Question
An S-to-N acyl shift occurs in a reaction involving an amine group on this molecule and a thioester, called native chemical ligation. The remarkable stability of cyclotides is due to a motif involving six instances of this molecule that shares its structure with a rotaxane, its namesake “knot.” An N-acetyl derivative of this amino acid is used to treat Tylenol overdose because it is converted to glutathione in the liver. Papain and (*) caspases belong to a class of proteases named for this non-alcohol-containing amino acid. Beta-mercaptoethanol denatures proteins by cleaving bonds formed between two instances of this amino acid, which are an important part of tertiary structure. For 10 points, disulfide bridges form between two instances of what amino acid whose one-letter code is C? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 105.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 50% | 102.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 0% | 98.17 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 103.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 111.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 108.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 124.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 94.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 60% | 89.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Owyn Noble | Purdue B | Notre Dame | 21 | -5 |
Jason Hong | Madmen and Specialists | bingy academy | 50 | -5 |
Sanjay Shanmuga Perumal | Lambert | Georgia Tech B | 50 | -5 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Purdue A | 50 | 15 |
Liam Kusalik | Waterloo Aspidistra | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 52 | 15 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley A | 54 | -5 |
Collin Leck | The cult of SGA | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 59 | -5 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | The cult of SGA | 59 | 15 |
Moses Kitakule | In the Mood for Buzz | Old and Young | 60 | 15 |
Rasheeq Azad | North Carolina B | North Carolina A | 64 | 15 |
Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech A | Milton | 78 | 10 |
Tiffany Zhou | UF A | Florida Tech | 80 | -5 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley B | 81 | -5 |
Yash Mandavia | Illinois Orange | Chicago B | 81 | -5 |
Coby Tran | Paddington in Peru (2024) | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 82 | -5 |
Max Chen | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | Social credit go vroom | 82 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | ALCU | 82 | -5 |
Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 85 | 10 |
Travis Tu | Jason et al. | Claremont | 85 | 10 |
Yixi Yang | Yale | Tufts B | 90 | 10 |
Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | Valencia | 92 | 10 |
Khanh Nguyen | UF B | UCF B | 94 | 10 |
Jacob Rosenberg | Innovation Academy C | Johns Creek | 98 | -5 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | Toronto B | 99 | 10 |
Asha Basu | McGill A | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 103 | 10 |
Gary Lin | U[C]SD | SGV Ventures | 106 | 10 |
Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech D | Innovation Academy B | 107 | 10 |
Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 110 | 10 |
Jacob Finley | Notre Dame | Purdue B | 111 | 10 |
Rahim Dina | Imperial A | Warwick C | 111 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Tufts A | 112 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Bristol | 112 | 10 |
Joel Dicker | Southampton | Warwick A | 112 | 10 |
Richard Lin | Amherst | Boston College A | 115 | 10 |
Jenna Lam | Bowdoin C | BU | 116 | 10 |
Fred Garvey | Truman | Squidward Community College | 118 | 10 |
Shourjo Ganguli | bingy academy | Madmen and Specialists | 119 | 10 |
Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 124 | 10 |
Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Warwick B | 124 | 10 |
Joy An | Harvard | Brandeis B | 125 | 0 |
Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Clark House | 125 | 0 |
Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis B | Harvard | 125 | 0 |
Shining Sun | Boston College B | Clark Wilson | 125 | 10 |
Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech A | 125 | 0 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 125 | 10 |
Ali Hamzeh | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 125 | 10 |
Ted Gan | Penn State | RIT | 125 | 10 |
Danny Peelen | Pitt | Maryland | 125 | 10 |
Nicholas Nguyen | UF C | USF | 125 | 10 |
Aidan Bernardo | Florida Tech | UF A | 125 | 0 |
Hansen Jin | Berkeley B | Stanford | 125 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Carleton A | 125 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Waterloo Cloze | 125 | 10 |
Joshua Li | Johns Creek | Innovation Academy C | 125 | 10 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Georgia Tech C | 125 | 0 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Lambert | 125 | 10 |
Nitish Sudhakar | Georgia Tech C | Mississippi State | 125 | 0 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago A | 125 | 10 |
Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Illinois Orange | 125 | 10 |
Andy Huff | LSE B | LSE A | 125 | 10 |
Andre Wong | LSE A | LSE B | 125 | 0 |
Jonathan Haimowitz | ALCU | Anderson et al. | 125 | 10 |