The hydrolysis by thermolysin of dipeptide derivatives that conatin substituted cysteine.
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ABSTRACT: 1. The preparation of protected dipeptides of the form acetylglycylamino acid amides is described, where the amino acid is phenylalanine, leucine, valine, alanine, S-methylcysteine, S-ethylcysteine, S-benzylcysteine and S-phenylcysteine. 2. Kinetic parameters for the thermolytic hydrolysis of these blocked dipeptides are reported. The rate of hydrolysis was fastest when the amino acid was leucine or phenylalanine, slower when it was S-methylcysteine, valine or S-ethylcysteine, much slower when it was alanine, and negligible for S-phenylcysteine or S-benzylcysteine. 3. The results are compared with those for similar dipeptide derivatives with benzyloxycarbonyl and furylacryloyl blocking groups, which are hydrolysed faster.
SUBMITTER: Damoglou AP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1176968 | biostudies-other | 1971 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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