scholarly journals The pyridoxal- and pyridoxal 5′-phosphate-catalysed non-enzymic degradations of l-serine O-sulphate and related compounds

1968 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
J H Thomas ◽  
K S Dodgson ◽  
N. Tudball

1. l-Serine O-sulphate and l-threonine O-sulphate are degraded in the presence of pyridoxal 5′-phosphate to yield equimolar amounts of the corresponding keto acid, ammonia and sulphate. 2. Pyridoxal catalyses the same reactions at a faster rate. 3. One of a number of bi- or ter-valent metal ions must be present for these degradations to proceed. The reaction rates are dependent on a number of factors including pH and the nature of the metal ion used. 4. Studies with related sulphate esters indicate that the α-hydrogen atom and the amino group are essential for activity. 5. Spectral changes during the pyridoxal and pyridoxal 5′-phosphate catalysis of l-serine O-sulphate breakdown suggest the formation of a Schiff base. 6. The mechanism for these reactions appears to be in accordance with the general mechanism proposed for pyridoxal-catalysed αβ-elimination reactions.

2007 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 908-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Payman Hashemi ◽  
Hatam Hassanvand ◽  
Hossain Naeimi

Sorption and preconcentration of Cu2+, Zn2+ and Fe3+ on a salen-type Schiff base, 2,2'- [ethane-1,2-diylbis(nitrilomethylidyne)]bis(2-methylphenol), chemically immobilized on a highly crosslinked agarose support, were studied. Kinetic studies showed higher sorption rates of Cu2+ and Fe3+ in comparison with Zn2+. Half-times (t1/2) of 31, 106 and 58 s were obtained for sorption of Cu2+, Zn2+ and Fe3+ by the sorbent, respectively. Effects of pH, eluent concentration and volume, ionic strength, buffer concentration, sample volume and interferences on the recovery of the metal ions were investigated. A 5-ml portion of 0.4 M HCl solution was sufficient for quantitative elution of the metal ions from 0.5 ml of the sorbent packed in a 6.5 mm i.d. glass column. Quantitative recoveries were obtained in a pH range 5.5-6.5 for all the analytes. The volumes to be concentrated exceeding 500 ml, ionic strengths as high as 0.5 mol l-1, and acetate buffer concentrations up to 0.3 mol l-1 for Zn2+ and 0.4 mol l-1 for Cu2+ and Fe3+ did not have any significant effect on the recoveries. The system tolerated relatively high concentrations of diverse ions. Preconcentration factors up to 100 and detection limits of 0.31, 0.16 and 1.73 μg l-1 were obtained for Cu2+, Zn2+ and Fe3+, respectively, for their determination by a flame AAS instrument. The method was successfully applied to the metal ion determinations in several river water samples with good accuracy.


1995 ◽  
Vol 305 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Spencer ◽  
P M Jordan

Experiments are described in which the individual properties of the two 5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) binding sites, the A-site and the P-site, of 5-aminolaevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) have been investigated. The ALA binding affinity at the A-site is greatly enhanced (at least 10-fold) on the binding of the catalytic metal ion (bound at the alpha-site). The nature of the catalytic metal ion, Mg2+ or Zn2+, also gave major variations in the substrate Km, P-site affinity for ALA, the effect of potassium and phosphate ions and the pH-dependence of substrate binding. Modification of the P-site by reaction of the enzyme-substrate Schiff base with NaBH4 and analysis of the reduced adduct by electro-spray mass spectrometry indicated a maximum of 1 mol of substrate incorporated/mol of subunit, correlating with a linear loss of enzyme activity. The reduced Schiff-base adduct was used to investigate substrate binding at the A-site by using rate-of-dialysis analysis. The affinity for ALA at the A-site of Mg alpha Zn beta ALAD was found to determine the Km for the reaction and was pH-dependent, with its affinity increasing from 1 mM at pH 6 to 70 microM at pH 8.5. The affinity of ALA at the P-site of Zn alpha An beta ALAD is proposed to limit the Km at pH values above 7, since the measured Kd for ALA at the A-site in 45 microM Tris, pH 8, was well below the observed Km (600 microM) under the same conditions. The amino group of the ALA molecule bound at the P-site was identified as a critical binding component for the A-site, explaining why ALA binding to ALAD is ordered, with the P-site ALA binding first. Structural requirements for ALA binding at the A- and P-sites have been identified: the P-site requires the carbonyl and carboxylate groups, whereas the A-site requires the amino, carbonyl and carboxylate groups of the substrate.


1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul G. Enriquez ◽  
Juan M. Fernandez-G ◽  
Ismael Leon ◽  
William F. Reynolds ◽  
Ji.-Ping Yang ◽  
...  

The Schiff base condensation reaction of 1,2-diaminoethane with a series of 2-acetylcycloalkanones (from cyclopentanone to cyclooctanone) has been investigated and the products characterized by two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance. The site of attack of the amino groups, i.e., ring ketone or acetyl ketone, is determined primarily by ring size. 2-Acetylcyclohexanone yields two products in ca. 9:1 ratio, the major product where the two amino groups attack at the ring ketones of two different cyclohexanone molecules, and the minor product where one amino group attacks one ring carbonyl of one cyclohexanone while the second amino group attacks the acetyl group of another. 2-Acetylcyclopentanone yields all three possible products with the major product involving attack at the acetyl groups of two different cyclopentanones. The corresponding reactions for 2-acetylcycloheptanone and 2-acetylcyclooctanone each give a single product corresponding to attack at the acetyl groups of two different cycloalkanones. Similar product distributions are observed for the reactions of the different 2-acetylcycloalkanones with 1,4-diaminobutane. Keywords: Schiff base reactions, diketones, 2D NMR.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (81) ◽  
pp. 65731-65738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Singhal ◽  
Neha Gupta ◽  
Ashok Kumar Singh

2-((3-Methylthiophen-2-yl)methyleneamino)benzenethiol (Probe 1) is selective for Hg2+. The binding affinity of Hg2+ with Probe 1 was confirmed by DFT and electrochemical behaviour. The limit of detection was 20 μM with 2 : 1 stoichiometry of 1 + Hg2+ complex.


1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Ellena ◽  
Andrés E. Goeta ◽  
Judith A. K. Howard ◽  
Chick C. Wilson ◽  
Juan C. Autino ◽  
...  

An appreciable degree of pyramidalization of the amine N atom is observed in the title compound. The existence of polar chains, induced by N—H...O synthons, is confirmed. C—H...O interactions, not noted in a previous X-ray study, were found to stabilize further the known head-to-tail assembling of the chains. The structure can be described as non-polar (101) layers, embodying chains interlinked by centrosymmetric dimers, connected by C(aryl)—H...π interactions. The latter are not present in m-nitroaniline, 2-methyl-4-nitroaniline and other related compounds with chains built from similar N—H...O synthons and assembled head-to-head. This finding implies that an obvious relationship between molecular recognition patterns and crystal structures should not be assumed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monotosh Mondal ◽  
Maharudra Chakraborty ◽  
Michael G. B. Drew ◽  
Ashutosh Ghosh

Three trinuclear Ni(II)-Na(I) complexes,[Ni2(L1)2NaCl3(H2O)]·H2O (1), [Ni2(L2)2NaCl3(H2O)] (2), and [Ni2(L3)2NaCl3(OC4H10)] (3) have been synthesized using three different NNO donor tridentate reduced Schiff base ligands, HL1= 2-[(3-methylamino-propylamino)-methyl]-phenol, HL2= 2-[(3-methylamino-propylamino)-methyl]-4-chloro-phenol, and HL3= 2-[(3-methylamino-propylamino)-methyl]-6-methoxy-phenol that had been structurally characterized. Among these complexes, 1 and 2 are isostructural in which dinuclearNi(II) units act as metalloligands to bind Na(I) ions via phenoxido and chlorido bridges. The Na(I) atom is five-coordinated, and the Ni(II) atom possesses hexacordinated distorted octahedral geometry. In contrast, in complex 3, two -OMe groups from the dinuclear Ni(II) unit also coordinate to Na(I) to make its geometry heptacordinated pentagonal bipyramidal. The magnetic measurements of complexes 1–3 indicate ferromagnetic interactions between dimeric Ni(II) units with J = 3.97 cm−1, 4.66 cm−1, and 5.50 cm−1for 1–3, respectively, as is expected from their low phenoxido bridging angles (89.32°, 89.39°, and 87.32° for 1–3, respectively). The J values have been calculated by broken symmetry DFT method and found to be in good agreement with the experimental values.


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