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Grain B, Desmet R, Snella B, Melnyk O, Agouridas V. Incorporation of a Highly Reactive Oxalyl Thioester-Based Interacting Handle into Proteins. Org Lett 2023; 25:5117-5122. [PMID: 37384828 PMCID: PMC10353032 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c01846] [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: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
Abstract
Providing biomolecules with extended physicochemical, biochemical, or biological properties is a contemporary challenge motivated by impactful benefits in life or materials sciences. In this study, we show that a latent and highly reactive oxalyl thioester precursor can be efficiently introduced as a pending functionality into a fully synthetic protein domain following a protection/late-stage deprotection strategy and can serve as an on-demand reactive handle. The approach is illustrated with the production of a 10 kDa ubiquitin Lys48 conjugate.
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- Benjamin Grain
- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 -
UMR 9017 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 -
UMR 9017 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 -
UMR 9017 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 -
UMR 9017 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 -
UMR 9017 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
- Centrale
Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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Agouridas V, Ollivier N, Vicogne J, Diemer V, Melnyk O. Redox-Controlled Chemical Protein Synthesis: Sundry Shades of Latency. Acc Chem Res 2022; 55:2685-2697. [PMID: 36083810 PMCID: PMC9494750 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
The last two decades have witnessed the rise in power of chemical protein synthesis to the point where it now constitutes an established corpus of synthetic methods efficiently complementing biological approaches. One factor explaining this spectacular evolution is the emergence of a new class of chemoselective reactions enabling the formation of native peptide bonds between two unprotected peptidic segments, also known as native ligation reactions. In recent years, their application has fueled the production of homogeneous batches of large and highly decorated protein targets with a control of their composition at the atomic level. In doing so, native ligation reactions have provided the means for successful applications in chemical biology, medicinal chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology research.The native chemical ligation (NCL) reaction has had a major impact on the field by enabling the chemoselective formation of a native peptide bond between a C-terminal peptidyl thioester and an N-terminal cysteinyl peptide. Since its introduction in 1994, the NCL reaction has been made the object of significant improvements and its scope and limitations have been thoroughly investigated. Furthermore, the diversification of peptide segment assembly strategies has been essential to access proteins of increasing complexity and has had to overcome the challenge of controlling the reactivity of ligation partners.One hallmark of NCL is its dependency on thiol reactivity, including for its catalysis. While Nature constantly plays with the redox properties of biological thiols for the regulation of numerous biochemical pathways, such a control of reactivity is challenging to achieve in synthetic organic chemistry and, in particular, for those methods used for assembling peptide segments by chemical ligation. This Account covers the studies conducted by our group in this area. A leading theme of our research has been the conception of controllable acyl donors and cysteine surrogates that place the chemoselective formation of amide bonds by NCL-like reactions under the control of dichalcogenide-based redox systems. The dependency of the redox potential of dichalcogenide bonds on the nature of the chalcogenides involved (S, Se) has appeared as a powerful means for diversifying the systems, while allowing their sequential activation for protein synthesis. Such a control of reactivity mediated by the addition of harmless redox additives has greatly facilitated the modular and efficient preparation of multiple targets of biological relevance. Taken together, these endeavors provide a practical and robust set of methods to address synthetic challenges in chemical protein synthesis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vangelis Agouridas
- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille,
Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 9017, Center for Infection and
Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France,Centrale
Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille,
Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 9017, Center for Infection and
Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille,
Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 9017, Center for Infection and
Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille,
Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 9017, Center for Infection and
Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ.
Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille,
Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 9017, Center for Infection and
Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France,
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A versatile resin for the generation of thioether-bonded head-to-tail cyclized peptides. Tetrahedron Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2021.152867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Gless BH, Olsen CA. Direct Peptide Cyclization and One-Pot Modification Using the MeDbz Linker. J Org Chem 2018; 83:10525-10534. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Bengt H. Gless
- Center for Biopharmaceuticals and Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Biopharmaceuticals and Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Yan B, Shi W, Ye L, Liu L. Acyl donors for native chemical ligation. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2018; 46:33-40. [PMID: 29654943 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2018.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2018] [Revised: 03/21/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Native chemical ligation (NCL) has become one of the most important methods in chemical syntheses of proteins. Recently, in order to expand its scope, considerable effort has been devoted to tuning the C-terminal acyl donor thioesters used in NCL. This article reviews the recent advances in the design of C-terminal acyl donors, their precursors and surrogates, and highlights some noteworthy progress that may lead the future direction of protein chemical synthesis.
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- Bingjia Yan
- Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Wang Y, Han L, Yuan N, Wang H, Li H, Liu J, Chen H, Zhang Q, Dong S. Traceless β-mercaptan-assisted activation of valinyl benzimidazolinones in peptide ligations. Chem Sci 2018; 9:1940-1946. [PMID: 29675240 PMCID: PMC5892131 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc04148a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Peptidyl thioesters or their surrogates with C-terminal β-branched hydrophobic amino acid residues usually exhibit poor reactivities in ligation reactions. Thus, activation using exogenous additives is required to ensure an acceptable reaction efficiency. Herein, we report a traceless ligation at Val-Xaa sites under mild thiol additive-free reaction conditions, whereby the introduction of β-mercaptan on the C-terminal valine residue effectively activates the otherwise unreactive N-acyl-benzimidazolinone (Nbz), and enables the use of a one-pot ligation-desulfurization strategy to generate the desired peptide products. The orthogonality between β-thiovaline-Nbz and a conventional alkyl thioester, as well as the convenient access to the former from readily available penicillamine, also allowed expedited assembly of the peptidic hormone β-LPH and hPTH analogues, based on a kinetically controlled one-pot three-segment ligation and desulfurization strategy.
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- Yinglu Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs , Department of Chemical Biology , School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University , Beijing 100191 , China .
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs , Department of Chemical Biology , School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University , Beijing 100191 , China .
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs , Department of Chemical Biology , School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University , Beijing 100191 , China .
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs , Department of Chemical Biology , School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University , Beijing 100191 , China .
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs , Department of Chemical Biology , School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University , Beijing 100191 , China .
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs , Department of Chemical Biology , School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University , Beijing 100191 , China .
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- Department of Chemistry , University at Albany , Albany , New York 12222 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , University at Albany , Albany , New York 12222 , USA .
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs , Department of Chemical Biology , School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University , Beijing 100191 , China .
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