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Amide bonds, and thus isopeptide bonds, are stabilized by resonance (electron delocalization) between the carbonyl oxygen, the carbonyl carbon, and the nitrogen atom. The bond strength of an isopeptide bond is similar to that of a peptide due to the similar bonding type. The bond strength of a peptide bond is around 300 kJ/mol, or about 70 kcal ...
Autocatalytic cycle of formose reaction showing how glyceraldehyde can be both the catalyst and the product of one portion of this complex reaction type. An early example of autocatalysis is the formose reaction , in which formaldehyde and base produce sugars and related polyols.
Bonds formed by transglutaminase exhibit high resistance to proteolytic degradation (proteolysis). [2] The reaction is [1] Gln-(C=O)NH 2 + NH 2-Lys → Gln-(C=O)NH-Lys + NH 3. Transglutaminases can also join a primary amine ( RNH 2 ) to the side chain carboxyamide group of a protein/peptide bound glutamine residue thus forming an isopeptide ...
[4] [5] The amide group is called a peptide bond when it is part of the main chain of a protein, and an isopeptide bond when it occurs in a side chain, as in asparagine and glutamine. It can be viewed as a derivative of a carboxylic acid ( R−C(=O)−OH ) with the hydroxyl group ( −OH ) replaced by an amino group ( −NR′R″ ); or ...
Splicing of group I introns is processed by two sequential transesterification reactions. [3] First an exogenous guanosine or guanosine nucleotide (exoG) docks onto the active G-binding site located in P7, and then its 3'-OH is aligned to attack the phosphodiester bond at the "upstream" (closer to the 5' end) splice site located in P1, resulting in a free 3'-OH group at the upstream exon and ...
Autocatalytic sets also have the ability to replicate themselves if they are split apart into two physically separated spaces. Computer models illustrate that split autocatalytic sets will reproduce all of the reactions of the original set in each half, much like cellular mitosis. In effect, using the principles of autocatalysis, a small ...
A first kinetically controlled product rearranges to form the amide bond. The most common form of native chemical ligation uses a peptide thioester that reacts with a terminal cysteine residue. [58] Other methods applicable for covalently linking polypeptides in aqueous solution include the use of split inteins, [59] spontaneous isopeptide bond ...
When the isopeptag is bound to a target protein, it spontaneously binds its binding partner through an isopeptide bond, an amide bond formed autocatalytically.The reaction is robust and occurs at various temperatures from 4-37 °C, a pH range of 5–8, and in the presence of commonly used detergents.