Thiamine thiazole ring

The thiazole ring can be found in numerous molecules that possess biological activity the thiamine (vitamin B,), penicillins, antiinflamatory and bactericidals compounds, and so forth. 

Although numerous other materials have been proposed as carbon sources for the thiazole ring, all manufacturing of thiamine is beheved to use... 

As shown in Eigure 18.17, thiamine is composed of a substituted thiazole ring joined to a substituted pyrimidine by a methylene bridge. It is the precursor of thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP), a coenzyme involved in reactions of carbo-... 

Thiamine diphosphate (TPP, 3), in cooperation with enzymes, is able to activate aldehydes or ketones as hydroxyalkyl groups and then to pass them on to other molecules. This type of transfer is important in the transketo-lase reaction, for example (see p. 152). Hydroxyalkyl residues also arise in the decarboxylation of 0x0 acids. In this case, they are released as aldehydes or transferred to lipoamide residues of 2-oxoacid dehydrogenases (see p. 134). The functional component of TPP is the sulfur- and nitrogen-containing thiazole ring. 

In nature, an enzyme requiring two co-factors, thiamine diphosphate 2 and flavin adenine dinucleotide, accomplishes the oxidation of pyruvate to acetyl phosphate. The thiazole ring in thiamine condenses at the 2-position with pyruvat eliminating carbon dioxide to give an activated species that is oxidised by the flavin. An enzymatic oxidation process then reactivates the reduced flavin. The redox... 

Histamine, an important mediator of inflammation, gastric acid secretion and other allergic manifestations, contain an imidazole ring system. Thiamine, an essential vitamin, possesses a quaternized thiazole ring. 

The weakly basic portion of thiamin or of its coenzyme forms is protonated at low pH, largely on N-l of the pyrimidine ring. 86 88 The pKa value is 4.9. In basic solution, thiamin reacts in two steps with an opening of the thiazole ring (Eq. 14-15) to give the anion of a thiol form which may be crystallized as the sodium salt.79 84 This reaction, like the competing reaction described in Eq. 7-19, and which leads to a yellow... 

The thiazole ring is assembled on the 5-carbon backbone of 1-deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate, which is also an intermediate in the alternative biosynthetic pathway for terpenes (Fig. 22-2) and in synthesis of vitamin B6 (Fig. 25-21). In E. coli the sulfur atom of the thiazole comes from cysteine and the nitrogen from tyrosine.374 The same is true for chloroplasts,375 whereas in yeast glycine appears to donate the nitrogen.372 The thiamin biosynthetic operon of E. coli contains six genes,372a 376 one of which (ThiS) encodes a protein that serves as a sulfur carrier from cysteine into the thiazole.374 The C-terminal glycine is converted into a thiocarboxylate ... 

The azoles (oxazole, imidazole, and thiazole) are five-membered aromatic heterocycles that have two heteroatoms in the ring. One of the heteroatoms in each of these heterocycles is an sp2-hybridized nitrogen that contributes one electron to the 6n aromatic system and has a basic nonbonded lone pair. The other heteroatom (oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur) contributes two electrons to the 6n system. The imidazole skeleton is present in the amino acid histidine. The thiazole ring occurs in thiamin (vitamin B. ... 

The imidazole ring occurs naturally in histamine 3.5, an important mediator of inflammation and gastric acid secretion. A quaternised thiazole ring is found in the essential vitamin thiamin 3.6. There are few naturally occurring oxazoles, apart from some secondary metabolites from plant and fungal sources. 

As shown in Figure 6.1, thiamin consists of pyrimidine and thiazole rings, linked by a methylene bridge the alcohol group of the side chain can be esterified with one, two, or three phosphates, yielding thiamin monophosphate, thiamin diphosphate (also known as thiamin pyrophosphate, the metabolically active coenzyme), and thiamin triphosphate. The vitamin was originally named aneurine, the antineuritic vitamin, because of its function in preventing or... 

Recently, the asymmetric variants of the Stetter [114-118], crossed-benzoin [114, 117-120], and transeslerification [121] reactions have attracted great interest as asymmetric nucleophilic acylation processes. A prerequisite for asynunetric catalysis is the availability of a chiral catalyst. Introduction of chirahty into the thiamin framewoik follows the same principles as that for the related imidazoUum systems, mainly the introduction of a chiral centre next to the nitrogen atom of the thiazole ring [117]. 

The first asymmetric thiamine analogue, introduced by Sheehan in 1966, had the asymmetric carbon atom further removed from the thiazole ring [12] featuring a poor ee of only 2%. Moving the asymmetric centre directly adjacent to the nitrogen atom of the... 

Another example of the biosynthesis of a thiazole ring is in enzymatic biosynthesis of thiamin. Thiamin is a thiazole-containing vitamin whose supply in humans relies on diet. It acts as a coenzyme and plays an important role in carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism <2003NPR184>. Thiamin deficiency can be fatal. 

A. form a hydroxyethyl derivative of the thiazole ring of enzyme-bound thiamine pyrophosphate... 

Addition of thiamine. The conversion of pyruvate to acetyl CoA begins by reaction of pyruvate with thiamine pyrophosphate, a derivative of vitamin Bj. The hydrogen on the heterocyclic (thiazole) ring of thiamine pyrophosphate is weakly acidic and can be removed by reaction with base to yield a nucleophilic ylide much like the phosphorus ylides used in Wittig reactions (Section 19.12). This nucleophilic ylide adds to the ketone carbonyl group of pyruvate to yield a tetrahedral intermediate. 

Chemistry. Thiamine consists of a pyrimidinejoined to a thiazole ring by a methylene bridge (Fig. 8.25). The thiazole nitrogen is a quaternary with a permanent positive charge. There are two commercial salts. Thiamine hydrochloride is, in reality, thiamine chloride hydrochloride. It is a double salt, con-... 

Thiamine pyrophosphate has two important coenzyme roles, both of which focus mostly on carbohydrate metabolism (Figs. 8.26 and 8.27). The active portion of the coen- rae is the thiazole ring. The first step in the oxidative decarboxylation of a-keto acids requires TPP. The two most common examples are pyruvate and a-ketoglutarate, oxidatively decarboxyatedto acetyl CoA and succinyl CoA, respectively. The same reaction is found in the metabolism of the branched-chain amino acids valine, isoleucine, leucine, and methionine. In all cases, TPP is a coenzyme in a mitochondrial multienzyme complex, consisting of TPP, lipoic acid, coenzyme A, FAD, and NAD. Note the number of vitamins required for the oxidative decarboxylation of a-keto acids thiamine (TPP), pantothenic acid (coenzyme A), riboflavin (FAD),and niacin (NAD). 

Structures of thiamine (vitamin Bi) and its phosphorylated metabolites. They consist of a six-membered pyrimidine ring and a five-membered thiazole ring, linked through a methylene group. 

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