1.Pentynyl dextran as a support matrix for immobilization of serine protease subtilisin Carlsberg and its use for transesterification of N-acetyl-L-phenylalanine ethyl ester in organic media.
Tahir MN1, Cho E, Mischnick P, Lee JY, Yu JH, Jung S. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng. 2014 Apr;37(4):687-95. doi: 10.1007/s00449-013-1038-8. Epub 2013 Aug 25.
In this study, serine protease (subtilisin Carlsberg) was immobilized on pentynyl dextran (PyD, O-alkynyl ether of dextran, 1) and used for the transesterification of N-acetyl-L-phenylalanine ethyl ester (2) with different aliphatic (1-propanol, 1-butanol, 1-pentanol, 1-hexanol) and aromatic (benzyl alcohol, 2-phenyl ethanol, 4-phenyl-1-butanol) alcohols in tetrahydrofuran (THF). The effect of carbon chain length in aliphatic and aromatic alcohols on initial and average transesterification rate, transesterification activity of immobilized enzyme and yield of the reaction under selected reaction conditions was investigated. The transesterification reactivity of the enzyme and yield of the reaction increased as the chain length of the alcohols decreased. Furthermore, almost no change in yield was observed when the immobilized enzyme was repeatedly used for selected alcohols over six cycles. Intrinsic fluorescence analysis showed that the catalytic activity of the immobilized enzyme in THF was maintained due to retention of the tertiary structure of the enzyme after immobilization on PyD (1).
2.Synthesis of water-soluble poly(α-hydroxy acids) from living ring-opening polymerization of O-benzyl-L-serine carboxyanhydrides.
Lu Y1, Yin L, Zhang Y, Zhonghai Z, Xu Y, Tong R, Cheng J. ACS Macro Lett. 2012 Apr 17;1(4):441-444.
O-benzyl-L-serine carboxyanhydrides were synthesized via diazotization of O-benzyl-L-serine with sodium nitrite in aqueous sulfuric acid solution followed by cyclization of the resulting serine-based α-hydroxy acid with phosgene. Degradable, water-soluble poly(α-hydroxy acids) bearing pendant hydroxyl groups were readily prepared under mild conditions via ring-opening polymerization of O-benzyl-L-serine carboxyanhydrides followed by removal of the benzyl group and showed excellent cell compatibility, suggesting their potential being used as novel materials in constructing drug delivery systems and as hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering applications.
3.Different hydrogen-bonded chains in the crystal structures of three alkyl N-[(E)-1-(2-benzyl-idene-1-methyl-hydrazin-yl)-3-hy-droxy-1-oxopropan-2-yl]carbamates.
Noguiera TC1, Pinheiro AC1, Wardell JL2, de Souza MV1, Abberley JP3, Harrison WT3. Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2015 Jun 6;71(Pt 7):752-6. doi: 10.1107/S2056989015010440. eCollection 2015.
The crystal structures of three methyl-ated hydrazine carbamate derivatives prepared by multi-step syntheses from l-serine are presented, namely benzyl N-{(E)-1-[2-(4-cyanobenzylidene)-1-methylhydrazinyl]-3-hydroxy-1-oxopro-pan-2-yl}carbamate, C20H20N4O4, tert-butyl N-{(E)-1-[2-(4-cyanobenzylidene)-1-methylhydrazinyl]-3-hydroxy-1-oxopropan-2-yl}carbamate, C17H22N4O4, and tert-butyl N-[(E)-1-(2-benzylidene-1-methylhydrazinyl)-3-hydroxy-1-oxopro-pan-2-yl]carbamate, C16H23N3O4. One of them shows that an unexpected racemization has occurred during the mild-condition methyl-ation reaction. In each crystal structure, the mol-ecules are linked into chains by O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, but with significant differences between them.
