Fatty acid and polyketide synthases (FASs PKSs) synthesize physiologically pharmaceutically important products by condensation of acyl building blocks. The transacylation reaction catalyzed transferases (ATs) is responsible for the selection acyl-CoA esters further processing FASs PKSs. In this study, AT domains different multidomain (type I) PKS systems are kinetically described in their subst...

Wax esters (WE) are neutral lipids that formed by the transesterification of an activated fatty acyl moiety to a alcohol. Due their diverse physicochemical properties, WE used as industrial lubricants, in cosmetics, or for coating. There is substantial interest producing bacteria and plants genetic engineering improve sustainability reduce production costs. However, we lack detailed understandi...

We studied the adsorption behavior and surface chemistry of the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) on well-defined metal and insulator surfaces. TMV serves as a tubular supramolecular model system with precisely known surface termination. We show that if the surface chemistry of the substrate and the pH-dependent chemistry of the molecular surface match, for example, by hydrogen bonding, a strong adsor...

Metal-bound superoxide intermediates are often implicated as electrophilic oxidants in dioxygen-activating metalloenzymes. In the nonheme iron α-ketoglutarate dependent oxygenases and pterin-dependent hydroxylases, however, Fe(III)-superoxide intermediates are postulated to react by nucleophilic attack on electrophilic carbon atoms. By reacting a Cu(II)-superoxide complex (1) with acyl chloride...

Sixteen novel pyrazole acyl thiourea derivatives 6 were synthesized from monomethylhydrazine (phenylhydrazine) and ethyl acetoacetate. The key 5-chloro-3-methyl-1-substituted-1H-pyrazole-4-carbonyl chloride intermediates 4 were first generated in four steps through cyclization, formylation, oxidation and acylation. Thess were then reacted with ammonium thiocyanate in the presence of PEG-400 to ...

Saccharopolyspora erythraea acyl-carrier protein, highly expressed from a T7-based expression plasmid in Escherichia coli, can be selectively released from the cells in near-quantitative yield by a single cycle of freezing and thawing in a neutral buffer. Electrospray mass spectrometry was used to confirm that the recombinant S. erythraea acyl-carrier protein over-expressed in E. coli is presen...

Currently, natural polysaccharides are being utilized increasingly in the markets because they exhibit biodegradability, biocompatibility, versatility, and are found abundant in nature. Chitosan is a natural polysaccharide that possesses excellent biological properties. It has been recognized for its antibacterial activity, in that it is destructive towards the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. co...

The title compound, C(17)H(19)O(2)PSe, was obtained in the reaction of the diphenyl-monoseleno-phosphinic acid ammonium salt with pivaloyl chloride. The P-Se bond length of 2.0769 (11) Å is normal, while the P-O bond length of 1.650 (3) Å is longer than in related O-alkyl and O-aryl derivatives. One phenyl ring is periplanar to the Se-P-C plane, while the dihedral angle between the two phenyl r...

5-acyl-6-methyl-4-substituted-2-thioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidines (1) were synthesized by cyclocondensation reaction between appropriate aldehyde, acetoacetate and thiourea in presence of aluminium chloride and hydrochloric acid which upon treatment with dimethylformamide and phosphorous oxychloride furnish the title compounds (2a-j). The structures of all title compounds have been confirmed...

The title compound, C19H19NO5, (I), is the product of a domino reaction between cotarnine chloride and acetyl-acetylene catalysed by copper(I) iodide. The mol-ecule of (I) comprises a fused tetra-cyclic system containing two terminal five-membered rings (pyrrole and 1,3-dioxole) and two central six-membered rings (di-hydro-pyridine and benzene). The five-membered 1,3-dioxole ring has an envelop...