Influenza virus assembly and budding occur in the 'budozone', a coalesced raft domain in the plasma membrane. The viral transmembrane protein M2 is implicated in virus particle scission, the ultimate step in virus budding, probably by wedge-like insertion of an amphiphilic helix into the membrane. In order to do this, M2 is hypothesized to be targeted to the edge of the budozone, mediated by ac...

Beta-lactamases and penicillin-binding proteins are bacterial enzymes involved in antibiotic resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics and biosynthetic assembly of cell wall, respectively. Members of these large families of enzymes all experience acylation by their respective substrates at an active site serine as the first step in their catalytic activities. A Ser-X-X-Lys sequence motif is seen in...

1,1-diacetates(acylals) were prepared by direct condensation of various aldehydes with acetic anhydride using dipyridine cobalt chloride (copy2cl2) as an efficient and green catalyst under solvent-free conditions at room temperature. the important features of this catalyst method are that the catalyst is solid, stable at high temperatures, soluble in water, stable in air, immiscible in common o...

A TMSCH2Li-based reagent promoted the first C-3 lithiation of DMAP opening a direct access to functional diversity in acylation catalysts.

This paper describes a theoretical method for solving systems of coupled differential equations that describe the kinetics of complicated reaction networks in which a molecule having multiple reaction sites reacts irreversibly with multiple equivalents of a ligand (reagent). The members of the network differ in the number of equivalents of reagent that have reacted, and in the patterns of sites...

Polyhydroxylated hybrid molecules have been synthesized using a protocol based on the regioselective acylation of the target compounds with activated dicarboxylic acids catalyzed by Novozym-435. The procedure implies that the mixed ester derivatives prepared and isolated from the first esterification step act as acylating agents in the second esterification step.

Some new b-lactams bearing biologically important morpholine ring have been synthesized by acylation of amino b-lactams in the presence of morpholine-4-carbonyl chloride. These novel β-lactams were prepared under mild reaction conditions without any solvent in short reaction times. Their biological activities have been examined against microbial agents such as Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus),...

The presence of fatty acids bound to the glycoprotein in a number of serotypes of vesicular stomatitis virus was investigated by growing the virus in the presence of [3H]palmitic acid. [3H]Palmitate was efficiently incorporated into G proteins of the serotypes Indiana, Piry, and Chandipura but was not detected in G proteins from Cocal and three different strains of New Jersey serotypes. Cerulen...

The Friedel-Crafts acylation is commonly used for the synthesis of aryl ketones, and a biocatalytic version, which may benefit from the chemo- and regioselectivity of enzymes, has not yet been introduced. Described here is a bacterial acyltransferase which can catalyze Friedel-Crafts C-acylation of phenolic substrates in buffer without the need of CoA-activated reagents. Conversions reach up to...