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–
2
2
7
CH
H, –CH
2
–CH
2
–CH
–CH
2
–), 3.98 (s, 3H, –CH
3
), 4.28 (t, J ¼ 6 Hz, streptavidin-HRP (Thermo Scientific, #21126, Waltham, MA), or
–CH –), 6.86–6.89 (m, EGFR (Cell Signaling Technology, #2232, Boston, MA), and HER2
2
3
), 4.33–4.39 (m, 4H, –CH –CH
2
2
2
H, Ar-H), 7.10–7.13 (m, 2H, Ar-H), 7.25 (s, 1H, Ar-H), (Cell Signaling Technology, #4290, Boston, MA) antibodies.
.60–7.63 (m, 2H, Ar-H), 7.67–7.70 (m, 2H, Ar-H), 7.89 (s, 1H, Ar-
H), 7.92–7.94 (dd, J
J ¼ 9.0 Hz, 1H, Ar-H), 8.21 (s, 1H, Ar-H), 8.44 (d, J ¼ 2.0 Hz, 1H,
Ar-H), 8.47 (s, 1H, Ar-H), 9.66 (s, 1H, –NH–), 10.28 (s, 1H, –OH);
ESI-MS m/z: 650.3 [M þ H] , 648.2 [M ꢂ H] .
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¼ 13.5 Hz, J ¼ 2.0 Hz, 1H, Ar-H), 8.06 (d,
2
2
.3. Molecular dockings
The FlexX-Dock module of Sybyl version 7.1 software (Tripos
Associates Inc., St. Louis, MO) was used for molecular docking study,
which is used for predicting the ligand-receptor interaction modes
and for hit identification by structure-based virtual screening. This
programme allows ligand structures to dock in a conformationally
flexible manner to a protein and adopts a rigid-body protein
approximation to speed up the calculation of binding free energy.
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2
.1.3. 4–(5-((3aS,4S,6aR)-2-oxohexahydro-1H-thieno[3,4-d]imidazol-
4-yl)pentanamido)butanoic acid (compound 10)
Biotin 9 (0.488 g, 2 mmol) and tri-n-butylamine (0.64 ml) were
added to 35 ml of DMF, then isobutyl chloroformate (0.34 ml) was
added dropwise to the solution. The mixture was added to the 4-
aminobutyric acid (0.206 g, 2 mmol) solution in DMF at 0 C, and
then the reaction mixture was stirred for 2 h at RT. The solvent
was removed under vacuum and the product was recrystallised
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. Results
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.1. Synthesis of probes
The preparation of the photoaffinity probe is illustrated in
Scheme 1. Compound 7 was obtained as we described previ-
ously . Compound 8 was prepared by the reaction of compound
7
aminobutanoic acid in N, N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) to give
compounds 10, which then coupled with compound 8 to give the
general probe 11.
from alcohol afford the product as white solid (0.34 g, 52% yield).
1
H-NMR (DMSO-d
6
, 300 MHz) d (ppm): 1.39–1.59 (m, 6H), 2.02 (t,
18
J ¼ 7.60 Hz, 2H), 2.18 (t, J ¼ 7.20 Hz, 2H), 2.54 (d, J ¼ 12.40 Hz, 1H),
with bis (4-hydroxyphenyl) methanone. Biotin 9 reacted with 4-
2
.75–2.79 (m, 1H), 2.96–3.06 (m, 3H), 4.089 (t, J ¼ 4.40 Hz, 1H), 4.25
(
t, J ¼ 7.60 Hz, 1H), 6.41 (d, 2H), 7.77 (s, 1H), 12.03 (s, 1H); ESI-MS
ꢂ
m/z: 328.1 [M ꢂ H] .
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.1.4. Photoaffinity probe (compound 11)
Compound (0.163 g, 0.25 mmol), compound 10 (0.08 g,
.25 mmol), EDCI (0.25 mmol), catalytic amount of DMAP were To assess the target-binding affinity of the synthesised photoaffin-
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.2. Biological evaluation of photoaffinity probe
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0
added to 20 ml of DMF, and then stirred for 36 h at RT. The reac- ity probe 11, we first carried out pull-down assay using MIAPaCa-2
tion mixture was poured into 200 ml ice-water, and stirred for cell lysate treated with probe or DMSO control under UV exposure
0
.5 h. The solid formed was filtered off, purified by chromato- or not. The samples were then run Western Blot and probed with
graphic column (silica gel 60, mesh size 200–300, dichlorome- Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) conjugated Streptavidin. As shown
thane/methyl alcohol, v/v ¼ 20:1) to afford the general probe as in Figure 3, only under UV exposure condition, 5 or 10 mM probe
1
white solid (0.086 g, 36% yield). H-NMR (DMSO-d
6
, 500 MHz) treated samples have specific bands around 200 kDa. And the
d (ppm): 1.34–1.37 (m, 5H), 1.44–1.55 (m, 3H), 1.60–1.64 (m, 1H), intensity of the bands is dose-dependent of the probe. As
1
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1
.74–1.80 (m, 2H), 2.06–2.11 (dd, J1 ¼ 7.40 Hz, J ¼ 9.00, 2H), 2.35 (t, reported previously , the reactive group of the probe is an EGFR/
2
J ¼ 6.20 Hz, 2H), 2.55–2.64 (m, 2H), 2.78–2.82 (dd, J
1
¼ 5.10 Hz, HER2 inhibitor and the bands are at right size of EGFR/HER2 pro-
¼ 5.15 Hz, 1H), 3.07–3.10 (m, 1H), 3.11–3.17 (m, 2H), 4.03 (s, 3H, teins, we predicted the bands are EGFR and/or HER2.
CH ), 4.10–4.13 (m, 1H), 4.27–4.33 (m, 3H), 4.37–4.39 (m, 4H,
To confirm our prediction, a similar pull-down assay was per-
–), 6.35 (s, 1H, –NH–CO–NH–), 6.40 (s, 1H, formed and the samples were run Western Blot and probed with
NH–CO–NH–), –7.13 (d, J ¼ 8.85 Hz, 2H, Ar-H), 7.30 (d, J ¼ 8.60, 2H, EGFR and HER2 antibodies, respectively. As shown in Figure 4, probe
J
2
–
–
–
3
2 2 2
CH –CH –CH
Ar-H), 7.38 (s, 1H, Ar-H), 7.74 (d, J ¼ 8.70 Hz, 4H, Ar-H), 7.84–7.86 (m, but not DMSO treated samples show bands of EGFR and HER2. And
H, Ar-H, –NH–CO), 8.16 (d, J ¼ 8.80 Hz, 1H, Ar-H), 8.24 (d, the intensity of the bands increases under UV exposure condition.
J ¼ 7.85 Hz, 2H, Ar-H), 8.31 (d, J ¼ 1.80, 1H, Ar-H), 8.77 (s, Ar-H, 1H,), More importantly, the binding of the probe is partially blocked by
2
þ
ꢂ
1
1.25 (s, 1H, –NH–); ESI-MS m/z: 961.3 [M þ H] , 995.5 [M þ Cl] .
10-fold more label-free the compound 17, which contains same
1
8
reactive group as the probe and is used as a competitor . The com-
pound 17 inhibited 70% of EGFR enzyme activity at 10 mM. These
results indicate that the novel photoaffinity probe has high target-
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.2. Biological evaluation
The pull down assay was carried out using the binding potency and it hits targets by the reactive group.
Immunoprecipitation Kit (Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland)
following the manufacturer’s instructions with minor modifications.
Briefly, MIAPaCa-2 cells were lysed using lysis buffer. After pre-
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.3. Molecule docking
cleared with streptavidin agarose (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), the To understand the interaction between photoaffinity probe and
lysis was split equally into several parts and incubated with DMSO kinases, the possible binding modes of photoaffinity probe on
control or the probe with or without competitor for 30 min, fol- EGFR (PDB code: 2ITY) and HER2 (PDB code: 3PP0) were explored
lowed by UV exposure at 365 nm for 60 min or not. Streptavidin using the Sybyl 7.0. As shown in Figure 5(A), the N3 of quinazoline
agarose was then used to pull down bound proteins by incubation ring hydrogen bonds with the main chain amide of Thr790 and
the agarose with the treated cell lysate overnight. After washing Thr 854 through a well-defined water molecule. Besides, the ester
the streptavidin agarose with washing buffer for several times, group in the 2 position of the benzo[b]thiophene ring is engaged
3
0 ll of gel-loading buffer was added to each agarose pellet and in hydrogen bonding to Arg841. The binding model of photoaffin-
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then samples were heated at 95 C for 5 min. After removal of ity probe into the binding site of HER2 is depicted in Figure 5(B).
agarose by centrifuge, the samples were ready for western blot. In this binding model, the N3 of quinazoline ring forms two
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Western Blot was performed as we reported previously using hydrogen bonds with Ser783 and Thr862 via a bridging water