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COELENTERAMIDE ANALOGS

There has been a need for coelenteramide analogs or the like that produce fluorescent proteins which exhibit different fluorescent characteristics from those of the existing fluorescent proteins. Disclosed is a compound represented by general formula (1) (wherein R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted arylalkyl, a straight or branched alkyl which may optionally be substituted with an alicyclic group, an alicyclic group or a heterocyclic group; R2 represents hydrogen or —(SO2)R4; R3 represents hydrogen, hydroxyl, methoxy or acetoxy; R4 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted arylalkyl or a straight or branched alkyl which may optionally be substituted with an alicyclic group; and X1 represents —C(═S)— or —SO2—).

Chemi- and Bio-luminescence of Coelenterazine Analogues with Phenyl Homologues at the C-2 Position

A series of phenyl homologues of coelenterazine substituted at the C-2 position were synthesized and their bio- and chemi-luminescence properties were investigated including the measurement of chemiluminescence spectra in various media.The light emitting species of each analogue was found to be a neutral form of a coelenteramide derivative in diethylene glycol dimethyl ether (DGM) containing a trace amount of acetate buffer (pH 5.60), while a monoanion was found only in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and a dianion was observed in DMSO containing a trace amount of aqueous sodium hydroxide.Based on pseudo first-order reaction kinetics, chemiluminescence rate constants were obtained in DGM containing a trace amount of acetate buffer.Each of the synthetic coelenterazine analogues was incorporated into recombinant apoaequorin to obtain a series of semisynthetic aequorins.Measurements of bioluminescence activities of the aequorins revealed that a benzyl group in the C-2 position was essential for efficient luminescence activity.A two-step incubation procedure was used to determine why some analogues gave less luminescence activity than the benzyl analogue and natural coelenterazine.