N-Terminal Protein Modification Using Simple Aminoacyl Transferase Substrates
摘要:
Methods for synthetically manipulating protein structure enable greater flexibility in the study of protein function. Previous characterization of the Escherichia coli aminoacyl tRNA transferase (AaT) has shown that it can modify the N-terminus of a protein with an amino acid from a tRNA or a synthetic oligonucleotide donor. Here, we demonstrate that AaT can efficiently use a minimal adenosine substrate, which can be synthesized in one to two steps from readily available starting materials. We have characterized the enzymatic activity of AaT with aminoacyl adenosyl donors and found that reaction products do not inhibit AaT. The use of adenosyl donors removes the substrate limitations imposed by the use of synthetases for tRNA charging and avoids the complex synthesis of an oligonucleotide donor. Thus, our AaT donors increase the potential substrate scope and reaction scale for N-terminal protein modification under conditions that maintain folding.
Methods of modifying N-termini of a peptide or protein using transferases
申请人:The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
公开号:US09376700B2
公开(公告)日:2016-06-28
The invention includes a selective method of modifying the N-terminus of a protein using an aminoacyl tRNA transferase. In certain embodiments, the method comprises contacting a solution of the protein or peptide with a transferase and a derivative of a molecule, whereby the N-terminus of the protein or peptide is derivatized with the molecule.
N-Terminal Protein Modification Using Simple Aminoacyl Transferase Substrates
作者:Anne M. Wagner、Mark W. Fegley、John B. Warner、Christina L. J. Grindley、Nicholas P. Marotta、E. James Petersson
DOI:10.1021/ja2055098
日期:2011.9.28
Methods for synthetically manipulating protein structure enable greater flexibility in the study of protein function. Previous characterization of the Escherichia coli aminoacyl tRNA transferase (AaT) has shown that it can modify the N-terminus of a protein with an amino acid from a tRNA or a synthetic oligonucleotide donor. Here, we demonstrate that AaT can efficiently use a minimal adenosine substrate, which can be synthesized in one to two steps from readily available starting materials. We have characterized the enzymatic activity of AaT with aminoacyl adenosyl donors and found that reaction products do not inhibit AaT. The use of adenosyl donors removes the substrate limitations imposed by the use of synthetases for tRNA charging and avoids the complex synthesis of an oligonucleotide donor. Thus, our AaT donors increase the potential substrate scope and reaction scale for N-terminal protein modification under conditions that maintain folding.
Enzymes as synthetic catalysts: mechanistic and active-site considerations of natural and modified chymotrypsin
作者:J. Blair West、William J. Hennen、James L. Lalonde、Jeffrey A. Bibbs、Ziyang Zhong、Edgar F. Meyer、Chi Huey Wong
DOI:10.1021/ja00169a043
日期:1990.6
into the active-site geometries of both the native and the oxidized enzymes. alpha}-Chymotrypsin with D-isomer selectivity in the hydrolysis of alpha}-methyl-alpha}-nitro esters was used for the synthesis of a D-L pseudopeptide. Molecular modeling together with kinetic results was used to explain the unusual phenomena in hydrolysis and synthesis catalyzed by the native and modifiedenzymes. alpha}-Chymotrypsin