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Substrate-selective supramolecular tandem assays: Monitoring enzyme inhibition of arginase and diamine oxidase by fluorescent dye displacement from calixarene and cucurbituril macrocycles

A combination of moderately selective host-guest binding with the impressive specificity of enzymatic transformations allows the real-time monitoring of enzymatic reactions in a homogeneous solution. The resulting enzyme assays ("supramolecular tandem assays") exploit the dynamic binding of a fluorescent dye with a macrocyclic host in competition with the binding of the substrate and product. Two examples of enzymatic reactions were investigated: the hydrolysis of arginine to ornithine catalyzed by arginase and the oxidation of cadaverine to 5-aminopentanal by diamine oxidase, in which the substrates have a higher affinity to the macrocycle than the products ("substrate-selective assays"). The depletion of the substrate allows the fluorescent dye to enter the macrocycle in the course of the enzymatic reaction, which leads to the desired fluorescence response. For arginase, p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene was used as the macrocycle, which displayed binding constants of 6400 M-1 with arginine, 550 M-1 with ornithine, and 60 000 M-1 with the selected fluorescent dye (1-aminomethyl-2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene); the dye shows a weaker fluorescence in its complexed state, which leads to a switch-off fluorescence response in the course of the enzymatic reaction. For diamine oxidase, cucurbit[7]uril (CB7) was used as the macrocycle, which showed binding constants of 4.5 × 106 M-1 with cadaverine, 1.1 × 105 M-1 with 1-aminopentane (as a model for the thermally unstable 1-aminopentanal), and 2.9 × 105 M-1 with the selected fluorescent dye (acridine orange, AO); AO shows a stronger fluorescence in its complexed state, which leads to a switch-on fluorescence response upon enzymatic oxidation. It is demonstrated that tandem assays can be successfully used to probe the inhibition of enzymes. Inhibition constants were estimated for the addition of known inhibitors, i.e., S-(2-boronoethyl)-L- cysteine and 2(S)-amino-6-boronohexanoic acid for arginase and potassium cyanide for diamine oxidase. Through the sequential coupling of a "product- selective" with a "substrate-selective" assay it was furthermore possible to monitor a multistep biochemical pathway, namely the decarboxylation of lysine to cadaverine by lysine decarboxylase followed by the oxidation of cadaverine by diamine oxidase. This "domino tandem assay" was performed in the same solution with a single reporter pair (CB7/AO).

Characterization of a new enzyme oxidizing ω-amino group of aminocarboxyric acid, aminoalcohols and amines from Phialemonium sp. AIU 274

A new enzyme exhibiting oxidase activity for ω-aminocarboxylic acids, ω-aminoalcohols, monoamines and diamines was found from a newly isolated fungal strain, Phialemonium sp. AIU 274. The enzyme also oxidized aromatic amines, but not l- and d-amino acids. The Vmax/Km value for hexylamine was higher than those for 6-aminoalcohol and 6-aminhexanoic acid in the aliphatic C6 substrates. In the aliphatic amines, the higher Vmax/Km values were obtained by the longer carbon chain amines. Thus, the enzyme catalyzed oxidative deamination of the ω-amino group in a wide variety of the ω-amino compounds and preferred medium- and long-chain substrates. The oxidase with such broad substrate specificity was first reported here. The enzyme contained copper, and the enzyme activity was strongly inhibited by isoniazid, iproniazid and semicarbazide, but not by clorgyline and pargyline. The enzyme was composed of two identical subunits of 75 kDa.

Photoreduction of Nitrobenzene by Aliphatic Amines-A Mechanistic Study

Nitrobenzene is photoreduced by aliphatic amines to phenylhydroxylamine.The product pattern for different amines in the photoreduction has been studied and attempt has been made to elucidate the mechanism of the photoreaction.

Hydrogen Atom Transfer Oxidation of Primary and Secondary Alcoholates into Aldehydes and Ketones by Aromatic Halides in Liquid Ammonia. A New Electrochemically Induceable Reaction

It is possible to induce the oxidation of alcoholates into the corresponding carbonyl compounds by electrochemical reduction of aromatic halides in liquid ammonia, i.e., to electrochemically trigger the reaction ArX + >CH-O- -> ArH + >C=O + X-.H-Atom transfer from the acoholate to the aryl radical formed upon reduction of the aryl halide appears as the key step of the oxidation process.The ketyl anion radical thus formed can be oxidized into the parent carbonyl compound, remain electrochemically stable, or be reduced into the dianion depending upon the location of the two corresponding standard potentials toward the reduction potential of the aryl halide.Electricity consumption thus tends toward 0, 1, and 2 F/mol for the three cases, respectively.The reactions competing with H-atom transfer, thus lowering the efficiency of the electrochemical inducement of the oxidation process, are electron transfer to the aryl radical which occur at the electrode surface and/or in the solution.These will play the role of termination steps for the corresponding chain system involving homogeneous initiation of the reaction.The kinetic analysis of the competition between H-atom transfer and homogeneous or heterogeneous electron transfer allows a detailed investigation of the reaction mechanism by electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry.This also leads to the determination of the rate constants of H-atom transfer of the alcoholate-aryl radical couple.