- A Chiral Lanthanide Tag for Stable and Rigid Attachment to Single Cysteine Residues in Proteins for NMR, EPR and Time-Resolved Luminescence Studies
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A lanthanide-binding tag site-specifically attached to a protein presents a tool to probe the protein by multiple spectroscopic techniques, including nuclear magnetic resonance, electron paramagnetic resonance and time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy. Here a new stable chiral LnIII tag, referred to as C12, is presented for spontaneous and quantitative reaction with a cysteine residue to generate a stable thioether bond. The synthetic protocol of the tag is relatively straightforward, and the tag is stable for storage and shipping. It displays greatly enhanced reactivity towards selenocysteine, opening a route towards selective tagging of selenocysteine in proteins containing cysteine residues. Loaded with TbIII or TmIII ions, the C12 tag readily generates pseudocontact shifts (PCS) in protein NMR spectra. It produces a relatively rigid tether between lanthanide and protein, which is beneficial for interpretation of the PCSs by single magnetic susceptibility anisotropy tensors, and it is suitable for measuring distance distributions in double electron–electron resonance experiments. Upon reaction with cysteine or other thiol compounds, the TbIII complex exhibits a 100-fold enhancement in luminescence quantum yield, affording a highly sensitive turn-on luminescence probe for time-resolved FRET assays and enzyme reaction monitoring.
- Herath, Iresha D.,Breen, Colum,Hewitt, Sarah H.,Berki, Thomas R.,Kassir, Ahmad F.,Dodson, Charlotte,Judd, Martyna,Jabar, Shereen,Cox, Nicholas,Otting, Gottfried,Butler, Stephen J.
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p. 13009 - 13023
(2021/08/03)
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- Stable and rigid DTPA-like paramagnetic tags suitable for in vitro and in situ protein NMR analysis
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Organic synthesis of a ligand with high binding affinities for paramagnetic lanthanide ions is an effective way of generating paramagnetic effects on proteins. These paramagnetic effects manifested in high-resolution NMR spectroscopy are valuable dynamic and structural restraints of proteins and protein–ligand complexes. A paramagnetic tag generally contains a metal chelating moiety and a reactive group for protein modification. Herein we report two new DTPA-like tags, 4PS-PyDTTA and 4PS-6M-PyDTTA that can be site-specifically attached to a protein with a stable thioether bond. Both protein-tag adducts form stable lanthanide complexes, of which the binding affinities and paramagnetic tensors are tunable with respect to the 6-methyl group in pyridine. Paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) effects of Gd(III) complex on protein-tag adducts were evaluated in comparison with pseudocontact shift (PCS), and the results indicated that both 4PS-PyDTTA and 4PS-6M-PyDTTA tags are rigid and present high-quality PREs that are crucially important in elucidation of the dynamics and interactions of proteins and protein-ligand complexes. We also show that these two tags are suitable for in-situ protein NMR analysis.
- Chen, Jia-Liang,Zhao, Yu,Gong, Yan-Jun,Pan, Bin-Bin,Wang, Xiao,Su, Xun-Cheng
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- 9H-PYRROLO-DIPYRIDINE DERIVATIVES
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The invention relates to 9H-pyrrolo-dipyridine derivatives of formula I, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as radiopharmaceuticals in particular as imaging agents for the detection of Tau aggregates.
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(2016/09/22)
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- Single-armed phenylsulfonated pyridine derivative of DOTA is rigid and stable paramagnetic tag in protein analysis
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Single-armed DOTA-like phenylsulfonated pyridine derivatives are rigid and stable paramagnetic tags for site-specific labeling of proteins. Their reactions with a solvent-exposed protein thiol group generate a stable C-S bond and produce one single paramagnetic species in solution NMR. The generated large paramagnetic effects yield valuable long-range structural restraints for proteins.
- Yang, Feng,Wang, Xiao,Pan, Bin-Bin,Su, Xun-Cheng
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p. 11535 - 11538
(2016/10/03)
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- C-H bond oxidation catalyzed by an imine-based iron complex: A mechanistic insight
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A family of imine-based nonheme iron(II) complexes (LX)2Fe(OTf)2 has been prepared, characterized, and employed as C-H oxidation catalysts. Ligands LX (X = 1, 2, 3, and 4) stand for tridentate imine ligands resulting from spontaneous condensation of 2-pycolyl-amine and 4-substituted-2-picolyl aldehydes. Fast and quantitative formation of the complex occurs just upon mixing aldehyde, amine, and Fe(OTf)2 in a 2:2:1 ratio in acetonitrile solution. The solid-state structures of (L1)2Fe(OTf)(ClO4) and (L3)2Fe(OTf)2 are reported, showing a low-spin octahedral iron center, with the ligands arranged in a meridional fashion. 1H NMR analyses indicate that the solid-state structure and spin state is retained in solution. These analyses also show the presence of an amine-imine tautomeric equilibrium. (LX)2Fe(OTf)2 efficiently catalyze the oxidation of alkyl C-H bonds employing H2O2 as a terminal oxidant. Manipulation of the electronic properties of the imine ligand has only a minor impact on efficiency and selectivity of the oxidative process. A mechanistic study is presented, providing evidence that C-H oxidations are metal-based. Reactions occur with stereoretention at the hydroxylated carbon and selectively at tertiary over secondary C-H bonds. Isotopic labeling analyses show that H2O2 is the dominant origin of the oxygen atoms inserted in the oxygenated product. Experimental evidence is provided that reactions involve initial oxidation of the complexes to the ferric state, and it is proposed that a ligand arm dissociates to enable hydrogen peroxide binding and activation. Selectivity patterns and isotopic labeling studies strongly suggest that activation of hydrogen peroxide occurs by heterolytic O-O cleavage, without the assistance of a cis-binding water or alkyl carboxylic acid. The sum of these observations provides sound evidence that controlled activation of H2O2 at (LX)2Fe(OTf)2 differs from that occurring in biomimetic iron catalysts described to date.
- Olivo, Giorgio,Nardi, Martina,Vìdal, Diego,Barbieri, Alessia,Lapi, Andrea,Gómez, Laura,Lanzalunga, Osvaldo,Costas, Miquel,Di Stefano, Stefano
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p. 10141 - 10152
(2015/11/16)
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- Tuning of the properties of transition-metal bispidine complexes by variation of the basicity of the aromatic donor groups
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Bispidines (3,7-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonanes) as very rigid and highly preorganized ligands find broad application in the field of coordination chemistry, and the redox potentials of their transition-metal complexes are of importance in oxidation reactions by high-valent iron complexes, aziridination catalyzed by copper complexes, and imaging by 64Cu positron emission tomography tracers. Here, we show that the redox potentials and stability constants of the copper(II) complexes of 15 tetradentate bispidines can be varied by substitution of the pyridine rings (variation of the redox potential over ca. 450 mV and of the complex stability over approximately 10 log units). It is also shown that these variations are predictable by the pKa values of the pyridine groups as well as by the Hammett parameters of the substituents, and the density functional theory based energy decomposition analysis also allows one to accurately predict the redox potentials and concomitant complex stability. It is shown that the main contribution emerges from the electrostatic interaction energy, and the partial charges of the pyridine donor groups therefore also correlate with the redox potentials.
- Comba, Peter,Morgen, Michael,Wadepohl, Hubert
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p. 6481 - 6501
(2013/07/19)
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- Direct and selective tagging of cysteine residues in peptides and proteins with 4-nitropyridyl lanthanide complexes
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A cysteine-selective tagging method in water is reported, based on rapid displacement of a pyridyl nitro-substituent in simple pyridines and lanthanide complexes. The conjugation reaction creates a short link between the tag and peptide, holding the peptide closer to the Ln3+ ion and with reduced flexibility compared to existing methods.
- Gempf, Kathryn L.,Butler, Stephen J.,Funk, Alexander M.,Parker, David
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p. 9104 - 9106
(2013/09/24)
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- Superoxide dismutase activity of iron(II)TPEN complex and its derivatives
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Superoxide is involved in the pathogenesis of various diseases, such as inflammation, ischemia-reperfusion injury and carcinogenesis. Superoxide dismutases (SODs) catalyze the disproportionation reaction of superoxide to produce oxygen and hydrogen peroxide, and can protect living cells against the toxicity of free radicals derived from oxygen. Thus, SODs and their functional mimics have potential value as pharmaceuticals. We have previously reported that Fe(II)tetrakis-N,N,N',N'-(2-pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine (Fe(II)TPEN) has an excellent SOD activity (IC50=0.5 μM) among many iron complexes examined (J. Biol. Chem., 264, 9243-9249 (1989)). Fe(II)TPEN can act like native SOD in living cells, and protect Escherichia coli cells from free radical toxicity caused by paraquat. In order to develop more effective SOD functional mimics, we synthesized Fe(II)TPEN derivatives with electron-donating or electron-withdrawing groups at the 4-position of all pyridines of TPEN, and measured the SOD activities and the redox potentials of these complexes. Fe(II) tetrakis-N,N,N',N'-(4-methoxy-2-pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine (Fe(II)(4MeO)4TPEN) had the highest SOD activity (IC50=0.1 μM) among these iron-based SOD mimics. In addition, a good correlation was found between the redox potential and the SOD activity of 15 Fe(II) complexes, including iron-based SOD mimics reported in the previous paper (J. Organometal. Chem., in press). Iron-based SOD mimics may be clinically applicable, because these complexes are generally tissue-permeable and show low toxicity. Therefore our findings should be significant for the development of clinically useful SOD mimics.
- Tamura,Urano,Kikuchi,Higuchi,Hirobe,Nagano
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p. 1514 - 1518
(2007/10/03)
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