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Study of the role of the B-chain N-terminus conformation of insulin in binding to the insulin receptor
Kosinová, Lucie ; Žáková, Lenka (advisor) ; Obšil, Tomáš (referee)
According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), there were 371 million people in the age from 20 to 79 years worldwide affected by diabetes in 2012. This means diabetes has become a global epidemic disease and, therefore, the importace of insulin research still grows. Insulin is a protein hormone that plays a key role in regulating blood glucose level which has a widespread impact on whole metabolism. Insulin acts through binding of its monomeric form to the insulin receptor. It is clear that insulin monomer has to undergo structural changes upon binding to the insulin receptor as the residues which are crucial for the interaction are burried within the native form. According to studies of highly active hormone analogs and the new information about the insulin-insulin receptor complex, there is a strong evidence that the C-terminal part of the B-chain is a dynamic element in insulin activation and receptor binding. Probably, there is also a great importance of the B-chain N- terminus and the transition between T and R conformations of insulin. However, the exact significance of the T and R states of insulin still remains unclear. In this work, several new insulin analogs AibB3-insulin, AibB5-insulin, AibB8- insulin, N-MeAlaB8-insulin and D-ProB8-insulin were prepared for the purpose of...
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Development of an alternative synthesis of Sm-pdta, a chiral NMR shift reagent for amino acids analysis
Hrubá, Lucie ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Pohl, Radek (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the preparation of chiral shift reagents sodium [(R)- and (S)-1,2-diaminopropane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetate]samarate, for short Sm-(R)-pdta and Sm-(S)-pdta. These reagents have the ability to differentiate NMR signals of enantiomers of amino acids in an aqueous environment. The main aim of this work was to develop a new, efficient and cheap method of the preparation of these reagents which would enable their routine use in laboratory practice, because these reagents are commercially available only in limited quantities and at high price. This work describes simplifield method of separation of racemic 1,2-diaminopropane to its enantiomers from easily available starting substances, L-tartaric acid and racemic 1,2-diaminopropane. We also developed and optimized a new process of synthesis of the key intermediate, (R)- and (S)-1,2-diaminopropane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid from (R)- and (S)-1,2-diaminopropane dihydrochloride, with a new synthetic step involving tetrabenzylester of this acid and its deprotection by hydrogenolysis without contamination by extraneous ions. This process affords very pure anhydrous acid in high yield. Finally, the target complexes Sm-(R)-pdta and Sm-(S)-pdta were successfully prepared from (R)- and (S)-1,2-diaminopropane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid...
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Methods for prediction of secondary structure in proteins
Hoštáková, Nina ; Provazník, Ivo (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
The examination of protein structure is crucial in determining protein function in organism. This work deals with the issue of 1D, 2D and 3D structures, into which are proteins organized in space. Emphasis is placed on secondary structure, which can be predicted directly from the amino acid sequences and then used for the estimation of spatial structure. On this procedure are focused computational methods, using algorithms that convert the order of amino acids into the order of preferences for secondary structures. To direct determination of the structure by creating structural models is devoted chapter Experimental Methods (NMR spectroscopy, RTG crystallography). The main aim of this work is practical realization of protein secondary structure prediction method. The created program is supplemented by graphical user interface. In the final part the results of the program based on Chou- Fasman method are compared to the outputs of freely available softwares from the Internet.
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Synthesis and biological properties of polysubstituted 5-nitrosopyrimidines
Janeba, Zlatko ; Čechová, Lucie ; Žurek, Jiří ; Procházková, Eliška ; Dračínský, Martin
2,4,6-Triamino-5-nitrosopyrimidines have been reported to contain a strong intramolecular hydrogen bond between the 5-nitroso and 4- or 6-amino groups, thus forming an additional pseudoring. Such analogues were speculated to be good mimics of fused bicyclic derivatives, e.g. purines. A series of novel polysubstituted 2-amino-5-nitrosopyrimidines, as potential structural mimics of modifi ed purine nucleos(t)ides well-known for their important biological properties, has been designed and synthesized. The physicochemical and biological properties of the prepared polysubstituted 2-amino-5-nitrosopyrimidines are being evaluated.
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Switchable intramolecular hydrogen bond in polysubstituted 5-nitrosopyrimidines
Procházková, Eliška ; Čechová, Lucie ; Žurek, Jiří ; Janeba, Zlatko ; Dračínský, Martin
The formation of strong intramolecular hydrogen bonds was observed in a series of 2-amino-5-nitrosopyrimidines with alkylamino and arylamino substituents in the positions 4 and 6. Mixtures of two rotamers differing in the orientation of the nitroso group were observed in the NMR spectra of the compounds where two distinct intramolecular hydrogen bonds could be formed. In several cases, we were able to isolate and characterize the two hydrogen bond isomers (two conformers) by column chromatography. The ratio of the two rotamers in equilibrium depends strongly on the character of the substituents in the positions 4 and 6 and can be finely tuned in a broad range of conformation ratios. The experimental results were supported by DFT calculations.
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High resolution multivoxel spectroscopy of human brain at 3 Tesla
Mlynárik, V. ; Gruber, S. ; Starčuk, Zenon ; Starčuk jr., Zenon ; Horký, Jaroslav ; Moser, E.
Localisation in in vivo NMR spectroscopy can be achieved using different concepts. Single voxel localized spectroscopy exploits three slice selective pulses defining a cube (or a parallelepiped) in their intersection. By proper combination of spoiling gradients the excited magnetization outside the cube is dephased and does not contribute to the NMR signal. Another way of localisation is combination of slice selection with phase encoding of the NMR signal in the other two dimensions by means of gradient magnetic fields. The latter method is referred to as spectroscopic imaging and provides an array of spectra corresponding to individual voxels defined by the phase encoding. Further subdivision of the voxels is possible by Hadamard encoding of the excitation pulses.
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