Refine
Year of publication
- 1964 (6) (remove)
Document Type
- Article (6)
Language
- German (6) (remove)
Has Fulltext
- yes (6) (remove)
Is part of the Bibliography
- no (6)
Institute
- Biochemie und Chemie (6) (remove)
Nach Kultivierung von Enterococcus Stei mit 14C-markiertem 5-Chlor-, 5-Brom- oder 5-Jod-Uracil wurde aus den Zellen die DNS isoliert und hoch gereinigt. Durch UV-Bestrahlung dieser DNS in wäßriger Lösung werden die eingebauten 5-Halogen-Uracile photochemisch verändert. Beim Abbau dieser bestrahlten DNS findet man neben geringen Mengen nicht-identifizierter Photoprodukte als überwiegendes Strahlenprodukt nach Hydrolyse mit Perchlorsäure Uracil und nach fermentativem Abbau Uracildesoxyribosid. Die Dehalogenierung von BU und JU in der DNS verläuft in Abhängigkeit von der Bestrahlungsstärke etwa gleich schnell, während CU sehr viel langsamer dehalogeniert wird.
Die photochemische Dehalogenierung des BU erfolgt in der nativen DNS am leichtesten, weniger gut in der Hitze-denaturierten DNS und nur in geringem Maße in der Apurinsäure.
The kinetic data of the hydrolysis of some serine peptides in diluted hydrochloric acid and in pure water and of the rearrangement of O-glycyl-DL-serine to glycyl-DL-serine were determined.
The hydrolysis of glycyl-DL-serine and DL-alanyl-DL-serine proceeds surprisingly rapidly in pure water as compared with the hydrolysis of those peptides in 0.5 N hydrochloric acid as well as the hydrolysis of glycyl-DL-alanine in purely aqueous solution. The O → N migration of the glycyl residue in O-glycyl-DL-serine which probably is an intermediate in the cleavage of glycyl-DL-serine in purely aqueous solution represents a three center reaction in which the nucleophilic attack on the O-peptide and peptide bond, respectively, involves a free basic amino group. The analogy between the serine peptide interconversion and the hydrolysis catalyzed by certain proteolytic enzymes is referred to.
Under the conditions of freeze drying are formed in hydrochloric acid solutions of DL-alanyl-DL-serine O-peptide and depsipeptide.
The carcinogenic hydrocarbon 3.4-benzopyrene is soluble in aqueous solutions of different proteins. The solubilities are easily determined by the fluorimetric method. The fluorescence o. the hydrocarbon in the protein solutions is not quenched by molecular oxygen. Nevertheless only in presence of air (oxygen) an irreversible decrease of the fluorescence intensity occurs under irradiation with UV-light of wavelength 366 mμ, which is considerably faster than under nitrogen or in solutions of the hydrocarbon in ethanol or aqueous caffeine.
In the systems investigad, a correlation was found between the half-life period of the reaction and the SH-group activities. The participation of protein-SH-Groups in the 3.4-benzopyrene photoreaction is demonstrated by ampèrometric Ag⊕-titrations.
The influence of protein denaturation and inhibiting additives on the photoreaction are investigated by the fluorimetric method.
Irradiation- and oxygen-dependence of the reaction are analogous to the observations of photodynamic action and skin cancer induction by 3.4-benzopyrene.
By 366 mµ irradiation of β-lactoglobuline solutions containing 3.4-benzopyrene the heatdenaturation characteristics of the protein are changed. The same changes are produced without 3.4-benzopyrene by UV-light of the wavelength 280 mµ. Treatment of the β-lactoglobuline solutions with an amount of cigarette smoke, which certainly does not contain 3.4-benzopyrene in sufficient concentration, acts in the same direction.
Along with the changes in the protein properties the typical fluorescence of 3.4-benzopyrene vanishes. The hydrocarbon does not act as a catalyst in photodynamic action, but is chemically altered as well as the protein, at least in the system under investigation.
Diluted aqueous solutions of some proteins (bovine serum albumin, β-Lactoglobubin, Peroxidase) show weak phosphorescence lasting over several minutes after they have been irradiated with light in the range 3500-4200 A. Addition of Eosin after the irradiation amplifies in some cases the intensity of luminescence to a value of about hundred. If Eosin is present at the irradiation process the excitation to phosphorescence is possible with light of the wavelength 5460 A.
After denaturation processes which destroy the configuration of proteins (Urea, Guanidine-HCI. detergents, heat at higher pH) the ability of phosphorescence disappears altogether; likewise after blocking the SH-groups by benzochinone or a total oxidation or reduction of the SS-groups which causes an complete unfolding of the peptide chain.
In solutions of bovine serum-albumin irradiated with 3650 Å at room temperature and afterwards frozen to -178°C no radicals could be observed by measurements of electron-spin-resonance but they were detectable if the irradiation took place in the presence of H2O2.
The reactions Xanthinoxidase-Xanthine-O2, Peroxidase-H2O2 and bovine serum-albumin-H2O2-Fe (II) EDTA are accompanied by chemiluminescence. By comparison with the behaviour of oxidised serum-albumin it could be shown that the chemical reaction produces an excited state of the native protein.
The observations lead to the conclusion that the weak phosphorescence of long duration originates from a triplet-state which is sufficiently populated only as the consequence of cooperative phenomena attending the undisturbed α-Helix-structure of the protein.
A study on the effect of UV-irradiated polyuridylic acid on the incorporation of phenylalanine into the polypeptide precipitable through trichloroacetic acid, in a cell-free system from E. coli was made. Attempts were made to reactivate the UV-inactivated polyuridylic acid through hydrogen peroxide, uranyl acetate and visible light. We could show that polyuridylic acid irradiated at a dose of 1.2 ×105 ergs/mm2 could be completely reactivated, while the one irradiated at a higher dose of 2.4 ×105 ergs/mm2 could not be completely reactivated under the conditions of our experiment. We have studied the effects of hydrogen peroxide and uranyl acetate on UV-irradiated polyuridylic acid chemically as well. Our results altogether show that the photoreactivating effect of uranyl acetate and hydrogen peroxide is due to their ability to split the uracil dimers formed during UV-irradiation.
1- (2̸.3′.4′-O-Triacetyl-1.β-D-glucopyranosyl) 3-carboxamido-pyridiniumchlorid wird aus α-1-Chlor-2.3.4-O-triacetyl-glucopyranose und Nikotinamid hergestellt. Die freie Hydroxylgruppe in 6-Stellung der Glucose wird mit Phosphoroxychlorid verestert. Durch Acylwanderung entsteht außerdem ein isomeres Produkt. Die Acetylgruppen lassen sich sauer verseifen. Durch Kondensation mit Adenosinmonophosphat erhält man ein Gemisch beider Nikotinamidglucosid-Adenin-Dinucleotid-Isomerer. Die Verbindungen sind trotz hoher Affinität zu nucleophilen Agentien auf Grund der sterischen Konfiguration enzymatisch inaktiv.