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Kennebeck MM, Kaminsky CK, Massa MA, Das PK, Boyd RD, Bishka M, Tricarico JT, Silverman SK. DNAzyme-Catalyzed Site-Specific N-Acylation of DNA Oligonucleotide Nucleobases. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202317565. [PMID: 38157448 PMCID: PMC10873475 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202317565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 12/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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We used in vitro selection to identify DNAzymes that acylate the exocyclic nucleobase amines of cytidine, guanosine, and adenosine in DNA oligonucleotides. The acyl donor was the 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorophenyl ester (TFPE) of a 5'-carboxyl oligonucleotide. Yields are as high as >95 % in 6 h. Several of the N-acylation DNAzymes are catalytically active with RNA rather than DNA oligonucleotide substrates, and eight of nine DNAzymes for modifying C are site-specific (>95 %) for one particular substrate nucleotide. These findings expand the catalytic ability of DNA to include site-specific N-acylation of oligonucleotide nucleobases. Future efforts will investigate the DNA and RNA substrate sequence generality of DNAzymes for oligonucleotide nucleobase N-acylation, toward a universal approach for site-specific oligonucleotide modification.
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- Morgan M Kennebeck
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL-61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL-61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL-61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL-61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL-61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL-61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL-61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL-61801, USA
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Yang S, Silverman SK. Defining the substrate scope of DNAzyme catalysis for reductive amination with aliphatic amines. Org Biomol Chem 2023; 21:1910-1919. [PMID: 36786764 DOI: 10.1039/d3ob00070b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Amines can be alkylated using various reactions, such as reductive amination of aldehydes. In this study, we sought DNAzymes as catalytic DNA sequences that promote reductive amination with aliphatic amines, including DNA-anchored peptide substrates with lysine residues. By in vitro selection starting with either N40 or N20 random DNA pools, we identified many DNAzymes that catalyze reductive amination between the DNA oligonucleotide-anchored aliphatic amino group of DNA-C3-NH2 (C3 = short three-carbon tether) and a DNA-anchored benzaldehyde group in the presence of NaCNBH3 as reducing agent. At pH 5.2, 6.0, 7.5, or 9.0 in the presence of various divalent metal ion cofactors including Mg2+, Mn2+, Zn2+ and Ni2+, the DNAzymes have kobs up to 0.12 h-1 and up to 130-fold rate enhancement relative to the DNA-splinted but uncatalyzed background reaction. However, analogous selection experiments did not lead to any DNAzymes that function with DNA-HEG-NH2 [HEG = long hexa(ethylene glycol) tether], or with short- and long-tethered DNA-AAAKAA and DNA-HEG-AAAKAA lysine-containing hexapeptide substrates (A = alanine, K = lysine). Including a variety of other amino acids in place of the neighboring alanines also did not lead to DNAzymes. These findings establish a practical limit on the substrate scope of DNAzyme catalysis for N-alkylation of aliphatic amines by reductive amination. The lack of DNAzymes for reductive amination with any substrate more structurally complex than DNA-C3-NH2 is likely related to the challenge in binding and spatially organizing those other substrates. Because other reactions such as aliphatic amine N-acylation are feasible for DNAzymes with DNA-anchored peptides, our findings show that the ability to identify DNAzymes depends strongly on both the investigated reaction and the composition of the substrate.
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- Shukun Yang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Ponce-Salvatierra A, Boccaletto P, Bujnicki JM. DNAmoreDB, a database of DNAzymes. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:D76-D81. [PMID: 33053178 PMCID: PMC7778931 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Deoxyribozymes, DNA enzymes or simply DNAzymes are single-stranded oligo-deoxyribonucleotide molecules that, like proteins and ribozymes, possess the ability to perform catalysis. Although DNAzymes have not yet been found in living organisms, they have been isolated in the laboratory through in vitro selection. The selected DNAzyme sequences have the ability to catalyze a broad range of chemical reactions, utilizing DNA, RNA, peptides or small organic compounds as substrates. DNAmoreDB is a comprehensive database resource for DNAzymes that collects and organizes the following types of information: sequences, conditions of the selection procedure, catalyzed reactions, kinetic parameters, substrates, cofactors, structural information whenever available, and literature references. Currently, DNAmoreDB contains information about DNAzymes that catalyze 20 different reactions. We included a submission form for new data, a REST-based API system that allows users to retrieve the database contents in a machine-readable format, and keyword and BLASTN search features. The database is publicly available at https://www.genesilico.pl/DNAmoreDB/.
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- Almudena Ponce-Salvatierra
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, ul. Ks. Trojdena 4, PL-02-109 Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, ul. Ks. Trojdena 4, PL-02-109 Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, ul. Ks. Trojdena 4, PL-02-109 Warsaw, Poland.,Bioinformatics Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 89, PL-61-614 Poznan, Poland
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Bao QF, Li M, Xia Y, Wang YZ, Zhou ZZ, Liang YM. Visible-Light-Mediated Decarboxylative Radical Addition Bifunctionalization Cascade for the Production of 1,4-Amino Alcohols. Org Lett 2021; 23:1107-1112. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c00034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Qiao-Fei Bao
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Urumqi Key Laboratory of Green Catalysis and Synthesis Technology, College of Chemistry, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Nanchang Normal University, Nanchang 330000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Krömer M, Bártová K, Raindlová V, Hocek M. Synthesis of Dihydroxyalkynyl and Dihydroxyalkyl Nucleotides as Building Blocks or Precursors for Introduction of Diol or Aldehyde Groups to DNA for Bioconjugations. Chemistry 2018; 24:11890-11894. [PMID: 29790604 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201802282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
(3,4-Dihydroxybut-1-ynyl)uracil, -cytosine and -7-deazaadenine 2'-deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) were prepared by direct aqueous Sonogashira cross-coupling of halogenated dNTPs with dihydroxybut-1-yne and converted to 3,4-dihydroxybutyl dNTPs through catalytic hydrogenation. Sodium periodate oxidative cleavage of dihydroxybutyl-dUTP gave the desired aliphatic aldehyde-linked dUTP, whereas the oxidative cleavage of the corresponding deazaadenine dNTP gave a cyclic aminal. All dihydroxyalkyl or -alkynyl dNTPs and the formylethyl-dUTP were good substrates for DNA polymerases and were used for synthesis of diol- or aldehyde-linked DNA. The aldehyde linked DNA was used for the labelling or bioconjugations through hydrazone formation or reductive aminations.
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- Matouš Krömer
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nam. 2, 16610, Prague 6, Czech Republic.,Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 12843, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nam. 2, 16610, Prague 6, Czech Republic.,Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 12843, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nam. 2, 16610, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nam. 2, 16610, Prague 6, Czech Republic.,Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 12843, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Poudyal RR, Nguyen PDM, Lokugamage MP, Callaway MK, Gavette JV, Krishnamurthy R, Burke DH. Nucleobase modification by an RNA enzyme. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:1345-1354. [PMID: 28180302 PMCID: PMC5388400 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2016] [Revised: 11/11/2016] [Accepted: 11/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Ribozymes can catalyze phosphoryl or nucleotidyl transfer onto ribose hydroxyls of RNA chains. We report a single ribozyme that performs both reactions, with a nucleobase serving as initial acceptor moiety. This unprecedented combined reaction was revealed while investigating potential contributions of ribose hydroxyls to catalysis by kinase ribozyme K28. For a 58nt, cis-acting form of K28, each nucleotide could be replaced with the corresponding 2΄F analog without loss of activity, indicating that no particular 2΄OH is specifically required. Reactivities of two-stranded K28 variants with oligodeoxynucleotide acceptor strands devoid of any 2΄OH moieties implicate modification on an internal guanosine N-2, rather than a ribose hydroxyl. Product mass suggests formation of a GDP(S) adduct along with a second thiophosphorylation, implying that the ribozyme catalyzes both phosphoryl and nucleotidyl transfers. This is further supported by transfer of radiolabels into product from both α and γ phosphates of donor molecules. Furthermore, periodate reactivity of the final product signifies acquisition of a ribose sugar with an intact 2΄-3΄ vicinal diol. Neither nucleobase modification nor nucleotidyl transfer has previously been reported for a kinase ribozyme, making this a first-in-class ribozyme. Base-modifying ribozymes may have played important roles in early RNA world evolution by enhancing nucleic acid functions.
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- Raghav R Poudyal
- Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.,Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.,Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA,Department of Biological Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA,Department of Biological Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.,Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA,Department of Biological Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.,Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Catalysis is a fundamental chemical concept, and many kinds of catalysts have considerable practical value. Developing entirely new catalysts is an exciting challenge. Rational design and screening have provided many new small-molecule catalysts, and directed evolution has been used to optimize or redefine the function of many protein enzymes. However, these approaches have inherent limitations that prompt the pursuit of different kinds of catalysts using other experimental methods. Nature evolved RNA enzymes, or ribozymes, for key catalytic roles that in modern biology are limited to phosphodiester cleavage/ligation and amide bond formation. Artificial DNA enzymes, or deoxyribozymes, have great promise for a broad range of catalytic activities. They can be identified from unbiased (random) sequence populations as long as the appropriate in vitro selection strategies can be implemented for their identification. Notably, in vitro selection is different in key conceptual and practical ways from rational design, screening, and directed evolution. This Account describes the development by in vitro selection of DNA catalysts for many different kinds of covalent modification reactions of peptide and protein substrates, inspired in part by our earlier work with DNA-catalyzed RNA ligation reactions. In one set of studies, we have sought DNA-catalyzed peptide backbone cleavage, with the long-term goal of artificial DNA-based proteases. We originally anticipated that amide hydrolysis should be readily achieved, but in vitro selection instead surprisingly led to deoxyribozymes for DNA phosphodiester hydrolysis; this was unexpected because uncatalyzed amide bond hydrolysis is 10(5)-fold faster. After developing a suitable selection approach that actively avoids DNA hydrolysis, we were able to identify deoxyribozymes for hydrolysis of esters and aromatic amides (anilides). Aliphatic amide cleavage remains an ongoing focus, including via inclusion of chemically modified DNA nucleotides in the catalyst, which we have recently found to enable this cleavage reaction. In numerous other efforts, we have investigated DNA-catalyzed peptide side chain modification reactions. Key successes include nucleopeptide formation (attachment of oligonucleotides to peptide side chains) and phosphatase and kinase activities (removal and attachment of phosphoryl groups to side chains). Through all of these efforts, we have learned the importance of careful selection design, including the frequent need to develop specific "capture" reactions that enable the selection process to provide only those DNA sequences that have the desired catalytic functions. We have established strategies for identifying deoxyribozymes that accept discrete peptide and protein substrates, and we have obtained data to inform the key choice of random region length at the outset of selection experiments. Finally, we have demonstrated the viability of modular deoxyribozymes that include a small-molecule-binding aptamer domain, although the value of such modularity is found to be minimal, with implications for many selection endeavors. Advances such as those summarized in this Account reveal that DNA has considerable catalytic abilities for biochemically relevant reactions, specifically including covalent protein modifications. Moreover, DNA has substantially different, and in many ways better, characteristics than do small molecules or proteins for a catalyst that is obtained "from scratch" without demanding any existing information on catalyst structure or mechanism. Therefore, prospects are very strong for continued development and eventual practical applications of deoxyribozymes for peptide and protein modification.
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- Scott K. Silverman
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Tram K, Xia J, Gysbers R, Li Y. An Efficient Catalytic DNA that Cleaves L-RNA. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0126402. [PMID: 25946137 PMCID: PMC4422682 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2015] [Accepted: 04/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Many DNAzymes have been isolated from synthetic DNA pools to cleave natural RNA (D-RNA) substrates and some have been utilized for the design of aptazyme biosensors for bioanalytical applications. Even though these biosensors perform well in simple sample matrices, they do not function effectively in complex biological samples due to ubiquitous RNases that can efficiently cleave D-RNA substrates. To overcome this issue, we set out to develop DNAzymes that cleave L-RNA, the enantiomer of D-RNA, which is known to be completely resistant to RNases. Through in vitro selection we isolated three L-RNA-cleaving DNAzymes from a random-sequence DNA pool. The most active DNAzyme exhibits a catalytic rate constant ~3 min-1 and has a structure that contains a kissing loop, a structural motif that has never been observed with D-RNA-cleaving DNAzymes. Furthermore we have used this DNAzyme and a well-known ATP-binding DNA aptamer to construct an aptazyme sensor and demonstrated that this biosensor can achieve ATP detection in biological samples that contain RNases. The current work lays the foundation for exploring RNA-cleaving DNAzymes for engineering biosensors that are compatible with complex biological samples.
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- Kha Tram
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences and Origins Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Origins Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Chu CC, Wong OY, Silverman SK. A generalizable DNA-catalyzed approach to peptide-nucleic acid conjugation. Chembiochem 2014; 15:1905-10. [PMID: 25056930 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201402255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
We report DNA catalysts (deoxyribozymes) that join tyrosine-containing peptides to RNA and DNA in one step and without requiring protecting groups on either the peptide or the nucleic acid. Our previous efforts towards this goal required tethering the peptide to a DNA anchor oligonucleotide. Here, we established direct in vitro selection for deoxyribozymes that use untethered, free peptide substrates. This approach enables imposition of selection pressure via reduced peptide concentration and leads to preparatively useful lower apparent Km values of ∼100 μM peptide. Use of phosphorimidazolide (Imp) rather than triphosphate as the electrophile enables reactivity of either terminus (5' or 3') of both RNA and DNA. Our findings establish a generalizable means of joining unprotected peptide to nucleic acid in one step by using DNA catalysts identified by in vitro selection.
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- Chih-Chi Chu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 (USA)
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Brandsen BM, Velez TE, Sachdeva A, Ibrahim NA, Silverman SK. DNA-catalyzed lysine side chain modification. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014; 53:9045-50. [PMID: 24981820 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2014] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
Catalyzing the covalent modification of aliphatic amino groups, such as the lysine (Lys) side chain, by nucleic acids has been challenging to achieve. Such catalysis will be valuable, for example, for the practical preparation of Lys-modified proteins. We previously reported the DNA-catalyzed modification of the tyrosine and serine hydroxy side chains, but Lys modification has been elusive. Herein, we show that increasing the reactivity of the electrophilic reaction partner by using 5'-phosphorimidazolide (5'-Imp) rather than 5'-triphosphate (5'-ppp) enables the DNA-catalyzed modification of Lys in a DNA-anchored peptide substrate. The DNA-catalyzed reaction of Lys with 5'-Imp is observed in an architecture in which the nucleophile and electrophile are not preorganized. In contrast, previous efforts showed that catalysis was not observed when Lys and 5'-ppp were used in a preorganized arrangement. Therefore, substrate reactivity is more important than preorganization in this context. These findings will assist ongoing efforts to identify DNA catalysts for reactions of protein substrates at lysine side chains.
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- Benjamin M Brandsen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 (USA) http://www.scs.illinois.edu/silverman/
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Brandsen BM, Velez TE, Sachdeva A, Ibrahim NA, Silverman SK. DNA-Catalyzed Lysine Side Chain Modification. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201404622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Velez TE, Singh J, Xiao Y, Allen EC, Wong OY, Chandra M, Kwon SC, Silverman SK. Systematic evaluation of the dependence of deoxyribozyme catalysis on random region length. ACS COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE 2012; 14:680-7. [PMID: 23088677 DOI: 10.1021/co300111f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Functional nucleic acids are DNA and RNA aptamers that bind targets, or they are deoxyribozymes and ribozymes that have catalytic activity. These functional DNA and RNA sequences can be identified from random-sequence pools by in vitro selection, which requires choosing the length of the random region. Shorter random regions allow more complete coverage of sequence space but may not permit the structural complexity necessary for binding or catalysis. In contrast, longer random regions are sampled incompletely but may allow adoption of more complicated structures that enable function. In this study, we systematically examined random region length (N(20) through N(60)) for two particular deoxyribozyme catalytic activities, DNA cleavage and tyrosine-RNA nucleopeptide linkage formation. For both activities, we previously identified deoxyribozymes using only N(40) regions. In the case of DNA cleavage, here we found that shorter N(20) and N(30) regions allowed robust catalytic function, either by DNA hydrolysis or by DNA deglycosylation and strand scission via β-elimination, whereas longer N(50) and N(60) regions did not lead to catalytically active DNA sequences. Follow-up selections with N(20), N(30), and N(40) regions revealed an interesting interplay of metal ion cofactors and random region length. Separately, for Tyr-RNA linkage formation, N(30) and N(60) regions provided catalytically active sequences, whereas N(20) was unsuccessful, and the N(40) deoxyribozymes were functionally superior (in terms of rate and yield) to N(30) and N(60). Collectively, the results indicate that with future in vitro selection experiments for DNA and RNA catalysts, and by extension for aptamers, random region length should be an important experimental variable.
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- Tania E. Velez
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Raindlová V, Pohl R, Hocek M. Synthesis of aldehyde-linked nucleotides and DNA and their bioconjugations with lysine and peptides through reductive amination. Chemistry 2012; 18:4080-7. [PMID: 22337599 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201103270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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5-(5-Formylthienyl)-, 5-(4-formylphenyl)- and 5-(2-fluoro-5-formylphenyl)cytosine 2'-deoxyribonucleoside mono- (dC(R)MP) and triphosphates (dC(R)TP) were prepared by aqueous Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of 5-iodocytosine nucleotides with the corresponding formylarylboronic acids. The dC(R)TPs were excellent substrates for DNA polymerases and were incorporated into DNA by primer extension or PCR. Reductive aminations of the model dC(R)MPs with lysine or lysine-containing tripeptide were studied and optimized. In aqueous phosphate buffer (pH 6.7) the yields of the reductive aminations with tripeptide III were up to 25 %. Bioconjugation of an aldehyde-containing DNA with a lysine-containing tripeptide was achieved through reductive amination in yields of up to 90 % in aqueous phosphate buffer.
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- Veronika Raindlová
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Gilead Sciences & IOCB Research Center, Flemingovo nam. 2, 16610 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Sachdeva A, Chandra M, Chandrasekar J, Silverman SK. Covalent tagging of phosphorylated peptides by phosphate-specific deoxyribozymes. Chembiochem 2012; 13:654-7. [PMID: 22315198 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201200048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2012] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Amit Sachdeva
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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