Enzymes and Peptides

In parallel the search was continued for peptidases yet unidentified, in which also Emil L. Smith, later a famous authority on protein research in the U.S.A. was successfully engaged. In Germany, similar work was set forth at the Dresden Institute by Max Bergmann s successor Wolfgang Grassmann (1898-1978), and by Ernst Waldschmidt-Leitz (both students of Richard Willstatter), who after his habilitation there (1924), in 1928 left Munich to hold a chair as professor in Biochemistry at the Technische Hochschule, later at the University of Prague until 1945. After his return to Munich he was there, as professor at the University, from 1953-1963. 

The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut fur Lederforschung in Dresden was completely destroyed by bombs in 1945. It was re-established by W. Grassmann, at first as a research laboratory in Regensburg, Bavaria, then as the Max-Planck-Institut fur EiweiB- und Lederforschung in Munich and has now been incorporated as a department of peptide chemistry, directed by Erich Wiinsch, into the large Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie in Martinsried, near Munich. 

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Some non-silica sol-gel materials have also been developed to immobilize bioactive molecules for the construction of biosensors and to synthesize new catalysts for the functional devices. Liu et al. [33] proved that alumina sol-gel was a suitable matrix to improve the immobilization of tyrosinase for detection of trace phenols. Titania is another kind of non-silica material easily obtained from the sol-gel process [34, 35], Luckarift et al. [36] introduced a new method for enzyme immobilization in a bio-mimetic silica support. In this biosilicification process precipitation was catalyzed by the R5 peptide, the repeat unit of the silaffin, which was identified from the diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis. During the enzyme immobilization in biosilicification the reaction mixture consisted of silicic acid (hydrolyzed tetramethyl orthosilicate) and R5 peptide and enzyme. In the process of precipitation the reaction enzyme was entrapped and nm-sized biosilica-immobilized spheres were formed. Carturan et al. [11] developed a biosil method for the encapsulation of plant and animal cells. 

Given the overwhelming occurrence of the amide bond in the food we eat and the proteins, peptides, and enzymes that are large components of the structural and catalytic elements of... 

A number of approaches have been used to prove that a suspected transmitter resides in the presynaptic terminal of the pathway under study. These include biochemical analysis of regional concentrations of suspected transmitters, often combined with interruption of specific pathways, and microcytochemical techniques. Immunocytochemical techniques have proved very useful in localizing peptides and enzymes that synthesize or degrade nonpeptide transmitters. 

Chitosan is a natural glucosamine polymer obtained from crab shells. The polymer retains Cu(II) more strongly than does cellulose. It was used in LEC of amino acids, peptides, and enzymes. 

Since the emphasis in this chapter is on proteins, peptides, and enzymes, the discu.ssion of biotechnology processes and products is limited to these topics. The various biotechnol-ogy-derived products include enzymes, receptors, hormones and growth factors, cytokines, vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and nucleic acids (genes and antisense RNA). 

Envenomation from a coral snake exerts minimal local pain, and appears as rows of teeth marks. Victims may report that the snake was chewing on the bite site and had to be forcibly removed. Coral snake venom is composed of peptides and enzymes that have not all been identified, but which exert neurotoxicity rather than cytotoxicity. 

From 1984, when they were first developed, DRV liposomes have been used for liposomal encapsulation of various active substances which may be divided into three main categories (1) Low MW drug molecules (mainly hydrophilic drugs) (3-20) (2) Proteins or peptides and enzymes (21-26), and (3) DNA or oligonucleotides (26-32). From these categories, the last two are primarily used as liposomal vaccines. Some examples of substances entrapped in DRV liposomes from the last 10 year literature are presented in Table 1. 

AJ Leo. Hydrophobic parameter measurement and calculation. In JJ Langone, ed. Methods in Enzymology Molecular Design and Modeling Concepts and Applications, Part A, Proteins, Peptides and Enzymes. New York Academic Press, 1991, vol 202A, pp 544—591. 

It has been shown by pulse radio lysis that in peptides and enzymes containing both tryptophan (Trp) and tyrosine (Tyr) the radical produced by oxidation of tryptophan can efficiently oxidize tyrosine to yield the tyrosine phenoxyl radical TyrO (equation 17) ... 

Silverman JD, Kruger L (1990) Selective neuronal glycoconjugate expression in sensory and autonomic ganglia relation of lectin reactivity to peptide and enzyme markers. J Neurocytol 19 789-801... 

Kakisaka, K. et al.. Partition coefficients of amino acids, peptides, and enzymes in Dextran/PEG/water aqueous two phase systems, J. Chem. Eng. Jpn., 31, 991, 1998. 

Figure 3.23 Chromatograms following LC separation with UV detection for incubated samples of peptide and enzyme (The predicted peptide cleavage fragment was injected alone in the second chromatogram. The peptide-enzyme mixture was assayed just before incubation and then after 20 hours of incubation. It can be seen clearly that the peptide peak has been reduced while the peak for the fragment has been formed ).

Kennedy, J. F., Barker, S.A. and Humphreys, J. D., Insoluble complexes of amino acids, peptides and enzymes with metal hydroxides, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin I, (1976) 962. 

Proteins, peptides, and enzymes a-amylase, angiotensin, arginase, asparatame, cholinesterase, creatine kinase, glucoamylase, serum albumin, lactate dehydrogenase, peroxidase, pyruvate kinase, transaminases, alkaline phosphatase, jS-galactosidase. 

To overcome this problem,we developed a simple technique,which involves two steps 1. chemical activation of hollow fibers and their characterization 2. assessment of the functionalized hollow fibers in conventional hemodialyzers and their use for coupling several nucleophiles,such as aminoacids,peptides and enzymes. 

Along with the recent advance of recombinant DNA techniques, a wide range of bioactive molecules like proteins, peptides, and enzymes are commercially available as drugs. 

Natural polymers include RNA and DNA that are so important in genes and life processes. In fact, messenger RNA is what makes possible proteins, peptides, and enzymes. Enzymes do the chemistiy inside living organisms and peptides make up some of the most interesting stmctural components of skin, hair, and even the horns of rhinos. Other natural polymers include polysaccharides (sugar polymers) and polypeptides like silk, keratin, and hair. Natural mbber is a natural polymer, made from just carbon and hydrogen. 

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