NUCLEOSIDE TAUTOMERISM AND pKa VALUES
The nucleophilicity of nucleobases (Figure 2.1.1) is dictated by the pKa of the amino and amido functions and their tautomeric forms. Table 2.1.1 lists the pKa values of nucleobases. The amide-like nitrogens (N3 of uridine and N1 of guanosine) are acidic in character, whereas the ring nitrogens are basic. Therefore, at strongly alkaline pH, the proton at N3 of uridine and thymidine and that at N1 of guanosine are removed. Under acidic conditions (at pH ~3), the sites of protonation are N1 of adenosine and N3 of cytidine. At more acidic pH, the N7 of guanosine and adenosine and the O4 of uridine are protonated. Thus, all the bases remain mostly uncharged in the physiological range of pH 5 to 9
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Quite clearly, protecting groups and the protocols for their installation and removal should be designed to avoid various side reactions.
Nucleobases undergo substitution reactions with electrophilic reagents. For example, both N- and O-alkylation of the imide and lactam groups occur with alkylating agents. The N7 position of purines is also a potential site for electrophilic attack (Figure 2.1.5). Because of these competing reactions, simple alkylation of exocyclic amino function is not a viable protection strategy for nucleobases. On the other hand, it is possible to chemoselectively acylate the exocyclic amino group. Thus, acyl-type protecting groups are widely used for the protection of the exocyclic amino groups of nucleosides (Figure 2.1.7).
The imide/lactam NH of thymidine, uridine (pKa, 9.38), and guanosine (pKa, 9.42) is weakly acidic and can deprotonate under basic conditions. The resulting nucleophilic anion can react with a variety of reagents such as activated phosphates, dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC), mesitylene sulfonyl chloride, 1-(mesitylene-2-sulfonyl)-3-nitro-1,2,4-triazole (MSNT), acid chlorides, phosphitylating reagents, and electrophilic reagents that are employed during coupling reactions. These side reactions result in nucleobase-derived N- and O-products.
Nucleosides also react with a variety of nucleophilic reagents. For example,
In this lab or experiment, the aim was to determine the following factors of enzymes: (1) the effects of enzymes concentration the catalytic rate or the rate of the reaction, (2) the effects of pH on a particular enzyme, an enzyme known and referred throughout this experiment as ALP (alkaline phosphate enzyme) and lastly (3) the effects of various temperatures on the reaction or catalytic rate. Throughout the experiment 8 separate cuvettes and tubes are mixed with various solutions (labeled as tables 1,3 & 4 in the apparatus/materials sections of the lab) and tested for the effects of the factors mentioned above (concentration, pH and temperature). The tubes labeled 1-4 are tested for pH with pH paper and by spectrophotometer, cuvettes 1a-4a was tested for concentration and cuvettes labeled 1b-4b was tested for temperature in four different atmospheric conditions (4ºC, 23ºC, 32ºC and 60ºC) to see how the enzyme solution was affected by the various conditions. After carrying out the procedures the results showed that the experiment followed the theory for the most part, which is that all the factors work best at its optimum level. So, the optimum pH that the enzymes reacted at was a pH of 7 (neutral), the optimum temperature that the reactions occurs with the enzymes is a temperature of 4ºC or
Theory: One of the methods of preparing alkyl halides is via the nucleophilic substitution reactions of alcohols. Alcohols are inexpensive materials and easy to maintain. However, they are a poor leaving group the OH group is a problem in nucleophilic substitution, this problem is fixed by converting the alcohol into H2O.
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A unimolecular nucleophilic substitution or SN1 is a two-step reaction that occurs with a first order reaction. The rate-limiting step, which is the first step, forms a carbocation. This would be the slowest step in the mechanism. The addition of the nucleophile speeds up the reaction and stabilizes the carbocation. This reaction is more favorable with tertiary and sometimes secondary alkyl halides under strong basic or acidic conditions with secondary or tertiary alcohols. In this experiment, the t-butyl halide underwent an SN1 reaction. Nucleophiles do not necessarily effect the reaction because the nucleophile is considered zero order, (which makes it a first order reaction.) The ion that should have the strongest effect in an SN1 reaction is the bromide ion. The bromide ion should be stronger because it has a lower electronegativity than chloride as well as a smaller radius.
The purpose of this experiment is to examine the reactivities of various alkyl halides under both SN2 and SN1 reaction conditions. The alkyl halides will be examined based on the substrate types and solvent the reaction takes place in.
The purposes of this experiment were to model a bimolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction between potassium hydroxide (KOH) with 1-bromopropane and determine whether it follows a second-order rate law mechanism. A rate constant of 0.0684 M-1 min-1 was obtained for this reaction at 45.1°C, which was determined through equilibrating the reaction and performing titrations of 0.390 M KOH with 0.1000 M hydrochloric acid (HCl). The activation energy calculated from class data was 50.188 kJ/mol, which deviated largely from the literature range value of 72.80–83.76 kJ/mol. It was concluded that the reaction was consistent with the predicted SN2 mechanism, based on the regression of a trendline.
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First classical methods are described. The CHARMM force field, which we have used in this thesis is also briefly described. Then the quantum mechanical methods such as ab initio and semiempirical methods are briefly described. The SCC-DFTB method is described more elaborately since we have used SCC-DFTB as the quantum mechanical method to study the reaction mechanism in this thesis. Then QM/MM methods are described with available methods to study enzymatic reaction mechanisms.
This experiment was conducted to investigate the enzymatic activity of the enzyme aldolase by using different urea concentrations. Stronger solutions of denaturant in this case urea were used to increase the polypeptide subunit unfolding and the dissociation of the tetramer.
All the solvents, except deionized (DI) water, were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (reagent grade) and distilled prior to use. All the reactants, including cysteamine (HSCH2CH2NH2), ZnSO4, MnSO4, and Na2S, were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich and used as received. A solution of quinine sulfate in H2SO4 (0.1 M) was purchased from Fluka to evaluate the relative quantum efficiencies of the products.
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The binding site for teriflunomide is located at the narrow end of the channel where ubiquinone uses to accomplish a redox reaction with reduced flavin mononucleotides.3 At Teriflunomide ,there are several charged and polar side chains (Gln47, His56, Tyr356, Thr360, Arg136). The deprotonated enolic OH group interacts via hydrogen bonding with Tyr356, while the amide carbonyl is hydrogen bonded to Arg136 through a water
The nucleotide sequences of attI and attC was as follows: (5′-ACGCCGTGGGTCGATGTTTGATGTTATGGAGCAGCAACGATGTTACGCAGCAGGGCAGTCGCCCTAAAACAAAGTTAGGTGGCTCAATGAGCATCATTGC-3′) and (5′-CGCCCGTCTAACAATTCGTTCAAGCCGACGTTGCTTCGTGGCGGCGCTTGCGTGCTACGCTAAGCTTCGCACGCCGCTTGCCACTGCGCACCGCGGCTTAACTCAGGCGTTAGATGCACT-3′), respectively. The sequences was introduced into the pBSK (+) Simple-Amp and pBSK(+) Simple-Kan vectors. The reaction mixture with a final volume of 20 μl was incubated first at 4°C for 20 minutes, and then at 37°C for 1 hour, and finally heat treatment was performed at 80˚C for 20 minutes to inactivate the
The second stage of the process is complementary base pairing. In this stage, new complementary nucleotides are positioned following the rules of complementary base pairing: adenine (A) to thymine (T) and guanine (G) to cytosine (C). Then, the binding of free nucleotide with complementary bases is catalyzed by DNA polymerase.