β-Chloro-L-alanine hydroxylamine
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β-Chloro-L-alanine hydroxylamine

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Category
L-Amino Acids
Catalog number
BAT-005814
CAS number
163682-35-7
Molecular Formula
C3H7N2O2Cl
Molecular Weight
138.55
β-Chloro-L-alanine hydroxylamine
IUPAC Name
(2R)-2-amino-3-chloro-N-hydroxypropanamide
Synonyms
β-Chloro-L-Ala-NHOH; 3-Chloro-L-alanine hydroxyamide
Storage
Store at 2-8°C
InChI
InChI=1S/C3H7ClN2O2/c4-1-2(5)3(7)6-8/h2,8H,1,5H2,(H,6,7)/t2-/m0/s1
InChI Key
QCWBXJPECQJXKJ-REOHCLBHSA-N
Canonical SMILES
C(C(C(=O)NO)N)Cl
1. Catabolism of 5-aminolevulinic acid to CO2 by rat liver mitochondria
M H Medeiros, P Di Mascio, S Gründel, S Soboll, H Sies, E J Bechara Arch Biochem Biophys. 1994 Apr;310(1):205-9. doi: 10.1006/abbi.1994.1158.
5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA), the heme precursor accumulated in plasma and several organs of carriers of acute intermittent porphyria, hereditary tyrosinemia, and saturnism, was previously shown to yield reactive oxygen species upon metal-catalyzed aerobic oxidation and to cause the in vivo and in vitro impairment of rat liver mitochondrial functions. We have studied the uptake and catabolism of [5-14C]ALA to CO2 by isolated rat liver mitochondria (RLM) with the aim of determining whether possible ALA-driven oxidative injury to mitochondria can also occur into the matrix. Using silicone oil centrifugation of [5-14C]ALA-treated RLM, ALA was found to partition evenly into the intra- and extramatrix space of the mitochondrial preparations. The yield of evolved 14CO2 is very low (0.2%), responds to the concentration of added ADP, and is inhibited by malonate (75% at 2 mM), iproniazid (45% at 2 mM), beta-chloroalanine (36% at 1 mM), and aminooxyacetate (55% at 0.1 mM). With both iproniazid and aminooxyacetate, the percentage of inhibition is the same as that observed with the latter inhibitor alone. These data indicate that ALA decarboxylation by the Krebs cycle is a minor process and that it is initiated enzymically (transaminase) and not by metal-catalyzed ALA autoxidation.
2. Coupling of alanine racemase and D-alanine dehydrogenase to active transport of amino acids in Escherichia coli B membrane vesicles
G Kaczorowski, L Shaw, M F-entes, C Walsh J Biol Chem. 1975 Apr 25;250(8):2855-65.
Isolated membrane vesicles from Escherichia coli B grown on DL-alanine-glycerol carry out amino acid active transport coupled to D-alanine oxidation by a membrane-bound dehydrogenase. Several other D-amino acids are substrates for this D-alanine dehydrogenase and also drive concentrative uptake of solutes. Additionally, L-alanine and L-serine can energize solute transport by virtue of conversion to oxidizable D isomers by a membrane-bound alanine racemase. No other physiological L-amino acids were effective. Both membrane enzymes and consequent solute transport are markedly reduced in vesicles from glucose-grown cells. Respiratory chain uncouplers abolish the racemase-dehydrogenase-supported transport activity. When amino-oxyacetate at 10-4 M is added to the vesicles, the racemase activity and transport driven by L-alanine and L-serine is specifically and reversibly inhibited. D-Alanine-driven transport is unaffected. Similarly beta-chloro-L-alanine is an irreversible inactivator of the bound racemase but not the D-alanine dehydrogenase. Both the D and L isomers of beta-chloroalanine support oxygen uptake by the vesicles and initially stimulate L-(14C)proline active transport. However, oxidation of the beta-chloro-D-alanine rapidly uncouples active transport from substrate oxidation. This transport inactivation can be protected partially by dithiothreitol, putatively scavenging a reactive product of chloroalanine oxidation. Authentic beta-chloropyruvate produces the same transport uncoupling. When beta-chloro-L-alanine is employed as a substrate, no such transport inactivation is observed. This difference may stem from the possibility that the alanine racemase eliminates HCl from beta-chloro-L-alanine producing pyruvate, not the beta-chloropyruvate that would arise from racemization and then dehydrogenation. We have shown that exogenous pyruvate is oxidized by the vesicles and will also stimulate active transport of amino acids.
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