Chapter 29: Q61. (page 1196)
Draw all the steps in the synthesis of each peptide from individual amino acids:
(a)Gly-Ala;
(b) Ile-Ala-Phe
Short Answer

Chapter 29: Q61. (page 1196)
Draw all the steps in the synthesis of each peptide from individual amino acids:
(a)Gly-Ala;
(b) Ile-Ala-Phe

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a.(S)-Penicillamine, an amino acid that does not occur in proteins, is used as a copper chelating agent to treat Wilson’s disease, an inherited defect in copper metabolism.
(R)-Penicillamine is toxic, sometimes causing blindness. Draw the structures of (R) and (S)-penicillamine.
b. What disulfide is formed from oxidation of L-penicillamine?
Consider two molecules of a tetrapeptide composed of only alanine residues. Draw the hydrogen bonding interactions that result when these two peptides adopt a parallel β-pleated sheet arrangement. Answer this same question for the antiparallel β-pleated sheet arrangement.
Identify the lettered intermediates in the following reaction scheme. This is an alternative method to synthesize amino acids, based on the Gabriel synthesis of 1° amines (Section 25.7A).

Outline the steps needed to synthesize the tetrapeptideAla–Leu–Ile–Gly using the Merrifield technique.
What is the structure of each amino acid at its isoelectric point: (a) alanine (b) methionine; (c)aspartic acid; (d) lysine
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