Inversion of an Asymmetric Center in Carbocyclic Inhibitors of 3-Dehydroquinate Synthase: Examining and Exploiting the Mechanism for syn-Elimination during Substrate Turnover
作者:Jean-Luc Montchamp、Jirong Peng、J. W. Frost
DOI:10.1021/jo00102a025
日期:1994.11
Conversion of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonic acid 7-phosphate (DAHP) into 3-dehydroquinate (DHQ) by the enzyme DHQ synthase has been proposed to proceed through a step where the phosphate monoester of a reactive intermediate mediates its own elimination. This hypothesis was tested by challenging DHQ synthase with a series of carbocyclic substrate analogues possessing an inverted methine carbon relative to the same asymmetric center in substrate DAHP which loses a proton during elimination of inorganic phosphate. Despite the stereochemical alteration, epicarbocyclic substrate analogues 5-[(phosphonooxy)methyl]-5-deoxyquinate, 5-(phosphonomethyl)-5-deoxyquinate, 5-(phosphonoethyl)-5-deoxyquinate, and 3-(phosphonooxy)quinate inhibited DHQ synthase with respective inhibition constants (K-i) of 30 nM, 55 nM, 30 mu M, and 53 mu M. These inhibitors were synthesized from quinic acid and with the exception of 3-(phosphono oxy)quinate, were assembled via a strategy employing intramolecular, radical cyclization to establish the stereocenter where the (phosphonooxy)methyl, phosphonomethyl, and phosphonoethyl moieties were attached to the carbocyclic ring. The observed diastereomeric promiscuity in the binding of epicarbocyclic substrate analogues by DHQ synthase is consistent with the hypothesized nonenzymic syn-elimination of inorganic phosphate during substrate turnover.