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Yap SY, Butcher T, Spears RJ, McMahon C, Thanasi IA, Baker JR, Chudasama V. Chemo- and regio-selective differential modification of native cysteines on an antibody via the use of dehydroalanine forming reagents. Chem Sci 2024; 15:8557-8568. [PMID: 38846383 PMCID: PMC11151841 DOI: 10.1039/d4sc00392f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Protein modification has garnered increasing interest over the past few decades and has become an important tool in many aspects of chemical biology. In recent years, much effort has focused on site-selective modification strategies that generate more homogenous bioconjugates, and this is particularly so in the antibody modification space. Modifying native antibodies by targeting solvent-accessible cysteines liberated by interchain disulfide reduction is, perhaps, the predominant strategy for achieving more site-selectivity on an antibody scaffold. This is evidenced by numerous approved antibody therapeutics that have utilised cysteine-directed conjugation reagents and the plethora of methods/strategies focused on antibody cysteine modification. However, all of these methods have a common feature in that after the reduction of native solvent-accessible cystines, the liberated cysteines are all reacted in the same manner. Herein, we report the discovery and application of dehydroalanine forming reagents (including novel reagents) capable of regio- and chemo-selectively modifying these cysteines (differentially) on a clinically relevant antibody fragment and a full antibody. We discovered that these reagents could enable differential reactivity between light chain C-terminal cysteines, heavy chain hinge region cysteines (cysteines with an adjacent proline residue, Cys-Pro), and other heavy chain internal cysteines. This differential reactivity was also showcased on small molecules and on the peptide somatostatin. The application of these dehydroalanine forming reagents was exemplified in the preparation of a dually modified antibody fragment and full antibody. Additionally, we discovered that readily available amide coupling agents can be repurposed as dehydroalanine forming reagents, which could be of interest to the broader field of chemical biology.
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- Steven Y Yap
- Department of Chemistry, University College London 20 Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London 20 Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London 20 Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London 20 Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London 20 Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London 20 Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London 20 Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ UK
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Yu C, E R, An Y, Guo X, Bao G, Li Y, Xie J, Sun W. Michael Addition Reaction between Dehydroalanines and Phosphites Enabled the Introduction of Phosphonates into Oligopeptides. Org Lett 2024. [PMID: 38780227 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c01567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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A method for introducing a range of phosphonates into oligopeptides through a Michael addition reaction between dehydroalanine and phosphite is presented. The method offers a mild, cheap, and straightforward approach to peptide phosphorylation that has potential applications in chemical biology and medicinal chemistry. Moreover, the introduction of a phosphonate group into short antibacterial peptides is described to demonstrate its utility, leading to the discovery of phosphonated antibacterial peptides with potent broad-spectrum antibacterial activity.
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- Changjun Yu
- Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
- School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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Wang S, Wu K, Tang YJ, Deng H. Dehydroamino acid residues in bioactive natural products. Nat Prod Rep 2024; 41:273-297. [PMID: 37942836 PMCID: PMC10880069 DOI: 10.1039/d3np00041a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
Abstract
Covering: 2000 to up to 2023α,β-Dehydroamino acids (dhAAs) are unsaturated nonproteinogenic amino acids found in a wide array of naturally occurring peptidyl metabolites, predominantly those from bacteria. Other organisms, such as fungi, higher plants and marine invertebrates, have also been found to produce dhAA-containing peptides. The α,β-unsaturation in dhAAs has profound effects on the properties of these molecules. They display significant synthetic flexibility, readily undergoing reactions such as Michael additions, transition-metal-catalysed cross-couplings, and cycloadditions. These residues in peptides/proteins also exhibit great potential in bioorthogonal applications using click chemistry. Peptides containing contiguous dhAA residues have been extensively investigated in the field of foldamers, self-assembling supermolecules that mimic biomacromolecules such as proteins to fold into well-defined conformations. dhAA residues in these peptidyl materials tend to form a 2.05-helix. As a result, stretches of dhAA residues arrange in an extended conformation. In particular, peptidyl foldamers containing β-enamino acid units display interesting conformational, electronic, and supramolecular aggregation properties that can be modulated by light-dependent E-Z isomerization. Among approximately 40 dhAAs found in the natural product inventory, dehydroalanine (Dha) and dehydrobutyrine (Dhb) are the most abundant. Dha is the simplest dehydro-α-amino acid, or α-dhAA, without any geometrical isomers, while its re-arranged isomer, 3-aminoacrylic acid (Aaa or ΔβAla), is the simplest dehydro-β-amino acid, or β-enamino acid, and displays E/Z isomerism. Dhb is the simplest α-dhAA that exhibits E/Z isomerism. The Z-isomer of Dhb (Z-Dhb) is sterically favourable and is present in the majority of naturally occurring peptides containing Dhb residues. Dha and Z-Dhb motifs are commonly found in ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs). In the last decade, the formation of Dha and Dhb motifs in RiPPs has been extensively investigated, which will be briefly discussed in this review. The formation of other dhAA residues in natural products (NPs) is, however, less understood. In this review, we will discuss recent advances in the biosynthesis of peptidyl NPs containing unusual dhAA residues and cryptic dhAA residues. The proposed biosynthetic pathways of these natural products will also be discussed.
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- Shan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK.
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Dorn RS, Prescher JA. Bioorthogonal Phosphines: Then and Now. Isr J Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.202200070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Robert S. Dorn
- Departments of Chemistry University of California Irvine California 92697 United States
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- Departments of Chemistry University of California Irvine California 92697 United States
- Molecular Biology & Biochemistry University of California Irvine California 92697 United States
- Pharmaceutical Sciences University of California Irvine California 92697 United States
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Peng Q, Zang B, Xiong T, Huang C, Xu T, Zhang C, Ren J, Ji F, Jia L. Single and dual functionalization of proteins using site-specific nucleophilic carbon ligations. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:6316-6319. [PMID: 35522979 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc01630c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We here found that while Meldrum's acid as the reactive warhead allows for the attachment of a single chemical modification on aldehyde-containing proteins, pyrazolone derivatives in combination with a phosphine nucleophile enable protein dual site-specific conjugation with the same or distinct moieties. These reactions are efficient and convergent under biocompatible conditions and allow access to protein bioconjugates with superior stability, homogeneity and flexibility. Our work expands the repertoire of bioconjugation chemistries and offers opportunities to construct bioconjugates with defined structure that have potential for medical and biomaterial applications.
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- Qiang Peng
- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Imaging, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China.
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Imaging, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Imaging, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China.
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Imaging, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China.
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Imaging, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China.
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Imaging, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China.
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Imaging, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China.
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Imaging, School of Bioengineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China.
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Wang X, Lin Z, Bustin KA, McKnight NR, Parsons WH, Matthews ML. Discovery of Potent and Selective Inhibitors against Protein-Derived Electrophilic Cofactors. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:5377-5388. [PMID: 35235319 PMCID: PMC10159212 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Electrophilic cofactors are widely distributed in nature and play important roles in many physiological and disease processes, yet they have remained blind spots in traditional activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) approaches that target nucleophiles. More recently, reverse-polarity (RP)-ABPP using hydrazine probes identified an electrophilic N-terminal glyoxylyl (Glox) group for the first time in secernin-3 (SCRN3). The biological function(s) of both the protein and Glox as a cofactor has not yet been pharmacologically validated because of the lack of selective inhibitors that could disrupt and therefore identify its activity. Here, we present the first platform for analyzing the reactivity and selectivity of an expanded nucleophilic probe library toward main-chain carbonyl cofactors such as Glox and pyruvoyl (Pyvl) groups. We first applied the library proteome-wide to profile and confirm engagement with various electrophilic protein targets, including secernin-2 (SCRN2), shown here also to possess a Glox group. A broadly reactive indole ethylhydrazine probe was used for a competitive in vitro RP-ABPP assay to screen for selective inhibitors against such cofactors from a set of commercially available nucleophilic fragments. Using Glox-containing SCRN proteins as a case study, naphthyl hydrazine was identified as a potent and selective SCRN3 inhibitor, showing complete inhibition in cell lysates with no significant cross-reactivity detected for other enzymes. Moving forward, this platform provides the fundamental basis for the development of selective Glox inhibitors and represents a starting point to advance small molecules that modulate electrophile-dependent function.
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- Xie Wang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Miller RM, Knoener RA, Benner BE, Frey BL, Scalf M, Shortreed MR, Sherer NM, Smith LM. Discovery of Dehydroamino Acid Residues in the Capsid and Matrix Structural Proteins of HIV-1. J Proteome Res 2022; 21:993-1001. [PMID: 35192358 PMCID: PMC8976760 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) remains a deadly infectious disease despite existing antiretroviral therapies. A comprehensive understanding of the specific mechanisms of viral infectivity remains elusive and currently limits the development of new and effective therapies. Through in-depth proteomic analysis of HIV-1 virions, we discovered the novel post-translational modification of highly conserved residues within the viral matrix and capsid proteins to the dehydroamino acids, dehydroalanine and dehydrobutyrine. We further confirmed their presence by labeling the reactive alkene, characteristic of dehydroamino acids, with glutathione via Michael addition. Dehydroamino acids are rare, understudied, and have been observed mainly in select bacterial and fungal species. Until now, they have not been observed in HIV proteins. We hypothesize that these residues are important in viral particle maturation and could provide valuable insight into HIV infectivity mechanisms.
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- Rachel M Miller
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.,McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States
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- McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Yang A, Tao H, Szymczak LC, Lin L, Song J, Wang Y, Bai S, Modica J, Huang SY, Mrksich M, Feng X. Efficient Enzymatic Incorporation of Dehydroalanine Based on SAMDI-Assisted Identification of Optimized Tags for OspF/SpvC. ACS Chem Biol 2022; 17:414-425. [PMID: 35129954 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Site-specific modification of proteins has important applications in biological research and drug development. Reactive tags such as azide, alkyne, and tetrazine have been used extensively to achieve the abovementioned goal. However, bulky side-chain "ligation scars" are often left after the labeling and may hinder the biological application of such engineered protein products. Conjugation chemistry via dehydroalanine (Dha) may provide an opportunity for "traceless" ligation because the activated alkene moiety on Dha can then serve as an electrophile to react with radicalophile, thiol/amine nucleophile, and reactive phosphine probe to introduce a minimal linker in the protein post-translational modifications. In this report, we present a mild and highly efficient enzymatic approach to incorporate Dha with phosphothreonine/serine lyases, OspF and SpvC. These lyases originally catalyze an irreversible elimination reaction that converts a doubly phosphorylated substrate with phosphothreonine (pT) or phosphoserine (pS) to dehydrobutyrine (Dhb) or Dha. To generate a simple monophosphorylated tag for these lyases, we conducted a systematic approach to profile the substrate specificity of OspF and SpvC using peptide arrays and self-assembled monolayers for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. The optimized tag, [F/Y/W]-pT/pS-[F/Y/W] (where [F/Y/W] indicates an aromatic residue), results in a ∼10-fold enhancement of the overall peptide labeling efficiency via Dha chemistry and enables the first demonstration of protein labeling as well as live cell labeling with a minimal ligation linker via enzyme-mediated incorporation of Dha.
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- Anming Yang
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Nanomedicine, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemical Biology, and Department of Chemistry, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Nanomedicine, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemical Biology, and Department of Chemistry, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Nanomedicine, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemical Biology, and Department of Chemistry, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Nanomedicine, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemical Biology, and Department of Chemistry, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Nanomedicine, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemical Biology, and Department of Chemistry, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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Zhang M, He P, Li Y. Contemporary Approaches to α,β-Dehydroamino Acid Chemical Modifications. Chem Res Chin Univ 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s40242-021-1307-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Heiss TK, Dorn RS, Prescher JA. Bioorthogonal Reactions of Triarylphosphines and Related Analogues. Chem Rev 2021; 121:6802-6849. [PMID: 34101453 PMCID: PMC10064493 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Bioorthogonal phosphines were introduced in the context of the Staudinger ligation over 20 years ago. Since that time, phosphine probes have been used in myriad applications to tag azide-functionalized biomolecules. The Staudinger ligation also paved the way for the development of other phosphorus-based chemistries, many of which are widely employed in biological experiments. Several reviews have highlighted early achievements in the design and application of bioorthogonal phosphines. This review summarizes more recent advances in the field. We discuss innovations in classic Staudinger-like transformations that have enabled new biological pursuits. We also highlight relative newcomers to the bioorthogonal stage, including the cyclopropenone-phosphine ligation and the phospha-Michael reaction. The review concludes with chemoselective reactions involving phosphite and phosphonite ligations. For each transformation, we describe the overall mechanism and scope. We also showcase efforts to fine-tune the reagents for specific functions. We further describe recent applications of the chemistries in biological settings. Collectively, these examples underscore the versatility and breadth of bioorthogonal phosphine reagents.
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Bao G, Wang P, Li G, Yu C, Li Y, Liu Y, He Z, Zhao T, Rao J, Xie J, Hong L, Sun W, Wang R. 1,3‐Dipolar Cycloaddition between Dehydroalanines and C,N‐Cyclic Azomethine Imines: Application to Late‐Stage Peptide Modification. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202012523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Guangjun Bao
- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou 510006 China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou 510006 China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066 Lanzhou University 199 West Donggang Rd Lanzhou 730000 Gansu P. R. China
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Bao G, Wang P, Li G, Yu C, Li Y, Liu Y, He Z, Zhao T, Rao J, Xie J, Hong L, Sun W, Wang R. 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition between Dehydroalanines and C,N-Cyclic Azomethine Imines: Application to Late-Stage Peptide Modification. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:5331-5338. [PMID: 33179384 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202012523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Revised: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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A non-catalytic, mild, and easy-to-handle protecting group switched 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (1,3-DC) between bi- or mono-N-protected Dha and C,N-cyclic azomethine imines, which afford various quaternary amino acids with diverse scaffolds, is disclosed. Specifically, normal-electron-demand 1,3-DC reaction occurs between bi-N-protected Dha and C,N-cyclic azomethine imines, while inverse-electron-demand 1,3-DC reaction occurs between mono-N-protected Dha and C,N-cyclic azomethine imines. Above all, the reactions can be carried out between peptides with Dha residues at the position of interest and C,N-cyclic azomethine imines, both in homogeneous phase and on resins in SPPS. It provides a new toolkit for late-stage peptide modification, labeling, and peptide-drug conjugation. To shed light on the high regioselectivity of the reaction, DFT calculations were carried out, which were qualitatively consistent with the experimental observations.
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- Guangjun Bao
- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences & Research Unit of Peptide Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU066, Lanzhou University, 199 West Donggang Rd, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, P. R. China
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Jones LH. Dehydroamino acid chemical biology: an example of functional group interconversion on proteins. RSC Chem Biol 2020; 1:298-304. [PMID: 34458767 PMCID: PMC8341704 DOI: 10.1039/d0cb00174k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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In nature, dehydroalanine (Dha) and dehydrobutyrine (Dhb) residues are byproducts of protein aging, intermediates in the biosynthesis of lanthipeptides and products of bacterial phospholyases that inactivate host kinase immune responses. Recent chemical biology studies have demonstrated the possibility of mapping dehydroamino acids in complex proteomes in an unbiased manner that could further our understanding of the role of Dha and Dhb in biology and disease more broadly. From a synthetic perspective, chemical mutagenesis through site-selective formation of the unsaturated residue and subsequent addition chemistry has yielded homogeneous proteins bearing a variety of post-translational modifications (PTMs) which have assisted fundamental biological research. This Opinion discusses these recent advances and presents new opportunities for protein engineering and drug discovery. The chemical biology of dehydroalanine and dehydrobutyrine in proteins is summarized and new concepts are presented.![]()
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- Lyn H Jones
- Center for Protein Degradation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 360 Longwood Avenue Boston MA 02215 USA
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He PY, Chen H, Hu HG, Hu JJ, Lim YJ, Li YM. Late-stage peptide and protein modifications through phospha-Michael addition reaction. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:12632-12635. [PMID: 32960198 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc04969g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We developed a late-stage modification strategy by a phospha-Michael addition reaction between various functional phosphines and unprotected dehydroalanine (Dha) peptides and proteins under mild conditions. This strategy was applied to generate a staple peptide to enhance its cell membrane penetrability, and it was also able to regulate α-synuclein aggregation properties and morphological characteristics with the addition of different charges.
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- Pei-Yang He
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China.
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Bacterial virulence mediated by orthogonal post-translational modification. Nat Chem Biol 2020; 16:1043-1051. [PMID: 32943788 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-020-0638-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Many bacterial pathogens secrete virulence factors, also known as effector proteins, directly into host cells. These effectors suppress pro-inflammatory host signaling while promoting bacterial infection. A particularly interesting subset of effectors post-translationally modify host proteins using novel chemistry that is not otherwise found in the mammalian proteome, which we refer to as 'orthogonal post-translational modification' (oPTM). In this Review, we profile oPTM chemistry for effectors that catalyze serine/threonine acetylation, phosphate β-elimination, phosphoribosyl-linked ubiquitination, glutamine deamidation, phosphocholination, cysteine methylation, arginine N-acetylglucosaminylation, and glutamine ADP-ribosylation on host proteins. AMPylation, a PTM that could be considered orthogonal until only recently, is also discussed. We further highlight known cellular targets of oPTMs and their resulting biological consequences. Developing a complete understanding of oPTMs and the host cell processes they hijack will illuminate critical steps in the infection process, which can be harnessed for a variety of therapeutic, diagnostic, and synthetic applications.
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