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Tirzepatide is a synthetic peptide developed as a dual agonist at the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptors. Its structure is built on a GIP-derived backbone with non-natural amino acid substitutions and a fatty diacid side chain that promotes albumin binding and slows clearance. That modification supports once-weekly subcutaneous dosing. Registrational trial programs reported reductions in body weight and glycated hemoglobin alongside the drug's glycemic effects.
Both receptors are class B G protein-coupled receptors that signal largely through Gs-mediated cyclic AMP production. Activation within pancreatic islets increases glucose-dependent insulin secretion and suppresses glucagon release when glucose is elevated. Outside the pancreas, signaling in the central nervous system and gut appears to influence appetite and gastric emptying. The relative contribution of each receptor to observed clinical effects remains under investigation, and the two pathways are not simply additive in practice.
Reported outcomes in large trials include dose-dependent weight reduction and improvements in glycemic markers over periods ranging from several months to more than a year. Whether the compound alters long-term cardiovascular or renal outcomes is being examined in dedicated outcome studies, so those questions remain open. Labeling describes gastrointestinal effects such as nausea and diarrhea, which tend to appear during dose escalation. Discontinuation rates and the durability of effects after treatment stops vary across study populations and are still debated.
定量分析的主流方法是反相高效液相色谱联用紫外或质谱检测，利用肽在疏水固定相上的保留行为确定纯度与含量。对于生物基质中的浓度测定，常采用液相色谱串联质谱，并配合固相萃取或蛋白沉淀进行样品前处理。免疫分析法也可使用，但可能受到结构相关肽的交叉反应干扰。
纯度评估通常综合反相色谱、体积排阻色谱与质谱三方面信息：前者反映疏水性杂质，后者反映聚集体，质谱则确认分子量与主要降解产物。有关降解途径的完整图谱——例如脱酰胺、氧化与水解各占多大比例——在不同储存条件下仍有差异，属于需要逐案验证的问题。
质量控制环节关注外观、含量、纯度、有关物质、水分与微生物限度等项目。检测结果需要有对照品和系统适用性数据支持，单次测定不足以判定批次的稳定性。实验室之间方法转移时，色谱柱品牌与梯度差异常导致保留时间漂移，因此方法验证十分必要。
| Property | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Molecular class | Synthetic 39-residue peptide | GIP-derived backbone with non-natural residues |
| Molar mass | Approximately 4.8 kDa | Peptide chain plus linker and lipid modifications |
| Appearance | White to off-white powder | Typical of lyophilized research material |
| Solubility | Soluble in water and aqueous buffer | Practically insoluble in nonpolar solvents |
| Storage temperature | Typically −20 °C for dry powder | Solutions usually held at 2–8 °C short term |
Cold-chain handling is standard for formulated product, with dry powder stored frozen and ready-to-use solutions refrigerated. Light exposure is minimized because photodegradation of certain amino acid side chains is possible. Shipping and temperature-excursion studies are used to establish whether short deviations affect quality attributes. Documentation supplied with research material usually includes a certificate of analysis listing purity, identity confirmation, and water or residual solvent content. Users are expected to confirm that material meets the stated specification before use.
Identity and purity of tirzepatide are assessed mainly by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection, often paired with mass spectrometry. Because the molecule carries several modifications, gradient conditions are adjusted to resolve the intact peptide from deamidation and oxidation products. Enzymatic digestion followed by peptide mapping confirms the primary sequence and locates specific modifications. Quantitation in biological matrices typically uses liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry after solid-phase extraction. Immunoassays are used less often, since antibody cross-reactivity with closely related peptides can bias results.
The peptide shares degradation routes common to modified peptides: deamidation of asparagine and glutamine residues, oxidation of methionine, and backbone hydrolysis under extreme pH. Lyophilized material is generally more stable than a solution, and residual water content directly affects the rate of hydrolysis. In liquid form, aggregation and visible particles can appear after agitation or repeated freeze-thaw cycles. Stability studies therefore track monomer content, aggregate content, and potency over months under defined temperature and humidity.
Structural work on the molecule centers on a C20 fatty diacid moiety attached through a linker to the peptide backbone. This side chain promotes reversible binding to serum albumin, which slows renal clearance and supports a prolonged action profile. The peptide backbone incorporates aminoisobutyric acid substitutions that limit recognition by digestive enzymes. Together these modifications produce a molecule that is stable enough for subcutaneous delivery but still dependent on careful manufacturing control. Analytical characterization of the active pharmaceutical ingredient typically follows the conventions used for other synthetic peptides.
Tirzepatide is a synthetic peptide composed of 39 amino acids. It acts as a dual agonist at two incretin receptors, the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor and the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor. The molecule was designed by modifying the native sequence of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide to improve metabolic stability and extend its circulation time. Its structure includes several non-natural amino acid residues and a fatty acid side chain. These features distinguish it from earlier single-receptor incretin analogs studied in the same period.
== Development and Organization == During cartilage development mesenchymal stem cells differentiate into chondrocytes, secreting various extracellular proteins, giving rise to the unique matrix zones. The territorial matrix develops as chondrocytes release collagen and proteoglycans, among other supporting organic molecules. These extracellular proteins form chondrons, a functional unit consisting of chondrocytes, the pericellular matrix, and the territorial matrix in order extending outward. Differences in the concentrations of molecules and fibril organization between the regions lead to clear patterns typical of mature cartilage. The articular cartilage shows variation across different zones in the extracellular matrix. Superficially, the collagen fibrils run parallel to the surface, resisting shear forces. In the middle zone, the fibrils are arranged randomly, allowing for optimal compressive absorption. The deep zone contains perpendicular fibrils, anchoring cartilage to the bone and transferring load. These gradients allow the territorial matrix to distribute its mechanical properties across zones.
== Weimar Republic == Initially, many Allied and German leaders favored transitioning Germany to a constitutional monarchy with August Wilhelm as either Emperor or regent for one of Crown Prince Wilhelm's children, although this possibility was quickly precluded when Philipp Scheidemann was forced by the pressures of the German Revolution to declare a republic. Winston Churchill, who at the time served as Secretary of State for War in the Lloyd George War Cabinet, blamed the failure to retain the monarchy for the political instability that plagued the Weimar Republic. After the end of the war, the couple separated and formally divorced in March 1920. August Wilhelm was awarded custody of their son. After his divorce and the marriage of his friend von Mackensen to Winifred von Neurath, the daughter of Konstantin von Neurath, August Wilhelm lived a reclusive life in his villa in Potsdam. He took drawing lessons with Arthur Kampf, and the sale of his pictures secured him an additional source of income.
Transfer of sulfur-containing groups is covered by EC 2.8 and is subdivided into the subcategories of sulfurtransferases, sulfotransferases, and CoA-transferases, as well as enzymes that transfer alkylthio groups. A specific group of sulfotransferases are those that use PAPS as a sulfate group donor. Within this group is alcohol sulfotransferase which has a broad targeting capacity. Due to this, alcohol sulfotransferase is also known by several other names including "hydroxysteroid sulfotransferase," "steroid sulfokinase," and "estrogen sulfotransferase." Decreases in its activity has been linked to human liver disease. This transferase acts via the following reaction: 3'-phosphoadenylyl sulfate + an alcohol
Carboxypeptidases hydrolyze peptides at the first amide or polypeptide bond on the C-terminal end of the chain. Carboxypeptidases act by replacing the substrate water with a carbonyl (C=O) group. The carboxypeptidase A hydrolysis reaction has two mechanistic hypotheses, via a nucleophilic water and via an anhydride. In the first proposed mechanism, a promoted-water pathway is favoured as Glu270 deprotonates the nucleophilic water. The Zn2+ ion, along with positively charged residues, decreases the pKa of the bound water to approximately 7. Glu 270 has a dual role in this mechanism as it acts as a base to allow for the attack at the amide carbonyl group during nucleophilic addition. It acts as an acid during elimination when the water proton is transferred to the leaving nitrogen group. The oxygen on the amide carbonyl group does not coordinate to the Zn2+ until the addition of the water. The deprotonation of the Zn2+ coordinated water by Glu 270 provides an activated hydroxide nucleophile which attacks the amide carbonyl group in the peptide bond in a nucleophilic addition. The negatively charged intermediates that are formed during hydrolysis are stabilized by the Zn2+ ion. The interaction between the carbonyl group and the neighbouring arginine, Arg 217, also stabilizes the negatively charged intermediates. The zinc-bound hydroxide interacts with the amide with the electrostatic stabilization of the transition state provided by the Zn2+ ion and the neighbouring arginine.
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== Biography == Born at Port Stanley in 1942 to New Zealanders Harold and Moya (née Boak) Baker, he spent his early life in the Falkland Islands, where his father was the superintendent of education. The family returned to New Zealand in 1948. He was educated at King's College, Auckland from 1956 to 1960. After studying chemistry at the University of Auckland, completing his PhD in 1967, he conducted postdoctoral research on the structure of insulin with Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin at the University of Oxford. He then took up an academic post at Massey University, where he determined the structure of the kiwifruit enzyme actinidin. In 1997 he moved back to the University of Auckland where he became professor of structural biology and later direct of the Maurice Wilkins Center for Molecular Diversity. He also served as president of the International Union of Crystallography between 1996 and 1999. Baker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1987, and won the society's Hector Medal in 1997. He was awarded the Rutherford Medal, the highest honour in New Zealand science, in 2006. In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.
Since he was already interested in the properties of light and matter, Faraday further investigated the optical properties of the colloidal gold. He prepared the first pure sample of colloidal gold, which he called 'divided gold', in 1857. He used phosphorus to reduce a solution of gold chloride. The colloidal gold Faraday made 150 years ago is still optically active. For a long time, the composition of the 'ruby' gold was unclear. Several chemists suspected it to be a gold tin compound, due to its preparation. Faraday recognized that the color was actually due to the miniature size of the gold particles. He noted the light scattering properties of suspended gold microparticles, which is now called Faraday-Tyndall effect. In 1898, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy prepared the first colloidal gold in diluted solution. Apart from Zsigmondy, Theodor Svedberg, who invented ultracentrifugation, and Gustav Mie, who provided the theory for scattering and absorption by spherical particles, were also interested in the synthesis and properties of colloidal gold. With advances in various analytical technologies in the 20th century, studies on gold nanoparticles has accelerated. Advanced microscopy methods, such as atomic force microscopy and electron microscopy, have contributed the most to nanoparticle research. Due to their comparably easy synthesis and high stability, various gold particles have been studied for their practical uses. Different types of gold nanoparticle are already used in many industries.
=== 1945–1946 === After the end of the war, Amin al-Husayni managed to find his way to Egypt and stayed there until 1959, when he moved to Lebanon. On 22 March 1945, the Arab League was formed. In November 1945, on the urging of Egypt, its leading member, the then seven members of the Arab League (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Yemen) reconstituted the Arab Higher Committee comprising twelve members as the supreme executive body of Palestinian Arabs in the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine. The committee was dominated by the Palestine Arab Party, controlled by the Husayni family, and was immediately recognised by Arab League countries. The Mandate government recognised the new committee two months later. In February 1946, Jamal al-Husayni returned from exile to Palestine and immediately set about reorganising and enlarging the committee, becoming its acting president. The members of the reconstituted committee as at April 1946 were:
The heart has four chambers, two upper atria, the receiving chambers, and two lower ventricles, the discharging chambers. The atria open into the ventricles via the atrioventricular valves, present in the atrioventricular septum. This distinction is visible also on the surface of the heart as the coronary sulcus. There is an ear-shaped structure in the upper right atrium called the right atrial appendage, or auricle, and another in the upper left atrium, the left atrial appendage. The right atrium and the right ventricle together are sometimes referred to as the right heart. Similarly, the left atrium and the left ventricle together are sometimes referred to as the left heart. The ventricles are separated from each other by the interventricular septum, visible on the surface of the heart as the anterior longitudinal sulcus and the posterior interventricular sulcus. The fibrous cardiac skeleton gives structure to the heart. It forms the atrioventricular septum, which separates the atria from the ventricles, and the fibrous rings, which serve as bases for the four heart valves. The cardiac skeleton also provides an important boundary in the heart's electrical conduction system since collagen cannot conduct electricity. The interatrial septum separates the atria, and the interventricular septum separates the ventricles. The interventricular septum is much thicker than the interatrial septum since the ventricles need to generate greater pressure when they contract.
Several genera, including Asian coral snakes (Calliophis), burrowing asps (Atractaspis), and night adders (Causus), are remarkable for having exceptionally long venom glands, extending along each side of the body, in some cases extending posterially as far as the heart. Instead of the muscles of the temporal region serving to press out the venom into the duct, this action is performed by those of the side of the body. Considerable variability in biting behavior is seen among snakes. When biting, viperid snakes often strike quickly, discharging venom as the fangs penetrate the skin, and then immediately release. Alternatively, as in the case of a feeding response, some viperids (e.g. Lachesis) bite and hold. A proteroglyph or opisthoglyph may close its jaws and bite or chew firmly for a considerable time. Differences in fang length between the various venomous snakes are likely due to the evolution of different striking strategies. Additionally, it has been shown that the fangs of different species of venomous snakes have different sizes and shapes depending on the biomechanical properties of the snake's prey.
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== Production and identity == Lymphocyte T-cell immunomodulator, or T-4 immune stimulating factor (TISF), is a single chain polypeptide that is a strongly cationic glycoprotein and is purified with cation exchange resin. Purification of protein from bovine-derived type II thymic epithelial cell supernatants produces a substantially homogeneous factor, free of extraneous materials. The bovine protein is homologous with other mammalian species and is a homogeneous 50 kDa glycoprotein with an isoelectric point of 6.5. The protein is prepared in a lyophilized 1 microgram dose. Reconstitution in sterile diluent produces a solution for subcutaneous injection. It is unknown what LTCI is in terms of its sequence. It is not interleukins 1-7 nor G-CSF. The manufacturer verifies its potency by checking for stimulation of IL-2 production.
LSD is a chiral compound with two stereocenters at the carbon atoms C-5 and C-8, so that theoretically four different optical isomers of LSD could exist. LSD, also called d-LSD or (+)-LSD, has the absolute configuration (5R,8R). The other stereoisomers are iso-LSD (d-iso-LSD), l-LSD, and l-iso-LSD. The 5S- or levo- stereoisomers of lysergamides do not exist in nature and are not formed during the synthesis from d-lysergic acid. Retrosynthetically, the C-5 stereocenter could be analysed as having the same configuration as the alpha carbon of the naturally occurring amino acid L-tryptophan, the precursor to all biosynthetic ergoline compounds. However, LSD and iso-LSD, the two C-8 isomers, rapidly interconvert in the presence of bases, as the alpha proton is acidic and can be deprotonated and reprotonated. Non-psychoactive iso-LSD, which has formed during the synthesis, can be separated by chromatography and can be isomerized to LSD. Pure salts of LSD are triboluminescent, emitting small flashes of white light when shaken in the dark. LSD is strongly fluorescent and will glow bluish-white under UV light.
=== Wild-type (ATTRwt-CM) === This type has no mutations in the TTR gene but TTR deposits still form in the heart and other tissues. Males are more commonly affected, at ages over 70 years. Carpal tunnel syndrome may form as well as amyloid deposits in the carpal tunnel causing compression of the median nerve. Amyloid deposits in the carpal tunnel or other ligaments (causing tendon rupture) or the spinal canal causing spinal stenosis may precede the development of heart failure by 10-15 years. Wild type ATTR cardiac amyloidosis (and the genetic variant) can be diagnosed with cardiac nuclear scintigraphy to visualize amyloid deposits in the heart walls. Serum free light chains, serum and urine electrophoresis with immunofixation can rule out AL amyloidosis. If the diagnosis is unclear, a biopsy may be obtained. Biopsy with histological evaluation can rule out light chain and genetic testing can rule out familial subtypes. This type is often misdiagnosed. However, greater use of cardiac magnetic resonance has increased the rate of diagnosis. The severity of the disease tends to be less than the light chain and familial variants. This is due to the amount of time that it takes to accumulate the amyloid depositions being longer in the wild-type variant.
== Pharmacokinetics == Depending on the surface area and depth of the wound, bromelain blood serum concentrations of no more than 40 μg/ml are expected, with peak concentrations reached after 2 to 4 hours. The terminal half-life varied between 8.5 and 19.9 hours in studies. These data have been obtained from 15 patients with comparatively shallow wounds.
== Experimental atomic gas phase chemistry == Interest in copernicium's chemistry was sparked by predictions that it would have the largest relativistic effects in the whole of period 7 and group 12, and indeed among all 118 known elements. Copernicium is expected to have the ground state electron configuration [Rn] 5f14 6d10 7s2 and thus should belong to group 12 of the periodic table, according to the Aufbau principle. As such, it should behave as the heavier homologue of mercury and form strong binary compounds with noble metals like gold. Experiments probing the reactivity of copernicium have focused on the adsorption of atoms of element 112 onto a gold surface held at varying temperatures, in order to calculate an adsorption enthalpy. Owing to relativistic stabilization of the 7s electrons, copernicium shows radon-like properties. Experiments were performed with the simultaneous formation of mercury and radon radioisotopes, allowing a comparison of adsorption characteristics. The first chemical experiments on copernicium were conducted using the 238U(48Ca,3n)283Cn reaction. Detection was by spontaneous fission of the claimed parent isotope with half-life of 5 minutes. Analysis of the data indicated that copernicium was more volatile than mercury and had noble gas properties. However, the confusion regarding the synthesis of copernicium-283 has cast some doubt on these experimental results.
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It acts as an agonist at both the GIP and GLP-1 receptors, two related class B G protein-coupled receptors. This dual activity distinguishes it from single-receptor GLP-1 agonists. The clinical consequences of engaging both receptors are still being characterized.
It is given by subcutaneous injection, generally on a weekly schedule. Dosing usually begins low and increases in steps to limit gastrointestinal side effects. Formulated product is supplied as a ready-to-use pen or vial in most markets.
No. Receptor engagement is documented, but how central appetite circuits, gut signals, and insulinotropic effects combine is incompletely resolved. Investigators continue to separate GIP-driven from GLP-1-driven contributions in animal and human models.
建议在低温、避光、干燥环境中密封保存，常见条件为 2 至 8 摄氏度，长期存放可置于更低温度。应避免反复冻融，并尽量减少容器开启次数。