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Protein Hydrolysis. Acid hydrolysis of protein by 6 MHQ in a sealed tube is generally used (110°C, 24-h). During hydrolysis, slight decomposition takes place in serine (ca 10%) and threonine (ca 5%). Cystine and tryptophan in protein cannot be deterruined by this method because of complete decomposition. 

One of the most useful applications of chiral derivatization chromatography is the quantification of free amino acid enantiomers. Using this indirect method, it is possible to quantify very small amounts of enantiomeric amino acids in parallel and in highly complex natural matrices. While direct determination of free amino acids is in itself not trivial, direct methods often fail completely when the enantiomeric ratio of amino acid from protein hydrolysis must be monitored in complex matrices. 

The iodoacetyl group of both isomers reacts with sulfhydryls under slightly alkaline conditions to yield stable thioether linkages (Figure 9.7). They do not react with unreduced disulfides in cystine residues or with oxidized glutathione (Gorman et al., 1987). The thioether bonds will be hydrolyzed under conditions necessary for complete protein hydrolysis prior to amino acid analysis. 

An excellent review on protein hydrolysis for amino acid composition analysis has been published by Eountoulakis and Lahm [190], Hydrolysis can be performed by either chemical (under either acidic or basic conditions) or enzymatic means. The acidic hydrolysis itself can be carried out in a liquid or a gas-phase mode. The conventional acid hydrolysis uses 6M HCl for 20-24 h at 110°C under vacuum [200], In these conditions, asparagine and glutamine are completely hydrolyzed to aspartic acid and glutamic acid, respectively. Tryptophan is completely destroyed (particularly in the presence of high concentrations of carbohydrate), while cysteine and sometimes methionine are partially oxidized. Tyrosine, serine, and threonine are partially destroyed or hydrolyzed and correction factors have to be applied for precise quantification [190,201],... 

Use of appropriate methods of protein hydrolysis is of key importance irrespective of the method of SeMet determination used. Conditions must be chosen to achieve complete protein hydrolysis with minimal concomitant destruction of SeMet. In one study (Sliwkowski, 1984), SeMet recovery was 60-70% after heating the protein (thiolase from C. kluyveri) for 40 min at 155°C in 3 M mercaptoethanesulfonic acid. Recoveries of SeMet ranging... 

The results on the hydrolysis of partially methylated /3-casein by plasmin indicate that proteins radiomethylated to a low level can serve as substrates for trypsin-like enzymes and probably for proteinases in general. Because it is likely that methylation will interfere with enzymatic attack at lysine residues, the complete hydrolysis of /3-casein probably would not be possible. Studies on mastitic milk demonstrate the usefulness of 14C-methyl proteins for qualitative examination of protein hydrolysis in complex multiprotein systems where resolution and characterization of individual protein fragments is difficult. The requirements in such studies are the availability of pure samples of the proteins under investigation and a suitable technique for separating the radio-labeled protein from hydrolytic products. 

These derivatives are not stable to complete acid hydrolysis of proteins, but may be recovered in limited amounts after partial acid hydrolysis. For example, after 90 min of hydrolysis at 100°C in 5.7 N HCl about 30% of the covalently-bound phosphate in phosphoglucomutase was recovered as O-phosphoserine (Milstein 1964), but after 20 hr of hydrolysis at 105°C in 5.7 N HCl, no O-phosphoserine was found (Murray and Milstein 1967). The amount liberated at a certain time will depend on the nature of the residues around the phosphoserine residues in each protein. Hydrolysis of peptides containing O-phosphoserine may often give low yields of serine (e.g. see Nolan et al. 1964). Complete enzymic hydrolysis of proteins or peptides containing O-phosphoserine is the only presently available method for quantitative recovery of this derivative. 

The modification and activation of LPS for conjugation to a protein is more complex than for CPS. The first step is detoxification by fragmentation of the lipid A moiety either by the cleavage of the acid-sensitive KDO-lipid A linkage or by saponification of fatty acids. Acid hydrolysis completely eliminates lipid A and could be used in the absence of acid-sensitive monosaccharides for isolation of the 0-polysaccharide. Saponification of fatty acids by base hydrolysis or hydrazinolysis also reduces the toxicity to acceptable levels. 

The protein is completely hydrolyzed by acid (6 N HCl, 24 hours or longer at 110°C, under vacuum or inert gas) to its constituent amino acids and the resultant hydrolysate is evaporated to dryness. The amino acid composition is determined on protein hydrolysates obtained after 24,48, and 72 hours of acid treatment. The content of amino acids with bulky aliphatic side chains such as isoleucine, leucine, and valine, which undergo slow hydrolysis, is calculated from an extrapolation of the hydrolysate data to infinite time. The content of hydroxyl-containing amino acids, which are slowly destroyed during hydrolysis, is obtained by a corresponding extrapolation to zero time. Since cysteine, cystine, and methionine residues are somewhat unstable to hydrolysis, these residues are oxidized to cysteic acid and methionine sulfone, respectively, with performic acid before quantitative analysis. Cysteine, or half-cystine, is quantitated as a derivative such as carboxymethyl cysteine after reduction and alkylation, a necessary prerequisite to subsequent sequence analysis. Tryptophan... 

The results given above indicate that there is no obvious advantage of substituting the existing batch process for production of ISSPH by a membrane reactor process. However, this does not in general mean that continuous protein hydrolysis in a membrane reactor will be uneconomical. For example if the substrate is more completely degradable than soy protein (casein might be such a substrate), it is expected that in a small scale plant (where the capital costs would favour the membrane reactor) the membrane reactor process could be very attractive. The production of protein hydrolysates for dietetic and medical use, could well be considered in this context. 

It had been noted early on that proteins could be cleaved by acid or alkaline hydrolysis, yielding what was later called amino acids. Leucine was the first amino acid isolated after protein hydrolysis (1819) followed in 1820 by the simplest of all amino acids, glycine. A number of more or less brutal methods were used for the degradation of proteins but it was soon realized that acid hydrolysis was the least damaging to the desired end-products, the amino acids. In 1846 Liebig obtained crystals of the first aromatic amino acid, tyrosine. At the end of the 19th century, a dozen amino acids had been isolated in pure form, but the list of 20 standard amino acids in protein was not completed until 1936 when threonine was discovered. 

Inversion of Sucrose. Many hydrolytic reactions, including the decomposition of esters, are reversible but others such as sucrose inversion and protein hydrolysis, though not necessarily complete, have not been reversed. The heat effects of these reactions, however, are important. The inversion of sucrose, for example, is an exothermic reaction with AH at 25°C approximately —3.6 kg-cal per mole. ... 

Succinimidyl esters are an excellent first choice to activate amine-reactive probes, but their low solubility has led to the alternative use of sulphonyl chlorides (Figure 4.17). The resultant sulphonamide link is extremely stable, even more stable than an amide link, and will survive even complete protein hydrolysis - a property that can be exploited in protein analysis. The disadvantage of sulphonyl chlorides is that they are unstable in aqueous buffers under mildly alkaline conditions (typically the pH required for the reaction with aliphatic amine ). Hence extreme care must be taken to perform bioconjugations with sulphonyl chlorides at low temperatures (approx 4 °C). Alternatively, amine-reactive probes may be equipped with isothiocyanate traps , from which thiourea links are formed post-reaction with amine functional groups, or with aldehydes, from which Schiff sbase links can be formed with amine functional groups (Figure 4.17). 

Peptide hydrolysis, complete hydrolysis of peptides and proteins for amino acid analysis or the production of individual amino acids from the peptide or protein hydrolysate. For this purpose, numerous chemical and enzymatic protocols are known, but none of these procedures alone is fully satisfactory. Besides hydrolysis with 6 M hydrochloric acid at 120 °C for 12 h, or with dilute alkali (2-4 M NaOH) at 100 °C for 4-8 h, mixtures of peptidases can also be used for complete peptide hydrolysis. Restricted or limited peptide hydrolysis ( peptide cleavage) is important for - sequence analysis and peptide mapping. 

Nucleic acids are linear, chain-like macromolecules that were first isolated from cell nuclei. Hydrolysis of nucleic acids gives nucleotides, which are the building blocks of nucleic acids, just as amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. A complete description of the primary structure of a nucleic acid requires knowledge of its nucleotide sequence, which is comparable to knowing the amino acid sequence in a protein. 

Chemical phenomena of this described below is based on the interaction of [Co(NH3)6]Cl3 with -SH groups of the protein. The complete scheme is shown in Figure 5. As it was above-mentioned, ammonium buffer with a high pH serves as a buffer. The first step of the process is the irreversible reduction of Co to Co to create [Co(NH3)6]. Because the amino complex [Co(NH3)e] is extremely unstable, it immediately undergoes hydrolysis to create aqua complex according to the following reaction ... 

Enzymes, like other cellular proteins, are completely degraded to their constituent amino acids via the proteolytic sequence. There is no evidence that peptides which might occur as breakdown products can be utilized for the synthesis of the same or different proteins—another way of stating that protein degradation and protein synthesis do not share any intermediates. However, this does not mean that proteolytic cleavage necessarily leads to loss of function, nor the converse that activity is always retained unless proteolytic hydrolysis has occurred. 

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