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Directed Evolution of a Halide Methyltransferase Enables Biocatalytic Synthesis of Diverse SAM Analogs
Tang, Qingyun,Grathwol, Christoph W.,Aslan-üzel, A?k?n S.,Wu, Shuke,Link, Andreas,Pavlidis, Ioannis V.,Badenhorst, Christoffel P. S.,Bornscheuer, Uwe T.
supporting information, p. 1524 - 1527 (2020/11/30)
Biocatalytic alkylations are important reactions to obtain chemo-, regio- and stereoselectively alkylated compounds. This can be achieved using S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferases and SAM analogs. It was recently shown that a halide methyltransferase (HMT) from Chloracidobacterium thermophilum can synthesize SAM from SAH and methyl iodide. We developed an iodide-based assay for the directed evolution of an HMT from Arabidopsis thaliana and used it to identify a V140T variant that can also accept ethyl-, propyl-, and allyl iodide to produce the corresponding SAM analogs (90, 50, and 70 % conversion of 15 mg SAH). The V140T AtHMT was used in one-pot cascades with O-methyltransferases (IeOMT or COMT) to achieve the regioselective ethylation of luteolin and allylation of 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde. While a cascade for the propylation of 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde gave low conversion, the propyl-SAH intermediate could be confirmed by NMR spectroscopy.
Enantiopure C1-Cyclotriveratrylene with a Reversed Spatial Arrangement of the Substituents
Long, Augustin,Colomban, Cedric,Jean, Marion,Albalat, Muriel,Vanthuyne, Nicolas,Giorgi, Michel,Di Bari, Lorenzo,Górecki, Marcin,Dutasta, Jean-Pierre,Martinez, Alexandre
supporting information, p. 160 - 165 (2019/01/04)
Cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) is a macrocyclic cyclophane presenting a bowl-shaped conformation, used as building block to construct cryptophane and hemicryptophane capsules. A method to synthesize new enantiopure CTV derivatives with an unprecedented spatial
Synthesis of a Photo-Caged DOPA Derivative by Selective Alkylation of 3,4-Dihydroxybenzaldehyde
Schneider, Tobias,Kubyshkin, Vladimir,Budisa, Nediljko
, p. 2053 - 2063 (2018/05/31)
Natural and synthetic polymers containing the catechol moiety of noncoded amino acid 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) are capable of metal-coordination and adhesion under wet conditions. Masking the catechol subunit with a photo-cleavable group would provide an opportunity to design tunable adhesion properties that are especially important for biomaterial and biomedicine applications. Herein, we report the regioselective synthesis of a photo-caged DOPA bearing an ortho-nitrobenzyl (oNB) group that is capable of undergoing cleavage upon irradiation with UV light. We developed a selective synthetic route towards a 3-O-oNB alkylated DOPA regioisomer that can be readily incorporated into proteins by using a previously developed bio-expression platform. The synthesis is based on a regioselectivity switch in 3,4-dihydrozybenzaldehyde alkylation upon application of different equivalents of deprotonating base. The enantiomerically pure 3-O-oNB-DOPA was prepared on a gram scale and proved to be generally compatible with the solid-phase peptide synthesis conditions. We also demonstrate the general applicability of the developed synthetic strategy by providing the synthesis of 3-O-methyl-DOPA.
