Cernak, Paul published the artcileA thiamin-utilizing ribozyme decarboxylates a pyruvate-like substrate, Category: imidazoles-derivatives, the publication is Nature Chemistry (2013), 5(11), 971-977, database is CAplus and MEDLINE.
Vitamins are hypothesized to be relics of an RNA world, and were probably participants in RNA-mediated primordial metabolism If catalytic RNAs, or ribozymes, could harness vitamin cofactors to aid their function in a manner similar to protein enzymes, it would enable them to catalyze a much larger set of chem. reactions. The cofactor thiamin diphosphate, a derivative of vitamin B1 (thiamin), is used by enzymes to catalyze difficult metabolic reactions, including decarboxylation of stable α-keto acids such as pyruvate. Here, we report a ribozyme that uses free thiamin to decarboxylate a pyruvate-based suicide substrate (LnkPB). Thiamin conjugated to biotin was used to isolate catalytic individuals from a pool of random-sequence RNAs attached to LnkPB. Anal. of a stable guanosine adduct obtained via digestion of an RNA sequence (clone dc4) showed the expected decarboxylation product. The discovery of a prototypic thiamin-utilizing ribozyme has implications for the role of RNA in orchestrating early metabolic cycles.
Nature Chemistry published new progress about 359860-27-8. 359860-27-8 belongs to imidazoles-derivatives, auxiliary class Other Aliphatic Heterocyclic,Chiral,Amine,Amide,Ether,Inhibitor, name is N-(2-(2-(2-(2-Aminoethoxy)ethoxy)ethoxy)ethyl)-5-((3aS,4S,6aR)-2-oxohexahydro-1H-thieno[3,4-d]imidazol-4-yl)pentanamide, and the molecular formula is C18H34N4O5S, Category: imidazoles-derivatives.
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