Enzymes combinatorial chemistry

Compounds are transformed into each other by chemical reactions that can be run under a variety of conditions from gas-phase reactions in refineries that produce basic chemicals on a large scale, through parallel transformations of sets of compounds on well-plates in combinatorial chemistry, all the way to the transformation of a substrate by an enzyme in a biochemical pathway. This wide range of reaction conditions underlines the complicated task of imderstanding and predicting chemical reaction events. 

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The field of synthetic enzyme models encompasses attempts to prepare enzymelike functional macromolecules by chemical synthesis [30]. One particularly relevant approach to such enzyme mimics concerns dendrimers, which are treelike synthetic macromolecules with a globular shape similar to a folded protein, and useful in a range of applications including catalysis [31]. Peptide dendrimers, which, like proteins, are composed of amino acids, are particularly well suited as mimics for proteins and enzymes [32]. These dendrimers can be prepared using combinatorial chemistry methods on solid support [33], similar to those used in the context of catalyst and ligand discovery programs in chemistry [34]. Peptide dendrimers used multivalency effects at the dendrimer surface to trigger cooperativity between amino acids, as has been observed in various esterase enzyme models [35]. 

Pirrung, M.C., Chau, J.H.-L., and Chen, J., Indexed combinatorial libraries nonoligomeric chemical diversity for the discovery of novel enzyme inhibitors, in Combinatorial Chemistry, Wilson, S.R. and Czarnik, A.W., Eds., Wiley, New York, 1997, pp. 191-206. 

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements are usually considered to be slow processes, but recent advances in the design of flow-through NMR cells have allowed the method to be applied in combinatorial chemistry 97). These technological improvements were applied to the development of two NMR-based high-throughput ee assays for evaluating the products of enzyme- or transition metal-catalyzed reactions 98). 

Various N-alkylated derivatives of amino acids are natural products [e.g., H-D-(Me)Tyr-OH (D-surinamine) and H-(Me)Trp-OH (abrin) were found in cabbage tree bark1691] and many of them are used as enzyme inhibitors, receptor agonists and antagonists, building blocks for heterocyclic scaffolds in combinatorial chemistry, etc. In this section the preparation of N-alkyl amino acids in solution for their use in peptide synthesis is described. This implies that the synthetic procedures described in this section will ultimately result in V-alkyl amino acids appropriately protected for peptide synthesis. 

Recently, the complementary approach of combinatorial synthesis has been increasingly applied to the generation of biologically active molecules, including potent enzyme inhibitors [55], Interestingly, the first reports of the application of combinatorial chemistry to heterogeneous catalysts have also recently appeared [56,57],... 

Elastase Complex elastase/turkey ovomucoid inhibitor (enzyme /inhibitor) mimicking the natural inhibitor Solid-phase combinatorial chemistry (12 ligands) Affinity chromatography 10... 

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