Modulating substrate specificity of histone acetyltransferase with unnatural amino acids

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 3050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinjal Rajesh Mehta ◽  
Ching Yao Yang ◽  
Jin Kim Montclare
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Substrate Specificity ◽  
Unnatural Amino Acids ◽  
Histone Acetyltransferase

scholarly journals The Effect of a Peptide Substrate Containing an Unnatural Branched Amino Acid on Chymotrypsin Activity

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Yuuki Yamawaki ◽  
Tomoki Yufu ◽  
Tamaki Kato
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Substrate Specificity ◽  
Unnatural Amino Acids ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Low Molecular Weight ◽  
Amino Acid Residues ◽  
Phase Synthesis ◽  
Reaction Velocity ◽  
Natural Amino Acids

7-Amino-4-methylcoumarin (AMC) is a low molecular weight fluorescent probe that can be attached to a peptide to enable the detection of specific proteases, such as chymotrypsin, expressed in certain diseases. Because this detection depends on the specificity of the protease toward the peptidyl AMC, the development of specific substrates is required. To investigate the specificity of chymotrypsin, peptidyl AMC compounds incorporating four different amino acid residues were prepared by liquid-phase synthesis. Two unnatural amino acids, 2-amino-4-ethylhexanoic acid (AEH) and cyclohexylalanine (Cha), were used to investigate the substrate specificity as these amino acids have structures different from natural amino acids. AEH was synthesized using diethyl acetamidemalonate as a starting material. The substrate containing Cha had high hydrophobicity and showed a high reaction velocity with chymotrypsin. Although the AEH substrate with a branched side chain had high hydrophobicity, it showed a low reaction velocity. The substrate containing the aromatic amino acid phenylalanine was less hydrophobic than the Cha and AEH substrates, but chymotrypsin showed the highest specificity for this compound. These results demonstrated that the substrate specificity of chymotrypsin is not only affected by the hydrophobicity and aromaticity, but also by the structural expanse of amino acid residues in the substrate.

Recent advances and concepts in substrate specificity determination of proteases using tailored libraries of fluorogenic substrates with unnatural amino acids

2015 ◽  
Vol 396 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wioletta Rut ◽  
Paulina Kasperkiewicz ◽  
Anna Byzia ◽  
Marcin Poreba ◽  
Katarzyna Groborz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Substrate Specificity ◽  
Phage Display ◽  
Unnatural Amino Acids ◽  
Fluorogenic Substrates ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Positional Scanning ◽  
Binding Pockets ◽  
Natural Amino Acids

Abstract Substrate specificity of proteases can be determined using several methods among which the most frequently used are positional scanning library, proteomics and phage display. Classic approaches can deliver information about preferences for natural amino acids in binding pockets of virtually all proteases. However, recent studies demonstrate the ability to obtain much more information by application of unnatural amino acids to positional scanning library approaches. This knowledge can be used for the design of more active and specific substrates, inhibitors and activity based probes. In this minireview we describe recent strategies and concepts for the design and application of fluorogenic substrates library tailored for exopeptidases and endopeptidases.

scholarly journals Enzymatic aminoacylation of tRNA with unnatural amino acids

2006 ◽  
Vol 103 (12) ◽  
pp. 4356-4361 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. T. Hartman ◽  
K. Josephson ◽  
J. W. Szostak
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Unnatural Amino Acids

scholarly journals Transferability of N-terminal mutations of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase in one species to that in another species on unnatural amino acid incorporation efficiency

Amino Acids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Williams ◽  
Debra J. Iskandar ◽  
Alexander R. Nödling ◽  
Yurong Tan ◽  
Louis Y. P. Luk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Genetic Code ◽  
Unnatural Amino Acids ◽  
Trna Synthetase ◽  
Unnatural Amino Acid ◽  
Amino Acid Incorporation ◽  
Acid Incorporation ◽  
Genetic Code Expansion ◽  
Incorporation Efficiency

AbstractGenetic code expansion is a powerful technique for site-specific incorporation of an unnatural amino acid into a protein of interest. This technique relies on an orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair and has enabled incorporation of over 100 different unnatural amino acids into ribosomally synthesized proteins in cells. Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) and its cognate tRNA from Methanosarcina species are arguably the most widely used orthogonal pair. Here, we investigated whether beneficial effect in unnatural amino acid incorporation caused by N-terminal mutations in PylRS of one species is transferable to PylRS of another species. It was shown that conserved mutations on the N-terminal domain of MmPylRS improved the unnatural amino acid incorporation efficiency up to five folds. As MbPylRS shares high sequence identity to MmPylRS, and the two homologs are often used interchangeably, we examined incorporation of five unnatural amino acids by four MbPylRS variants at two temperatures. Our results indicate that the beneficial N-terminal mutations in MmPylRS did not improve unnatural amino acid incorporation efficiency by MbPylRS. Knowledge from this work contributes to our understanding of PylRS homologs which are needed to improve the technique of genetic code expansion in the future.

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