysis of the flow direction of the carbon fluxes in the metabolic pathways as well as of the degree of activation of a particular pathway for the synthesis of biomaterials for cell growth. The analyses demonstrate that the main metabolic pathways of Saccharomyces cerevisiae change significantly during batch culture. Carbon flow direction is toward glycolysis to satisfy the increase of requirement for precursors and energy. The enzymatic activation of TCA cycle seems to always be at normal level, which may result in the overflow of ethanol due to its limited capacity. The advantage of this approach is that it adopts both virtues of the metabolic signal flow diagram and the simple network analysis method, focusing on the investigation of the flow directions of carbon fluxes and the degree of activation of a particular pathway or reaction loop. All of the variables used in the model equations were determined on-line; the information obtained from the calculated metabolic coefficients may result in a better understanding of cell physiology and help to evaluate the state of the cell culture process. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:139-148, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 149-153 
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    Keywords: Metabolic Control Analysis ; flux control coefficients ; top down MCA ; metabolic engineering ; Corynebacterium glutamicum ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Grouping of reactions around key metabolite branch points can facilitate the study of metabolic control of complex metabolic networks. This top-down Metabolic Control Analysis is exemplified through the introduction of group (flux, as well as concentration) control coefficients whose magnitudes provide a measure of the relative impact of each reaction group on the overall network flux, as well as on the overall network stability, following enzymatic amplification. In this article, we demonstrate the application of previously developed theory to the determination of group flux control coefficients. Experimental data for the changes in metabolic fluxes obtained in response to the introduction of six different environmental perturbations are used to determine the group flux control coefficients for three reaction groups formed around the phosphoenolpyruvate/pyruvate branch point. The consistency of the obtained group flux control coefficient estimates is systematically analyzed to ensure that all necessary conditions are satisfied. The magnitudes of the determined control coefficients suggest that the control of lysine production flux in Corynebacterium glutamicum cells at a growth base state resides within the lysine biosynthetic pathway that begins with the PEP/PYR carboxylation anaplorotic pathway. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:149-153, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 154-161 
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    Keywords: central carbon pathways ; metabolic optimization ; ethanol production ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Many attempts to engineer cellular metabolism have failed due to the complexity of cellular functions. Mathematical and computational methods are needed that can organize the available experimental information, and provide insight and guidance for successful metabolic engineering. Two such methods are reviewed here. Both methods employ a (log)linear kinetic model of metabolism that is constructed based on enzyme kinetics characteristics. The first method allows the description of the dynamic responses of metabolic systems subject to spatiotemporal variations in their parameters. The second method considers the product-oriented, constrained optimization of metabolic reaction networks using mixed-integer linear programming methods. The optimization framework is used in order to identify the combinations of the metabolic characteristics of the glycolytic enzymes from yeast and bacteria that will maximize ethanol production. The methods are also applied to the design of microbial ethanol production metabolism. The results of the calculations are in qualitative agreement with experimental data presented here. Experiments and calculations suggest that, in resting Escherichia coli cells, ethanol production and glucose uptake rates can be increased by 30% and 20%, respectively, by overexpression of a deregulated pyruvate kinase, while increase in phosphofructokinase expression levels has no effect on ethanol production and glucose uptake rates. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:154-161, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 170-174 
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    Keywords: catabolite repression ; phosphotransferase system ; inducer exclusion ; inducer expulsion ; protein kinase ; transcriptional regulation ; transport regulation ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Catabolite repression is a universal phenomenon, found in virtually all living organisms. These organisms range from the simplest bacteria to higher fungi, plants, and animals. A mechanism involving cyclic AMP and its receptor protein (CRP) in Escherichia coli was established years ago, and this mechanism has been assumed by many to serve as the prototype for catabolite repression in all organisms. However, recent studies have shown that this mechanism is restricted to enteric bacteria and their close relatives. Cyclic AMP-independent mechanisms of catabolite repression occur in other bacteria, yeast, plants, and even E. coli. In fact, single-celled organisms such as E. coli, Bacillus subtilis, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae exhibit multiple mechanisms of catabolite repression, and most of these are cyclic AMP-independent. The mechanistic features of the best of such characterized processes are briefly reviewed, and references are provided that will allow the reader to delve more deeply into these subjects. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:170-174, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 162-169 
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    Keywords: bioinformatics ; metabolic engineering ; genetic engineering ; mathematical analysis ; stoichiometry ; enzyme kinetics ; modal analysis ; genetic circuits ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Ten microbial genomes have been fully sequenced to date, and the sequencing of many more genomes is expected to be completed before the end of the century. The assignment of function to open reading frames (ORFs) is progressing, and for some genomes over 70% of functional assignments have been made. The majority of the assigned ORFs relate to metabolic functions. Thus, the complete genetic and biochemical functions of a number of microbial cells may be soon available. From a metabolic engineering standpoint, these developments open a new realm of possibilities. Metabolic analysis and engineering strategies can now be built on a sound genomic basis. An important question that now arises; how should these tasks be approached? Flux-balance analysis (FBA) has the potential to play an important role. It is based on the fundamental principle of mass conservation. It requires only the stoichiometric matrix, the metabolic demands, and some strain specific parameters. Importantly, no enzymatic kinetic data is required. In this article, we show how the genomically defined microbial metabolic genotypes can be analyzed by FBA. Fundamental concepts of metabolic genotype, metabolic phenotype, metabolic redundancy and robustness are defined and examples of their use given. We discuss the advantage of this approach, and how FBA is expected to find uses in the near future. FBA is likely to become an important analysis tool for genomically based approaches to metabolic engineering, strain design, and development. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:162-169, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 191-195 
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    Keywords: control analysis ; Lactococcus lactis ; gene expression ; flux ; oligonucleotide ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: In this article, we review some of the expression systems that are available for Metabolic Control Analysis and Metabolic Engineering, and examine their advantages and disadvantages in different contexts. In a recent approach, artificial promoters for modulating gene expression in micro-organisms were constructed using synthetic degenerated oligonucleotides. From this work, a promoter library was obtained for Lactococcus lactis, containing numerous individual promoters and covering a wide range of promoter activities. Importantly, the range of promoter activities was covered in small steps of activity change. Promoter libraries generated by this approach allow for optimization of gene expression and for experimental control analysis in a wide range of biological systems by choosing from the promoter library promoters giving, e.g., 25%, 50%, 200%, and 400% of the normal expression level of the gene in question. If the relevant variable (e.g., the flux or yield) is then measured with each of these constructs, then one can calculate the control coefficient and determine the optimal expression level. One advantage of the method is that the construct which is found to have the optimal expression level is then, in principle, ready for use in the industrial fermentation process; another advantage is that the system can be used to optimize the expression of different enzymes within the same cell. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:191-195, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 175-190 
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    Keywords: protein-based polymers ; inverse temperature transitions ; hydrophobic-induced pKa shifts ; waters of hydrophobic hydration ; five axioms for protein engineering; microwave dielectric relaxation ; a universal mechanism for biological energy conversion ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Metabolism is the conversion of available energy sources to those energy forms required for sustaining and propagating living organisms; this is simply biological energy conversion. Proteins are the machines of metabolism; they are the engines of motility and the other machines that interconvert energy forms not involving motion. Accordingly, metabolic engineering becomes the use of natural protein-based machines for the good of society. In addition, metabolic engineering can utilize the principles, whereby proteins function, to design new protein-based machines to fulfill roles for society that proteins have never been called upon throughout evolution to fulfill.This article presents arguments for a universal mechanism whereby proteins perform their diverse energy conversions; it begins with background information, and then asserts a set of five axioms for protein folding, assembly, and function and for protein engineering. The key process is the hydrophobic folding and assembly transition exhibited by properly balanced amphiphilic protein sequences. The fundamental molecular process is the competition for hydration between hydrophobic and polar, e.g., charged, residues. This competition determines Tt, the onset temperature for the hydrophobic folding and assembly transition, Nhh, the numbers of waters of hydrophobic hydration, and the pKa of ionizable functions.Reported acid-base titrations and pH dependence of microwave dielectric relaxation data simultaneously demonstrate the interdependence of Tt, Nhh and the pKa using a series of microbially prepared protein-based poly(30mers) with one glutamic acid residue per 30mer and with an increasing number of more hydrophobic phenylalanine residues replacing valine residues. Also, reduction of nicotinamides and flavins is shown to lower Tt, i.e., to increase hydrophobicity.Furthermore, the argument is presented, and related to an extended Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, wherein reduction of nicotinamides represents an increase in hydrophobicity and resulting hydrophobic-induced pKa shifts become the basis for understanding a primary energy conversion (proton transport) process of mitochondria. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:175-190, 1998.
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    Keywords: Escherichia coli ; Chloramphenicol Acetyltransferase (CAT) ; Culture Redox Potential (CRP) ; Dithiothreitol (DTT) ; reducing agents ; molecular chaperones ; proteases ; heat shock ; stress response ; protein folding ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The independent control of culture redox potential (CRP) by the regulated addition of a reducing agent, dithiothreitol (DTT) was demonstrated in aerated recombinant Escherichia coli fermentations. Moderate levels of DTT addition resulted in minimal changes to specific oxygen uptake, growth rate, and dissolved oxygen. Excessive levels of DTT addition were toxic to the cells resulting in cessation of growth. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity (nmoles/μg total protein min.) decreased in batch fermentation experiments with respect to increasing levels of DTT addition. To further investigate the mechanisms affecting CAT activity, experiments were performed to assay heat shock protein expression and specific CAT activity (nmoles/μg CAT min.). Expression of such molecular chaperones as GroEL and DnaK were found to increase after addition of DTT. Additionally, sigma factor 32 (σ32) and several proteases were seen to increase dramatically during addition of DTT. Specific CAT activity (nmoles/μg CAT min.) varied greatly as DTT was added, however, a minimum in activity was found at the highest level of DTT addition in E. coli strains RR1 [pBR329] and JM105 [pROEX-CAT]. In conjunction, cellular stress was found to reach a maximum at the same levels of DTT. Although DTT addition has the potential for directly affecting intracellular protein folding, the effects felt from the increased stress within the cell are likely the dominant effector. That the effects of DTT were measured within the cytoplasm of the cell suggests that the periplasmic redox potential was also altered. The changes in specific CAT activity, molecular chaperones, and other heat shock proteins, in the presence of minimal growth rate and oxygen uptake alterations, suggest that the ex vivo control of redox potential provides a new process for affecting the yield and conformation of heterologous proteins in aerated E. coli fermentations. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59: 248-259, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 261-272 
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    Keywords: effective diffusive permeability ; diffusion coefficient ; biofilm ; cell density ; review ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Experimental measurements of effective diffusive permeabilities and effective diffusion coefficients in biofilms are reviewed. Effective diffusive permeabilities, the parameter appropriate to the analysis of reaction-diffusion interactions, depend on solute type and biofilm density. Three categories of solute physical chemistry with distinct diffusive properties were distinguished by the present analysis. In order of descending mean relative effective diffusive permeability (De/Daq) these were inorganic anions or cations (0.56), nonpolar solutes with molecular weights of 44 or less (0.43), and organic solutes of molecular weight greater than 44 (0.29). Effective diffusive permeabilities decrease sharply with increasing biomass volume fraction suggesting a serial resistance model of diffusion in biofilms as proposed by Hinson and Kocher (1996). A conceptual model of biofilm structure is proposed in which each cell is surrounded by a restricted permeability envelope. Effective diffusion coefficients, which are appropriate to the analysis of transient penetration of nonreactive solutes, are generally similar to effective diffusive permeabilities in biofilms of similar composition. In three studies that examine diffusion of very large molecular weight solutes ( 〉 5000) in biofilms, the average ratio of the relative effective diffusion coefficient of the large solute to the relative effective diffusion coefficient of either sucrose or fluorescein was 0.64, 0.61, and 0.36. It is proposed that large solutes are effectively excluded from microbial cells, that small solutes partition into and diffuse within cells, and that ionic solutes are excluded from cells but exhibit increased diffusive permeability (but decreased effective diffusion coefficients) due to sorption to the biofilm matrix. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:261-272, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 281-285 
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    Keywords: protein aggregation ; RNase A ; protein formulation ; protein additives ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: In the previous study (part I), heat-denatured RNase A aggregation was shown to depend on the solution pH. Interestingly, at pH 3.0, the protein did not aggregate even when exposed to 75°C for 24 h. In this study, electrostatic repulsion was shown to be responsible for the absence of aggregates at that pH. While RNase A aggregation was prevented at the extremely acidic pH, this is not an environment conducive to maintaining protein function in general. Therefore, attempts were made to confer electrostatic repulsion near neutral pH. In this study, heat-denatured RNase A was mixed with charged polymers at pH 7.8 in an attempt to provide the protein with excess surface cations or anions. At 75°C, SDS and dextran sulfate were successful in preventing RNase A aggregation, whereas their cationic, nonionic, and zwitterionic analogs did not do so. We believe that the SO3- groups present in both additives transformed the protein into polyanionic species, and this may have provided a sufficient level of electrostatic repulsion at pH 7.8 and 75°C to prevent aggregation from proceeding. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:281-285, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 328-343 
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    Keywords: biotrickling filters ; biotrickling filter modeling ; mono-chlorobenzene ; biodegradation kinetics of mono-chlorobenzene ; chlorinated VOC emissions ; biofiltration ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Removal of mono-chlorobenzene (m-CB) vapor from airstreams was studied in a biotrickling filter (BTF) operating under counter-current flow of the air and liquid streams. Experiments were performed under various values of inlet m-CB concentration, air and/or liquid volumetric flow rates, and pH of the recirculating liquid. Conversion of m-CB was never below 70% and at low concentrations exceeded 90%. A maximum removal rate of about 60 gm-3-reactor h-1 was observed. Conversion of m-CB was found to increase as the values of liquid and air flow rate increase and decrease, respectively. The effects of pH and frequency of medium replenishment on BTF performance were also investigated. The process was successfully described with a detailed mathematical model, which accounts for mass transfer and kinetic effects based on m-CB and oxygen availability. Solution of the model equations yielded m-CB and oxygen concentration profiles in all three phases (airstream, liquid, biofilm). It is predicted that oxygen has a controling effect on the process at high inlet m-CB concentrations. From independent, suspended culture, experiments it was found that m-CB biodegradation follows Andrews inhibitory kinetics. The kinetic constants were found to remain practically unchanged after the culture was used in BTF experiments for 8 months. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:328-343, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 344-350 
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    Keywords: electrodialysis ; citric acid ; pH ; temperature ; Faraday efficiency ; solute recovery efficiency ; specific energy consumption ; solute flux ; water flux ; feed solute concentration ; electric current density ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The effect of pH and temperature (θ) on the overall performance indicators (i.e., solute recovery, ρ, and Faraday, η, efficiencies; specific energy consumption, ε, solute, JS, and water, JW, fluxes) of batch electrodialytic recovery of citric acid from model solutions was assessed at different values of feed solute concentration (cSf) and electric current density (j). Regardless of the initial feed concentration used, ρ and JS were found to be independent of θ; η and JW exhibited a positive trend with respect to θ, while ε a negative one. At the maximum temperature tested (33°C), as the pH of the feed solution was varied from 3 to 7, ρ increased from 0.90 ± 0.08 to 0.97 ± 0.02, η grew from 0.09 ± 0.02 to 0.50 ± 0.01, JS practically doubled, ε reduced about 8 times, but JW increased from 3 to 4 times. So, the optimal conditions for this technique are to be determined by balancing the savings in the investment and maintenance costs against the energy costs. © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:344-350, 1998.
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    Keywords: chymotrypsin ; enzyme stability ; reversed micelles ; interface ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The stability of α-chymotrypsin and δ-chymotrypsin was studied in reversed micelles of sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate (AOT) in isooctane. α-Chymotrypsin is inactivated at the interface and at the water pool, while δ-chymotrypsin is inactivated only at the water pool. The mechanism of inactivation at the interface is related to the interaction of N-terminal group alanine 149 (absent in δ-chymotrypsin) with the negative interface. The dependence of enzyme activity on water content of these two enzymes in reversed micelles of AOT is also related with the interface interaction, since δ-chymotrypsin does not have a bell-shaped curve as observed for α-chymotrypsin. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:360-363, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 351-359 
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    Keywords: bioreactor ; high density ; insect cells ; perfusion ; Sf9 ; ultrasonic filter ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The baculovirus/insect cell expression system has provided a vital tool to produce a high level of active proteins for many applications. We have developed a very high-density insect cell perfusion process with an ultrasonic filter as a cell retention device. The separation efficiency of the filter was studied under various operating conditions. A cell density of over 30 million cells/mL was achieved in a controlled perfusion bioreactor and cell viability remained greater than 90%. Sf9 cells from a high-density culture and a spinner culture were infected with two recombinant baculoviruses expressing genes for the production of human chitinase and monocyte-colony inhibition factor. The protein yield on a cell basis from infecting high-density Sf9 cells was the same as or higher than that from the spinner Sf9 culture. Virus production from the high-density culture was similar to that from the spinner culture. The results show that the ultrasonic filter did not affect insect cells' ability to support protein expression and virus production following infection with baculovirus. The potential applications of the high-density perfusion culture for large-scale protein expression from Sf9 cells are also highlighted. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:351-359, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 374-378 
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    Keywords: conductive paint electrode ; prevention of marine biofouling ; fishing net ; alternating potential ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Conductive paint electrode was used for marine biofouling on fishing nets by electrochemical disinfection. When a potential of 1.2 V vs. a saturated calomel electrode (SCE) was applied to the conductive paint electrode, Vibrio alginolyticus cells attached on the electrode were completely killed. By applying a negative potential, the attached cells were removed from the surface of the electrode. Changes in pH and chlorine concentration were not observed at potentials in the range -0.6 ∼1.2 V vs. SCE. In a field experiment, accumulation of the bacterial cells and formation of biofilms on the electrode were prevented by application of an alternating potential, and 94% of attachment of the biofouling organisms was inhibited electrically on yarn used for fishing net coated with conductive paint. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:374-378, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 364-373 
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    Keywords: porous supports ; internal and external diffusion ; active site accessibility ; enzyme loading ; kinetically controlled dipeptide synthesis ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Mass transfer limitations were studied in enzyme preparations of α-chymotrypsin made by deposition on different porous support materials such as controlled pore glasses, Celite, and polyamides of different particle sizes. It is the onset of mass transfer limitations that determines the position of the activity optimum with respect to enzyme loading on each support. The evidence of various experiments indicates that internal diffusional limitations are the important mechanism for the observed mass transfer limitations. External diffusion was not found to play an important role under the conditions used, and it was also found that when immobilizing multilayers of enzyme the buried enzyme molecules are active to a large extent. An extreme situation is observed on Celite at very high loadings. Under these conditions, this support is expected to have its pores completely filled with packed enzyme molecules, and then it is the diffusion within the enzyme layer that determines the observed rate. As the enzyme loading increases, the area of contact between the deposited enzyme layers and the liquid solution inside the pores diminishes, causing a decrease on the observed rate of an intrinsically fast reaction which apparently is incongruous with the presence of more enzyme in the system. This work shows that mass transfer limitations can be an important factor when working with immobilized enzymes in organic media, and its study should be carried out in order to avoid undesired reduced enzyme activities and specificities. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:364-373, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 438-444 
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    Keywords: bioremediation ; plasma discharge ; dichlorophenol degradation ; perchloroethylene degradation ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Pulsed electric discharge (PED) and bioremediation were combined to create a novel two-stage system which dechlorinates the halogenated pollutants, 2,4-dichlorophenol and perchloroethylene, with repetitive (0.1-1 kHz), short pulse (∼100 ns), low voltage (40-80 kV) discharges and then mineralizes the less chlorinated products with aerobic bacteria. A 6.1 mM aqueous dichlorophenol sample was cycled through the PED reactor (60 kV of applied pulsed voltage and 300 Hz) 6 times, resulting in the release of 55% of the initial dichlorophenol chloride ions (1 mM Cl- removed each cycle). The respective average specific efficiency is 0.4-0.6 keV/(Cl- molecule). Pseudomonas mendocina KR1, which grows in minimal medium supplemented with phenol but not with dichlorophenol, increased in cell density in all cultures supplemented with the PED-treated DCP samples and yielded a maximum of two-fold additional Cl- released compared to the PED-related alone. The number of PED-treatment cycles, voltage, and frequency were also varied, showing that both cell densities and overall dichlorophenol dechlorination were highly dependent upon the number of PED-treatment cycles, rather than the tested voltages and frequencies. Using this two-stage treatment system, PED released 31% of the initial chloride ions from dichlorophenol (after three cycles at 40-45 kV and 1.2 kHz) while P. mendocina KR1 in the second stage increased dechlorination to 90%. These results were corroborated by the 35% additional chloride release found with activated sludge cultures. Perchloroethylene (0.6 mM) was similarly treated in a first-stage PED reactor (80% chloride removal after four cycles) followed by biodegradation of the dechlorinated products with a recombinant toluene o-monooxygenase-expressing Pseudomonas fluorescens strain. Gas chromatographic analysis showed that the PED reactor created less-chlorinated byproducts (i.e., trichloroethylene) that were removed (74%) upon exposure to the recombinant bacterium. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:438-444, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 445-450 
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    Keywords: CHO cells ; glycosylation engineering ; antisense ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Novel glycoproteins, inaccessible by other techniques, can be obtained by metabolic engineering of the oligosaccharide biosynthesis pathway. Furthermore, alteration of cell-surface oligosaccharides can change the properties of receptors involved in cell-cell adhesion. Sialyl Lewis X (sLex) is a cell-surface oligosaccharide determinant which is specifically expressed on granulocytes and monocytes and which interacts with selectins to influence leukocyte trafficking, thrombosis, inflammation, and cancer. Antisense technology targeting fucosyltransferase VI (Fuc-TVI), an enzyme necessary for the synthesis of the sLex in engineered Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, has reduced Fuc-TVI activity, sLex synthesis, and adhesion to endothelial cells. Antisense methodology to reduce targeted activity in oligosaccharide biosynthesis or other pathways is an important addition to CHO cell metabolic engineering capabilities. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:445-450, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 451-460 
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    Keywords: protein fouling ; membrane transport ; ultrafiltration ; adsorption ; filtration ; composite membrane ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Protein fouling can significantly alter both the flux and retention characteristics of ultrafiltration membranes. There has, however, been considerable controversy over the nature of this fouling layer. In this study, hydraulic permeability and dextran sieving data were obtained both before and after albumin adsorption and/or filtration using polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membranes. The dextran molecular weight distributions were analyzed by gel permeation chromatography to evaluate the sieving characteristics over a broad range of solute size. Protein fouling caused a significant reduction in the dextran sieving coefficients, with very different effects seen for the diffusive and convective contributions to dextran transport. The changes in dextran sieving coefficients and diffusive permeabilities were analyzed using a two-layer membrane model in which a distinct protein layer is assumed to form on the upstream surface of the membrane. The data suggest that the protein layer formed during filtration was more tightly packed than that formed by simple static adsorption. Hydrodynamic calculations indicated that the pore size of the protein layer remained relatively constant throughout the adsorption or filtration, but the thickness of this layer increased with increasing exposure time. These results provide important insights into the nature of protein fouling during ultrafiltration and its effects on membrane transport. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:451-460, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 461-470 
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    Keywords: aqueous two-phase separation ; protein partitioning ; T4 lysozyme ; electrochemical partitioning ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Protein partitioning in aqueous two-phase systems based on phase-forming polymers is strongly affected by the net charge of the protein, but a thermodynamic description of the charge effects has been hindered by conflicting results. Many of the difficulties could be because of problems in isolating electrochemical effects from other interactions of phase components.We explored charge effects on protein partitioning in poly(ethylene glycol)-dextran two-phase systems by using two series of genetically engineered charge modifications of bacteriophage T4 lysozyme produced in Escherichia coli. The two series, one in the form of charged-fusion tails and the other in the form of charge-change point mutations, provided matching net charges but very different polarity. Partition coefficients of both series were obtained and interfacial potential differences of the phase systems were measured. Multi-angle laser light scattering measurements were also performed to determine second virial coefficients. A semi-empirical model accounting for the roles of both charge and non-charge effects on protein partitioning behavior is proposed, and the results predicted from the model are compared to the results from the experiments. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:461-470, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 57 (1998), S. 518-528 
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    Keywords: ammonium ; UDP-GlcNAc ; N -glycosylation ; BHK-21 cells ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The effect of different ammonium concentrations and glucosamine on baby hamster kidney (BHK)-21 cell cultures grown in continuously perfused double membrane bioreactors was investigated with respect to the final carbohydrate structures of a secretory recombinant glycoprotein. The human interleukin-2 (IL-2) mutant glycoprotein variant IL-Mu6, which bears a novel N-glycosylation site (created by a single amino acid exchange of Gln100 to Asn), was produced under different defined protein-free culture conditions in the presence or absence of either glutamine, NH4Cl, or glucosamine. Recombinant glycoprotein products were purified and characterized by amino acid sequencing and carbohydrate structural analysis using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry, high-pH anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection, and methylation analysis. In the absence of glutamine, cells secreted glycoprotein forms with preponderantly biantennary, proximal fucosylated carbohydrate chains (85%) with a higher NeuAc content (58%). Under standard conditions in the presence of 7.5 mM glutamine, complex-type N-glycans were found to be mainly biantennary (68%) and triantennary structures (33%) with about 50% containing proximal α1-6-linked fucose; 37% of the antenna were found to be substituted with terminal α2-3-linked N-acetylneuraminic acid. In the presence of 15 mM exogenously added NH4Cl, a significant and reproducible increase in tri- and tetraantennary oligosaccharides (45% of total) was detected in the secretion product. In glutamin-free cultures supplemented with glucosamine, an intermediate amount of high antennary glycans was detected. The increase in complexity of N-linked oligosaccharides is considered to be brought about by the increased levels of intracellular uridine diphosphate-GlcNAc/GalNAc. These nucleotide sugar pools were found to be significantly elevated in the presence of high NH3/NH4+ and glucosamine concentrations. ©1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 57: 518-528, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 57 (1998), S. 557-570 
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    Keywords: Alcaligenes eutrophus ; polyhydroxyalkanoates ; metabolic engineering ; mathematical modeling ; enzyme kinetics ; regulation of metabolism ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: A mathematical model describing intracellular polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) synthesis in Alcaligenes eutrophus has been constructed. The model allows investigation of issues such as the existence of rate-limiting enzymatic steps, possible regulatory mechanisms in PHB synthesis, and the effects different types of rate expressions have on model behavior. Simulations with the model indicate that activities of all PHB pathway enzymes influence overall PHB flux and that no single enzymatic step can easily be identified as rate limiting. Simulations also support regulatory roles for both thiolase and reductase, mediated through AcCoA/CoASH and NADPH/NADP+ ratios, respectively. To make the model more realistic, complex rate expressions for enzyme-catalyzed reactions were used which reflect both the reversibility of the reactions and the reaction mechanisms. Use of the complex kinetic expressions dramatically changed the behavior of the system compared to a simple model containing only Michaelis-Menten kinetic expressions; the more complicated model displayed different responses to changes in enzyme activities as well as inhibition of flux by the reaction products CoASH and NADP+. These effects can be attributed to reversible rate expressions, which allow prediction of reaction rates under conditions both near and far from equilibrium. ©1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 57: 557-570, 1998.
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    Keywords: rhG-CSF ; fusion protein ; secretion efficiency ; glycosylation ; multimer ; conformation ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The synthesis and secretion of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) are investigated in fed-batch cultures at high cell concentration of recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and some important characteristics of the secreted rhG-CSF are demonstrated. Transcription of the recombinant gene is regulated by a GAL1-10 upstream activating sequence (UASG), and the rhG-CSF is expressed in a hybrid fusion protein consisting of signal sequence of Kluyveromyces lactis killer toxin and N-terminal 24 amino acids of human interleukin 1β. The intracellular KEX2 cleavage leads to excretion of mature rhG-CSF into extracellular culture broth, and the cleavage process seems to be highly efficient. In spite of relatively low copy number the plasmid propagation is stably maintained even at nonselective culture conditions. The rhG-CSF synthesis does not depend on galactose level, whereas the production of extracellular rhG-CSF was significantly enhanced by increasing the inducer concentration above a certain level and also by supplementing the nonionic surfactant to the culture medium, which is notably due to the enhanced secretion efficiency. Various immunoblotting analyses demonstrate that none of the rhG-CSF is accumulated in the cell wall fraction and that a significant amount of intracellular rhG-CSF antibody-specific immunoreactive proteins is located in the ER. A core N-glycosylation at fused IL-1β fragment is likely to play a critical role in directing the high-level secretion of rhG-CSF, and the O-glycosylation of secreted rhG-CSF seems nearly negligible. Also the extracellular rhG-CSF is observed to exist as various multimers, and the nature of molecular interaction is evidently not the covalent disulfide bridges. The CD spectra of purified rhG-CSF and Escherichia coli-derived standard show that the conformations of both are similar and are almost identical to that reported for natural hG-CSF. ©1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 57: 600-609, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 57 (1998), S. 620-623 
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    Keywords: protein refolding ; reversed micelles ; solid-liquid extraction ; RNase A ; DNA ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: This article reports that a reversed micellar solution is useful for refolding proteins directly from a solid source. The solubilization of denatured RNase A, which had been prepared by reprecipitation from the denaturant protein solution, into reversed micelles formulated with sodium di-2-ethylhexyl sulfosuccinate (AOT) has been investigated by a solid-liquid extraction system. This method is an alternative to the ordinary protein extraction in reversed micelles based on the liquid-liquid extraction. The solid-liquid extraction method was found to facilitate the solubilization of denatured proteins more efficiently in the reversed micellar media than the ordinary phase transfer method of liquid extraction. The refolding of denatured RNase A entrapped in reversed micelles was attained by adding a redox reagent (reduced and oxidized glutathion). Enzymatic activity of RNase A was gradually recovered with time in the reversed micelles. The denatured RNase A was completely refolded within 30 h. In addition, the efficiency of protein refolding was enhanced when reversed micelles were applied to denatured RNase A containing a higher protein concentration that, in the case of aqueous media, would lead to protein aggregation. The solid-liquid extraction technique using reversed micelles affords better scale-up advantages in the direct refolding process of insoluble protein aggregates. ©1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 57: 620-623, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 57 (1998), S. 610-619 
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    Keywords: dynamic model ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; oxidative capacity ; feedback control ; calorimetry ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The objective of this study was to characterize the dynamic adaptation of the oxidative capacity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an increase in the glucose supply rate and its implications for the control of a continuous culture designed to produce biomass without allowing glucose to be diverted into the reductive metabolism. Continuous cultures subjected to a sudden shift-up in the dilution rate showed that the glucose uptake rate increased immediately to the new feeding rate but that the oxygen consumption could not follow fast enough to ensure a completely oxidative metabolism. Thus, part of the glucose assimilated was degraded by the reductive metabolism, resulting in a temporary decrease of biomass concentration, even if the final dilution rate was below Dcrit. The dynamic increase of the specific oxygen consumption rate, qO2, was characterized by an initial immediate jump followed by a first-order increase to the maximum value. It could be modeled using three parameters denoted qjumpO2, qmaxO2, and a time constant τ. The values for the first two of the parameters varied considerably from one shift to another, even when they were performed under identical conditions. On the basis of this model, a time-dependent feed flow rate function was derived that should permit an increase in the dilution rate from one value to another without provoking the appearance of reductive metabolism. The idea was to increase the glucose supply in parallel with the dynamic increase of the oxidative capacity of the culture, so that all of the assimilated glucose could always be oxidized. Nevertheless, corresponding feed-profile experiments showed that deviations in the reductive metabolism could not be completely suppressed due to variability in the model parameters. Therefore, a proportional feedback controller using heat evolution rate measurements was implemented. Calorimetry provides an excellent and rapid estimate of the metabolic activity. Satisfactory control was achieved and led to constant biomass yields. Ethanol accumulated only up to 0.49 g L-1 as compared to an accumulation of 1.82 g L-1 without on-line control in the shift-up experiment to the same final dilution rate. ©1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 57: 610-619, 1998.
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    Keywords: c-jun ; cell cycle ; apoptosis ; antisense ; growth deprivation ; F-MEL ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: F-MEL cells were transfected with the c-jun antisense gene located downstream of a glucocorticoid-inducible MMTV promoter, and the obtained cells were named c-jun AS cells. When the c-jun AS cells were treated with dexamethasone (DEX) in DMEM supplemented with 10% serum, the growth of the cells was completely suppressed for a duration of 16 days with a high cell viability exceeding 86%. The c-jun expression in the c-jun AS cells was suppressed moderately in the absence of DEX and strongly in the presence of DEX. The c-jun AS cells grew well and reached a density of 106 cells/mL without supplementation of any serum components. Viability was greater than 80% after the cells had been cultured for 8 days in the absence of DEX. The c-jun AS cells stayed at a constant cell density and high viability above 80% for 8 days when they were cultured in the presence of DEX under serum deprivation. In contrast, the wild type F-MEL cells were unable to grow and died by apoptosis in 3 days under serum deprivation. Internucleosomal cleavage of DNA, a landmark of apoptosis, was clearly detectable. Thus the c-jun AS cell line that is resistant to apoptosis induced by serum deprivation and can reversibly and viably be growth-arrested was established. A dual-signal model was proposed to explain the experimental result, the interlinked regulation of apoptosis, and growth by c-jun.© 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:65-72, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 380-386 
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    Keywords: reverse micelles ; cutinase ; deactivation ; conformational changes ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Deactivation data and fluorescence intensity changes were used to probe functional and structural stability of cutinase in reverse micelles. A fast deactivation of cutinase in anionic (AOT) reverse micelles occurs due to a reversible denaturation process. The deactivation and denaturation of cutinase is slower in small cationic (CTAB/1-hexanol) reverse micelles and does not occur when the size of the cationic reverse micellar water-pool is larger than cutinase. In both systems, activity loss and denaturation are coupled processes showing the same trend with time. Denaturation is probably caused by the interaction between the enzyme and the surfactant interface of the reversed micelle. When the size of the empty reversed micelle water-pool is smaller than cutinase (at W0 5, with W0 being the water:surfactant concentration ratio) a three-state model describes denaturation and deactivation with an intermediate conformational state existing on the path from native to denaturated cutinase. This intermediate was clearly detected by an increase in activity and shows only minor conformational changes relative to the native state. At W0 20, the size of the empty water-pool was larger than cutinase and the data was well described by a two-state model for both anionic and cationic reverse micelles. For AOT reverse micelles at W0 20, the intermediate state became a transient state and the deactivation and denaturation were described by a two-state model in which only native and denaturated cutinase were present. For CTAB/1-hexanol reverse micelles at W0 20, the native cutinase was in equilibrium with an intermediate state, which did not suffer denaturation. 1-Hexanol showed a stabilizing effect on cutinase in reverse micelles, contributing to the higher stabilities observed in the cationic CTAB/1-hexanol reverse micelles. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:380-386, 1998.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 34-42 
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    Keywords: allostery ; buried water molecules ; molecular recognition ; Na+ site ; thrombin ; trypsin ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Conservation of clusters of buried water molecules is a structural motif present throughout the serine protease family. Frequently, these clusters are shaped as water channels forming extensive hydrogen-bonding networks linked to the protein backbone. The most conspicuous example is the water channel present in the specificity pocket of trypsin and thrombin. In thrombin, other vitamin K-dependent proteases, and some complement factors, Na+ binds in this water channel and enhances allosterically the catalytic activity of the enzyme, whereas digestive and fibrinolytic proteases are devoid of such regulation. A comparative analysis of proteases with and without Na+ binding capability reveals the role of the water channel in maintaining the structural organization of the specificity pocket and in Na+ coordination. This enables the formulation of a molecular mechanism for Na+ binding in thrombin and leads to the identification of the structural changes necessary to engineer a functional Na+ site and enhanced catalytic activity in trypsin and other proteases. Proteins 30:34-42, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 43-48 
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    Keywords: molten globule ; α-lactalbumin ; calorimetry ; viscosimetry ; derivative spectroscopy ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Thermal and denaturant-induced transitions of the acid molten globule state of bovine α-lactalbumin (acid [A] state) are analyzed by scanning calorimetry, titration calorimetry, viscosimetry, and derivative spectroscopy. A denaturant-induced heat effect of the A state is shown by a calorimetric difference titration of the A-state versus unfolded (reduced) α-lactalbumin. However, changes of viscosity and derivative spectra do not parallel the heat effect. At thermal denaturation monitored by derivative spectroscopy and scanning microcalorimetry the presence of a gradual transition in α-lactalbumin A state is shown. The results are consistent with the existence of tertiary interactions in the A state and the absence of a cooperative unfolding transition of the molten globule. The results do not support the idea that the molten globule is a third thermodynamic state. Proteins 30:43-48, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 61-73 
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    Keywords: xenon ; krypton ; hydrophobic cavity ; protein-ligand binding ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: X-ray diffraction is used to study the binding of xenon and krypton to a variety of crystallised proteins: porcine pancreatic elastase; subtilisin Carlsberg from Bacillus licheniformis; cutinase from Fusarium solani; collagenase from Hypoderma lineatum; hen egg lysozyme, the lipoamide dehydrogenase domain from the outer membrane protein P64k from Neisseria meningitidis; urate-oxidase from Aspergillus flavus, mosquitocidal δ-endotoxin CytB from Bacillus thuringiensis and the ligand-binding domain of the human nuclear retinoid-X receptor RXR-α. Under gas pressures ranging from 8 to 20 bar, xenon is able to bind to discrete sites in hydrophobic cavities, ligand and substrate binding pockets, and into the pore of channel-like structures. These xenon complexes can be used to map hydrophobic sites in proteins, or as heavy-atom derivatives in the isomorphous replacement method of structure determination. Proteins 30:61-73, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 74-85 
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    Keywords: folding and binding ; kinetics ; pepstatin A ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The prediction of binding affinities from structure is a necessary requirement in the development of structure-based molecular design strategies. In this paper, a structural parameterization of the energetics previously developed in this laboratory has been incorporated into a molecular design algorithm aimed at identifying peptide conformations that minimize the Gibbs energy. This approach has been employed in the design of mutants of the aspartic protease inhibitor pepstatin A. The simplest design strategy involves mutation and/or chain length modification of the wild-type peptide inhibitor. The structural parameterization allows evaluation of the contribution of different amino acids to the Gibbs energy in the wild-type structure, and therefore the identification of potential targets for mutation in the original peptide. The structure of the wild-type complex is used as a template to generate families of conformational structures in which specific residues have been mutated. The most probable conformations of the mutated peptides are identified by systematically rotating around the side-chain and backbone torsional angles and calculating the Gibbs potential function of each conformation according to the structural parametrization. The accuracy of this approach has been tested by chemically synthesizing two different mutants of pepstatin A. In one mutant, the alanine at position five has been replaced by a phenylalanine, and in the second one a glutamate has been added at the carboxy terminus of pepstatin A. The thermodynamics of association of pepstatin A and the two mutants have been measured experimentally and the results compared with the predictions. The difference between experimental and predicted Gibbs energies for pepstatin A and the two mutants is 0.23 ± 0.06 kcal/mol. The excellent agreement between experimental and predicted values demonstrates that this approach can be used in the optimization of peptide ligands. Proteins 30:74-85, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 100-107 
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    Keywords: cytochrome c oxidase ; proton pump ; oxygen diffusion ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Cytochrome c oxidase is a redox-driven proton pump, which couples the reduction of oxygen to water to the translocation of protons across the membrane. The recently solved x-ray structures of cytochrome c oxidase permit molecular dynamics simulations of the underlying transport processes. To eventually establish the proton pump mechanism, we investigate the transport of the substrates, oxygen and protons, through the enzyme.   Molecular dynamics simulations of oxygen diffusion through the protein reveal a well-defined pathway to the oxygen-binding site starting at a hydrophobic cavity near the membrane-exposed surface of subunit I, close to the interface to subunit III.   A large number of water sites are predicted within the protein, which could play an essential role for the transfer of protons in cytochrome c oxidase. The water molecules form two channels along which protons can enter from the cytoplasmic (matrix) side of the protein and reach the binuclear center. A possible pumping mechanism is proposed that involves a shuttling motion of a glutamic acid side chain, which could then transfer a proton to a propionate group of heme α3. Proteins 30:100-107, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 183-192 
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    Keywords: chemical modification ; fluorescent probe ; site-directed mutagenesis ; cysteine-free protein ; alanine scanning ; enzyme reconstitution ; protein-DNA interaction ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: A monomercury derivative of fluoresceine acetate (FMMA) was previously suggested as a specific reagent reacting with only one of four cysteine (Cys) residues in the α subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. Here, we analyzed the reactivity against FMMA of both isolated α subunit and α subunit assembled in the holoenzyme. In both cases, the highest reactivity was identified for Cys-269 positioned in the regulatory helix of C-terminal domain (CTD) which includes the contact sites for both class-I transcription factors and DNA UP elements. Substitution of Ala for both Cys-269 and Cys-176 completely eliminates the reactivity of α subunit against the fluorescent dye, supporting the prediction that another reactive amino acid under native conformation is Cys-176, which is positioned within or near the region important for α dimerization and its binding of β' subunit. In the isolated α subunit, the reactivity against FMMA is different between these two Cys residues and the order is from Cys-269 to Cys-176. Mutant α-subunits, bearing only one Cys residue at either 269 or 176, could be reconstituted into locally modified and active enzymes. This FMMA modification system may provide a tool suitable for studies of intra- and intermolecular interactions of this subunit. Proteins 30:183-192, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 155-167 
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    Keywords: X-ray diffraction ; protein folding ; genetic engineering ; circular permutation ; 1,3-1,4-β-glucanase ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The 1,3-1,4-β-glucanases from Bacillus macerans and Bacillus licheniformis, as well as related hybrid enzymes, are stable proteins comprised of one compact jellyroll domain. Their structures are studied in an effort to reveal the degree of redundancy to which the three-dimensional structure of protein domains is encoded by the amino acid sequence. For the hybrid 1,3-1,4-β-glucanase H(A16-M), it could be shown recently that a circular permutation of the sequence giving rise to the variant cpA16M-59 is compatible with wildtype-like enzymatic activity and tertiary structure (Hahn et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:10417-10421, 1994). Since the circular permutation yielding cpA16M-59 mimicks that found in the homologous enzyme from Fibrobacter succinogenes, the question arose whether de novo circular permutations, not guided by molecular evolution of the 1,3-1,4-β-glucanases, could also produce proteins with native-like fold. The circularly permuted variants cpA16M-84, cpA16M-127, and cpA16M-154 were generated by PCR mutagenesis of the gene encoding H(A16-M), synthesized in Escherichia coli and shown to be active in β-glucan hydrolysis. CpA16M-84 and cpA16M-127 were crystallized in space groups P21 and P1, respectively, and their crystal structures were determined at 1.80 and 2.07 Å resolution. In both proteins the main parts of the β-sheet structure remain unaffected by the circular permutation as is evident from a root-mean-square deviation of main chain atoms from the reference structure within the experimental error. The only major structural perturbation occurs near the novel chain termini in a surface loop of cpA16M-84, which becomes destabilized and rearranged. The results of this study are interpreted to show that: (1) several circular permutations in the compact jellyroll domain of the 1,3-1,4-β-glucanases are tolerated without radical change of enzymatic activity or tertiary structure, (2) the three-dimensional structures of simple domains are encoded by the amino acid sequence with sufficient redundancy to tolerate a change in the sequential order of secondary structure elements along the sequence, and (3) the native N-terminal region is not needed to guide the folding polypeptide chain toward its native conformation. Proteins 30:155-167, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 193-212 
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    Keywords: secondary structure arrangements ; protein structure database ; left/right topology ; knowledge-based structure prediction ; intrinsic stability ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: We present a fully automatic structural classification of supersecondary structure units, consisting of two hydrogen-bonded β strands, preceded or followed by an α helix. The classification is performed on the spatial arrangement of the secondary structure elements, irrespective of the length and conformation of the intervening loops. The similarity of the arrangements is estimated by a structure alignment procedure that uses as similarity measure the root mean square deviation of superimposed backbone atoms. Applied to a set of 141 well-resolved nonhomologous protein structures, the classification yields 11 families of recurrent arrangements. In addition, fragments that are structurally intermediate between the families are found; they reveal the continuity of the classification. The analysis of the families shows that the α helix and β hairpin axes can adopt virtually all relative orientations, with, however, some preferable orientations; moreover, according to the orientation, preferences in the left/right handedness of the α-β connection are observed. These preferences can be explained by favorable side by side packing of the α helix and the β hairpin, local interactions in the region of the α-β connection or stabilizing environments in the parent protein. Furthermore, fold recognition procedures and structure prediction algorithms coupled to database-derived potentials suggest that the preferable nature of these arrangements does not imply their intrinsic stability. They usually accommodate a large number of sequences, of which only a subset is predicted to stabilize the motif. The motifs predicted as stable could correspond to nuclei formed at the very beginning of the folding process. Proteins 30:193-212, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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