Carboxylic acid participation in amide hydrolysis. External general base catalysis and general acid catalysis in reactions of norbornenylanilic acids

1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (7) ◽  
pp. 2191-2197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Kluger ◽  
C. H. Lam

1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. McAndless ◽  
Ross Stewart

Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy has been used to examine the deuterium exchange of the methyl protons in two lumazine derivatives. The exchange occurs at the C-7 methyl group in 6,7,8-trimethyllumazine (2) and at the C-6 methyl group in 1,7-dihydro-6,7,8-trimethyllumazine (3). The former reaction is subject to both general acid- and general base-catalysis but the latter only to general acid-catalysis. Plausible mechanisms for the reactions of both compounds are advanced, involving in the case of 3, acid-catalyzed addition of water across the C6—N5 double bond.



1971 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Lowe ◽  
Y. Yuthavong

The pH-dependence of the Michaelis–Menten parameters for the papain-catalysed hydrolysis of N-acetyl-l-phenylalanylglycine p-nitroanilide was determined. The equilibrium binding constant, Ks, is independent of pH between 3.7 and 9.3, whereas the acylation constant, k+2, shows bell-shaped pH-dependence with apparent pKa values of 4.2 and 8.2. The effect of substituents in the leaving group on the acylation constant of the papain-catalysed hydrolysis of hippuryl anilides and N-acetyl-l-phenylalanylglycine anilides gives rise in both series to a Hammett ρ value of -1.04. This indicates that the enzyme provides electrophilic, probably general-acid, catalysis, as well as the nucleophilic or general-base catalysis previously found. A mechanism involving a tetrahedral intermediate whose formation is general-base-catalysed and whose breakdown is general-acid-catalysed seems most likely. The similarity of the Hammett ρ values appears to exclude facilitated proton transfer as a means through which the specificity of papain is expressed.





1963 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Morris. Kupchan ◽  
Stuart P. Eriksen ◽  
Yun-Teh. Shen




1970 ◽  
Vol 92 (14) ◽  
pp. 4377-4382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheldon. Milstien ◽  
Louis Arthur. Cohen


2011 ◽  
Vol 366 (1580) ◽  
pp. 2910-2917 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. J. Lilley

Ribozymes are RNA molecules that act as chemical catalysts. In contemporary cells, most known ribozymes carry out phosphoryl transfer reactions. The nucleolytic ribozymes comprise a class of five structurally-distinct species that bring about site-specific cleavage by nucleophilic attack of the 2′-O on the adjacent 3′-P to form a cyclic 2′,3′-phosphate. In general, they will also catalyse the reverse reaction. As a class, all these ribozymes appear to use general acid–base catalysis to accelerate these reactions by about a million-fold. In the Varkud satellite ribozyme, we have shown that the cleavage reaction is catalysed by guanine and adenine nucleobases acting as general base and acid, respectively. The hairpin ribozyme most probably uses a closely similar mechanism. Guanine nucleobases appear to be a common choice of general base, but the general acid is more variable. By contrast, the larger ribozymes such as the self-splicing introns and RNase P act as metalloenzymes.



1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (24) ◽  
pp. 3318-3318
Author(s):  
Ross Stewart ◽  
R. Srinivasan

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