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  1. The assays that I have in mind are disk diffusion assays and assays to determine minimum inhibitory concentration or related. Sometimes these assays are conducted in rich medium (Luria broth, Terrific Broth, or similar). It seems to me that this choice biases against finding inhibitors that target enzymes whose absence is conditionally lethal. If one inhibits an enzyme that produces a metabolite that can be obtained from the medium, then growth of the cells might be impaired little or not at all. If one is interested in developing an antimicrobial compound, perhaps using a medium that mimics human serum is a better choice, but I imagine that there are complications I doubt very much that I am the only person who has wondered about this possible problem. Are there any papers that touch upon this subject or address it in a systematic manner.
  2. Faucher and Maitre Synthetic Communications 2003 33(20):3503-3511. DOI:10.1081/SCC-120024730 I would consider the possibility that TCEP is reducing DMSO, although the presence of iodine may be necessary for a rapid reaction (see Faucher and Maitre). If I could find no more information on this topic, I would consider switching my solvent to DMF. Is there any reason that you are using TCEP and not 2-ME or DTT as your reducing agent?
  3. Tutoring is not a replacement for studying on your own, IMO. It can fill in the gaps when you get stuck. My advice is to turn off all electronic distractions; short, intense studying is more effective than long periods of diffuse studying.
  4. If I recall correctly I once used bromocresol green to detect compounds containing a carboxylic acid group on a TLC plate. That is probably different from the sort of reaction that you were thinking about.
  5. A catalyst such as thiamine pyrophosphate can decarboxylate alpha-keto acids.
  6. Hi CharonY, Thank you for a very helpful answer. We used established antimicrobial substances as positive controls; we were not comparing our compounds to them in any other sense.
  7. Many covalent inhibitors are irreversible, but not all of them are. If each step to form a covalent bond is reversible, then the whole process is reversible. A good example is peptide aldehyde or trifluromethylketone binding to the nucleophile in a cysteine or serine proteases. Reversible, covalent inhibitors seem to be catching on, so it's a good topic.
  8. My suggestion is to rewrite the standard Michaelis-Menten equation in the form (velocity)/Vmax = and so forth. To do so is trivial from the point of view of the algebra involved.
  9. Good Morning, We are collaborating with a group that performs disk diffusion assays on compounds that we make. We would like to publish some disk diffusion data in addition to reporting on the syntheses and perhaps the in vitro behavior of a set of compounds. However, the area of whole-cell biological testing is generally unfamiliar to me, and I don't know how to present data in a manuscript. I also don't have a good feel for what information should or should not be included in reporting these data. Perhaps someone could suggest a model publication, for example. Thank you.
  10. In carbohydrate chemistry, my suggestion is generally to start with the HC-1 signal, because it verifies the configuration of this carbon. It is also simpler in appearance.
  11. We have tried both diethyl amine and 4-methylpiperidine in the deprotection. Most recently we removed the white precipitate with centrifugation in Corex centrifuge tubes. This was an improvement over having a bunch of precipitate sit on the top of the silica column.
  12. The carbon and oxygen are still present. What do you think happens to the hydrogen on the oxygen?
  13. Is there any point in repeating a successful disk diffusion assay at lower starting concentration of substance? Or would it make more sense to move to some form of minimum inhibitory concentration assays?
  14. We tried a silica column after using diethyl amine to deprotect. We obtained two pools, but we did not obtain our product. We are short on mass. It seems like time for a rethink regarding the best purification method.
  15. We have a tertiary-butyl protected amino acid in which nitrogen is protected with FMOC. We removed the FMOC group with diethyl amine, and we used rotary evaporation plus a toluene strip to remove the volatiles. We attempted to purify over a short column of silica. We were able to remove a fast-moving impurity (presumably dibenzofulvene or a derivative) using 40:60 EtOAc/hexanes, then switched to 99:1 hexanes/TEA in the hope of eluting the N-deprotected product, still bearing the carboxylate protecting group, but the product was not soluble in EtOAc or in DCM (it might have been a suspension). We eluted with 90:10 DCM/methanol and saw two products by TLC. They were not completely separated. I am interested in soliciting ideas for what we should do differently next time. In retrospect a lower percentage of methanol would have been an improvement. I wonder whether or not the solubility of the amine would have been better in chloroform than it was in DCM. I realize that some people do not purify at all at this stage, but instead couple the crude product with another amino acid. We also want to couple to another amino acid.
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