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[求助]
求教化学方面的文章翻译~(简要的解说,非精翻译)--Part 1.
求教化学方面的文章翻译~(简要的解说,非精翻译) -- Part 1.
这篇内容是我向 RSC 索取的文件, 发表在 2002年 Chemistry in Britain 的一篇 title 为 Chemistry Encrypted 的论文~
(内容可能涉及生物化学还是分析化学方面~ 具体~我不清楚~)
因为想学这篇内容~ 但没有化学基础及知识背景~
上来求教化学方面的专家~
内容一个字一个字的输入进 word, 然后贴上来~
所谓隔行如隔山~ 术业有专攻~
这内容我不懂~ 特来请教这方面的专家~
( 附件我放上 figure 1, figure 2. 及文字檔 chemistry encrypted9.doc)
我想知道~图一跟图二主要是在描述什么内容~
我把文章依段落分成 5 段~ 放上来请专家帮忙解说~ 衷心感谢~
谢谢~
Chemistry encrypted
AFTER WITNESSING A COLLEAGUE’S transformation into a humanoid crustacean, with some feeling (and in bowdlerised form): You’ve got to be kidding’. Sometimes the audacity of a scientific idea can provoke a similar response. Columbia University chemistry professor Clark Still, while ruminating over a problem in combinatorial chemistry, had such an idea. When he explained it to his postdoctoral assistant, Micheal Ohlmeyer, it left the latter literally scratching his head.
The problem that Still was thinking about was this. You have a large number millions of microscopic polystyrene beads. Each bead is coated with a different peptide. Some beads have stuck, via their peptides, to a clinically important target molecule. These sticky beads have identified themselves by going red in a diagnostic colour assay. Since the active peptides these beads display are potential drugs, it is essential to find out what their amino acid sequence are. How do you do it?
Still imagined giving the amino acid sequence of the peptide on each bead a digital code. He limited himself to seven different amino acids, A-G, and numbered then in binary, A=001, B=010 and so on. The amino acid sequence could then be ‘digitised’ by placing the binary numbers of the amino acids in the order that they appeared in the peptide. So for a peptide with the amino acid sequence: D B A E F G C
The digital code would be:
100 010 001 101 110 111 011
He then envisaged that the 1s and 0s at each of the 21 positions in this digital code would be represented by either the presence or absence of different tag molecules on the bead. These tags would be attached to the bead as the peptide was being assembled on it (Fig 1a). If the first amino acid was E(101), tag molecules 1 and 3 would cap a very small proportion of the reactive sites to which E is to be attached; E then couples to the remaining uncapped sites. The attachment of the second amino acid F(110) wound be accompanied by attachment of tag molecules 4 and 5. These new tags cap a small proportion of the first amino acid-sites where F would otherwise have attached.
Further extension of the growing peptide chains is similarly by the addition of further tags. So if the third amino acid was G (111), this would be attached to the bead alongside tags 7, 8 and 9.Thus the encoding process is concurrent with peptide assembly. Once assembly is complete, each bead should have, in addition to many copies of a given peptide, its own digital code specifying the amino acid sequence of that peptide.
The tags were to be attached to the reactive sites on the bead by a photocleavable link (Fig 1b), such that irradiating the bead with ultraviolet light would release them. They could then be subject to gas chromatography (GC), with the GC trace being the visible manifestation of the digital code. Therefore the tag molecules also needed to be easily detectable and resolvable by GC. Still chose a series of halogen-rich arenes for this purpose. The amino acid sequence of the gas chromatograph from left to right.
Having an idea is one thing, realizing it quite another. To their considerable credit, Still and Ohlmeyer, along with six other co-workers did see it through. They built a library that theoretically contained 117649 different beads, each one digitally encoded for the peptide that it displayed. To see if their library was any good, they mixed it with an antibody they knew would bind to a particular peptide in the library. Amazingly, with this antibody they were able to pick out a bead that, when they read its digital code, had exactly this peptide. (They also picked out beads displaying peptides of related amino acid sequence.).
Since this trail-blazing experiment - the first to make use of miniature barcode as far as I know - the bead encoding technology has been extended to include libraries of other small organic molecules besides peptides. Researchers have also refined the tagging step; the tag is now attached to the bead rather than to reactive sites used by the molecule being built. And the technology has spawned a drug discovery company – aptly named Pharmacopeia.
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