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Genetic encoding of bicyclononynes and trans-cyclooctenes for site-specific protein labeling in vitro and in live mammalian cells via rapid fluorogenic diels-alder reactions
Lang, Kathrin,Davis, Lloyd,Wallace, Stephen,Mahesh, Mohan,Cox, Daniel J.,Blackman, Melissa L.,Fox, Joseph M.,Chin, Jason W.
, p. 10317 - 10320 (2012)
Rapid, site-specific labeling of proteins with diverse probes remains an outstanding challenge for chemical biologists. Enzyme-mediated labeling approaches may be rapid but use protein or peptide fusions that introduce perturbations into the protein under study and may limit the sites that can be labeled, while many "bioorthogonal" reactions for which a component can be genetically encoded are too slow to effect quantitative site-specific labeling of proteins on a time scale that is useful for studying many biological processes. We report a fluorogenic reaction between bicyclo[6.1.0]non-4-yn-9- ylmethanol (BCN) and tetrazines that is 3-7 orders of magnitude faster than many bioorthogonal reactions. Unlike the reactions of strained alkenes, including trans-cyclooctenes and norbornenes, with tetrazines, the BCN-tetrazine reaction gives a single product of defined stereochemistry. We have discovered aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs for the efficient site-specific incorporation of a BCN-containing amino acid, 1, and a trans-cyclooctene- containing amino acid 2 (which also reacts extremely rapidly with tetrazines) into proteins expressed in Escherichia coli and mammalian cells. We demonstrate the rapid fluorogenic labeling of proteins containing 1 and 2 in vitro, in E. coli, and in live mammalian cells. These approaches may be extended to site-specific protein labeling in animals, and we anticipate that they will have a broad impact on labeling and imaging studies.
Fast and pH-Independent Elimination of trans-Cyclooctene by Using Aminoethyl-Functionalized Tetrazines
Sarris, Alexi J. C.,Hansen, Thomas,de Geus, Mark A. R.,Maurits, Elmer,Doelman, Ward,Overkleeft, Herman S.,Codée, Jeroen D. C.,Filippov, Dmitri V.,van Kasteren, Sander I.
, p. 18075 - 18081 (2018/11/23)
The inverse-electron-demand Diels–Alder/pyridazine elimination tandem reaction, in which the allylic substituent on trans-cyclooctene is eliminated following reaction with tetrazines, is gaining interest as a versatile bioorthogonal process. One potential shortcoming of such currently used reactions is their propensity to proceed faster and more efficiently at lower pH, a feature caused by the nature of the tetrazines used. Here, we present aminoethyl-substituted tetrazines as the first pH-independent reagents showing invariably fast elimination kinetics at all biologically relevant pH values.
