Norio Takamura | PubMed Health

PubMed2005

An improved method for proteomics studies in C. elegans by fluorogenic derivatization, HPLC isolation, enzymatic digestion and liquid chromatography--tandem mass spectrometric identification.

An improved method for proteomics studies, which includes the fluorogenic derivertization of protein mixtures with 7-chloro-4-(dimethylaminoethylaminosulfonyl)-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole (DAABD-Cl), followed by HPLC isolation, enzymatic digestion and identification of the derivatized proteins by HPLC-electrospray ionization (ESI)-MS/MS with the probability-based protein identification algorithm, identified 103 proteins in the soluble extract (10 microg protein) of Caenorhabditis elegans.

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PubMed1997

A Novel Method for a Stereoselective Synthesis of Trisubstituted Olefin Using Tricarbonyliron Complex: A Highly Stereoselective Synthesis of (all-E)- and (9Z)-Retinoic Acids.

In order to establish the stereoselective synthesis of retinoic acids, which are ligand molecules of the retinoic acid receptors (RARs, all-E-isomer) and the retinoid X receptors (RXRs, 9Z-isomer), the reaction of beta-ionone-tricarbonyliron complex 7 with carbanions was investigated. Treatment of 7 with the lithium salt of acetonitrile afforded (7E,9E)-beta-ionylideneacetonitrile-tricarbonyliron complex 8 exclusively, via addition, dehydration, and migration of tricarbonyliron complex. On the contrary, the reaction of 7 with the lithium enolate of ethyl acetate and subsequent dehydration by thionyl chloride afforded the ethyl (7E,9Z)-beta-ionylideneacetate-tricarbonyliron complex 16b predominantly. These compounds (8 and 16b) were converted to the corresponding beta-ionylideneacetaldehyde-tricarbonyliron complexes (10 and 22) in excellent yields, respectively. The Emmons-Horner reaction of these compounds with C5-phosphonate followed by the sequence of decomplexation and alkaline hydrolysis gave the corresponding retinoic acids (26 and 29).

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