Extraction of deuterated compounds from Chlorella sp. K. grown in D20
Lazareva, A.V.; Kasitsina, V.A.; Bondarenko, A.I.; Okon, M.S.; Sibel'dina, L.A.
Biofizika 22(2): 201-206
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0006-3029 PMID: 193575 Document Number: 116016
A comparison of the three known methods made it possible to work out methods of complex extraction of deutero amino acids, deutero sugars and deutero vitamins from algae Chlorella sp. K., grown autotrophically in heavy water. An analysis of the isotopic composition of deutero amino acids by PMR indicates that treatment with HCl introduces 1H into side chains of some amino acids by chemical exchange (C2, 6H of tyrosine, C2H of histidine, rho-H of phenylalanin, beta-CH2-aspartate and gamma-CH2-glutamate. These exchanges made the amino acids convenient to be used as the substrates for the growth of heterotrophic selective deuterated organisms as a source of selective deuterated proteins.