13244-75-2Relevant articles and documents
Intermediate partitioning kinetic isotope effects for the NIH shift of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase and the hydroxylation reaction of hydroxymandelate synthase reveal mechanistic complexity
Shah, Dhara D.,Conrad, John A.,Moran, Graham R.
, p. 6097 - 6107 (2013)
4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) and hydroxymandelate synthase (HMS) are similar enzymes that catalyze complex dioxygenation reactions using the substrates 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate (HPP) and dioxygen. Both enzymes decarboxylate HPP and then hydroxylate the resulting hydroxyphenylacetate (HPA). The hydroxylation reaction catalyzed by HPPD displaces the aceto substituent of HPA in a 1,2-shift to form 2,5-dihydroxyphenylacetate (homogentisate, HG), whereas the hydroxylation reaction of HMS places a hydroxyl on the benzylic carbon forming 3′-hydroxyphenylacetate (S-hydroxymandelate, HMA) without ensuing chemistry. The wild-type form of HPPD and variants of both enzymes uncouple to form both native and non-native products. We have used intermediate partitioning to probe bifurcating steps that form these products by substituting deuteriums for protiums at the benzylic position of the HPP substrate. These substitutions result in altered ratios of products that can be used to calculate kinetic isotope effects (KIE) for the formation of a specific product. For HPPD, secondary normal KIEs indicate that cleavage of the bond in the displacement reaction prior to the shift occurs by a homolytic mechanism. NMR analysis of HG derived from HPPD reacting with enantiomerically pure R-3′-deutero-HPP indicates that no rotation about the bond to the radical occurs, suggesting that collapse of the biradical intermediate is rapid. The production of HMA was observed in HMS and HPPD variant reactions. HMS hydroxylates to form exclusively S-hydroxymandelate. When HMS is reacted with R-3′-deutero-HPP, the observed kinetic isotope effect represents geometry changes in the initial transition state for the nonabstracted proton. These data show evidence of sp3 hybridization in a HPPD variant and sp 2 hybridization in HMS variants, suggesting that HMS stabilizes a more advanced transition state in order to catalyze H-atom abstraction.
Retention and selectivity of teicoplanin stationary phases after copper complexation and isotopic exchange
Berthod,Valleix,Tizon,Leonce,Caussignac,Armstrong
, p. 5499 - 5508 (2001)
Teicoplanin is a macrocyclic glycopeptide that is highly effective as a chiral selector for LC enantiomeric separations. Two possible interaction paths were investigated and related to solute retention and selectivity: (1) interactions with the only teicoplanin amine group and (2) role of hydrogen bonding interactions. Mobile phases containing 0.5 and 5 mM copper ions were used to try to block the amine group. In the presence of copper ions, it was found that the teicoplanin stationary phase has a decreased ability to separate most underivatized racemic amino acids. However, it maintained its ability to separate enantiomers that were not α - amino acids. It is established that there is little copper - teicoplanin complex formation. The effect of Cu2+ on the enantioseparation of some α - amino acids appears to be due to the fact that these solutes are good bidentate ligands and form complexes with copper ions in the mobile phase. Isotopic exchange with deuterium oxide was performed using acetonitrile - heavy water mobile phases. It was found that the retention times of all amino acids were lower with deuterated mobile phases. The retention times of polar or apolar molecules without amine groups were higher with deuterated mobiles phases. In all cases, the enantio-selectivity factors were unaffected by the deuterium exchange. It is proposed that the electrostatic interactions are decreased in the deuterated mobile phases and the solute-accessible stationary-phase volume is somewhat swollen by deuterium oxide. The balance of these effects is a decrease in the amino acid retention times and an increase in the apolar solute retention time. The enantio-selectivity factors of all of the molecules remain unchanged because all of the interactions are changed equally. We propose a new global quality criterion (the E factor) for comparing and evaluating enantiomeric separations.
In vivo cascade catalysis of aromatic amino acids to the respective mandelic acids using recombinant E. coli cells expressing hydroxymandelate synthase (HMS) from Amycolatopsis mediterranei
Youn, Jung-Won,Albermann, Christoph,Sprenger, Georg A.
, (2020)
Mandelic acids are valuable products which are used in a broad field of applications. The enzyme hydroxymandelate synthase (HMS) is a non-heme iron dioxygenase which converts para-hydroxyphenylpyruvate and other 3-aryl pyruvates by decarboxylation to the corresponding mandelates. In the present work, the gene hms encoding the hydroxymandelate synthase from Amycolatopsis mediterranei was cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) for in vivo cascade catalysis taking advantage of resident aromatic amino acid transaminases. The resulting recombinant cells were used for whole cell biotransformations. We successfully accomplished the production of para-hydroxymandelate exclusively by using the aromatic amino acid L-tyrosine in biotransformation. Furthermore, by utilizing different phenylalanine derivatives (including chloro-, fluoro- and hydroxylated amino acids), the corresponding S-mandelic acids were obtained with high conversion (21–87 %) and high ee (38–97%). This process is an alternative and attractive way to get access to a variety of mandelic acids.
Identification and Profiling of a Novel Diazaspiro[3.4]octane Chemical Series Active against Multiple Stages of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum and Optimization Efforts
Le Manach, Claire,Dam, Jean,Woodland, John G.,Kaur, Gurminder,Khonde, Lutete P.,Brunschwig, Christel,Njoroge, Mathew,Wicht, Kathryn J.,Horatscheck, André,Paquet, Tanya,Boyle, Grant A.,Gibhard, Liezl,Taylor, Dale,Lawrence, Nina,Yeo, Tomas,Mok, Sachel,Eastman, Richard T.,Dorjsuren, Dorjbal,Talley, Daniel C.,Guo, Hui,Simeonov, Anton,Reader, Janette,Van Der Watt, Mari?tte,Erlank, Erica,Venter, Nelius,Zawada, Jacek W.,Aswat, Ayesha,Nardini, Luisa,Coetzer, Theresa L.,Lauterbach, Sonja B.,Bezuidenhout, Belinda C.,Theron, Anjo,Mancama, Dalu,Koekemoer, Lizette L.,Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie,Wittlin, Sergio,Delves, Michael,Ottilie, Sabine,Winzeler, Elizabeth A.,Smith, Dennis,Fidock, David A.,Street, Leslie J.,Basarab, Gregory S.,Duffy, James,Chibale, Kelly
supporting information, p. 2291 - 2309 (2021/03/01)
A novel diazaspiro[3.4]octane series was identified from a Plasmodium falciparum whole-cell high-throughput screening campaign. Hits displayed activity against multiple stages of the parasite lifecycle, which together with a novel sp3-rich scaffold provided an attractive starting point for a hit-to-lead medicinal chemistry optimization and biological profiling program. Structure-activity-relationship studies led to the identification of compounds that showed low nanomolar asexual blood-stage activity (50 nM) together with strong gametocyte sterilizing properties that translated to transmission-blocking activity in the standard membrane feeding assay. Mechanistic studies through resistance selection with one of the analogues followed by whole-genome sequencing implicated the P. falciparum cyclic amine resistance locus in the mode of resistance.
