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Zhang J, Abidin MZ, Saravanan T, Poelarends GJ. Recent Applications of Carbon-Nitrogen Lyases in Asymmetric Synthesis of Noncanonical Amino Acids and Heterocyclic Compounds. Chembiochem 2020; 21:2733-2742. [PMID: 32315503 PMCID: PMC7586795 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Carbon-nitrogen (C-N) lyases are enzymes that normally catalyze the cleavage of C-N bonds. Reversing this reaction towards carbon-nitrogen bond formation can be a powerful approach to prepare valuable compounds that could find applications in everyday life. This review focuses on recent (last five years) applications of native and engineered C-N lyases, either as stand-alone biocatalysts or as part of multienzymatic and chemoenzymatic cascades, in enantioselective synthesis of noncanonical amino acids and dinitrogen-fused heterocycles, which are useful tools for neurobiological research and important synthetic precursors to pharmaceuticals and food additives.
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- Jielin Zhang
- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology Groningen Research Institute of PharmacyUniversity of GroningenAntonius Deusinglaan 19713 AVGroningenThe Netherlands
- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and Laboratory of Chemical BiologyChina Pharmaceutical University639 Longmian AvenueNanjing211198P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology Groningen Research Institute of PharmacyUniversity of GroningenAntonius Deusinglaan 19713 AVGroningenThe Netherlands
- Department of Animal Product Technology, Faculty of Animal ScienceGadjah Mada University BulaksumurYogyakarta55281Indonesia
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology Groningen Research Institute of PharmacyUniversity of GroningenAntonius Deusinglaan 19713 AVGroningenThe Netherlands
- School of ChemistryUniversity of Hyderabad GachibowliHyderabad500046 TelanganaIndia
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology Groningen Research Institute of PharmacyUniversity of GroningenAntonius Deusinglaan 19713 AVGroningenThe Netherlands
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Sudha AJ, Aslam NA, Sandhu A, Yasuda M, Baba A, Babu SA. Synthesis of β-cyanoalanine and enantiomerically enriched aspartate derivatives via the Zn- or In-mediated nucleophilic addition to α-imino esters. Tetrahedron 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2020.131217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Chen D, Chow HY, Po KHL, Ma W, Leung ELY, Sun Z, Liu M, Chen S, Li X. Total Synthesis and Structural Establishment/Revision of Antibiotics A54145. Org Lett 2019; 21:5639-5644. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b01972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Delin Chen
- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Lab of Chiroscience, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Lab of Chiroscience, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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Abidin MZ, Saravanan T, Zhang J, Tepper PG, Strauss E, Poelarends GJ. Modular Enzymatic Cascade Synthesis of Vitamin B 5 and Its Derivatives. Chemistry 2018; 24:17434-17438. [PMID: 30192043 PMCID: PMC6471175 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201804151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Access to vitamin B5 [(R)‐pantothenic acid] and both diastereoisomers of α‐methyl‐substituted vitamin B5 [(R)‐ and (S)‐3‐((R)‐2,4‐dihydroxy‐3,3‐dimethylbutanamido)‐2‐methylpropanoic acid] was achieved using a modular three‐step biocatalytic cascade involving 3‐methylaspartate ammonia lyase (MAL), aspartate‐α‐decarboxylase (ADC), β‐methylaspartate‐α‐decarboxylase (CrpG) or glutamate decarboxylase (GAD), and pantothenate synthetase (PS) enzymes. Starting from simple non‐chiral dicarboxylic acids (either fumaric acid or mesaconic acid), vitamin B5 and both diastereoisomers of α‐methyl‐substituted vitamin B5, which are valuable precursors for promising antimicrobials against Plasmodium falciparum and multidrug‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus, can be generated in good yields (up to 70 %) and excellent enantiopurity (>99 % ee). This newly developed cascade process may be tailored and used for the biocatalytic production of various vitamin B5 derivatives by modifying the pantoyl or β‐alanine moiety.
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- Mohammad Z Abidin
- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713, AV, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713, AV, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713, AV, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713, AV, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713, AV, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Xue YP, Cao CH, Zheng YG. Enzymatic asymmetric synthesis of chiral amino acids. Chem Soc Rev 2018; 47:1516-1561. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cs00253j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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This review summarizes the progress achieved in the enzymatic asymmetric synthesis of chiral amino acids from prochiral substrates.
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- Ya-Ping Xue
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province
- College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering
- Zhejiang University of Technology
- Hangzhou 310014
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province
- College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering
- Zhejiang University of Technology
- Hangzhou 310014
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province
- College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering
- Zhejiang University of Technology
- Hangzhou 310014
- China
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Payer SE, Schrittwieser JH, Kroutil W. Vicinal Diamines as Smart Cosubstrates in the Transaminase-Catalyzed Asymmetric Amination of Ketones. European J Org Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201700253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Stefan E. Payer
- Institute of Chemistry; University of Graz, NAWI Graz; BioTechMed Graz; Heinrichstrasse 28/II 8010 Graz Austria
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- Institute of Chemistry; University of Graz, NAWI Graz; BioTechMed Graz; Heinrichstrasse 28/II 8010 Graz Austria
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- Institute of Chemistry; University of Graz, NAWI Graz; BioTechMed Graz; Heinrichstrasse 28/II 8010 Graz Austria
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de Villiers J, de Villiers M, Geertsema EM, Raj H, Poelarends GJ. Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of ortho-, meta-, and para-Substituted Derivatives of l- threo-3-Benzyloxyaspartate, An Important Glutamate Transporter Blocker. ChemCatChem 2015; 7:1931-1934. [PMID: 26251674 PMCID: PMC4517298 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201500318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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A simple, three-step chemoenzymatic synthesis of l-threo-3-benzyloxyaspartate (l-TBOA), as well as l-TBOA derivatives with F, CF3, and CH3 substituents at the aromatic ring, starting from dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate was investigated. These chiral amino acids, which are extremely difficult to prepare by chemical synthesis, form an important class of inhibitors of excitatory amino acid transporters involved in the regulation of glutamatergic neurotransmission. In addition, a new chemical procedure for the synthesis of racemic mixtures of TBOA and its derivatives was explored. These chemically prepared racemates are valuable reference compounds in chiral-phase HPLC to establish the enantiopurities of the corresponding chemoenzymatically prepared amino acids.
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- Jandré de Villiers
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen (The Netherlands )
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen (The Netherlands )
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen (The Netherlands )
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen (The Netherlands ) ; Current address: Chr-Hansen A/S, Boge Alle 10-12 2970 Horsholm (Denmark)
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen (The Netherlands )
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The roles of active site residues in the catalytic mechanism of methylaspartate ammonia-lyase. FEBS Open Bio 2013; 3:285-90. [PMID: 23905011 PMCID: PMC3722577 DOI: 10.1016/j.fob.2013.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2013] [Revised: 07/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/03/2013] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Methylaspartate ammonia-lyase (MAL; EC 4.3.1.2) catalyzes the reversible addition of ammonia to mesaconate to yield l-threo-(2S,3S)-3-methylaspartate and l-erythro-(2S,3R)-3-methylaspartate as products. In the proposed minimal mechanism for MAL of Clostridium tetanomorphum, Lys-331 acts as the (S)-specific base catalyst and abstracts the 3S-proton from l-threo-3-methylaspartate, resulting in an enolate anion intermediate. This enolic intermediate is stabilized by coordination to the essential active site Mg2+ ion and hydrogen bonding to the Gln-329 residue. Collapse of this intermediate results in the release of ammonia and the formation of mesaconate. His-194 likely acts as the (R)-specific base catalyst and abstracts the 3R-proton from the l-erythro isomer of 3-methylaspartate, yielding the enolic intermediate. In the present study, we have investigated the importance of the residues Gln-73, Phe-170, Gln-172, Tyr-356, Thr-360, Cys-361 and Leu-384 for the catalytic activity of C. tetanomorphum MAL. These residues, which are part of the enzyme surface lining the substrate binding pocket, were subjected to site-directed mutagenesis and the mutant enzymes were characterized for their structural integrity, ability to catalyze the amination of mesaconate, and regio- and diastereoselectivity. Based on the observed properties of the mutant enzymes, combined with previous structural studies and protein engineering work, we propose a detailed catalytic mechanism for the MAL-catalyzed reaction, in which the side chains of Gln-73, Gln-172, Tyr-356, Thr-360, and Leu-384 provide favorable interactions with the substrate, which are important for substrate binding and activation. This detailed knowledge of the catalytic mechanism of MAL can serve as a guide for future protein engineering experiments. A detailed catalytic mechanism for methylaspartate ammonia-lyase is proposed Gln-172, Thr-360 and Cys-361 bind the 1-carboxylate group of 3-methylaspartate Gln-73 (via a water molecule) and Gln-172 bind the 2-amino group Tyr-356 and Leu-384 provide stabilizing interactions with the 3-methyl group
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