Acetylation, biological

A second molecule of acetyl coenzyme A reacts with carbon dioxide (actually bicarbonate ion at biological pH) to give malonyl coenzyme A... 

Melatonin. Melatonin (A/-acetyl-5-metlioxytryptaniine) [73-31-4] C 2H gN2O2(250) is secreted from the pineal gland and retina during dark periods of the vertebrate circadian rhythm (65). Melatonin regulates biological rhythms and neuroendocrine function and is formed from serotonin (5-HT). 

Table 2. Biological Activity of (5)- and [(2-amino-4-thiazolyl)(methoxyimino)-acetyl]amino -2-oxo-l-azetidinesulfonic acid...

Reactions at the C-5 position of the tetracycline molecule have been limited to the iatroduction of an alkoxy group (42) and the acetylation of the hydroxyl group (43) ia 5-hydroxytetracycline. Neither of these modifications improved the biological activity of the molecule. 

The use of mutant 34486 of Neurospora crassa for the microbiological assay of ch oline has been described (8). A physiological method has also been used in which the ch oline is extracted after hydrolysis from a sample of biological material and acetylated. The acetylcholine is then assayed by a kymographic procedure, in which its effect in causing contraction of a piece of isolated rabbit intestine is measured (33). 

Adenosine, N -dimethyI-5 -0-methyI-2, 3 -0-isopropylidene-methylation, 5, 537 Adenosine, homocitrullyamino-biological activity, 5, 603 Adenosine, 1-isopentenyI-synthesis, 5, 594 Adenosine, 2 -0-methyI-occurrence, 5, 600 Adenosine, 2-phenyIamino-synthesis, 5, 590 Adenosine, 2, 3, 5 -tri-0-acetyl bromination, 5, 540 Adenosine-8-earboxylic acids synthesis, 5, 593 Adenosines, isopropylidene-synthesis, 5, 584... 

Isothiazole, 5-acetamido-3-alkyl-nitrosation, 5, 59 6, 148 Isothiazole, 5-acetyl-thiosemicarbazone biological activity, 6, 175 Isothiazole, 4-acetyl-5-amino-3-bromo-synthesis, 6, 166 Isothiazole, 4-acetyl-3-methyl-oxime... 

Purine, 6-iodo-alkylation, 5, 530 synthesis, 5, 563, 597 Purine, 6-iodo-9- -D-(2,3,5-tri-0-acetyl)ribofuranosyl-synthesis, 5, 598 Purine, 9-isopropyl-deuterium-hydrogen exchange, 5, 527 Purine, 9-(2,3-0-isopropylidene-/3-D-ribofuranosyl)-6-methoxy-synthesis, 5, 584 Purine, 6-mercapto-biological activity, 5, 604 metabolism, 1, 237 as pharmaceutical, 1, 159 tautomerism, 5, 509 Purine, 2-methoxy-synthesis, 5, 596 Purine, 6-methoxy-irradiation, 5, 543 riboside... 

Pyrazol-5-one, 3-methyl-1 -phenyl-4-phenylazo-methylation, 5, 264 Pyrazol-5-one, pyridyl-biological activity, 5, 295 Pyrazol-5-one, l-(4 -carbamoylphenyl)-3-methyl-azo pigments from, 1, 334 Pyrazol-5-one, 3-methyl-l-phenyl-azo dyes from, 1, 330 azo pigments from, 1, 334 Pyrazolones acetylated acylotropy, 5, 264 analytical applications, 5, 300 anions... 

Ammodendrine, C jH oONj, HjO (No. 1, table, p. 116). The base has m.p. 73 °, becomes anhydrous at 70-80°, and then melts at 50-60°, Wd i 0°. The salts are amorphous and deliquescent except the hydriodide B. HI, which forms a crystalline precipitate, m.p. 218-20°, from alcohol, and the perchlorate, m.p. 199-200°. An amorphous A-benzoyl derivative was obtained. With methyl iodide ammodendrine behaves as a secondary base, yielding first A-methylammodendrine hydriodide (a crystalline precipitate, m.p. 183-5°, from a mixture of alcohol and acetone), and at the second stage iV-methylammodendrine methiodide, m.p. 163-5°. On hydrogenation ammodendrine furnishes a dihydro-base, which is hydrolysed into acetic acid and 2 3 -dipiperidyl, C oHjoNj, and must be dZ-A-acetyl-3-a-piperidylpiperidine. Ammodendrine should therefore be acetyltetrahydroanabasine and is of biological interest as the first recorded occurrence of this type of alkaloid in the Leguminoss. ... 

Pantothenic acid is found in extracts from nearly all plants, bacteria, and animals, and the name derives from the Greek pantos, meaning everywhere. It is required in the diet of all vertebrates, but some microorganisms produce it in the rumens of animals such as cattle and sheep. This vitamin is widely distributed in foods common to the human diet, and deficiencies are only observed in cases of severe malnutrition. The eminent German-born biochemist Fritz Lipmann was the first to show that a coenzyme was required to facilitate biological acetylation reactions. (The A in... 

Esters of diphenylacetic acids with derivatives of ethanol-amine show mainly the antispasmodic component of the atropine complex of biologic activities. As such they find use in treatment of the resolution of various spastic conditions such as, for example, gastrointestinal spasms. The prototype in this series, adiphenine (47), is obtained by treatment of diphenyl acetyl chloride with diethylaminoethanol. A somewhat more complex basic side chain is accessible by an interesting rearrangement. Reductive amination of furfural (42) results in reduction of the heterocyclic ring as well and formation of the aminomethyltetrahydro-furan (43). Treatment of this ether with hydrogen bromide in acetic acid leads to the hydroxypiperidine (45), possibly by the intermediacy of a carbonium ion such as 44. Acylation of the alcohol with diphenylacetyl chloride gives piperidolate (46). ... 

The duration of action of acetaminophen is limited by the formation of water-soluble derivatives of the phenol (glucuronide and sulfate) that are then excreted via the kidney. Protection i)f the phenol as an ether inhibits such inactivation without diminishing biologic activity. Acetylation of p-ethoxyaniline iffords the widely used peripheral analgesic, phenacetin (25). ... 

Acylation of a sulfonamide on the amide nitrogen serves to remove the sometimes objectionable taste of these drugs. Reac-I ion of intermediate, 154, with acetic anhydride followed by reduction of the nitro group affords acetyl methoxyprazine (156). The last, which has much the same biologic action as Mie parent compound, is used for oral administration in syrups. 

Design your own degradative pathway. You know the rules (organic mechanisms), and you ve seen the kinds of reactions that occur in the biological degradation of fats and carbohydrates inLo acetyl CoA. If you were Mother Nature, what series of steps would you use to degrade the amino acid serine into acetyl CoA ... 

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