Smallwood Taylor B, Krumpe Lauren R H, Payne Colton D, Klein Victoria G, O'Keefe Barry R, Clark Richard J, Schroeder Christina I, Rosengren K Johan
The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
Molecular Targets Program, Centre for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health Frederick MD 21702 USA.
Chem Sci. 2024 Jun 14;15(33):13227-13233. doi: 10.1039/d4sc01976h. eCollection 2024 Aug 22.
The peptide recifin A is the inaugural member of the structurally intriguing new fold referred to as a tyrosine-lock. Its central four stranded β-sheet is stabilized by a unique arrangement in which three disulfide bonds and their interconnecting backbone form a ring that wraps around one of the strands, resulting in a Tyr side chain being buried in the molecular core. Here we aimed to establish a synthetic route to this complex class of natural products. Full length recifin A was successfully generated through native chemical ligation chemistry joining two 21 amino acid residue fragments. Surprisingly, reduced linear recifin A readily adopts the correct, topologically-complex fold random oxidation of the cysteines, suggesting it is highly energetically favored. Utilizing our synthetic strategy, we generated five recifin A analogues to investigate the structural role of the central Tyr residue and provide the first insights into the structure activity relationship of recifin A towards its cancer target tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase I.
肽类物质瑞西芬A是被称为酪氨酸锁定的结构引人入胜的新折叠结构的首个成员。其中心的四条链β-折叠通过一种独特的排列得以稳定,在这种排列中,三个二硫键及其相互连接的主链形成一个环绕其中一条链的环,导致一个酪氨酸侧链被埋入分子核心。在此,我们旨在建立一条通往这类复杂天然产物的合成路线。通过天然化学连接化学方法连接两个21个氨基酸残基的片段,成功合成了全长瑞西芬A。令人惊讶的是,还原型线性瑞西芬A在半胱氨酸随机氧化的情况下很容易呈现出正确的、拓扑结构复杂的折叠,这表明其在能量上高度有利。利用我们的合成策略,我们生成了五个瑞西芬A类似物,以研究中心酪氨酸残基的结构作用,并首次深入了解瑞西芬A对其癌症靶点酪氨酰-DNA磷酸二酯酶I的构效关系。