中文名称 | 英文名称 | CAS号 | 化学式 | 分子量 |
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—— | methyl 4-deoxy-β-D-xylo-hexopyranoside | 51385-57-0 | C7H14O5 | 178.185 |
甲基4-脱氧吡喃己糖苷 | methyl 4-deoxy-α-D-xylo-hexopyranoside | 13241-00-4 | C7H14O5 | 178.185 |
纤维素二糖 | Cellobiose | 16462-44-5 | C12H22O11 | 342.3 |
中文名称 | 英文名称 | CAS号 | 化学式 | 分子量 |
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—— | 4-deoxy-α-D-xylo-hexapyranosyl β-D-fructofuranoside | 103949-81-1 | C12H22O10 | 326.301 |
—— | 4-deoxy-D-glucose-1-phosphate | 848349-83-7 | C6H13O8P | 244.138 |
Modified aldopentonic and aldohexonic acids were synthesized in order to study the electronic requirements for a successful enzymatic conversion into their corresponding 2-keto 3-deoxy analogues by dihydroxy acid dehydratase (DHAD), an enzyme from the biosynthetic pathway of branched chain amino acids. Analytical tests with the novel artificial substrates (18)-(21) and (27) provided evidence that the amount of conversion could be enhanced by replacement of the hydroxy group at C4 of L-arabinonic acid (21) with less electron-withdrawing, ambivalent or electron-donating substituents. Modified aldohexonic acids were no substrates for DHAD, perhaps due to less perfect binding to the active site presumably for steric reasons. For 4-deoxy-L-threo-pentonic acid (18) the enzymatic conversion into 3,4-dideoxy-2-ketopentonic acid (29) by DHAD could be achieved on a preparative scale.
A recently developed technique for the probing of the combining sites of lectins and antibodies, to establish the structure of the epitope that is involved in the binding of an oligosaccharide, is used to study the binding of methyl α-isomaltoside by the enzyme glucoamylase. The procedure involved the determination of the effects on the kinetics of hydrolysis of both monodeoxygenation and mono-O-methylation at each of the seven hydroxyl groups in order to gain an estimate of the differential changes in the free energies of activation, ΔΔG≠. As expected, from previous publications, both deoxygenation and O-methylation of OH-4 (reducing unit), OH-4′, or OH-6′ strongly hindered hydrolysis, whereas the kinetics were virtually unaffected by either the substitutions at OH-2 or structural changes at C-1. The substitutions at OH-3 caused increases of 2.1 and 1.9 kcal/mol in the ΔΔG≠. In contrast, whereas deoxygenation of either OH-2′ or OH-3′ caused much smaller (0.96 and 0.52 kcal/mol) increases in ΔΔG≠, the mono-O-methylations resulted in severe steric hindrance to the formation of the activated complex. The relatively weak effects of deoxygenation suggest that the hydroxyl groups are replaced by water molecules and thereby participate in the binding by contributing effective complementarity. Methyl α-isomaltoside was docked into the combining site of the X-ray crystal structure at 2.4 Å resolution of the complex with the inhibitor acarbose. A fit free of steric interactions with the protein was found that has the methyl α-glucopyranoside unit in the normal4C1conformation and the other glucose unit approaching a half-chair conformation with the interunit fragment defined by the torsion angles [Formula: see text] The model provides a network of hydrogen bonds that appears to well represent the activated complex formed by the glucoamylase with both maltose and isomaltose since the structures appear to provide a sound rationale for both the specificity and catalysis provided by the enzyme. Key words: monodeoxy and mono-O-methyl derivatives of methyl α-isomaltoside, enzyme binding domain, functioning of glucoamylase, differential changes in free energy of activation, characteristics of hydrogen bonding networks.