Chemical studies on the chiral indanone derivatives as the inhibitor of Renilla luciferase
作者:Chun Wu、Hideshi Nakamura、Akio Murai、Satoshi Inouye
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4020(01)00980-2
日期:2001.11
The bioluminescence reaction of coelenterazine involves an oxidative process. To investigate the reaction mechanism, we synthesized three mechanism-based inhibitors with an indanone core structure. The inhibitors exhibited the competitive inhibition of the Renilla luciferase reaction. The (-)-4-benzyl-2-(4-hydroxybenzyl)-2-hydroxymethyl-6-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-indan-1-one showed the significant enantio-selectivity of the inhibition and its absolute configuration was assigned as the R-configuration. These inhibitors could be useful probes to study the catalytic environment in the coelenterazine-luciferase reaction. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.