Compartmentalization of amino acids in surfactant aggregates

Journal of Molecular Evolution - Tập 6 - Trang 215-232 - 1975
Janos H. Fendler1, Faruk Nome1, Joseph Nagyvary2
1Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
2Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

Tóm tắt

Cationic amino acids, arginine and lysine partition differentially from water into aqueous micellar sodium dodecanoate. Conversely, partitioning of serine, glycine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, threonine, alanine, proline, valine, leucine, phenylalanine and isoleucine do not vary appreciably. Partitioning from neat hexane into dodecylammonium propionate trapped water in hexane is, however, dependent upon both electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions. These results imply that the interior of dodecylammonium propionate aggregates is negatively charged and is capable of hydrogen bonding in addition to providing a hydrophobic environment. The solubilities of amino acids in neat hexane substantiate the previously derived amino acid hydrophobicity scale. Relevance of partitioning in these systems to the postulated selective amino acid compartmentalization is discussed.

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