Amino Acids

09/11/2011

Green Advantages of using Phacm for Cystein Protection

PGA (Penicillin G Amidase, Penicillin Acylase, Penicillin Amidohydrolase from E.coli on acrylic resin, Systematic name: Penicillin amidohydrolase, E.C. 3.5.1.11) has an active pocket, which is very specific for phenyl acetic acid. The prominent commercial use is hydrolysis of a phenylacetamid bond during production of the penicillin API 6-APA (De Martin et al., J. Mol. Catal. B:Enzymatic 1999; 6: 437). The high specifity of PGA towards the Phenylacetyl moiety makes the use of Phacm as new alternative for Acm very promising. The principle use already was discovered by Albericio et al in 1995 using native PGA. Today PGA is available as immobilized preparation, so by simple filtration process PGA can be removed from the reaction mixture and reused many times.

Shorter Arginine homologues to stabilize peptides towards tryptic digestion

Abstract: Trypsin digests peptides at the position of arginine. Because shorter homologues of arginine with appropriate protecting groups for conventional Fmoc/tBu peptide synthesis are now available, three model peptides containing arginine and two shorter homologues of arginine were synthesized.

Preparation of the very acid-sensitive Fmoc-Lys(Mtt)-OH. Application in the synthesis of side-chain to side-chain cyclic peptides and oligolysine cores suitable for the solid-phase assembly of MAPs and TASPs

Abstract: N alpha-9-Fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-N epsilon-4=methyltrityl-lysine, [Fmoc-Lys(Mtt)-OH], was prepared in two steps from lysine, in 42% overall yield.