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Azidoethoxyphenylalanine as a Vibrational Reporter and Click Chemistry Partner in Proteins
Tookmanian, Elise M.,Phillips-Piro, Christine M.,Fenlon, Edward E.,Brewer, Scott H.
, p. 19096 - 19103 (2015)
An unnatural amino acid, 4-(2-azidoethoxy)-L-phenylalanine (AePhe, 1), was designed and synthesized in three steps from known compounds in 54 % overall yield. The sensitivity of the IR absorption of the azide of AePhe was established by comparison of the frequency of the azide asymmetric stretch vibration in water and dimethyl sulfoxide. AePhe was successfully incorporated into superfolder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP) at the 133 and 149 sites by using the amber codon suppression method. The IR spectra of these sfGFP constructs indicated that the azide group at the 149 site was not fully solvated despite the location in sfGFP and the three-atom linker between the azido group and the aromatic ring of AePhe. An X-ray crystal structure of sfGFP-149-AePhe was solved at 1.45 ? resolution and provides an explanation for the IR data as the flexible linker adopts a conformation which partially buries the azide on the protein surface. Both sfGFP-AePhe constructs efficiently undergo a bioorthogonal strain-promoted click cycloaddition with a dibenzocyclooctyne derivative.
Structure-Based Design of Inhibitors Selective for Human Proteasome β2c or β2i Subunits
Xin, Bo-Tao,Huber, Eva M.,De Bruin, Gerjan,Heinemeyer, Wolfgang,Maurits, Elmer,Espinal, Christofer,Du, Yimeng,Janssens, Marissa,Weyburne, Emily S.,Kisselev, Alexei F.,Florea, Bogdan I.,Driessen, Christoph,Van Der Marel, Gijsbert A.,Groll, Michael,Overkleeft, Herman S.
supporting information, p. 1626 - 1642 (2019/02/19)
Subunit-selective proteasome inhibitors are valuable tools to assess the biological and medicinal relevance of individual proteasome active sites. Whereas the inhibitors for the β1c, β1i, β5c, and β5i subunits exploit the differences in the substrate-binding channels identified by X-ray crystallography, compounds selectively targeting β2c or β2i could not yet be rationally designed because of the high structural similarity of these two subunits. Here, we report the development, chemical synthesis, and biological screening of a compound library that led to the identification of the β2c- and β2i-selective compounds LU-002c (4; IC50 β2c: 8 nM, IC50 β2i/β2c: 40-fold) and LU-002i (5; IC50 β2i: 220 nM, IC50 β2c/β2i: 45-fold), respectively. Co-crystal structures with β2 humanized yeast proteasomes visualize protein-ligand interactions crucial for subunit specificity. Altogether, organic syntheses, activity-based protein profiling, yeast mutagenesis, and structural biology allowed us to decipher significant differences of β2 substrate-binding channels and to complete the set of subunit-selective proteasome inhibitors.
Methods and compositions for labeling polypeptides
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Page/Page column 63, (2016/04/05)
Synthesis of many proteins is tightly controlled at the level of translation and plays an essential role in fundamental processes such as cell growth and proliferation, signaling, differentiation or death. Methods that allow imaging and identification of
Synthesis and incorporation of unnatural amino acids to probe and optimize protein bioconjugations
Maza, Johnathan C.,McKenna, Jaclyn R.,Raliski, Benjamin K.,Freedman, Matthew T.,Young, Douglas D.
, p. 1884 - 1889 (2015/09/28)
The utilization of unnatural amino acids (UAAs) in bioconjugations is ideal due to their ability to confer a degree of bioorthogonality and specificity. In order to elucidate optimal conditions for the preparation of bioconjugates with UAAs, we synthesized 9 UAAs with variable methylene tethers (2-4) and either an azide, alkyne, or halide functional group. All 9 UAAs were then incorporated into green fluorescent protein (GFP) using a promiscuous aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. The different bioconjugations were then analyzed for optimal tether length via reaction with either a fluorophore or a derivatized resin. Interestingly, the optimal tether length was found to be dependent on the type of reaction. Overall, these findings provide a better understanding of various parameters that can be optimized for the efficient preparation of bioconjugates.
The genetic incorporation of thirteen novel non-canonical amino acids
Tuley, Alfred,Wang, Yane-Shih,Fang, Xinqiang,Kurra, Yadagiri,Rezenom, Yohannes H.,Liu, Wenshe R.
supporting information, p. 2673 - 2675 (2014/03/21)
Thirteen novel non-canonical amino acids were synthesized and tested for suppression of an amber codon using a mutant pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNAPylCUA pair. Suppression was observed with varied efficiencies. One non-canonical amino acid in particular contains an azide that can be applied for site-selective protein labeling. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2014.
