Amino acid index data

As a result of a high index of clinical suspicion and, on occasion, supporting biochemical data from other investigations, one of the first specialist investigations to ascertain whether a patient has an inborn error of biogenic amine metabolism is, as mentioned above, analysis of the CSF concentrations of HVA and 5HIAA. This is often performed in conjunction with the measurement of 3-methyldopa (3-MD), also known as 3-methoxytyrosine. 3-MD is formed from L-dopa via COMT activity and accumulates in conditions where aromatic amino acid decarboxylase activity is impaired. The chemical structures of HVA, 5HIAA and 3-MD are shown in Fig. 6.2.1. 

Many scales, either empirical or measured, have been proposed for the hydrophobicity of amino acid residues in proteins (Nakai and Li-Chan, 1988). The most extensive study on tlje hydrophobicity index of amino acids was published by Wilce et al. (1995). The authors derived four new scales of coefficients from the reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic retention data of 1738 peptides and compared them with 12 previously published scales. 

Physicochemical properties of amino acids are very useful descriptors for understanding the structures and properties of proteins. These properties are expressed numerically in indexes that can be retrieved from the AAindex database. Design an index database of physicochemical properties of amino acids with Microsoft Access that may facilitate the data retrieval according to their chemical similarities ... 

Henceforth, crystal structure analyses of carbohydrates (class 45), amino acids (class 48), purines and pyrimidines (class 44) and nucleosides and nucleotides (class 47) are referenced by means of their Cambridge Crystallographic Data Base REFCODES. All other crystal structure analyses are referenced in the General Index. 

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The RF data were obtained from Zimmerman et al. (31). These values were based on the average mobility of the amino acids in a series of solvents determined by paper chromatography. The hydrophobicity index of Manavalan and Ponnuswamy (M-P) (33) was calculated from average surrounding hydrophobicity based on 3-D structures of proteins. 

The difficulties facing theoretical attempts to relate intense layer lines of small index with the distribution of individual amino-acid residues are similar to those which are encountered in calculations of apparent protein molecular weights from chemical composition. In both cases reliance is largely placed on the least frequent residues, which are the ones whose data are, in fact, least reliable. 

Isoindoles of o-phthalaldehyde (OPA)/N acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) are commonly used for detection of amino acids (RiCH(COOH)NH2) RPLC. A particular hydrophobicity scale was established with the retention data of these derivatives in mobile phases of SDS at pH 3, using the glycine derivative as a reference [20], Linear relationships were obtained between the ratios of log k of each amino acid derivative to log k of the glycine derivative (which was called quantitation of hydrophobicity index, QH), and log Pq for the Ri substituents (tTri). 

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