Adenosine acids

The first purine derivative being formed is inosine-5-monophosphate (inosinic acid), which holds a central position in primary purine metabolism. It is the precursor of adenosine-5 -monophosphate (adenosinic acid) as well as of guano-sine-5 -monophosphate (guanosinic acid), and these compounds may also be converted back to inosine-5 -monophosphate (Fig. 173). 

A constituent of the nucleic acid portion of nucleoproteins, and, combined, as adenosine pyrophosphate, it plays an important part in many metabolic processes. 

Nucleotides are phosphoric acid esters of nucleosides Those derived from adenosine of which adenosine 5 monophosphate (AMP) is but one example are especially promi nent AMP is a weak diprotic acid with s for ionization of 3 8 and 6 2 respectively In aqueous solution at pH 7 both OH groups of the P(0)(0H)2 unit are ionized... 

Treatment of adenosine with nitrous acid gives a nucleoside known as mosine Suggest a reasonable mechanism for this reaction... 

H2 The H2 receptor mediates effects, through an increase in cycHc adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), such as gastric acid... 

Melatonin [73-31-4] C 2H N202 (31) has marked effects on circadian rhythm (11). Novel ligands for melatonin receptors such as (32) (12), C2yH2gN202, have affinities in the range of 10 Af, and have potential use as therapeutic agents in the treatment of the sleep disorders associated with jet lag. Such agents may also be usehil in the treatment of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), the depression associated with the winter months. Histamine (see Histamine and histamine antagonists), adenosine (see Nucleic acids), and neuropeptides such as corticotropin-like intermediate lobe peptide (CLIP) and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) have also been reported to have sedative—hypnotic activities (7). 

Factors controlling calcium homeostasis are calcitonin, parathyroid hormone(PTH), and a vitamin D metabolite. Calcitonin, a polypeptide of 32 amino acid residues, mol wt - SGOO, is synthesized by the thyroid gland. Release is stimulated by small increases in blood Ca " concentration. The sites of action of calcitonin are the bones and kidneys. Calcitonin increases bone calcification, thereby inhibiting resorption. In the kidney, it inhibits Ca " reabsorption and increases Ca " excretion in urine. Calcitonin operates via a cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) mechanism. 

Phosphorus. Eighty-five percent of the phosphoms, the second most abundant element in the human body, is located in bones and teeth (24,35). Whereas there is constant exchange of calcium and phosphoms between bones and blood, there is very Httle turnover in teeth (25). The Ca P ratio in bones is constant at about 2 1. Every tissue and cell contains phosphoms, generally as a salt or ester of mono-, di-, or tribasic phosphoric acid, as phosphoHpids, or as phosphorylated sugars (24). Phosphoms is involved in a large number and wide variety of metaboHc functions. Examples are carbohydrate metaboHsm (36,37), adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from fatty acid metaboHsm (38), and oxidative phosphorylation (36,39). Common food sources rich in phosphoms are Hsted in Table 5 (see also Phosphorus compounds). 

CycHc adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), produced from ATP, is involved in a large number of ceUular reactions including glycogenolysis, Hpolysis, active transport of amino acids, and synthesis of protein (40). Inorganic phosphate ions are involved in controlling the pH of blood (41). The principal anion of interceUular fluid is HP (Pig. 3) (41). 

AMP, ADP, and ATP = adenosine mono-, di-, and triphosphate IMP = inosine 5 -monophosphate AICAR = 5 -phosphoribosyl-5-amino-4-imida2olecarboxamide DAP = diaminopimelic acid PRPP = phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate a — KGA = a-ketoglutaric acid Orn = ornithine Cit = citnilline represents the one carbon unit lost to tetrahydrofolate as serine is converted to glycine. 

Riboflavin-5 -Adenosine Diphosphate. Riboflavin-5 -adenosine diphosphate [146-14-5] (flavin—adenine dinucleotide, FAD), C27H33N9O15P2 (2), mol wt 785.56, was first isolated in 1938 from the D-amino acid oxidase as its prosthetic group (95), where it was postulated to be... 

Nucleic Acids. Nucleic acids are polynucleotides that is, they are condensation polymers of nucleotide monomers. A nucleotide is a three-component system, ie, a combination of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous base residue. Adenosine monophosphate is an example ... 

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... 

If the amines are required as their hydrochlorides, picrates can often be decomposed by suspending them in acetone and adding two equivalents of ION HCl. The hydrochloride of the base is filtered off, leaving the picric acid in the acetone. Dowex No 1 anion-exchange resin in the chloride form is useful for changing solutions of the more soluble picrates (for example, of adenosine) into solutions of their hydrochlorides, from which sodium hydroxide precipitates the free base. 

Adenosine-3 -monophosphoric acid hydrate [3 -adenylic acid, 3 -AMP] [84-21-9] M 347.3, m 197°(dec, as 2H2O), 210°(dec), m 210°(dec), [a]s46 -50° (c 0.5, 0.5M Na2HP04), pK 3.65, pKz 6.05. It crystallises from large volumes of H2O in needles as the monohydrate, but is not very soluble in boiling H2O. Under acidic conditions it forms an equilibrium mixture of 2 and 3 adenylic acids via the 2, 3 -cyclic phosphate. When heated with 20% HCl it gives a quantitative yield of furfural after 3hours, unlike 5 -adenylic acid which only gives traces of furfural. The yellow monoacridine salt has m 175°(dec) and... 

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