正负离子FAB-MS在氨基酸小肽及其混合物鉴定中的应用

用二烷基亚磷酸酯在水体系中可以高选择性地直接N-磷酰化氨基酸、小肽或其混合物,并可直接进行原位正负离子FAB-MS分析;负离子FAB-MS可以分别检测出混合的20种氨基酸或20种二肽或20种三肽的N-磷酰衍生物的全部组分,且图谱清晰,特征性好。磷酰基的引入对正负离子均有数十倍甚至数百倍的增敏效应。表现出各具特色的裂解特征,可以多重确诊。实验表明磷酰基在正负离子FAB-MS中都是一种增敏效果最好的取代基,其增敏效果还与磷酰基上烃基的长短有关。     

磷酰基与氨基酸侧链的相互作用

氨基酸侧链的差异能导致N-磷酰氨基酸细微结构差异的放大,如N-磷酰半胱氨酸非常稳定,而与之类似的N-磷酰丝氨酸在常温下则极易发生磷酰基的分子内N→O转移。N-磷酰谷氨酸很稳定,而N-磷酰天冬氨酸却异常活泼。N-磷酰组氨酸的分子间N→O转移需要几个基团的协同作用。这种氨基酸侧链的调控作用有赖于磷酰基的存在和有效参与,六配位磷的存在是上述各过程发生的关键。     

磷酰化氨基酸反应性质的理论研究

采用量子化学计算研究了磷酰化氨基酸的反应性质,包括N-磷酰氨基酸成肽反应、成酯反应、磷上酯交换反应和磷上的N→O迁移反应的机理以及计算模型和计算方法的选择,并从理论上解释了自然界选择α-氨基酸而不是β,γ-氨基酸的实验事实.     

反应时间、温度和溶剂对缬氨酸自组装成聚合肽反应的影响

寡肽类化合物一般具有较强的生物活性,多数可作为药物或药物前体,因此成为人们的研究热点之一．目前寡肽的合成方法主要有液相法、固相法及酶促合成法,这些合成方法往往需要对氨基酸的活性基团进行选择性保护,步骤繁琐．近期研究发现,在水-醇体系中α-氨基酸被磷酰化为N-磷酰-α-氨基酸后,可发生自组装聚合肽反应;在无水条件下,N,O-二(三甲基硅基)-α-氨基酸可与磷酰化试剂如O,O-亚苯基磷酰氯反应生成N-磷酰-α-氨基酸,后者也可通过自组装反应得到二～八肽,但这些N-磷酰-α-氨基酸的制备均需使用有机磷试剂．我们发现,在无机磷试剂如PCl5等辅助下,α-氨基酸同样可以发生自组装反应,得到一系列寡聚肽,这既可为寡聚肽的合成提供一种新的方法,同时,因无机磷试剂在原始地球条件下更可能存在,因而对于揭示多肽及蛋白质的起源具有重要意义．氨基酸的自组装反应具有链锁反应的特点,因此必须控制反应条件实现对反应的控制。     

O-二异丙氧磷酰基丝氨酸(或苏氨酸或酪氨酸)的合成

介绍一种简单方便地合成O-二异丙氧磷酰基丝氨酸(或苏氨酸或酪氨酸)的方法.其中O-二异丙氧磷酰基-L-丝氨酸(或苏氨酸)可从对应的N-磷酰化-L-丝氨酸(或苏氨酸)利用磷酰基N→0迁移的性质并在超声辅助下合成,而N-二异丙氧磷酰基-L-丝氨酸(或苏氨酸)的合成由L-丝氨酸(或苏氨酸)在次氯酸钠的水溶液中高收率地获得.O-二异丙氧磷酰基酪氨酸的合成可通过铜盐同时保护氨基和羧基,使用二异丙基磷酰氯为磷酰化试剂磷酰化,用硫化氢脱铜保护制备.     

氨基酸和核苷的五配位磷化合物

五配位磷化合物在生物化学中起着重要作用。磷所参与的绝大多数生命化学过程,包括酶活性调节过程中蛋白质的磷酰化与去磷酰化,信息传导过程中蛋白质的磷酰化与去磷酰化,ATP的能量转移,RNA的自体切割等,其化学本质都是磷酰基转移反应。生物化学家们的研究表明,这些磷酰基转移反应都是通过五配位中间体来完成的。因此,对生物化学中五配位磷化合物的研究具有重要意义。     

咪唑催化磷酰化丝,苏氨酸及其酯的活化反应

咪唑对磷酰化氨基酸的活化反应具有较强的催化作用，磷酰化丝、苏氨酸在咪唑催化下不仅能发生溶剂解反应，如磷酯交换，羧基活化成酯、成肽及磷酰基的Ｎ－Ｏ迁移等，而且还会发生分子内环化反应，对于化学性质非常稳定的磷酰化丝、苏氨酸酯在咪唑催化下也会发生上述反应，反应机理推测为丝、苏氨酸的侧链基团羟基在咪唑的存在下亲核进攻磷原子形成五配位中间体。     

质谱在生命有机磷化学中的一些应用

讨论了质谱在生命有机磷化学中的应用,包括N-磷酰氨基酸、肽、五配位磷化合物、核苷-氨基酸磷酰胺的质谱裂解途径,有机磷试剂辅助下氨基酸的自组装成肽产物和机理。     

应用Atherton-Todd反应进行酪氨酸O-磷酰化

蛋白质磷酸化是细胞内调节酶功能的一种重要的翻译后修饰 .蛋白质内酪氨酸磷酰化是目前所知道的在细胞应答外界刺激时最主要的信号传导方式 [1] .文献 [2 ]报道的酪氨酸 O-磷酰化的方法是基于亚磷酰胺化学 ,包含亚磷酸化和氧化两步 .我们在 O-磷酰化多肽的合成研究中发现 ,应用 Atherton-Todd反应可以有效地进行酪氨酸 O-磷酰化 .Atherton- Todd反应是指二烷基亚磷酸酯在四氯化碳和有机碱 (如三乙胺 )存在下转变成二烷基磷酰氯 ,从而进行胺、亚胺及肟的磷酰化 .该法曾被有效地用于在弱碱性水溶液中合成 N - (二烷基磷酰 )氨基酸和小肽 […     

ESI质谱法对黄酮-7-磷酰化氨基酸酯与溶菌酶相互作用的研究

采用电喷雾(ESI)质谱技术,研究了4种黄酮-7-磷酰化氨基酸酯与溶菌酶的弱相互作用,实验结果表明4种化合物均能与溶菌酶形成非共价复合物,在相同条件下,未检测到黄酮与溶菌酶形成的非共价复合物,说明在黄酮分子中引入N-磷酰化氨基酸,能改变黄酮的分子极性,从而使其与生物大分子之间的相互作用情况发生变化;通过改变锥孔电压,分别对4种黄酮-7-磷酰化氨基酸酯-溶菌酶复合物的耐压能力进行检测.结果显示,黄酮-7-磷酰化氨基酸酯b与溶菌酶形成的复合物最稳定,它们之间存在最强的弱相互作用.     

Dimensionality of amino acid space and solvent accessibility prediction with neural networks

Solvent accessibility prediction from amino acid sequences has been pursued by several researchers. Such a prediction typically starts by transforming the amino acid category (or type) information into numerical representations. All twenty amino acids can be completely and uniquely represented by 20-dimensional vectors. Here, we investigate if the amino acid space defined in this way really requires twenty dimensions. We tried to develop corresponding representations in fewer dimensions. A method for searching optimal codification schema in an arbitrary space using neural networks was developed. The method is used to obtain optimal encoding of amino acids at various levels of dimensionality, and applied to optimize the amino acid codifications for the prediction of the solvent accessibility values of the proteins using feed-forward neural networks. The traditional 20-dimensional codification seems to be redundant in solving the solvent accessibility prediction problem, since a 1-dimensional codification is able to achieve almost the same degree of accuracy as the 20-dimensional codification. Optimal coding in much fewer dimensions could be used to make the predictions of accessible surface area with almost the same degree of accuracy as that obtained by a fully unique 20-dimensional coding. The 1-dimensional amino acid codification for solvent accessibility prediction obtained by a purely mathematical way based on neural networks is highly correlated with a physical property of the amino acids, namely their average solvent accessibility. The method developed to find the optimal codification is general, although the codification thus produced is dependent on the type of estimated property.     

芬太尼类化合物的分子静电势研究

本文应用INDO波函数计算了三个芬太尼类化合物的分子静电势。酰胺氧原子周围均存在一个势阱很深的宽广的负电势区域, 是最重要的负电中心。 哌啶环4-位引入甲氧甲基后,增加了新的负电势区域。哌啶环1-位芳环周围具有宽广的正电势区域。 哌啶氮原子和酰胺氮原子附近存在较小的负电势区域。 基于计算出的静电势推测了三个化合物的镇痛作用的可能机理及药物结构与毒性的关系。     

五氯化磷辅助下氨基酸的自组装成肽反应研究

L-α-氨基酸和D-α-氨基酸可与五氯化磷直接发生磷酰化反应，随后自组装成多肽，但β-氨基酸不能成肽，DL-α-氨基酸成肽困难；在SOCl2存在下，α-氨基酸也不能成肽，用电喷雾质谱研究了氨基酸的自组装反应，反应过程中有五元环状的氨基酸五配位磷中间体生成，使用硅烷基保护的氨基酸，在^31PNMR中可观察到五配位磷中间体。     

二烷氧基膦酰乙酸酯的电子轰击正离子和化学电离负离子质谱研究

本文报道一系列二烷氧基膦酰乙酸酯的电子轰击(EI)正离子和甲烷化学电离负离子(NCI)质谱.在EI谱上出现特征的[M+H]^+离子,进一步发生氢重排,然后失去烯烃,再失水和脱CH2CO.而在NCI谱中则生成[M-H]^-离子(基峰),易失去烷基,再失烷氧基和CH2CO,或氢重排后脱烯烃.正、负离子的断裂机理不同,但数据可以互相补充,以利于类似未知物的结构分析.     

Analysis of human pituitary growth hormone and its charge variants by fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry.

There is evidence that even highly purified preparations of human growth hormone are not homogenous, but contain charge as well as size variants. The charge heterogeneity was suggested to be due to deamidation of the native hormone. To verify this we have applied peptide mapping followed by fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS), in order to identify fragments containing the altered amino acids. Growth hormone was purified from human pituitaries and the differently charged forms were separated by column electrophoresis in agarose suspension. The isolated components were treated with trypsin and analysed directly by FAB-MS without prior separation by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). Using this technique, approximately 80% of the hormone structure was recovered and two deamidation sites were found in the fragment T15 (FDTNSHNDDALLK). The results clearly elucidated the potential use of FAB-MS for the fast screening of other variants of the growth hormone which are known to exist.     

A novel quantification method for analysis of twenty natural amino acids in human serum based on N-phosphorylation labeling using reversed-phase liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

A novel method based on the strategy of N-phosphorylation labeling is described for quantification of twenty natural amino acids in human serum by reversed-phase liquid chromatography–electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (RP-LC/ESI-MS). The derivatization reaction was easily performed in one-pot reaction under mild conditions within 30 min. The reaction mixture was then evaporated to dryness, redissolved, desalted by C18 SPE. The twenty N-phosphoryl amino acids were separated on an RP-C18 column within 20 min by isocratic elution (0.1% formic acid–acetonitrile, v/v 7:3). At the same time, multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) MS enabled quantitation of twenty natural amino with the LOD of 0.0005–0.15 μM and LOQ of 0.0020–0.5 μM in human serum. The linear range was from 0.025 to 25 μM (except Cys and Trp) with R > 0.99. The recovery range was determined to be 85.5–117.4% with the relative standard deviation (RSD) in the range of 1.3–13.9%. All twenty amino acids were successfully detected in human serum samples with the concentration from 5.7 to 577.9 μM, which indicates potential of the developed method for determination of amino acids in complex biological samples, hence for screening of amino acid metabolite related diseases.     

A 2D NMR method to study peptide phosphorylation

We demonstrate a 2D NMR method which distinguishes between phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated amino acids. The method is capable of monitoring the amino acid and site-specific enzymatic phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of peptides. The method was developed using O-phosphorylated amino acids and its potential is shown with a peptide fragment of the myelin basic protein (MBP).     

Interaction between N-Phospho-Amino Acids and Nucleoside in Aqueous Medium

Thebiosynthesisofnucleicacid,oneofthemostimportantbio-macromolecules,isahighlyelegantprocess,whichinvolvestheparticipationofmanyenzymesandenergycarriers,suchasATP',whilechemicalsynthesisofoligonucleotidesgenerallyinvolvescomplicatedprotectinganddeprotectingprocesses'.Inthepreviouswork,nucleotidesandoligonucleotidesweredirectlyformedacthereaction,,-ofN-(O,O-diisopropyl)phosphorylthreonineanduridineinanhydrouspyridine'.SoN-(O,O-diisopropyl)phospho-aminoacid(DIPP-aa)wasproposedasamodelcompou…     

柱前衍生-超高效液相色谱-单重四极杆质谱法分析不同产地烤烟的20种游离氨基酸

为了分析烤烟中游离氨基酸含量与烤烟香型、产地的关系,以国内14个烟草种植省份的138个调制后的烤烟中部叶片为材料,采用柱前衍生-超高效液相色谱-单重四极杆质谱法对烤烟中的20种游离氨基酸进行分析。方法表征结果显示该方法满足分析要求,适合烤烟中游离氨基酸的检测。对调制后烤烟中部叶片的游离氨基酸分析结果显示,烤烟的游离氨基酸含量在产地间差异很大（28.50%~94.20%）,其中天冬酰胺、谷氨酰胺含量的相对标准偏差（RSD）超过80%;在3种典型香型（浓香型、清香型和中间香型）烤烟中,浓香型烤烟游离氨基酸含量的RSD大于其他两种香型。对同一香型的不同种植省份和同一省份不同香型的烤烟游离氨基酸分析结果显示,其含量呈现一定的规律。     

Partial charges by multipole constraint. Application to the amino acids

Atom-centered partial charges which exactly reproduce the lowest several multipoles of a molecule's charge distribution can be obtained in a straightforward and convenient manner from the output of existing electronic structure calculations. The multipole constraint method is demonstrated by a computation of partial charges for the twenty common amino acids. The electron density employed here, derived from a semiempirical MNDO calculation, incorporates Slater-type orbitals which imbue it with the exponential fall-off vital to electronic tunneling calculations. In addition, a procedure based on these charges is described which divides the original electron density into two components, a large component with a simple electrostatic potential, and a much smaller residual whose several lowest multipoles vanish.