Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77842, USA.
J Am Chem Soc. 2013 Jul 31;135(30):10883-5. doi: 10.1021/ja4041048. Epub 2013 Jul 22.
MoaA/MoaC catalyze a remarkable rearrangement reaction in which guanosine-5'-triphosphate (GTP) is converted to cyclic pyranopterin monophosphate (cPMP). In this reaction, the C8 of GTP is inserted between the C2' and the C3' carbons of the GTP ribose. Previous experiments with GTP isotopomers demonstrated that the ribose C3' hydrogen atom is abstracted by the adenosyl radical. This led to a novel mechanistic proposal involving an intermediate with a bond between the C8 of guanine and C3' of the ribose. This paper describes the use of 2',3'-dideoxyGTP to trap this intermediate.
MoaA/MoaC 催化一种显著的重排反应,其中鸟苷-5'-三磷酸 (GTP) 转化为环吡喃并磷酸单酯 (cPMP)。在该反应中,GTP 的 C8 插入 GTP 核糖的 C2' 和 C3' 碳原子之间。使用 GTP 同位素标记物的先前实验表明,GTP 核糖的 C3' 氢原子被腺嘌呤基自由基夺取。这导致了一个新的机制提议,涉及到一个中间物,其中鸟嘌呤的 C8 与核糖的 C3' 之间存在键。本文描述了使用 2',3'-二脱氧 GTP 来捕获这个中间物。