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Chemical studies on the chiral indanone derivatives as the inhibitor of Renilla luciferase
Wu, Chun,Nakamura, Hideshi,Murai, Akio,Inouye, Satoshi
, p. 9575 - 9583 (2007/10/03)
The bioluminescence reaction of coelenterazine involves an oxidative process. To investigate the reaction mechanism, we synthesized three mechanism-based inhibitors with an indanone core structure. The inhibitors exhibited the competitive inhibition of the Renilla luciferase reaction. The (-)-4-benzyl-2-(4-hydroxybenzyl)-2-hydroxymethyl-6-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-indan- 1-one showed the significant enantio-selectivity of the inhibition and its absolute configuration was assigned as the R-configuration. These inhibitors could be useful probes to study the catalytic environment in the coelenterazine-luciferase reaction.