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Natural product biosyntheses in cyanobacteria: A treasure trove of unique enzymes

  • Jan-Christoph Kehr,
  • Douglas Gatte Picchi and
  • Elke Dittmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1622–1635, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.191

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  • -type monooxygenases encoded by the cluster, HctG or HctH, to 2,3-dihydroxyisovaleric acid. Two other NRPS modules contain all the required domains for adenylation and heterocyclization of cysteine, and an FMN-dependent oxidase domain, which is likely involved in thiazole ring formation. The cluster
  • multidrug resistance [59]. The patellamide gene cluster consists of seven genes, expression of which in E. coli leads to the production of the peptides [59]. Heterocyclization of serine, cysteine and threonine, respectively is catalyzed by the heterocyclase PatD [60]. In contrast to other heterocyclases
  • of bacteria. The characteristic feature of the group is lanthionine bridges, which are formed by dehydration of serine or threonine followed by intramolecular addition of cysteine thiols to the resulting dehydro amino acids. Lantipeptides exhibit a variety of bioactivities, in particular
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Published 05 Dec 2011

Ratiometric fluorescent probe for enantioselective detection of D-cysteine in aqueous solution

  • Xiao-bo Zhou,
  • Wing-Hong Chan,
  • Albert W. M. Lee and
  • Chi-Chung Yeung

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1508–1515, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.176

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  • enantioselective detection of cysteine in 99:1 buffered HEPES:ACN solutions. Under the measuring conditions, the sensor demonstrates high selectivity toward Cys against Hcy and GSH, and an enantioselectivity of 3.35 can be achieved for antipodal forms of Cys. Keywords: chemosensor; D-cysteine; enantioselectivity
  • ; fluorescence; ratiometric; Introduction The rapid, sensitive, and selective sensing of biologically relevant thiols including cysteine (Cys), homocysteine (Hcy) and glutathione (GSH) has attracted significant interest in the sensor community (Figure 1) [1]. All three of these thiols are present in living
  • ratiometric fluorescent chemosensors for the detection of thiols have been constructed [29][30][31]. Recently, on the basis of a native chemical-ligation reaction, Lin and coworkers reported a FRET-based probe suitable for ratiometric imaging of cysteine in living cells [31]. Therefore, it is a challenging
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Published 09 Nov 2011

A novel high-yield synthesis of aminoacyl p-nitroanilines and aminoacyl 7-amino-4-methylcoumarins: Important synthons for the synthesis of chromogenic/fluorogenic protease substrates

  • Xinghua Wu,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Herve Aloysius and
  • Longqin Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1030–1035, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.117

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  • removal of the Boc protecting group and oxidation of the free amino group to the nitro group [13]. This method, however, is not applicable to methionine, tyrosine, tryptophan and cysteine, all of which are sensitive to the oxidation conditions used. As an alternative, Nα-protected amino acids were used to
  • -phthalaldehyde/Nα-tert-butyloxycarbonyl-L-cysteine and HPLC analysis, and we concluded that the obtained amide product contained a small amount (1.7%) of the D-isomer resulting from the first step of carboxylate activation rather than the last two steps of selenocarboxylate generation and amidation [20]. In
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Published 27 Jul 2011

Photoinduced electron-transfer chemistry of the bielectrophoric N-phthaloyl derivatives of the amino acids tyrosine, histidine and tryptophan

  • Axel G. Griesbeck,
  • Jörg Neudörfl and
  • Alan de Kiff

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 518–524, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.60

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  • cysteine and S-methyl cysteine derivatives [8]. Other proteinogenic amino acids that, in principle, should also be able to show bielectrophoric behavior with aromatic side chains similar to phenylalanine are tyrosine, histidine and tryptophan. The photochemistry of the phthalimide derivatives of these
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Published 26 Apr 2011

pH-Responsive chromogenic-sensing molecule based on bis(indolyl)methene for the highly selective recognition of aspartate and glutamate

  • Litao Wang,
  • Xiaoming He,
  • Yong Guo,
  • Jian Xu and
  • Shijun Shao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 218–221, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.29

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  • observed upon addition of cysteine. On the other hand, no noticeable changes in color and absorption spectra were observed in the presence of various neutral amino acids and basic amino acids under the same conditions (even at much higher amino acids concentrations), which means that the receptor 1
  • the protonated receptor [H2L]+. For cysteine, due to its slight acidity compared to neutral and basic amino acids, it may also partly protonate 1, however, the spectral change observed does not achieve the same level as the acidic amino acids even in the presence of 100 equiv of cysteine. On the other
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Published 16 Feb 2011

The allylic chalcogen effect in olefin metathesis

  • Yuya A. Lin and
  • Benjamin G. Davis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 1219–1228, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.140

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  • and S-pentenyl cysteine (21b and 21c, respectively), failed to work under identical conditions in aqueous media (Scheme 7a) [17]. In order to compare the relative CM reactivity between other allylic heteroatom derivatives, further studies were carried out on the CM of allyl benzyl ether (23) and allyl
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Molecular recognition of organic ammonium ions in solution using synthetic receptors

  • Andreas Späth and
  • Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 32, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.32

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