The peptide antibiotic edeine F produced by Bacillus brevis Vm4, one of the components of edeine antibiotics complex, was isolated from a fermentation broth and was also obtained by amidination of edeine D. Edeine F is composed of amino acids: (S)-beta-phenyl-beta-alanine, (S)-isoserine, (S)-2,3-diaminopropionic acid, (2R,6S)-diamino-(7R)-hydroxyazelaic acid, glycine and a polyamine guanidylspe...

The title compound, C(26)H(26)N(2)O(6)S·C(4)H(8)O, a solvated bis-amide derivative, is also a chiral amino acid ester with l-phenyl-alanine methyl ester groups as amine substituents. The thio-phene-2,5-dicarboxamide core approximates C(2) point symmetry. The tetra-hydro-furan solvent mol-ecule is linked to the main mol-ecule through an inter-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond. The central ring makes...

Tyrosine hydroxylase activity of synaptosomes isolated from rat brain was examined. A modified tritium-displacement assay was used, which allowed the measurement of tyrosine hydroxylase activity without the addition of either inhibitors of the metabolism of the hydroxylated products or added exogenous cofactor. The enzyme activity was strongly inhibited by the addition of exogenous catecholamin...

Radiolabeled cyclic RGD peptides targeting integrin αvβ3 are reported as promising agents for the early diagnosis of metastatic tumors. With an aim to improve tumor uptake and retention of the peptide, cyclic RGD peptide dimer E[c (RGDfK)] 2 (E = Glutamic acid, f = phenyl alanine, K = lysine) coupled to the bifunctional chelator DOTA was custom synthesized and radiolabelled with Ga. Radiolabell...

Chicken egg shell and membrane were used as substrate for production of alkaline protease by Bacillus altitudinis GVC11. Maltose as additional carbon source enhanced enzyme production up to 13%. Addition of organic nitrogen sources like peptone and yeast extract increased enzyme production by 9% and 5%, respectively and inorganic nitrogen sources did not have any positive effect. The resultant ...

In the title complex, [V(C(16)H(13)NO(3))(CH(3)O)O(CH(3)OH)], the V(V) atom is six-coordinated by a tridentate ligand derived from the condensation of salicyl-aldehyde and l-phenyl-alanine, a vanadyl O atom, a methano-late O atom and a methanol O atom, forming a distorted octa-hedral coordination geometry. In the crystal, inter-molecular O-H⋯O and C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds result in a two-dimensiona...

the effect of alkyl substituents on the c-phenyl and/or the n-phenyl ring of benzophenylhydroxamic acid on their molecular structure and hydrogen bonding has been investigated. the predominant configuration in chcl3 is determined by steric and electronic effects. substituents on the c-phenyl ring favor the cis configuration, while substituents in the n-phenyl ring favor a trans configuration. t...

Previous published work has led to the hypothesis that the activatable esterase of chemotaxis is a serine esterase of the rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocyte existing in an inert, phosphonate insusceptible form, which after activation is capable of hydrolyzing aromatic amino acid esters and being inhibited by phosphonates. In the present study, directed to the testing of this hypothesis, we have...

In the present study, mould mycelium of Aspergillus oryzae was used for biochemical conversion of L-tyrosine to L-DOPA because tyrosinase is an intracellular enzyme. The mutant Aspergillus oryzae IIB-6 was found to yield 3.72 fold higher production of L-DOPA than the parental strain. The comparison of kinetic parameters was also done which showed the greater ability of mutant to yield L-DOPA. W...