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The authors’ objective has been to concentrate on amino acids and pep- tides without detailed discussions of proteins, although the book gives all the essential background chemistry, including sequence determination, synthesis and spectroscopic methods, to allow the reader to appreciate protein behaviour at the molecular level. The approach is intended to encourage the reader to cross classical boundaries, such as in the later chapter on the biological roles of amino acids and the design of peptide- based drugs. For example, there is a section on enzyme-catalysed synthesis of peptides, an area often neglected in texts describing peptide synthesis. This modern text will be of value to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and research workers in the amino acid, peptide and protein field. Amino Acids and Peptides G. C.IBARRETT D. T. ELMORE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org © Cambridge University Press 2004 First published in printed format 1998 ISBN 0-511-03952-2 eBook (netLibrary) ISBN 0-521-46292-4 hardback ISBN 0-521-46827-2 paperback Contents Forewordpagexiii 1Introduction1 1.1Sources and roles of amino acids and peptides1 1.2Definitions1 1.3‘Protein amino acids’, alias ‘the coded amino acids’3 1.4 Nomenclature for ‘the protein amino acids’, alias ‘the coded amino acids’7 1.5 Abbreviations for names of amino acids and the use of these abbreviations to give names to polypeptides7 1.6 Post-translational processing: modification of amino-acid residues within polypeptides11 1.7 Post-translational processing: in vivo cleavages of the amide backbone of polypeptides11 1.8 ‘Non-protein amino acids’, alias ‘non-proteinogenic amino acids’ or ‘non-coded amino acids’11 1.9Coded amino acids, non-natural amino acids and peptides in nutrition and food science and in human physiology13 1.10The geological and extra-terrestrial distribution of amino acids15 1.11Amino acids in archaeology and in forensic science15 1.12Roles for amino acids in chemistry and in the life sciences16 1.12.1Amino acids in chemistry16 1.12.2Amino acids in the life sciences16 1.13␤- and higher amino acids17 1.14References19 2Conformations ofamino acids and peptides20 2.1 Introduction: the main conformational features of amino acids and peptides20 vii Contents 2.2Configurational isomerism within the peptide bond20 2.3Dipeptides26 2.4Cyclic oligopeptides26 2.5Acyclic oligopeptides27 2.6Longer oligopeptides: primary, secondary and tertiary structure27 2.7Polypeptides and proteins: quaternary structure and aggregation28 2.8 Examples of conformational behaviour; ordered and disordered states and transitions between them29 2.8.1The main categories of polypeptide conformation29 2.8.1.1One extreme situation29 2.8.1.2The other extreme situation29 2.8.1.3The general case29 2.9Conformational transitions for amino acids and peptides30 2.10References31 3Physicochemical properties ofamino acids and peptides32 3.1Acid–base properties32 3.2Metal-binding properties of amino acids and peptides34 3.3 An introduction to the routine aspects and the specialised aspects of the spectra of amino acids and peptides35 3.4Infrared (IR) spectrometry36 3.5 General aspects of ultraviolet (UV) spectrometry, circular dichroism (CD) and UVfluorescence spectrometry37 3.6Circular dichroism38 3.7Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy41 3.8 Examples of assignments of structures to peptides from NMR spectra and other data43 3.9References46 4Reactions and analytical methods for amino acids and peptides48 Part 1Reactions of amino acids and peptides48 4.1Introduction48 4.2General survey48 4.2.1Pyrolysis of amino acids and peptides49 4.2.2Reactions of the amino group49 4.2.3Reactions of the carboxy group49 4.2.4Reactions involving both amino and carboxy groups51 4.3A more detailed survey of reactions of the amino group51 4.3.1N-Acylation51 4.3.2Reactions with aldehydes52 4.3.3N-Alkylation53 viii Contents 4.4A survey of reactions of the carboxy group53 4.4.1Esterification54 4.4.2Oxidative decarboxylation54 4.4.3Reduction54 4.4.4Halogenation55 4.4.5 Reactions involving amino and carboxy groups of ␣-amino acids and their N-acyl derivatives55 4.4.6 Reactions at the ␣-carbon atom and racemisation of ␣-amino acids55 4.4.7Reactions of the amide group in acylamino acids and peptides57 4.5Derivatisation of amino acids for analysis58 4.5.1 Preparation of N-acylamino acid esters and similar derivatives for analysis58 4.6References60 Part 2 Mass spectrometry in amino-acid and peptide analysis and in peptide-sequence determination61 4.7General considerations61 4.7.1Mass spectra of free amino acids61 4.7.2Mass spectra of free peptides62 4.7.3Negative-ion mass spectrometry65 4.8Examples of mass spectra of peptides65 4.8.1 Electron-impact mass spectra (EIMS) of peptide derivatives65 4.8.2Finer details of mass spectra of peptides68 4.8.3Difficulties and ambiguities69 4.9 The general status of mass spectrometry in peptide analysis69 4.9.1 Specific advantages of mass spectrometry in peptide sequencing70 4.10Early methodology: peptide derivatisation71 4.10.1N-Terminal acylation and C-terminal esterification71 4.10.2N-Acylation and N-alkylation of the peptide bond72 4.10.3Reduction of peptides to ‘polyamino-polyalcohols’72 4.11 Current methodology: sequencing by partial acid hydrolysis, followed by direct MS analysis of peptide hydrolysates72 4.11.1Current methodology: instrumental variations74 4.12Conclusions77 4.13References77 ix Contents Part 3 Chromatographic and related methods for the separation of mixtures of amino acids, mixtures of peptides and mixtures of amino acids and peptides78 4.14Separation of amino-acid and peptide mixtures78 4.14.1Separation principles78 4.15Partition chromatography; 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    Microcystin-LR Toxicodynamics, Induced Pathology, and Immunohistochemical Localization in Livers of Blue-Green Algae Exposed Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) W. J. Fischer,* B. C. Hitzfeld,* F. Tencalla,† J. E. Eriksson,‡ A. Mikhailov,‡ and D. R. Dietrich*,1 *Environmental Toxicology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; †Institute of Toxicology, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland; and ‡Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Turku, Finland Received June 29, 1999; accepted September 27, 1999 Microcystins (MC) constitute a family of toxins that are With this retrospective study, we investigated the temporal produced by several cyanobacterial taxa. These cyclic hep- pattern of toxin exposure and pathology, as well as the topical tapeptide molecules contain both L- and D-amino acids and an relationship between hepatotoxic injury and localization of micro- unusual hydrophobic C D-amino acid commonly termed cystin-LR, a potent hepatotoxin, tumor promoter, and inhibitor of 20 protein phosphatases-1 and -2A (PP), in livers of MC-gavaged ADDA (3-amino-9-methoxy-2,6,8-trimethyl-10-phenyldeca- rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) yearlings, using an immu- 4,6-dienoic acid). In most of the more-than-60 presently known nohistochemical detection method and MC-specific antibodies. toxin congeners, the 5 D-amino acid components are main- H&E stains of liver sections were used to determine pathological tained while the two L-amino acids are variable (Botes et al., changes. Nuclear morphology of hepatocytes and ISEL analysis 1985). Microcystin-LR, containing L-Leu and L-Arg, is one of were employed as endpoints to detect the advent of apoptotic cell the most commonly occurring (Watanabe et al., 1996) and at death in hepatocytes.
  • Amino Acid - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

    Amino Acid - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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