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  • Heterocycles
  • 1
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    The Effect of the Carbon Ligand on the Reaction of Organozinc Reagents in the Synthesis of Substituted 2,5-Dihydrofurans: A Rare Example of An Uncatalysed Allylic-Substitution Reaction Involving Alkyl Zinc Halides (2000)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 1711-1718 
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    ISSN: 1434-193X
    Keywords: Heterocycles ; Zinc ; Palladium ; Catalysts ; Sulfur ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---Organozinc halides derived from Grignard reagents behave differently in their reaction with ethyl (±±)-(2RS,3SR)-tetrahydro-4-methylene-2-phenyl-3-(phenylsulfonyl)furan-3-carboxylate (3) according to the hybridisation of the carbon ligand. During the development of short multi-component reactions for the synthesis of diverse functionalized ethyl 2,5-dihydrofuran-3-carboxylates it was discovered that aryl and vinyl zinc halides undergo clean reaction with 3 in the presence of Pd(PPh3)4. In contrast, when alkyl zinc halides are reacted with 3 in the presence of Pd(PPh3)4, reductive desulfonation of 3 is observed. Remarkably, in the absence of a transition metal catalyst, the allylic substitution of 3 with alkyl zinc halides proceeds cleanly and in moderate to good yield.
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    1-Alkyl- and Azeto[1,2-a][1,5]benzodiazepine Derivatives in the Reaction of o-Phenylenediamine with 3-(Dimethylamino)propiophenones (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 1973-1976 
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    ISSN: 1434-193X
    Keywords: Benzodiazepines ; Heterocycles ; Azeto[1,2-a]-1,5-benzodiazepines ; Cyclizations ; Cycloadditions ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---The reaction of o-phenylenediamine (4) with one, two or three equivalents of p-substituted 3-dimethylaminopropiophenone hydrochlorides 5a-e was studied. 4-Aryl-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,5-benzodiazepine derivatives 6a-e were obtained in good yields, along with the 1:2-adducts 7c-e and the unexpected 1:3-adducts rac-8c-e. The type of adduct formed is determined by the molar ratio of the reactants 4 and 5 and by the nature of the substituent in the para position of the propiophenone 5.
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    Reaction of 1,3-Disubstituted Acetone Derivatives with Pseudohalides: A Simple Approach to Spiro[4.4]nonane-Type Bis-Oxazolidines and -Imidazolidines (Bicyclic Carbamates, Thiocarbamates, Ureas, and Thioureas) (2000)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 205-209 
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    ISSN: 1434-193X
    Keywords: Heterocycles ; Carbohydrates ; Imidazolidines ; Oxazolidines ; Spiro compounds ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---Prochiral 1,3-dihydroxyacetone forms racemic oxazolidine- and oxazoline-type spiro[4.4]nonanes upon reactions with potassium (thio)cyanate and cyanamide. In contrast, 1,3-diaminoacetone yields only the corresponding spiro-bisimidazolidinethione under similar conditions together with monocyclic by-products, but the spiro-bisimidazolidinone is accessible by reaction of 1,3-dichloroacetone with urea. The resolution of the racemic spiro-bisoxazolidinethione 2a was achieved by using brucine as the resolving agent.
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    Synthesis and Absolute Configuration of Hongoquercin A, an Antibacterial Sesquiterpene-Substituted Orsellinic Acid Isolated as a Fungal Metabolite (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 297-302 
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    Keywords: Antibiotics ; Configuration determination ; Heterocycles ; Hongoquercin A ; Terpenoids ; Total synthesis ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---(±)-Hongoquercin A (1), the racemate of an antibacterial fungal metabolite, has been synthesized starting from geranylacetone (2) and ethyl orsellinate (ethyl 2,4-dihydroxy-6-methylbenzoate, 5). The structure (±)-1 has been confirmed by X-ray analysis of its ethyl ester (±)-10. Synthesis of the naturally occurring (+)-hongoquercin A from (-)-sclareol (11) established its configuration as depicted in 1.
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    Proximate, syn-Periplanar Bisdiazene Skeletons: Syntheses, Structures, Homoconjugate Reactivity and Photochemistry (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 763-785 
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    ISSN: 1434-193X
    Keywords: Bisdiazenes ; Homoconjugation ; Photochemistry ; Heterocycles ; Diazenes ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---Rigid N=N/N=N (diazene/diazene) systems (F) consisting of more or less alkylated DBH and DBO chromophoric units (1, 2, X-ray structures), with very short π,π distances [d = 2.849 (1a, av.), 2.822 Å (2)] and almost perfect syn-periplanar π,π alignments [ω = 168.6 (1a), 174.2° (2)] as well as the more flexible, less “proximate” metathesis isomers (3a,c, 27a,c, d 〉4.6 Å, ω = 90-100°) have been synthesized. Homoconjugate π,π interaction (in 1, 2, not in 3, 27) is deduced from UV spectroscopic measurements [π → π* maxima at 239 (234) nm (sh, 260)], while PE analyses furnished only small interaction parameters (1a: 〈0.3 eV). The potential of the novel syn-periplanar N=N/N=N motif in 1 and 2 for the synthesis of somewhat exotic polyheterocycles has been explored by calculation (B3LYP) as well as experimentally: i.a. kinetically stabilized, all-cis-peralkylated tetrazolidines (38, 44) and perhydro-1,2,4,5-tetrazines (41, 47) have become accessible (i.a. via novel azomethine/diazene and azomethine/azomethine cycloadditions). In 1a with its unreactive DBO chromophoric subunits, in the “buttressed” derivatives 1b-d, as well as in the DBH/DBO combination 2, and likewise in more ‘distant’ 27 (differently from the analogous C=C/C=C and N=N/C=C systems), irrespective of the excitation conditions employed (light of λ ≥≥ 280, 254 nm, low temperature matrix irradiation, acetone sensitization) no [2+2]photocycloaddition was observed. Instead exclusively N2-elimination took place. It is argued that unproductive N=N/N=N photocycloaddition would have become observable through metathesis isomerization of the respective tetrazetidines.
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    Proximate, syn-Periplanar Diazene/Diazene(di)oxy, Diazeneoxy/Diazene(di)oxy, and Diazenedioxy/Diazenedioxy Skeletons: Syntheses, [2+2]Photocycloadditions, Metathesis (2000)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 787-806 
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    Keywords: Photochemistry ; Heterocycles ; Diazenes ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---Of two very proximate syn-periplanar bisdiazenes (1,2) mono-, di-, tri- and tetra-N-oxides were prepared, representing six combinations of the individual N=N/N=NO/ON=NO chromophores. According to DFT calculations (B3LYP/6-31G*), [2+2]photocycloaddition to the respective oxidized tetrazetidines is significantly to moderately endothermic. The metathesis isomerization of the oxidized tetrazetidines is generally highly exothermic and kinetically increasingly favorable with increasing oxidation state. In practice, four out of the six bichromophoric combinations undergo selectively, in competition with N2 elimination from a DBH unit (13) still partially, metathesis isomerization upon π → π* excitation (monochromatic 254 nm light). In the case of the syn-N=NO/N=NO combinations (5/6, 14), the photoaddition is thermally reversed. For a ON=NO/N=N combination (30), internal electron transfer is responsible for a complex reaction pattern. The preparative value of the metathesis reactions, though, is limited: The metathesis-derived bis[diazene mono(di)oxides] undergo relatively fast secondary photoreactions, while the tri(tetra)oxides undergo rapid thermal transformations. For the N=N/N=NO systems (12), of three potential pathways for its metathesis isomerization, the one that takes place via σ-symmetric intermediates (63, 64) is excluded by virtue of the retention of optical purity in the photometathesis of a highly enriched enantiomer [(-)-12]. Matrix irradiation experiments (12 K, IR control) with 12 result in the appearance of a kinetically highly labile transient. Supported by DFT calculations it is concluded that in the metathesis reactions, the respective tetrazetidine oxides (increasingly destabilized by interactions between oxygen lone pairs and NNσ* orbitals) function as vibrationally excited transients. That thermal reversion of these transients might be a general, nonproductive competition, is suggested by the experimental verification of a “reversed photometathesis” (51 → 15) and by the generally low rates in product formation upon irradiation. The question remains to be answered why in structurally analogous molecular skeletons, [2+2]photocycloaddition occurs in the C=C/N=N and variously oxidized N=N/N=N, and not, however, in the parent N=N/N=N combinations.
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    Synthesis of Ascididemine and an Isomer (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 849-855 
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    ISSN: 1434-193X
    Keywords: Marine alkaloids ; Heterocycles ; Natural products ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---Ascididemine (9H-quino[4,3,2-de][1,10]phenanthrolin-9-one) (1) and an isomer (9H-quino[4,3,2-de][1,7]phenanthrolin-9-one) (4) have been synthesized starting from 1,4-dimethoxyacridone (7). The acridone was converted into 1,4-dimethoxy-9-ethynylacridine (11) by a triflate coupling. The ethynylacridine was converted in one-pot into 3H-6-methoxypyrido[2,3,4-kl]acridine (15) by reaction with sodium diformylamide; the mechanism of this key transformation is discussed. Conversion into 6H-4-bromopyrido[2,3,4-kl]acridin-6-one (19) and 6H-pyrido[2,3,4-kl]acridin-6-one (17), followed by reaction of each of these under high pressure conditions with acrolein N,N-dimethylhydrazone, gave ascididemine and its isomer, respectively.
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    Polyol Peptidomimetics (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 1113-1120 
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    Keywords: Peptidomimetics ; Reverse turn mimetics ; Glycomimetics ; Heterocycles ; Lactams ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: -D-Glucurono-3,6-lactone and L-cysteine combine in a highly stereoselective manner to give the 7,5-bicyclic thiazolidinlactam 2. The α-hydroxy group of the D-glucurono-3,6-lactone was exchanged for an amino function (to give 13) and, after condensation with L-cysteine methyl ester, the polyol dipeptide 7 was obtained. Peptide couplings proceed without the need to protect the three secondary hydroxy groups of the seven-membered ring. The amino group of 7 was deprotected and selectively elongated to the pseudo-tripeptide 16. The depsipeptide 17 was obtained by condensation of Boc-Ala-OH with the polyol 2. Elongation at the carboxy terminus yielded 19 and 20. The bicyclic scaffold populates a well-defined solution conformation; the hydroxy groups mimic the side chains of hydrophilic amino acids and can be further functionalized.
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    Proximate, syn-Periplanar, Rigid Imine(Nitrone)/Ene-, and Diazene(Diazeneoxy)/Ene Systems: Syntheses, Homoconjugate Reactivity and Photochemistry (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 743-762 
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    Keywords: Chromophores ; Photochemistry ; Heterocycles ; Diazenes ; Imines ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---The chances for intramolecular imine/ene (→ azetidines), diazene/ene (→ 1,2-diazetidines), diazeneoxy/ene (→ 1,2-diazetidine oxides) and diazenedioxiene (→ 1,2-diazetidine dioxides) [2+2]photocycloadditions and for the isolation of the respective photoproducts, have been probed with specifically designed substrates. Upon direct or sensitized excitation, [2+2]cycloaddition was found to be the exclusive or at least dominant chemical process for the C=N/C=C, N=N/C=C and ON=N(O)/C=C systems featuring very small π,π-distances of 2.8-3.0 Å and large π,π-interorbital angles of 160-170° (7 → 51, 17 → 55, 33 → 58 (competing N2 elimination), 22 → 62). This is not the case, however, in ON=NO/C=C (23, where electron transfer is a possibility), or in the more flexible, less “proximate” C=N/C=N (57) and C=NO/C=N (63) systems (π,π-distances of 〉3.8 Å). While the corseted 1,2-diazetidine photoadducts (55, 58) proved to be thermally stable, their N-oxides (62, 65) were thermally too labile to be directly observable above -65 °C. For the latter's only fleeting existence, electronic rather than strain effects are held responsible (B3LYP/6-31G* calculations). Very facile C=NO/C=C (12 → 13) and N=NO/C=C (22 → 24) [3+2]cycloadditions, homoconjugate addition of H2 and of dienophiles ([2+2+2]) to the diazene/ene 17 (→ 39, 41, 45) are manifestations of “proximity” in these bichromophoric skeletons.
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    Oxidative Heterocyclization of 2-Alkynylbenzaldehydes with 1,2-Phenylenediamine (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 1433-1441 
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    Keywords: Alkynes ; Annelation reactions ; Carbonyl compounds ; Heterocycles ; Polycycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---Upon condensation of ortho-phenylenediamine (2) with ortho-alkynylbenzaldehydes in nitrobenzene, oxidative cyclizations are observed, which result in benzimidazo[2,1-a]isoquinolines (8) or isoindolo[2,1-a]quinoxalines (9) depending on the influence of additional substituents at the alkyne.
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    Synthesis of 5-Methylbenzo[b]thieno[2,3-c]isoquinolines and5-Methylbenzo[b]seleno[2,3-c]isoquinolines (2000)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 1353-1357 
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    ISSN: 1434-193X
    Keywords: Heterocycles ; Rearrangements ; C-C coupling ; C-C coupling ; Cyclizations ; Isoquinolines ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: -5-Methylbenzo[b]thieno[2,3-c]isoquinolines and 5-methylbenzo[b]seleno[2,3-c]isoquinolines 11b,c have been prepared by Bischler-Napieralski cyclization of 2-acetamido-3-phenylbenzo[b]heteroarenes.
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    Calculated Properties and Ring-Chain Rearrangements of Triphosphirane (P3H3) (2000)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 2000 (2000), S. 103-112 
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    ISSN: 1434-1948
    Keywords: Ab initio calculations ; Ionization potentials ; Phosphorus ; Heterocycles ; Small ring systems ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Ab initio quantum chemical calculations have been used to explore the P3H3 potential energy surface focussing on the ring-chain rearrangements of the three-membered ring in (PH)3 (1), the parent triphosphirane. Relative energies between stationary points were estimated using the QCISD(T)/6-311G(d,p) method based on MP2/6-31G(d,p) geometries and corrected for zero-point contributions. Ring strain, proton affinities, ionization and excitation energies and heats of formation have been evaluated using larger basis sets, e.g. 6-311++G(3df,2p). The cyclic trans-triphosphirane (1a) is the most stable P3H3 isomer and lies about 40 kJ/mol below the open-chain phosphanyldi-phosphene (H2P-P=PH). The decrease of ring strain in three-membered rings when CH2 is replaced by PH is confirmed. Triphosphirane 1a is a virtually strain-free ring and even gains some stabilization relative to three separate P-P single bonds. The reduced ring strain also helps diminish the phosphorus inversion barrier to 224 kJ/mol compared to the monocyclic isomers of (CH2)(PH)2 and (CH2)2(PH). Compound 1a follows a pure ring-opening or a 1,2-hydrogen shift rather than a combined motion pathway, in fundamental contrast with corresponding processes of diphosphirane and phosphirane. This is due to the existence of an open-chain P3H3 phosphorane intermediate stabilized by allylic conjugation. The pericyclic ring-opening of 1a is the most favored process but the energy barrier in the gas phase is about 180 kJ/mol high. Electron density is largely delocalized within the three-membered P3 ring not only in the C3v-symmetric 1b (all-cis) but also in 1a (Cs). The proton affinity of 1a is similar to that of PH3. The proton affinities decrease with n in cyclo-(CH3)3 -n(PH)n and their values were obtained: PA(1a) = 777 ±10, PA(diphosphirane) = 799 ±10 and PA(phosphirane) = 802 ±10 kJ/mol. Heats of formation are evaluated as follows (ΔH°f0 at 0 K in kJ/mol): 1a, 70 ±10; cyclo-(PH)2(PH2)+ (protonated 1a), 821 ±10; diphosphirane, 85 ±10; cyclo-(CH2)(PH)(PH2)+ (protonated diphosphirane), 814 ±10; phosphirane, 86 ±10; and protonated phosphirane, 812 ±10 kJ/mol. All P rings remain cyclic following ionization to the radical cations. Adiabatic ionization energies (IEa) are estimated as: 1a and diphosphirane, 9.3 ±0.3 eV and phosphirane 9.5 ±0.3 eV. The first UV absorption band shifts toward the longer wavelength region on going from phosphirane to 1a. The GIAO/B3LYP computed magnetic shieldings for 1a and related molecules reveal a clear relationship between the narrow bond angles in the rings and their unusually strong magnetic shielding. The similarity of the predicted 31P-NMR signals in 1a and its heteroanalog diphosphirane, (CH2)(PH)2, can be rationalized in terms of a compensation of the carbon-substituent effect (downfield shift) and the bond-bending effect imposed by the ring (upfield shift).
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    Novel Fluorescent Dyes by the Extension of the Core of Perylenetetracarboxylic Bisimides (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 365-380 
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    Keywords: Fluorescent dyes ; Perylenes ; Heterocycles ; NIR dyes ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---Core-extended perylenetetracarboxylic bisimides were prepared by Diels-Alder reaction followed by reduction, or by nitration followed by cyclisation. Highly fluorescent dyes were obtained with absorption regions from the visible to the NIR. Applications for solar energy harvesting, and quantum counters were suggested.
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    Preparation and Characterization of Cyanovinyl-Substituted 2-Aminothiophenes and 2-Aminothiazoles and Some of Their Heterooligomers (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 1327-1334 
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    Keywords: Heterocycles ; Thiophenes ; Solvatochromism ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: -The reaction of 2,2-dicyanoethenyl- and 1,2,2-tricyanoethenyl-substituted bromoalkanes, bromomethyl benzenes, thiophenes, and furans 19-22 with 3-aminothioacrylamides and their 2-azaanalogues 23 and 24 gives a series of 5-dicyanoethenyl- and 5-tricyanoethenyl-substituted 2-aminothiophenes, 2-aminothiazoles and their (hetero)benzologous analogues 25-32. The solvatochromism, which is a characteristic feature of these donor-acceptor substituted heterocyclic compounds, was studied in detail and correlated with the Kamlet-Taft solvent parameters.
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    Nucleophilic Substitution of 4H-Imidazoles - A Key Step in the Synthesis of Fused Imidazoles and New Chromophores (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 1661-1668 
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    Keywords: Imidazoles ; Nucleophilic substitutions ; Fulvenes ; Pseudo-azulenes ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---The electrophilic properties of the 4H-imidazoles 1 and their protonated derivatives 2 permit the introduction of nucleophilic building blocks, as illustrated by reactions of 1 with selected amines. Depending on the nature of the amine and the substituents R1 on the heterocycle 1, single (3) or double (4) transamination is observed. The 1H-NMR spectra of the products, as well as X-ray structure analyses of compounds 3f and 4c, confirm that the residues at the 4- and/or 5-positions of 1 are exchanged. The tautomerism between 3e-h and 3e′-h′ seems to be central to the chemistry of these mixed substituted derivatives. Using orthoesters and acetophenone dimethylacetal as cyclization partners, the imidazo[4,5-d]imidazoles 5 and the 4H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyrazines 6 are obtained, respectively. Reduction of 3e with Zn/HCl or H2S leads to the air-sensitive, strongly fluorescent leuco compounds 8. Quenching of 8 by addition of aromatic aldehydes results in a condensation reaction and, coupled with the subsequent redox disproportionation, this conversion constitutes an alternative route to imidazo[4,5-d]imidazoles of type 11. The unexpected reaction of 3e-h with Lawesson's reagent allows synthesis of the 6-azapentafulvenes 14. The relevant spectral data show 14 to be members of a new chromophoric system, in which an electron-rich five-membered ring is coupled with an electron-deficient ring.
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    A Simple Stereoselective Synthesis of Enantiopure 2-Substituted Pyrrolidines and Piperidines from Chiral (R)-Phenylglycinol-Derived Bicyclic 1,3-Oxazolidines (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 1719-1726 
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    Keywords: Asymmetric synthesis ; Nitrogen heterocycles ; Heterocycles ; Pyrrolidines ; Piperidines ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---Chiral, nonracemic 2-substituted pyrrolidines and piperidines were prepared in high ee and moderate to good chemical yields in three steps from (R)-phenylglycinol and γ- or δ-chloroketones. The key step of the synthesis was the stereoselective reductive ring-opening of chiral bicyclic 1,3-oxazolidines prepared by condensation of (R)-phenylglycinol and the corresponding ketones.
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    Substituted Tetraoxa[8]circulenes - New Members of the Liquid Crystal Family (2000)
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    Liebigs Annalen 2000 (2000), S. 1637-1640 
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    Keywords: Circulenes ; Heterocycles ; Liquid crystals ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---A general method for the synthesis of substituted tetraoxa[8]circulenes based on alkylation of 2,3-bis(bromomethyl)-1,4-dimethoxybenzene with acetylides is reported. Four of the compounds shows LC behavior, and the tetraoxa[8]circulenes are thus new candidates for discotic mesogens.
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    Syntheses of Batzelline A, Batzeline B, Isobatzelline A, and Isobatzelline B (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 1173-1183 
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    Keywords: Marine alkaloids ; Pyrroloquinoline ; Total synthesis ; Heterocycles ; Alkaloids ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: -Batzellines A and B (1a, b) and isobatzellines A and B (2a, b) are 1,3,4,5-tetrahydropyrrolo[4,3,2-de]quinoline-containing marine alkaloids characterized by the presence of a methylthio substituent at C-2 of the tricyclic system. We describe here the total synthesis of these natural compounds following the synthetic strategy that we have used previously for the synthesis of damirones A and B, batzelline C, isobatzelline C, discorhabdin C, and makaluvamines A, B, C, and D. The introduction of the methylthio group by electrophilic substitution of a pyrrolo[4,3,2-de]quinoline, appropriately substituted and in a suitable oxidation state, is the key step in the success of these syntheses.
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    Intramolecular Copper- and Rhodium-Mediated Carbenoid Reactions of α-(Propargyloxy)silyl-α-diazoacetates (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 1213-1221 
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    Keywords: Diazo compounds ; Carbenes ; Carbenoids ; Silicon ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: -Copper(I) triflate catalyzes the transformation of α-[(2-alkynyl)oxy]silyl-α-diazoacetates 1a-g into 1,2-bis(2,5-dihydro-1,2-oxasilol-4-yl)ethenes 2 and/or 2H-1,2-oxasilines 3. With rhodium(II) perfluorobutyrate as catalyst, 1a-e furnish only 3 but no 2. Bicyclic 2-methoxyfurans 6 are formed when 1a,c,e (containing terminal alkyne functions) are treated with catalytic amounts of copper(I) chloride. The experimental observations are explained in terms of metal-mediated intramolecular cyclopropenation and subsequent metal-assisted ring-opening of the strained bicyclic cyclopropene leading to vinylcarbene-metal complexes. An unusual autoxidation of 2H-1,2-oxasilines 3a,c,e is also described.
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    The Preparation of 2,3,5-Tri- and 2,3-Disubstituted Furans by Regioselective Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions: Application to the Syntheses of Rosefuran and the F5 Furan Fatty Acid (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 2045-2057 
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    Keywords: Homogenous catalysis ; Palladium ; Cross-coupling ; Heterocycles ; Synthetic methods ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The 5-acceptor-substituted 2,3-dibromofurans 1 and 2 underwent a regioselective Pd0-catalyzed coupling reaction at the C-2 carbon atom. With alkynes the corresponding 2-alkynylfurans 4 and 5 were accessible (49-97% yield). Alkyl-, aryl-, and alkenylzinc reagents gave the 2-substituted furans 8 starting from compound 2 (66-84% yield). The 2-allylfurans 8e and 8f were obtained by a regioselective Stille coupling in 79% and 73% yield. The latter reaction was also applied to the parent 2,3-dibromofuran (27) and yielded the substitution product 28 (60% yield). Subsequent Pd0-catalyzed reactions to introduce a methyl group in 3-position by a methyldebromination were successfully conducted for 2-alkynyl-3-bromofurans with MeZnCl and PdCl2(PPh3)2 as the catalyst in THF (reflux) to yield compounds 13-16 and 24 (67-76%) and with SnMe4 and PdCl2[P(o-Tol)3]2 as the catalyst in DMA (90 °C) for the 2-allyl-3-bromofuran 8e to yield 18 (70%). The more facile reaction of the 2-alkynylfurans relative to those of furans bearing an sp3-carbon atom at C-2 appears to be due to steric reasons. Studies on the 2-alkyl-3-bromofuran 20 supported this notion. With the regioselective coupling methodology the terpene rosefuran (22) was prepared in four steps starting from furan 2 (35% yield overall). The F5 furan fatty acid (26) was synthesized from furan 1 in five steps (29% yield overall).
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    Synthesis of (-)-Cytoxazone, a Novel Cytokine Modulator Isolated from Streptomyces sp. (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 2965-2967 
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    Keywords: Amino alcohol ; Asymmetric synthesis ; Cell signaling ; Dihydroxylations ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: Cytoxazone [(4R,5R)-(-)-5-hydroxymethyl-4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2-oxazolidinone, 1], a new immunosuppressant, was synthesized by starting from p-methoxycinnamyl alcohol (2) employing the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation as the key reaction in 26% overall yield (7 steps).
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    Borane Insertion into Group-4 Metal-to-Carbon Bonds: The Reaction of HB(C6F5)2 with (η2-Formaldehyde)zirconocene Dimer and with (Butadiene)zirconocene (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 2243-2247 
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    Keywords: Metallaoxirane ; HBR2 addition ; (Formaldehyde)zirconocene ; (Butadiene)zirconocene ; Heterocycles ; Boron ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: (η2-Formaldehyde)zirconocene dimer (8) cleanly adds one or two molar equivalents of the borane HB(C6F5)2 by insertion of the H-[B] unit into the zirconium-carbon bond of the metallaoxirane moieties to form the mono- and bis-insertion products 16 and 17, respectively. These systems contain five-membered heterocyclic rings that are built up by connecting five different elements, namely H, B, C, O, and Zr. The bis(borane) insertion product 17 was characterized by an X-ray crystal structure analysis. (Butadiene)zirconocene reacts with HB(C6F5)2 in a similar way by insertion of the H-[B] unit into the (butadiene)C4-Zr linkage to form the metallacycle 18.
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    Insights into the Staudinger Reaction: Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Stabilization of cis-Phosphazides (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 1659-1664 
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    Keywords: Phosphorus ; Iminophosphorane ; Staudinger reaction ; Heterocycles ; Ab initio calculations ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The Staudinger-model reaction H3P (1) + HN3 (2) → H3P=NH (5) + N2 (6) has been investigated at the CCSD(T)/6-31G**//MP2(Full)/6-31G* level. Primary products formed in this reaction are the phosphazides H3P=N-N=NH (3) which exist as trans and cis isomers. In contrast to some previous assumptions, cis -3is 8.2 kcal mol-1 more stable than trans -3 but decomposes rather easily into the expected products H3P=NH and N2. This decomposition can be effectively hampered by intramolecular donor-acceptor interactions as shown by calculations on model compounds as well as by experiments. Thus the reaction of a methylene-σ3,λ3-phosphanyl-σ5,λ5-phosphorane with PhN3 led to a new four-membered heterocycle containing a thermally remarkable stable cis-phosphazide moiety.
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    New Inorganic Metallacycles and the First Six-Membered Covalent “True” Heterocycle - Oxidation of RC(E)NHPPh2 (E = O or S; R = H2N, Ph, or Py) with O, S, or Se to Give RC(E)NHP(E′)Ph2 (E′ = O, S, Se) and Their Coordination Chemistry (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 1445-1452 
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    Keywords: Metallacycles ; Solid-state structures ; Heterocycles ; Oxidations ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: Direct oxidation of PhC(O)NHPPh2, H2NC(S)NHPPh2, (C5H4N)C(S)NHPPh2 with O2, S8, or Se gives [PhC(O)NHP(O)Ph2] (1), [H2NC(S)NHP(S)Ph2] (2), [H2NC(O)NHP-(S)Ph2] (3), [PhC(O)NHP(S)Ph2] (4), [(C5H4N)C(S)NHP(S)Ph2] (5), and [H2NC(S)NHP(Se)Ph2] (6). Deprotonation of 1, 2, 4-6 with potassium tert-butoxide gives K[PhC(O)NP(O)Ph2] (7), K[H2NC(S)NP(S)Ph2] (8), K[PhC(O)NP(S)Ph2] (9), K[(C5H4N)C(S)NP(S)Ph2] (10), and K[H2NC(S)NP(Se)Ph2] (11). Reaction of 4with KOBu and [Cu(Ph3P)2][NO3] gives [Cu(Ph3P)(PhC(O)NP(S)Ph2)] (12) which is the first crystallographically characterised example of a non-ionic six-membered “true” heterocycle (i.e. a ring in which every heterocatom is different). 9 and 10 were treated with [PdCl2(COD)] to give [Pd{PhC(O)NP(S)Ph2}2] (13) and [Pd{(C5H4N)C(O)NP(S)Ph2}2] (14), respectively The anion of 8 coordinates to zinc forming [Zn{H2NC(S)NP(S)Ph2}2] (15). Treatment of 2 or 8 with [PtCl2(COD)] gives [Pt{H2NC(S)NP(S)Ph2}{H2NC(S)NHP(S)Ph2}]+Cl- (16) and [Pt{H2NC(S)NP(S)Ph2}2] (17), respectively. The X-ray structures of 12, 15-17are reported.
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    Syntheses, Structures, and Coordination of Diborylbipyridines and Bipyridinediborates (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 393-398 
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    Keywords: Boranes ; Bipyridine ; Crystal structures ; Donor-acceptor interaction ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: 6,6′-Bis(diethylboryl)-2,2′-bipyridine (1a) was obtained in low yield by in situ deprotonation of 2,2′-bipyridine in the presence of diethyl(methoxy)borane. 6,6′-Dilithio-2,2′-bipyridine reacts with various alkoxyboranes leading to bipyridinediborates 2 in good yields. The derivatives 2b and 2c allow the formation of the free diborylbipyridines 1b and 1c. The coordination properties of the diboryl-bipyridines as tetrafunctional donor-acceptor compounds have been used for the formation of the copper complex 4 and of the adduct 5 which is built from diborylbipyridine and a dihydroxydiboroxan derivative. The composition of the products follows from spectroscopic data and from X-ray structure analyses for 2f, 4, and 5.
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    Synthesis and Structure of 2-Hydro-, 2-Alkyl-, 2-Alkynyl-, and 2-Stannyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaboroles (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 491-497 
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    Keywords: Boron ; Diazaboroles ; Hydrides ; Tin ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: 1,3-Di-tert-butyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaborole (4a) and 1,3-bis(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaborole (4b) were formed by the reaction of the corresponding 2-bromo or 2-iodo derivatives 1a and 2b with LiAlH4. Treatment of 1a with n-butyllithium afforded 2-n-butyl-1,3-di-tert-butyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaborole (5a), whereas 1,3-di-tert-butyl-2-cyano-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaborole (3a) was converted into the 2-tert-butyl derivative 6a or the 2-ethynyl-1,3,2-diazaborole 7a by means of tert-butyllithium or by the ethylenediamine adduct of lithium acetylide. Similarly, 1,3-di-tert-butyl-2-trimethylstannyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaborole (8a) and 1,3-bis(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-2-trimethylstannyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaborole (8b) were accessible from 1a or 2b and trimethylstannyllithium. In the complex 9a the compound 3a serves as an η1 ligand towards the [Cr(CO)5] unit via the cyano group. These novel compounds were characterized by 1H-, 11B-, 13C-, and 119Sn-NMR spectroscopy, as well as by X-ray structure analyses of 4b, 8a, and 9a.
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    Reactions of 1,8-Diheterocyclotetradeca-4,11-diynes with (η4-Cycloocta-1,5-diene)(η5-cyclopentadienyl)cobalt (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 499-504 
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    Keywords: Alkynes ; Heterocycles ; Cyclizations ; Cobalt ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The following monocyclic and bicyclic 14-membered diynes were treated with [CpCo(cod)]: 1-oxacyclotetradeca-4,11-diyne (2), 1,8-dioxacyclotetradeca-4,11-diyne (3), cyclotetradeca-4,11-diynone (4), cyclotetradeca-4,11-diyne-1,8-dione (5), 1,1,8,8-tetramethyl-1,8-disilacyclotetradeca-4,11-diyne (6), 1-allyl-1-azacyclotetradeca-4,11diyne (7), 1,8-dipropyl-1,8-diazacyclotetradeca-1,11-diyne (8), 1,8-diallyl-1,8-diazacyclotetradeca-4,11-diyne (9), 1,8-diazabicyclo[6.6.4]octadeca-4,11-diyne (10), 1,8-diazabicyclo[6.6.6]eicosa-4,11-diyne (11), 1,10-diazabicyclo[8.6.6]docosa-13,19-diyne (12) and 1,12-diazabicyclo[10.6.6]tetracosa-15,21-diyne (13). In all cases we obtained an intramolecular cyclobutadiene complex stabilized with a CpCo fragment (15-26). For 3 we could isolate, besides the cyclobutadiene complex 16, the trimerization product 28. In the cases of 15, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, and 26 the structure of the cylobutadiene complexes could be confirmed by X-ray studies. Common to all structures is a boat-like conformation of the tricyclic unit containing the cyclobutadiene ring. The two cycloheptene units adopt a chair conformation in which the heteroatom is removed from the metal center.
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    Synthesis, X-ray Crystal Structures and Reactivity Towards Alkynes of Gold(I)-Phosphinine Complexes (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 2233-2241 
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    Keywords: Phosphorus ; Heterocycles ; Phosphinines ; Gold ; Cycloadditions ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The coordination behaviour of 2,6-disilyl-substituted phosphinines towards gold(I) has been examined. The reaction of the bis(trimethylsilyl)phosphinine 1 with [AuCl(SMe2)] gives the corresponding AuCl derivative 2. X-ray crystal structure analysis reveals that the aromaticity of the phosphinine ring is slightly reduced as a result of the poor π-back bonding ability of the AuCl fragment. The same phenomenon is observed in the cationic complex [Au(1)2][GaCl4] (3) which was readily prepared by reaction of two equivalents of 1 with [AuCl(SMe2)] followed by treatment with GaCl3 at low temperature. Reaction of 2,6-bis(phenylethynyldimethylsilyl)phosphinine (4) with the same precursor leads similarly to the complex [AuCl(4)] (5). Interestingly, this complex dimerizes upon crystallization to give the bis(phosphabarrelene) complex 6, also structurally characterized. The formation of 6 results from a [4 + 2] cycloaddition between one alkynyl group of each phosphinine with the other phosphinine subunit. The formation of the cationic complex [Au(4)][GaCl4] (8) occurs under classical conditions but it disproportionates to give the cationic complex [Au(4)2][GaCl4] (9) and colloidal gold deposition. The formation of 9 has been ascertained by treating 8 with one equivalent of ligand 4. Additionally, 9 can also be obtained in a straightforward fashion by treating two equivalents of 4 with [AuCl(SMe2)] followed by treatment with GaCl3 at low temperature. The structure of 9 has been elucidated. Despite a particular arrangement of the alkyne groups which encapsulate the gold coordination sphere, no gold-alkyne interactions are visible.
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    Intramolecular Donor-Assisted Cyclization of Organotin Compounds (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 887-898 
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    Keywords: Tin ; Phosphorus ; Intramolecular coordination ; O ligands ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: New intramolecularly coordinated organotin compounds containing the monoanionic O,C,O-coordinating ligand {4-tert-Bu-2,6-[P(O)(OEt)2]2C6H2}- have been synthesized by substitution reactions starting from organotin halides. In view of the enhanced reactivity of the intramolecularly coordinated compounds {4-tert-Bu-2,6-[P(O)(OEt)2]2C6H2}SnR2R′ (2, R = Ph, R′ = CH2SiMe3; 3, R = R′ = Ph; 6, R = R′ = Cl), cationic tin species are suggested to occur as intermediates in the formation of the heterocyclic compounds [1(Sn),3(P)-Ph2SnOP(O)(OEt)-5-tert-Bu-7-P(O)(OEt)2]C6H2 (8), [1(Sn), 3(P)-Ph(Me3SiCH2)SnOP(O)(OEt)-5-tert-Bu-7-P(O)(OEt)2]C6H2 (15), and {[1(Sn),3(P)-Cl2SnOP(O)(OEt)-5-tert-Bu-7-P(O)(OEt)]C6H2}2 (16). The latter compounds are formed by intramolecular cyclizations of pentacoordinate cationic tin species under elimination of ethyl halide. Furthermore, the synthesis of [1(Sn),3(P)-Ph2SnOP(O)(OH)-5-tert-Bu-7-P(O)(OH)2]C6H2 (13) is described. Reaction of 8 with an excess of Me3SiBr leads to the unexpected formation of {2-[P(O)(OEt)(OSiMe3)]-4-tert-Bu-6-[P(O)(OEt)2]C6H2}SnPhBr2 (9) as a result of an O-Sn bond cleavage initiated by Me3SiBr and subsequent reaction of the intermediate with further Me3SiBr under Sn-C bond cleavage. The high donor capacity and the rigidity of the new ligand {4-tert-Bu-2,6-[P(O)(OEt)2]2C6H2}- are demonstrated by X-ray diffraction analyses of the tetraorganotin compound 2 and the monoorganotin trichloride 6. Furthermore, the molecular structures of the 2,3,1-oxaphosphastannoles 8 and 16 are discussed.
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    Cyclic Ketiminoboranes (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 7-9 
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    Keywords: Boranes ; Diazaboroles ; Heterocycles ; Ketiminoboranes ; Crystal Structures ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The cyclocondensation reaction of benzil-bis(trimethylsilylimin) (3) and Cl2B-NiPr2 via silicon-boron exchangeresults in the solvent-dependent formation of the 1,3,2-diazaborole 1a or the 1,3,6,8,2,7-tetraazadiborecin 2a. Using the more rigid 9,10-bis(trimethylsilylimino)phenanthrene instead of 3 only the five-membered heterocycle 4,5-biphenylene-2-diisopropylamino-1,3,2-diazaborole (1b) is formed. The cyclic ketiminoboranes are characterized by NMR and X-ray diffraction data. The 1,3,2-diazaborole ring is almost planar, while the conformation of the 1,3,6,8,2,7-tetraazadiborecin has the shape of a figure-eight loop.
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    Synthesis and 1H-, 15N-, 31P-, 183W-Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Cyclotriphosphazenes [N3P3(dobp)2(OC5H4N-4)2] and [N3P3(dobp)(OC5H4N-4)4] and Their W(CO)5 Complexes (dobp = 2,2′-dioxybiphenyl) (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 1015-1020 
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    Keywords: Cyclotriphosphazenes ; Oxypyridine ; Carbonyltungsten compounds ; NMR spectroscopy ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The reactions of [N3P3(dobp)2Cl2] and [N3P3(dobp)Cl4] with a mixture of HOC5H4N-4 and K2CO3 in acetone give the cyclotriphosphazenes [N3P3(dobp)2(OC5H4N-4)2] and [N3P3(dobp)(OC5H4N-4)4], respectively. These compounds react with [W(MeOH)(CO)5] in methanol to give mixtures of the polymetallic complexes [N3P3(dobp)2(OC5H4N-4)2{W(CO)5}x] (x = 1, 2) and [N3P3(dobp)(OC5H4N-4)4{W(CO)5}x] (x = 1-4), which are unstable in solution, slowly undergoing loss of the pentacarbonyl moiety. A complete characterization by multinuclear 1H, 15N, 31P, 183W magnetic resonance has revealed that the complexation of the N atom of one 4-oxypyridine ligand by the W(CO)5 fragment has a measurable effect on other parts of the phosphazene molecule very far away from the coordination site. The changes observed in δ183W have been used to identify the components in mixtures of compounds incorporating different numbers of tungsten atoms in the molecule. The characterization of less sensitive nuclei has been accomplished by means of indirect detection methods.
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    Novel Condensed Thionated Bis(phosphonic) Acid Salts with a Rigid Naphthalene-1,8-diyl Backbone (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 2327-2333 
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    Keywords: Heterocycles ; Organo-phosphorus compounds ; Dithiadiphosphetane disulfides ; Phosphonates ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: New salts of thionated (naphthalene-1,8-diyl)bis(phosphonic) acid monoanhydrides [PPh4+]2[C10H6PS2(μ-S)PS22-] (2) and [K+]2[C10H6PS2(μ-S)POS2-]·H2O (3) both containing the C3P2S ring, were prepared in high yields by the reaction of 2,4-(naphthalene-1,8-diyl)-1,3,2,4-dithiadiphosphetane 2,4-disulfide (1) with NaHS and PPh4Cl, or KOH, respectively, in water. The derivative 3, containing a P=O terminal bond as well as P-S-P bridge, undergoes, in acid conditions, a rearrangement reaction leading to the O,S-symmetrically substituted derivative [K+]2[C10H6PS2(μ-O)PS22-] (4) containing a C3P2O heterocycle. Dipotassium salt 4 was converted into the bis(tetraphenylphosphonium) salt 5 by the treating with PPh4Cl. Hydrolysis of [PyH+][C10H6P(S)(NHMe)(μ-S)PS22-] (15) led to [CH3NH3+][PyH+][C10H6POS(μ-O)POS2-]·1.5 Py (6). New compounds were characterised by 31P{1H}-, 1H- and 13C{1H}-NMR, FT-IR, ES-MS and in the cases 2-6 by X-ray structure determination. The 31P{1H}-NMR spectra of these mixed O,S-derivatives are briefly discussed.
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    Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of 3,4-Dihydro-2H-1,2,4,3-triazaboroles (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 1193-1198 
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    Keywords: Boron ; Triazaboroles ; Heterocycles ; Halogens ; Cyanides ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: 3,4-Dihydro-2,4-diphenyl-2H-1,2,4,3-triazaboroles 3a, 3b, and 4 were synthesized by cyclocondensation of N1,N3-diphenylformamidrazone (1) with dibromophenylborane, dibromomethylborane, and boron trichloride. 3-Chloro-3,4-dihydro-2,4-diphenyl-2H-1,2,4,3-triazaborole (4) was converted into 3,4-dihydro-2,4-diphenyl-2H-1,2,4,3-triazaborole (5) by treatment with LiAlH4. The corresponding 3-cyanato and 3-cyano derivatives 6 and 7 resulted from the reaction of 4 with AgOCN and AgCN, respectively. Compound 7 was transformed into the bis(1,2,4,3-triazaborolyl)oxane 8 by silver oxide. Compounds 1-8 were characterized by elemental analyses and spectroscopic methods (1H, 11B, and 13C NMR; IR; MS). The molecular structure of 8 was established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis.
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    The Synthesis of Novel Cyclic β-Amino Acids as Intermediates for the Preparation of Bicyclic β-Lactams (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 2433-2441 
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    Keywords: Amino acids ; Lactams ; Schiff bases ; Nitrogen heterocycles ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: Several derivatives of homopipecolic acid are prepared by α-amino alkylation of malonic acid with cyclic imines 6 and 7. These are prepared on a large scale and with different substitution patterns. The β-amino acids 8 and 9 were formed in high yield and with remarkable diastereoselectivity if chiral imines are used as starting materials. The diastereoselectivity of the amino alkylation leading to homopipecolic acid analogues is compared to those of thiazolidineacetic acids by epimerisation experiments. A method for resolution of the obtained racemic β-amino acids by diastereomeric salt formation is described. The β-amino acids 9 and 15 were converted into their corresponding carbacepham analogues 14 and isopenam 16. The isopenam endo-16 was selectively epimerised by mild basic treatment of the N/S-acetal to give an exo-configured precursor of isopenicillin G.
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    Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of 3-Acetoxy-N-(tert-butyloxycarbonyl)-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine - Preparation of Key Intermediates for Natural Product Synthesis (1999)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 2515-2521 
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    Keywords: Asymmetric synthesis ; Heterocycles ; Palladium ; Alkylations ; Allyl complexes ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: A convenient synthesis of racemic tetrahydropyridine 1 was developed. Pd-catalyzed allylic alkylation of 1 with malonate and dimethylacetoxymalonate as nucleophiles with the phosphanylcarboxylic acid L1 and the dihydrooxazol L2 as ligands, were carried out and gave enantiomeric excesses of up to 98%. Absolute configurations were determined for all compounds described. From the alkylation products (+)- and (-)-2a, and (+)- and (-)-2b a variety of versatile, nonracemic chiral intermediates were prepared.
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    Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions with the 3-Borane-1,4,5-trimethylimidazol-2-ylidene Anion. - Unexpected Formation of an Imidazabole Isomer (1999)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 789-793 
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    Keywords: Boranes ; Carbenes ; Heterocycles ; Imidazoles ; X-ray structures ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The nucleophilic carbene 3-borane-1,4,5-trimethylimidazol-2-ylidene anion (1-) reacts with the electrophiles CH3I, (CH3)3SiCl, (CH3)3SnCl, and the bromodiazaboroline 7 to form the 2-substituted imidazoles 4, 5, 6, and 8. With triethylborane, the anionic carbene borane adduct 9- is obtained. An unexpected result was achieved when chlorodimethoxyborane and HBCl2 · S(CH3)2 were used as electrophiles. In both cases only the imidazabole 14a could be isolated. Imidazole 5, the imidazole borane adduct 3a and the imidazabole 14a were characterized by X-ray structure analyses.
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    Carbon=Carbon Hydrogenation of Silicon-Functionalized Silaheterocycles (1999)
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    Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 1999 (1999), S. 1095-1102 
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    Keywords: Silanorbornenes ; Silanorbornanes ; Silicon-functionalized olefins ; Silacyclobutanes ; Hydrogenations ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: Catalytic hydrogenation of olefins containing functionalized silicon groups affords the saturated products in good yields. Chloro and alkoxy substituents at the silicon atom remain unaffected and, in the case of heterocyclic compounds, the cyclic or bicyclic moieties remain intact. The 2-silanorbornanes 4, 5, and 6 were synthesized from the corresponding 2-silanorbornenes 1, 2, and 3, and organosilanes 13 and 14 possessing the cyclopentyl group, were prepared from the cyclopentenyl-substituted precursors 10 and 12. The 3-vinyl-substituted silacyclobutanes 15, 17, and 18 were also hydrogenated in a simple apparatus with diethyl ether or THF as solvent, and Pd/C as a recoverable catalyst system. A basic organosilicon compound, trichloro(vinyl)silane, is hydrogenated in a nearly quantitative yield to form the saturated trichloro(ethyl)silane; this emphasizes the general applicability of this method.
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    Synthesis of N-Acetylglucosaminyl and Diacetylchitobiosyl Amides of Heterocyclic Carboxylic Acids as Potential Chitinase Inhibitors (1999)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 2293-2297 
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    Keywords: Carboxylic acid amides ; Chitinase ; Chitobiose ; Heterocycles ; Enzyme inhibitors ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: 2-(Dimethylamino)oxazoline-4-carboxylic acids 5 were prepared by condensation of binucleophilic amino acids 4and O-ethyl-N,N-dimethylisourea 3. New heterocyclic N-acetylglucosaminyl amides and chitobiosyl amides 8 were obtained by the coupling of tetraacetylglucosamine 6a or heptaacetylchitobiosylamine 6b with acid chlorides of heterocyclic carboxylic acids 2 or 5a and subsequent deacetylation. Based on their substitution patterns, compounds 8were expected to have inhibitory activity towards chitinases. Enzyme assays showed that glycosyl amides 8 indeed were moderate inhibitors of chitinases, the diacetylchitobiosyl amides 8d-f generally having higher inhibitory activities than the N-acetylglucosaminyl amide derivatives 8a-c. Inhibitory activities depended on the chitinase tested.
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    2-Substituted 5-Acetyl-4-Thiazolyl Triflates as Useful Building Blocks for the Preparation of Functionalized Thiazoles (1999)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 3117-3126 
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    Keywords: Heterocycles ; Thiazoles ; Pyrido[3,4-c]thiazoles ; Triflates ; Palladium ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The readily available 2-substituted 5-acetyl-4-thiazolyl triflates 2are useful building blocks for the preparation of functionalised thiazoles by means of palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions with organometallic reagents and alkoxycarbonylation and deoxygenation reactions. The combination of palladium-catalysed coupling of 2 together with 1-alkynes/6-endo-dig annulation reactions in the presence of ammonia leads to functionalised pyrido[3,4-c]thiazoles in satisfactory yields. The utilisation of uncatalysed displacement reactions of the triflate group represents a very simple method for the synthesis of 4-N-,4-O-, and 4-S-substituted thiazoles.
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    Silicon-Oxygen Heterocycles from Thermal, Photochemical, and Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Decomposition of α-(Alkoxysilyl and Alkenyloxysilyl)-α-diazoacetates (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 1939-1946 
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    Keywords: Diazo compounds ; Carbenes ; Carbenoids ; Silicon ; Heterocycles ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: Photolysis of (ethoxy)silyl-, (propyloxy)silyl-, and (isopro-pyloxy)silyl-substituted diazoacetates 1a-c leads to tetrahydro-1,2-oxasiloles 2a-c by intramolecular C-H insertion of a carbene intermediate. Photochemical or catalytic decomposition of (allyloxysilyl)diazoacetates 3a-e results in intramolecular cyclopropanation which provides 3-oxa-2-silabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane systems 5a-e. In contrast, the thermal reaction of 3b-d gives rise to 2,5-dihydro-1,2-oxasiloles 4b-d, which are likely to be formed on a pyrazoline rather than a carbene route. For (3-butenyloxysilyl)diazoacetate 3f, all modes of decomposition generate the 3-oxa-2-silabicyclo[4.1.0]heptane system 7. Fluoride-induced cleavage of the bicyclic systems 5b-d provides trans-2-hydroxyalkyl-1-cyclopropanecarboxylates 9 diastereospecifically.
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    An Easy Access to 1-Azaspiropentane-2-carboxamides - The First Derivatives of a New Type of Amino Acids (1999)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 2017-2024 
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    Keywords: Amino acids ; Azaspiropentanes ; Heterocycles ; Peptides ; Strained molecules ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: Azaspiropentanecarboxamides 10 and 12 are formed with remarkable ease in two steps in a one-pot operation from methyl 2-chloro-2-cyclopropylideneacetate (4) by addition of a primary amine in tetrahydrofuran and subsequent treatment with sodium hydride/triethylamine in the presence of another equivalent of a primary amine or ammonia. Achievable yields of the amides 10, 12 were moderate to good (27-59%, 12-48%), while the corresponding esters 9 could only be obtained in poor yields (4-14%). The new α-amino acid amides are surprisingly stable, and they can be incorporated into small peptides as demonstrated with the preparation of the glycine 13e and the spirocyclopro-paneoxazoline derivative 14e.
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    New Heterocycles from the Reaction between Some Natural α-Amino Acid Hydrazides and Formaldehyde (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 2943-2948 
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    Keywords: Amino acids ; α-Amino acid phenylhydrazides ; Heterocycles ; Cyclization reactions ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The ring forming condensation between some natural α-amino acid phenylhydrazides (1) and aqueous formaldehyde (2) has opened a novel synthetic route to hexahydro-1,2,4-triazin-6-one derivatives (3). Polycyclic systems were obtained from the same reaction carried out with L-aspartic acid 1,4-bis(2-phenylhydrazide) (1d), L-histidine phenylhydrazide (1e) and L-tryptophan phenylhydrazide (1f) which gave perhydro-4,6-dioxo-2,8-diphenyl[1,2,4]triazino[4,5-d][1,2,4]triazepine (5) perhydro-1-oxo-3-phenylimidazo[5,4-d][1,2,4]triazino[4,5-a]pyridine (7) and 1,2,3-H-3-(2-phenylcarbazoyl)-β-carboline (8), respectively. Substrates 1 were conveniently obtained by direct reaction of phenylhydrazine with L-α-amino acid esters retaining the original chirality.
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    Synthesis Mediated by Ring-Closing Metathesis - Applications in the Synthesis of Azasugars and Alkaloids (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 959-968 
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    Keywords: Heterocycles ; Alkaloids ; Castanospermine ; Metathesis ; Azasugars ; Manzamine A ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: -The application of the ring-closing metathesis (RCM) reaction to the construction of a wide variety of nitrogen-containing ring systems is described. The examples include pyrrolizidine, indolizidine, and quinolizidine derivatives related to azasugars. A formal total synthesis of castanospermine (5) is presented. The utilisation of two RCM steps in the synthetic sequence leading to the multicyclic ABCDE nucleus 7 of the complex alkaloid manzamine A (6) is discussed.
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    A New Strategy for the Asymmetric Synthesis of 1,3-Oxathiolane-Based Nucleoside Analogues (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 1455-1458 
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    Keywords: Nucleoside analogues ; 1,3-Oxathiolanes ; Chiral sulfoxides ; Heterocycles ; Antiviral agents ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: -A ready asymmetric synthesis of 3′-oxathionucleosides has been accomplished in three main steps from benzoyloxyethanal. The synthesis is characterized by high overall yield and considerable enantiomeric excesses. It represents a general synthetic path to prepare a wide range of heterosubstituted sulfur-containing nucleoside analogues.
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    Novel Stereoelectronic Behavior of Bicyclic Glycosyl Donors: Application to the Synthesis of Both 2-Deoxy-α- and -β-Glycosides (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 1869-1874 
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    Keywords: Carbohydrates ; Heterocycles ; Electrostatic interactions ; Glycosylation ; Glycosides ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: Two pairs of novel stereoisomeric, cyclic glycosyl donors exhibit different behaviors in glycosylation processes. In the pair of α-gluco (1) and β-manno (2), the former exhibits reversability with its glycoside product whereas the latter does not. In the α-gluco (3) and β-manno (4) set, the former undergoes glycosyl transfer via an isolable intermediate whereas the latter does not. The differing anomeric effects exerted in the ground states are proposed as the force which explains the differences in behavior.
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    Synthesis of the Enantiomers of 2-sec-Butyl-4,5-dihydrothiazole and (1R,5S,7R)-3,4-Dehydro-exo-brevicomin, Pheromone Components of the Male Mouse, Mus musculus (1999)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 2167-2173 
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    Keywords: Acetals ; Heterocycles ; Mouse ; Mus musculus/ Pheromones ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: Two components [2-sec-butyl-4,5-dihydrothiazole (1) and 3,4-dehydro-exo-brevicomin (2)] of a male-produced pheromone of the mouse Musmusculus have been synthesized in optically active forms. The enantiomers of 1 were obtained with an enantiomeric purity of ca. 92% ee and were found to be readily racemizable. Asymmetric dihydroxylation was employed as the key reaction (15→16) allowing the preparation of (1R,5S,7R)-2 with ca. 94% ee.
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    Umpolung of Reactivity of Lithium Trimethylsilyldiazomethane at the C-5 Position of 6-Substituted Uracil Derivatives (1999)
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    Liebigs Annalen 1999 (1999), S. 2751-2755 
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    Keywords: Lithium ; Lithium trimethylsilyldiazomethane ; Heterocycles ; Uracil derivatives ; Pyrazolo[4,3-d]pyrimidindiones ; Pyrazolo[4,3-d]pyrimidindiones ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
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    Notes: The nucleophilic addition of TMSC(Li)N2 at the low reactive C-5 position of the uracil ring of C-6 substituted uracil derivatives is reported. The ratio of C-5 versus C-6 nucleophilic addition of TMSC(Li)N2 dramatically depends on the stereoelectronic properties of the C-6 substituent. In particular, substituents characterized both by sterically bulky and/or electron-withdrawing (EWG) effects appear to direct the nucleophile mainly (methyl, chloromethyl or halogen) or completely (isopropyl) toward the C-5 position. The fine-tuned substituent selectivity found in the nucleophilic addition of TMSC(Li)N2 to C-6 substituted uracils plays a leading role in the synthesis of new trimethylsilyl-1H-[4,3-d]pyrimidin-5,7-dione derivatives, which can in turn be easily modified through known silicon chemistry.
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    Improved protein refolding using hollow-fibre membrane dialysis (1998)
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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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    Metabolic engineering (1998)
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 119-120 
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    Activity losses among T4 lysozyme variants after adsorption to colloidal silica (1998)
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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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    On-line metabolic pathway analysis based on metabolic signal flow diagram (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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    Experimental determination of group flux control coefficients in metabolic networks (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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    Application of mathematical tools for metabolic design of microbial ethanol production (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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    Multiple mechanisms controlling carbon metabolism in bacteria (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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    How will bioinformatics influence metabolic engineering? (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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    Artificial promoters for metabolic optimization (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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    Engineering protein-based machines to emulate key steps of metabolism (biological energy conversion) (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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    Generating controlled reducing environments in aerobic recombinant Escherichia coli fermentations: Effects on cell growth, oxygen uptake, heat shock protein expression, and in vivo CAT activity (1998)
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 248-259 
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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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    A review of experimental measurements of effective diffusive permeabilities and effective diffusion coefficients in biofilms (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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    II. Electrostatic effect in the aggregation of heat-denatured RNase A and implications for protein additive design (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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    An experimental and modeling study on the removal of mono-chlorobenzene vapor in biotrickling filters (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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    Effect of some operating variables on citrate recovery from model solutions by electrodialysis (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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    Stability and activity modulation of chymotrypsins in AOT reversed micelles by protein-interface interaction: Interaction of α-chymotrypsin with a negative interface leads to a cooperative breakage of a salt bridge that keeps the catalytic active conformation (Ile16-Asp194) (1998)
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 360-363 
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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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    High-density perfusion culture of insect cells with a BioSep ultrasonic filter (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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    Prevention of marine biofouling using a conductive paint electrode (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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    Mass transfer studies on immobilized α-chymotrypsin biocatalysts prepared by deposition for use in organic medium (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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    Degradation of perchloroethylene and dichlorophenol by pulsed-electric discharge and bioremediation (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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    Antisense strategies for glycosylation engineering of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells (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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    Analysis of protein fouling during ultrafiltration using a two-layer membrane model (1998)
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 451-460 
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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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    Contribution of protein charge to partitioning in aqueous two-phase systems (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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    Ammonium ion and glucosamine dependent increases of oligosaccharide complexity in recombinant glycoproteins secreted from cultivated BHK-21 cells (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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    Metabolic modeling of polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthesis (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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    Enhanced secretion of human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor directed by a novel hybrid fusion peptide from recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae at high cell concentration (1998)
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 57 (1998), S. 600-609 
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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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    Protein refolding by reversed micelles utilizing solid-liquid extraction technique (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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    Identification and control of oxidative metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during transient growth using calorimetric measurements (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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    Establishment of an apoptosis-resistant and growth-controllable cell line by transfecting with inducible antisense c-Jun gene (1998)
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 65-72 
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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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    Deactivation and conformational changes of cutinase in reverse micelles (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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    Conserved water molecules in the specificity pocket of serine proteases and the molecular mechanism of Na+ binding (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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    Is the molten globule a third thermodynamic state of protein? The example of α-lactalbumin (1998)
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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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    Exploring hydrophobic sites in proteins with xenon or krypton (1998)
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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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    Structure-based thermodynamic design of peptide ligands: Application to peptide inhibitors of the aspartic protease endothiapepsin (1998)
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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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    Oxygen and proton pathways in cytochrome c oxidase (1998)
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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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    Specific fluorescent labeling of two functional domains in RNA polymerase α subunit (1998)
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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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    Crystal structures and properties of de novo circularly permuted 1,3-1,4-β-glucanases (1998)
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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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    Structural classification of αββ and ββα supersecondary structure units in proteins (1998)
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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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    Interaction potentials for protein folding (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 244-248 
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    Keywords: quasi-chemical ; cost function ; HP model ; Boltzmann statistics ; contact hamiltonian ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: We outline a general strategy for determining the effective coarse-grained interactions between the amino acids of a protein from the experimentally derived native-state structures. The method is, in principle, free from any adjustable or empirically determined parameters, and it is tested on simple models and compared with other existing approaches. Proteins 30:244-248, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    A model for the nucleotide-binding domains of ABC transporters based on the large domain of aspartate aminotransferase (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 275-286 
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    Keywords: nucleotide-binding domain ; CFTR ; multidrug resistance ; structure prediction ; P-glycoprotein ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: ABC transporters are a large superfamily of integral membrane proteins involved in ATP-dependent transport across biological membranes. Members of this superfamily play roles in a number of phenomena of biomedical interest, including cystic fibrosis (CFTR) and multidrug resistance (P-glycoprotein, MRP). Most ABC transporters are predicted to consist of four domains, two membrane-spanning domains and two cytoplasmic domains. The latter contain conserved nucleotide-binding motifs. Attempts to determine the structure of ABC transporters and of their separate domains are in progress but have not yet been successful.   To aid structure determination and possibly learn more about the domain boundaries, we set out to model nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs) of ABC transporters based on a known structure. Previous attempts to predict the 3D structure of NBDs were based solely on sequence similarity with known nucleotide-binding folds. We have analyzed the sequences of a number of nucleotide-binding domains with the algorithm THREADER, developed by D.T. Jones, and a possible fold was found in the structure of aspartate aminotransferase. We present a model for the N-terminal NBD of CFTR, based on the large domain of the A chain of aspartate aminotransferase. The model is refined using multiple sequence alignment, secondary structure prediction, and 3D-1D profiles. Our model seems to be in good agreement with known properties of nucleotide-binding domains and has some appealing characteristics compared with the previous models. Proteins 30:275-286, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Two structural subdomains of barstar detected by rapid mixing NMR measurement of amide hydrogen exchange (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 295-308 
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    Keywords: hydrogen exchange mechanism ; denaturants ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Equilibrium amide hydrogen exchange studies of barstar have been carried out at pH 6.7, 32° SDC using one- and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance. An unusually large fraction of the backbone amide hydrogens of barstar exchange too fast to be measured, and the exchange rates of only fifteen slow-exchanging amide sites including indole amides of two tryptophans could be measured in the presence of 0 to 1.8 M guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl). Measurement of exchange occurring in tens of seconds in the unfolding transition region was possible by the use of a fast stopped-flow mixing method. The observed exchange rates have been simulated in the EX2 limit according to a two-process model that incorporates two exchange-competent states: a transiently unfolded state (U*) in which many amide hydrogens are completely accessible to solvent-exchange, and a near-native locally unfolded state (N*), in which only one or a few amide hydrogens are completely accessible to solvent-exchange. The two-process model appears to account for the observed exchange behavior over the entire range of GdnHCl concentrations studied. For several measurable slow-exchanging amide hydrogens, the free energies of production of exchange-competent states from the exchange-incompetent native state are significantly higher than the free-energy of production of the equilibrium unfolded state from the native state, when the latter is determined from circular dichroism- or fluorescence-monitored equilibrium unfolding curves. The result implies that U*, which forms transiently in the strongly native-like conditions used for the hydrogen exchange studies, is higher in energy than the equilibrium-unfolded state. The higher energy of this transiently unfolded exchange-competent state can be attributed to either proline isomerization or to the presence of residual structure. On the basis of the free energies of production of exchange-competent states, the measured amide sites of barstar appear to define two structural subdomains - a three-helix unit and a two-β-strand unit in the core of the protein. Proteins 30:295-308, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Characterization of receptors with a new negative image: Use in molecular docking and lead optimization (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 30 (1998), S. 321-336 
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    Keywords: surface characterization ; DOCK ; structure-based molecular design ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The characterization of receptor binding sites is an important aspect of molecular docking, molecular recognition, and the structure-based design process. This characterization can take several forms: the receptor surface itself can be delineated or described, the space adjacent to the surface can be chemically mapped, or a negative image of the protein binding region can be generated. In this report, we describe a new method of constructing a negative image through generation of a set of spheres. These spheres lie along the receptor surface, and their centers represent possible ligand atom positions. By the method in which they are constructed, these spheres carry a limited amount of energetic and chemical information in addition to their primary geometric information. We test the accuracy of the image by comparing sphere positions to the positions of bound ligand atoms and propose a figure of merit for such tests. Then, we use the spheres to orient ligands in enzyme active sites and show how they can be used to generate low scoring configurations more efficiently than other approaches that search orientation space. In addition, two novel applications of these spheres are described: they are used to help identify structural differences among families of enzymes and to suggest points for ligand modification in analog design. Proteins 30:321-336, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Recognition and interaction of small rings with the ricin A-chain binding site (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 33-41 
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    Keywords: ricin structure ; inhibitor design ; energy minimization ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Ricin A-chain is an N-glucosidase that attacks ribosomal RNA at a highly conserved adenine residue. Our recent crystallographic studies show that not only adenine and formycin, but also pterin-based rings can bind in the active site of ricin. For a better understanding of the means by which ricin recognizes adenine rings, the geometries and interaction energies were calculated for a number of complexes between ricin and tautomeric modifications of formycin, adenine, pterin, and guanine. These were studied by molecular mechanics, semi-empirical quantum mechanics, and ab initio quantum mechanical methods. The calculations indicate that the formycin ring binds better than adenine and pterin better than formycin, a result that is consistent with the crystallographic data. A tautomer of pterin that is not in the low energy form in either the gas phase or in aqueous solution has the best interaction with the enzyme. The net interaction energy, defined as the interaction energy calculated in vacuo between the receptor and an inhibitor minus the solvation energy of the inhibitor, provides a good prediction of the ability of the inhibitor to bind to the receptor. The results from experimental and molecular modeling work suggest that the ricin binding site is not flexible and may only recognize a limited range of adenine-like rings. Proteins 31:33-41, 1998. Published 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America.
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    Modeling of inhibitor-metalloenzyme interactions and selectivity using molecular mechanics grounded in quantum chemistry (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 42-60 
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    Keywords: quantum chemistry ; molecular mechanics ; inhibitor ; metalloenzyme complexes ; selectivity ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: We investigated the binding properties of the metalloprotease inhibitors hydroxamate, methanethiolate, and methylphosphoramidate to a model coordination site occurring in several Zn2+ metalloproteases, including thermolysin. This was carried out using both the SIBFA (sum of interactions between fragments ab initio-computed) molecular mechanics and the SCF/MP2 procedures for the purpose of evaluating SIBFA as a metalloenzyme modeling tool. The energy-minimized structures were closely similar to the X-ray crystallographic structures of related thermolysin-inhibitor complexes. We found that selectivity between alternative geometries and between inhibitors usually stemmed from multiple interaction components included in SIBFA. The binding strength sequence is hydroxamate 〉 methanethiolate ≥ methylphosphoramidate from multiple interaction components included in SIBFA. The trends in interaction energy components, rankings, and preferences for mono- or bidentate binding were consistent in both computational procedures. We also compared the Zn2+ vs. Mg2+ selectivities in several other polycoordinated sites having various “hard” and “soft” qualities. This included a hexahydrate, a model representing Mg2+/Ca2+ binding sites, a chlorophyll-like structure, and a zinc finger model. The latter three favor Zn2+ over Mg2+ by a greater degree than the hydrated state, but the selectivity varies widely according to the ligand “softness.” SIBFA was able to match the ab initio binding energies by 〈2%, with the SIBFA terms representing dispersion and charge-transfer contributing the most to Zn2+/Mg2+ selectivity. These results showed this procedure to be a very capable modeling tool for metalloenzyme problems, in this case giving valuable information about details and limitations of “hard” and “soft” selectivity trends. Proteins 31:42-60, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Engineering of a stable mutant malic enzyme by introducing an extra ion-pair to the protein (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 61-73 
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    Keywords: mutagenesis ; protein stability ; salt bridge ; protein folding ; malic enzyme ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: A double mutant (R9E/M17K) of pigeon liver malic enzyme with glutamate and lysine replaced for arginine and methionine at positions 9 and 17, respectively, was found to be much more stable in urea and thermal denaturation, but was enzymatically less active than the wild-type enzyme (WT). Unfolding of the enzyme by urea produced a large red shifting of the protein fluorescence maximum from 320 to 360 nm, which was completely reversible upon dilution. Analysis of the denaturation curves monitored by enzyme activity lost suggested that a putative intermediate was involved in the denaturation process. The half unfolding urea concentration, measured by fluorescence spectral changes, increased from 2.24 M for WT to 3.13 M for R9E/M17K. The melting temperature increased by approximately 10°C for R9E/M17K compared with that for WT. Kinetic analysis of the thermal inactivation at 58°C also conformed to a three-state model with the rate constant for the intermediate state of R9E/M17K (k2 = 0.03 min-1) being much smaller than the WT value (k2= 2.39 min-1). Results obtained from single mutants indicated that the decreasing enzyme activity of R9E/M17K was exclusively due to R9 mutation, which increased the KmMn and KmMal by at least one order of magnitude compared with WT. Consequently, a decrease occurred in the specificity constant [kcat/(KmMnKmNADPKmMal)] for the R9 mutants at least four orders of magnitude smaller than the WT. M17K has similar properties to the WT, while R9E is more labile than the WT enzyme. The above results indicate that the extra stability gained by the double mutant possibly occurs through the introduction of an extra ion-pair between E9 and K17, which freezes the double mutant in the putative intermediate state. Examination of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of pigeon liver malic enzyme reveals that position 15 is also a lysine residue. Since the R9E mutant, which has an extra Glu9-Lys15 ion-pair, is less stable than the WT, we conclude that the contribution to malic enzyme stability is specific for the Glu9-Lys17 ion-pair. Proteins 31:61-73, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Prediction of the three-dimensional structure of proteins using the electrostatic screening model and hierarchic condensation (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 74-96 
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    Keywords: Monte Carlo minimizations in torsion space ; prediction of secondary structure ; protein folding ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: We describe a method for predicting the three-dimensional (3-D) structure of proteins from their sequence alone. The method is based on the electrostatic screening model for the stability of the protein main-chain conformation. The free energy of a protein as a function of its conformation is obtained from the potentials of mean force analysis of high-resolution x-ray protein structures. The free energy function is simple and contains only 44 fitted coefficients. The minimization of the free energy is performed by the torsion space Monte Carlo procedure using the concept of hierarchic condensation. The Monte Carlo minimization procedure is applied to predict the secondary, super-secondary, and native 3-D structures of 12 proteins with 28-110 amino acids. The 3-D structures of the majority of local secondary and super-secondary structures are predicted accurately. This result suggests that control in forming the native-like local structure is distributed along the entire protein sequence. The native 3-D structure is predicted correctly for 3 of 12 proteins composed mainly from the α-helices. The method fails to predict the native 3-D structure of proteins with a predominantly β secondary structure. We suggest that the hierarchic condensation is not an appropriate procedure for simulating the folding of proteins made up primarily from β-strands. The method has been proved accurate in predicting the local secondary and super-secondary structures in the blind ab initio 3-D prediction experiment. Proteins 31:74-96, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Erratum: Octanol-Water partition of nonzwitterionic peptides: Predictive power of a molecular size-based model. Proteins 30:86-99, 1998 (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 104-104 
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    Notes: Buchwald, P., Bodor, N. Octanol-Water Partition of Nonzwitterionic Peptides: Predictive Power of a Molecular Size-Based Model. Proteins 30:86-99, 1998.Equation 2 should read: P = (Cin - Cfin) Vw/Cfin Vo.In the printed version, the volume ratio (Vw/Vo) incorrectly divides, and not multiplies, the concentration ratio.The publisher apologizes for this error.
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    Prediction and classification of domain structural classes (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 97-103 
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    Keywords: α domains ; β domains ; α/β domains ; α+β domains ; resubstitution ; jackknife ; SCOP database ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: Can the coupling effect among different amino acid components be used to improve the prediction of protein structural classes? The answer is yes according to the study by Chou and Zhang (Crit. Rev. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 30:275-349, 1995), but a completely opposite conclusion was drawn by Eisenhaber et al. when using a different dataset constructed by themselves (Proteins 25:169-179, 1996). To resolve such a perplexing problem, predictions were performed by various approaches for the datasets from an objective database, the SCOP database (Murzin, Brenner, Hubbard, and Chothia. J. Mol. Biol. 247:536-540, 1995). According to SCOP, the classification of structural classes for protein domains is based on the evolutionary relationship and on the principles that govern the 3D structure of proteins, and hence is more natural and reliable. The results from both resubstitution tests and jackknife tests indicate that the overall rates of correct prediction by the algorithm incorporated with the coupling effect among different amino acid components are significantly higher than those by the algorithms without using such an effect. It is elucidated through an analysis that the main reasons for Eisenhaber et al. to have reached an opposite conclusion are the result of (1) misusing the component-coupled algorithm, and (2) using a conceptually incorrect rule to classify protein structural classes. The formulation and analysis presented in this article are conducive to clarify these problems, helping correctly to apply the prediction algorithm and interpret the results. Proteins 31:97-103, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Urea effects on protein stability: Hydrogen bonding and the hydrophobic effect (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 107-115 
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    Keywords: calorimetry ; desolvation ; linear extrapolation model ; binding ; denaturation ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The effects of urea on protein stability have been studied using a model system in which we have determined the energetics of dissolution of a homologous series of cyclic dipeptides into aqueous urea solutions of varying concentration at 25°C using calorimetry. The data support a model in which urea denatures proteins by decreasing the hydrophobic effect and by directly binding to the amide units via hydrogen bonds. The data indicate also that the enthalpy of amide hydrogen bond formation in water is considerably higher than previously estimated. Previous estimates included the contribution of hydrophobic transfer of the α-carbon resulting in an overestimate of the binding between urea and the amide unit of the backbone and an underestimate of the binding enthalpy. Proteins 31:107-115, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Domain motions in bacteriophage T4 lysozyme: A comparison between molecular dynamics and crystallographic data (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 116-127 
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    Keywords: molecular dynamics ; X-ray crystallography ; essential dynamics ; lysozyme ; hinge bending ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: A comparison of a series of extended molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of bacteriophage T4 lysozyme in solvent with X-ray data is presented. Essential dynamics analyses were used to derive collective fluctuations from both the simulated trajectories and a distribution of crystallographic conformations. In both cases the main collective fluctuations describe domain motions. The protein consists of an N- and C-terminal domain connected by a long helix. The analysis of the distribution of crystallographic conformations reveals that the N-terminal helix rotates together with either of these two domains. The main domain fluctuation describes a closure mode of the two domains in which the N-terminal helix rotates concertedly with the C-terminal domain, while the domain fluctuation with second largest amplitude corresponds to a twisting mode of the two domains, with the N-terminal helix rotating concertedly with the N-terminal domain. For the closure mode, the difference in hinge-bending angle between the most open and most closed X-ray structure along this mode is 49 degrees. In the MD simulation that shows the largest fluctuation along this mode, a rotation of 45 degrees was observed. Although the twisting mode has much less freedom than the closure mode in the distribution of crystallographic conformations, experimental results suggest that it might be functionally important. Interestingly, the twisting mode is sampled more extensively in all MD simulations than it is in the distribution of X-ray conformations. Proteins 31:116-127, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Relationships between protein sequence and structure patterns based on residue contactsThis work was done while J.S. was a visiting scientist at EMBL. (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 172-185 
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    Keywords: sequence-to-structure correlation ; contact environment ; contact prediction ; Bayesian classification ; cluster analysis ; nearest-neighbor classification ; decision tree classification ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The identification of correlations between sequence patterns and structural motifs is a prerequisite in the development of protein structure prediction methods. The prediction accuracy indicates whether these correlations are discerned. We present an approach to identify long-range relationships between sequence patterns and structural motifs by varying the granulation of the structure description. Since interaction among residues is a major determinant in protein folding, we consider contact environments formed by two triplets of three sequentially neighboring residues and described by vectors whose components express contact strengths on an atomic level. Through testing various classification schemes, including their resolution and optimizing parameters, discernible relationships between sequences and folds are explored. About ten structural contact states, together with information from noncontacting regions, could improve the accuracy of contact prediction. Proteins 31:172-185, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Comparison of solution and crystal structures of maize nonspecific lipid transfer protein: A model for a potential in vivo lipid carrier protein (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 31 (1998), S. 160-171 
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    Keywords: lipid binding ; lipid transfer protein ; maize ; molecular modeling ; NMR ; X-ray ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Notes: The three-dimensional solution structure of maize nonspecific lipid transfer protein (nsLTP) obtained by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is compared to the X-ray structure. Although both structures are very similar, some local structural differences are observed in the first and the fourth helices and in several side-chain conformations. These discrepancies arise partly from intermolecular contacts in the crystal lattice. The main characteristic of nsLTP structures is the presence of an internal hydrophobic cavity whose volume was found to vary from 237 to 513 Å3 without major variations in the 15 solution structures. Comparison of crystal and NMR structures shows the existence of another small hollow at the periphery of the protein containing a water molecule in the X-ray structure, which could play an important structural role. A model of the complexed form of maize nsLTP by α-lysopalmitoylphosphatidylcholine was built by docking the lipid inside the protein cavity of the NMR structure. The main structural feature is a hydrogen bond found also in the X-ray structure of the complex maize nsLTP/palmitate between the hydroxyl of Tyr81 and the carbonyl of the lipid. Comparison of 12 primary sequences of nsLTPs emphasizes that all residues delineating the cavities calculated on solution and X-ray structures are conserved, which suggests that this large cavity is a common feature of all compared plant nsLTPs. Furthermore several conserved basic residues seem to be involved in the stabilization of the protein architecture. Proteins 31:160-171, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Conformational mapping of a viral fusion peptide in structure-promoting solvents using circular dichroism and electrospray mass spectrometry (1998)
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    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 33 (1998), S. 38-49 
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    Keywords: MS/MS electrospray mass spectrometry ; CD ; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ; glycoprotein 41,000 (gp41) ; N-terminal domain ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The N-terminal domain of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 glycoprotein 41,000 (FP; residues 1-23; NH2-AVGIGALFLGFLGAAGSTMGARS-CONH2) is involved in the fusion and cytolytic processes underlying viral-cell infection. Here, we use circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, along with electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry and tandem (MS/MS) mass spectrometry during the course of hydrogen/deuterium exchange, to probe the local conformations of this synthetic peptide in two membrane mimics. Since amino acids that participate in defined secondary structure (i.e., α-helix or β-sheet) exchange amido hydrogens more slowly than residues in random structures, deuterium exchange was combined with CD spectroscopy to map conformations to specific residues. For FP suspended in the highly structure-promoting solvent hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP), CD spectra indicated high α-helix and disordered structures, whereas ESI and MS/MS mass spectrometry indicated that residues 5-15 were α-helical and 16-23 were disordered. For FP suspended in the less structure-promoting solvent trifluoroethanol (TFE), CD spectra showed lower α-helix, with ESI and MS/MS mass spectrometry indicating that only residues 9-15 participated in the α-helix. These results compare favorably with previous two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance studies on the same peptide. Proteins Suppl. 2:38-49, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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