Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States.
J Org Chem. 2023 Mar 3;88(5):3282-3287. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c02570. Epub 2023 Feb 16.
Most reported artificial esterases only hydrolyze highly activated substrates. We here report synthetic catalysts that hydrolyze nonactivated aryl esters at pH 7, via cooperative action of a thiourea group that mimics the oxyanion hole of a serine protease and a nearby nucleophilic/basic pyridyl group. The molecularly imprinted active site distinguishes subtle structural changes in the substrate, including elongation of the acyl chain by two carbons or shift of a remote methyl group by one carbon.
大多数报道的人工酯酶仅水解高度活化的底物。我们在此报告了合成催化剂,它们通过模拟丝氨酸蛋白酶的氧阴离子穴的硫脲基团和附近亲核/碱性吡啶基团的协同作用,在 pH 7 下水解非活化的芳基酯。分子印迹的活性位点可以区分底物中的细微结构变化,包括酰基链延长两个碳原子或远程甲基基团移动一个碳原子。