Enol pyruvates

The key step in the total synthesis of rhizobitoxine is the Pd-catalyzed exchange reaction of the methyl alkenyl ether moiety in 4 with the functionalized alcohol, although the yield is low[3]. The enol pyruvate 6 (a-ethoxyacrylic acid) is prepared by the reaction of methyl a-methoxyacrylate or a-methoxy-acrylic acid (5) with ethanol catalyzed by PdCl2(PhCN)2 at room temperature in the presence of CuCli and NaH2P04[4],... 

Some sugar residues in bacterial polysaccharides are etherified with lactic acid. The biosynthesis of these involves C)-alkylation, by reaction with enol-pyruvate phosphate, to an enol ether (34) of pyruvic acid, followed by reduction to the (R) or (5) form of the lactic acid ether (35). The enol ether may also react in a different manner, giving a cyclic acetal (36) of pyruvic acid. 

The biosynthesis of Kdo and neuraminic acid is known to involve enol-pyruvate phosphate and D-arabinose or 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-mannose, respectively. Nothing is known about the biosynthesis of all the other glycu-losonic acids. One interesting problem is, for example, whether the two 5,7-diamino-3,5,7,9-tetradeoxynonulosonic acids are synthesized analogously to neuraminic acid, from a three- and a six-carbon fragment, by modification of neuraminic acid on the sugar nucleotide level, or by a third, less obvious route. 

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This leaves only one compound which must be phospho enol pyruvate (PEP) as compound (vii). 

In the last step, pyruvate kinase transfers this residue to ADP. The remaining enol pyruvate is immediately rearranged into pyruvate, which is much more stable. Along with step [7] and the thiokinase reaction in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (see p. 136), the pyruvate kinase reaction is one of the three reactions in animal metabolism that are able to produce ATP independently of the respiratory chain. 

In the cytoplasm, oxaloacetate is reformed and then converted into phospho-enol pyruvate by a GTP-dependent PEP car-bo)Q/kinase. The subsequent steps up to fructose 1,6-bisphosphate represent the reverse of the corresponding reactions involved in glycolysis. One additional ATP per C3 fragment is used for the synthesis of 1,3-bisphos-phoglycerate. 

There is some evidence that one potential effect of the release of fluoride is for it to act as an antimicrobial agent. It is known that millimolar concentrations of fluoride ion in water will affect a variety of activities in several types of cell [38]. It does this by denaturing the enzymes. In bacteria, the most important enzyme which can be affected is enolase, and this is responsible for the conversion of 2-P-glycerate to 2-enol pyruvate in the glycolic pathway. Enolase is a magnesium-containing... 

UDP-GlcNAC enolpyruvyltransferase (MurZ) catalyzes the reaction between the phosphate of the enol pyruvate and the UDP-GlcNAC to form the corresponding enolpyruvate. This reaction is the first stage of the biosynthesis of the peptidoglycan of the bacterial wall. Phosphates of mono- and difluoroenolpyruvates are substrates of MurZ (Figure 7.30). The tetrahedral intermediates formed after incubation... 

For the phosphotransferase system there is no problem in identifying the energy source for the establishment of the thermodynamic potential gradient. It is apparent that a high-energy phosphate bond in phospho-enol-pyruvate is the immediate source of the energy responsible for the vectorial translocation of the sugar molecule across the membrane (17). 

A recent synthesis of 1 by Ganem et al.2 uses dimethyl diazomalonate for introduction of the enol pyruvate side chain. 

In both schemes, the upper pathway represents the formation of an unstable intermediate that is then trapped by reaction with ATP. By contrast, the lower pathways represent activation of a carbonyl group by ATP, followed by loss of a proton (to form enol pyruvate eq. 9) or reaction with ammonia (to yield an intermediate for the formation of CTP eq. 10). ATP has long been known to drive metabolic processes if it phosphorylates carbonyl groups, it will prove to serve a catalytic role as well. 

Inhibits enol-pyruvate transferase, which catalyses the incorporation of phosphoenolpyruvic acid (PEP) into uridine diphospho-N-acetylglucoamine (UDPNAG), a precursor involved in the formation of bacterial cell walls. 

In the third pathway for the formation of 3-deoxyulosonic acids, enol pyruvate phosphate and an aldose phosphate are condensed, yielding orthophosphate and a 3-deoxyulosonic acid phosphate. In addition to formation of 3-deoxy-n-araInno-heptulosonic acid 7-phosphate, another example of this type of reaction is the formation of a 3-deoxyoctulosonic acid 8-phosphate (probably 3-deoxy-D-jfJMCo-octulosonic acid) from enolp3Tmvate phosphate and D-arabinose 5-phosphate. These reactions, unlike those involving pjrruvate, proceed completely to the right and have, so far, not been reversed. 

Thus, redox-dehydration, catalysed by enolase Gives P.E.P. formation and bond energy raise So phospho-enol pyruvate reacts with ADP The kinase making ATP, but not reversibly. 

D-Fructose transport in micro-organisms, and the rapid utilization of D-fructose by bacteria is generally assumed to require the activity of a PEP (enol pyruvate phosphate)-dependent, phosphotransferase system (PTS).169 In this system, enzyme I catalyzes the transfer of phosphate from PEP to a nitrogen atom of a histidine residue in a small, high-energy protein, HPr, according to reaction I. In a subsequent step, enzyme II, in the presence of factor III, catalyzes the transfer of... 

The product of this reaction, apart from ATP, is (enol)pyruvic acid, which changes spontaneously into the isomeric pyruvic acid ... 

Bromopyruvic acid inhibits S-deoxy-D-erj t ro-hexulosonate 6-phosphate aldolase " and 3-deoxy-D-ar-a6mo-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthetase " in a similar way. The enzymes are protected from inhibition by pyruvate and phospho-enol pyruvate respectively. Since aldolases must possess a nucleophilic group to initiate the reaction, this type of inhibition should be a general property of aldolases. 

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