Polypeptides, acylated

A (approximately 13.6 kDa) increases passage across the BBB by almost ninefold. Of the three fatty acid derivatives analyzed (myristic, palmitic, and stearic), the stearic modification had the greatest effect. The most likely mechanism for the entry of fatty acylated polypeptides to the brain is adsorptive endocytosis. 

N-acyl methyltaurates, N-acyl sarcosinates, acyl isethionates, IV-acyl polypeptide condensates, polyalkoxylated ether glycolates, monoglyceride sulfates, and fatty glyceryl ether sulfonates [1,23]. 

Acylated Polypeptides (From partially hydrolyzed protein from scrap leather and other waste protein.) Used in hair preparations and shampoos, alkaline cleaning preparations, wax strippers. Good detergency and resistance to hard water. 

In recent years, protein-based surfactants are finding some applications in personal care products due to their abilities to interact with skin and hair." A-acyl polypeptide condensates (protein derivatives) belong to the mild surfactant category with foaming performance inferior to alkyl sulfates, but they produce creamy lather and leave hair feeling soft and manageable. However, it appears that extra attention and care should be taken to ensure preservation of these protein derivatives due to compatibility with other anionic surfactants when present in shampoo formulations. 

Sodium acyl polypeptide (X= amino acids side groups)... 

A variety of cellular and viral proteins contain fatty acids covalently bound via ester linkages to the side chains of cysteine and sometimes to serine or threonine residues within a polypeptide chain (Figure 9.18). This type of fatty acyl chain linkage has a broader fatty acid specificity than A myristoylation. Myristate, palmitate, stearate, and oleate can all be esterified in this way, with the Cjg and Cjg chain lengths being most commonly found. Proteins anchored to membranes via fatty acyl thioesters include G-protein-coupled receptors, the surface glycoproteins of several viruses, and the transferrin receptor protein. 

Karrer thought that the dihydro-1,3-oxazine skeleton can possibly be formed in proteins during their transformation to polypeptides. Fodor - and Fiescr explained the stereospecific migration of acyl groups from N to 0 and vice versa in tropine alkaloids by an intermediate formation of a 1,3-oxazine ring. 

In bacteria and plants, the individual enzymes of the fatty acid synthase system are separate, and the acyl radicals are found in combination with a protein called the acyl carrier protein (ACP). However, in yeast, mammals, and birds, the synthase system is a multienzyme polypeptide complex that incorporates ACP, which takes over the role of CoA. It contains the vitamin pantothenic acid in the form of 4 -phosphopan-tetheine (Figure 45-18). The use of one multienzyme functional unit has the advantages of achieving the effect of compartmentalization of the process within the cell without the erection of permeability barriers, and synthesis of all enzymes in the complex is coordinated since it is encoded by a single gene. 

Figure 21-2. Fatty acid synthase multienzyme complex. The complex is a dimer of two identical polypeptide monomers, 1 and 2, each consisting of seven enzyme activities and the acyl carrier protein (ACP). (Cys— SH, cysteine thiol.) The— SH of the 4 -phosphopantetheine of one monomer is in close proximity to the— SH of the cysteine residue of the ketoacyl synthase of the other monomer, suggesting a "head-to-tail" arrangement of the two monomers. Though each monomer contains all the partial activities of the reaction sequence, the actual functional unit consists of one-half of one monomer interacting with the complementary half of the other. Thus, two acyl chains are produced simultaneously. The sequence of the enzymes in each monomer is based on Wakil.

ABA-l-GAT Arsanilic acid conjugated with the synthetic polypeptide l-GAT AC Adenylate cyclase ACAT Acyl-co-enzyme-A acyltransferase... 

The insertion of unsaturated molecules into metal-carbon bonds is a critically important step in many transition-metal catalyzed organic transformations. The difference in insertion propensity of carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen multiple bonds can be attributed to the coordination characteristics of the respective molecules. The difficulty in achieving a to it isomerization may be the reason for the paucity of imine insertions. The synthesis of amides by the insertion of imines into palladium(II)-acyl bonds is the first direct observation of the insertion of imines into bonds between transition metals and carbon (see Scheme 7). The alternating copolymerization of imines with carbon monoxide (in which the insertion of the imine into palladium-acyl bonds would be the key step in the chain growth sequence), if successful, should constitute a new procedure for the synthesis of polypeptides (see Scheme 7).348... 

Acylation May help some polypeptides interact with/anchor in biological membranes... 

H Romovacek, SR Dowd, K Kawasaki, N Nishi, K Hofmann. Studies on polypeptides. 54. The synthesis of a peptide corresponding to positions 24-104 of the peptide chain of ribonuclease I, (acyl azides) J Am Chem Soc 101, 6081, 1979. 

Histidine residues are efficient nucleophiles in aqueous solution at pH 7, much more so than lysines, and this is the basis for the site-selective functionalization of lysine residues in folded polypeptides and proteins [24, 25]. p-Nitrophenyl esters react with His residues in a two-step reaction to form an acyl intermediate under the release of p-nitrophenol followed by the reaction of the intermediate with the most potent nucleophile in solution to form the reaction product. In aqueous solution the reaction product is the carboxylic acid since the hydroxide ion is the most efficient nucleophile at pH 7. If there is an alcohol present the reaction product will be an ester and the overall reaction is a transesterification reaction. 

Building on earlier work of Osawa and co-workers [55], Oliver and Kowal [52] tested the feasibility of introducing a noncoded amino acid at an unassigned codon in M. luteus. DNA templates were prepared which coded for 19-mer polypeptides containing either the unassigned codon AGA(Arg) or the termination codon TAG at position 13 under the control of a T7 RNA polymerase promoter. The corresponding tRNAs, produced as described in Sect. 2, were based on tRNA and acylated with phenylalanine. The tRNA was modified to prevent recognition by the alanine aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase and to increase translational efficiency. 

Miller s biomimetic approach inspired Ishihara [234] to develop a minimal artificial acylase for the KR of mono-protected cw-l,2-diols and A-acylated 1,2-amino alcohols. Derived from (S)-histidine, Ishihara s organocatalyst contains only one stereogenic centre and incorporates a sulfonamide linkage in place of a polypeptide chain to allow the NH group to engage as an H-bond donor with the substrates (Fig. 13) [234]. 

This enzyme [EC 3.4.16.4], also known as serine-type D-alanyl-D-alanine carboxypeptidase, catalyzes the hydrolysis of D-alanyl-D-alanine to yield two D-alanine. This enzyme comprises a group of membrane-bound, bacterial enzymes of the peptidase family Sll. They are distinct from the zinc D-alanyl-D-alanine carboxypeptidase [EC 3.4.17.14]. The enzyme also hydrolyzes the D-alanyl-D-alanine peptide bond in the polypeptide of the cell wall. In addition, the enzyme will also catalyze the transpeptidation of peptidyl-alanyl moieties that are A-acetyl-substituents of D-alanine. The protein is inhibited by j8-lactam antibiotics, which acylate the active-site seryl residue. 

The acyl-enzyme intermediate reacts further by transfer of the polypeptide segment to water, completing cleavage (or hydrolysis) of the protein substrate. 

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