Fluorogenic probes for detecting deacylase and demethylase activity towards post-translationally-modified lysine residues

Yuichiro Hori, Miyako Nishiura, Tomomi Tao, Reisuke Baba, Steven D. Bull, Kazuya Kikuchi

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Abstract

Reversible enzymatic post-translational modification of the ε-amino groups of lysine residues (e.g. N-acylation reactions) plays an important role in regulating the cellular activities of numerous proteins. This study describes how enzyme catalyzed N-deprotection of lysine residues of non-fluorescent peptide-coumarin probes can be used to generate N-deprotected peptides that undergo spontaneousO- toN-ester transfer reactions (uncatalyzed) to generate a highly fluorescentN-carbamoyl peptide. This enables detection of enzyme catalyzedN-deacetylation,N-demalonylation,N-desuccinylation andN-demethylation reactions activities towards the N-modified lysine residues of these probes using simple ‘turn on’ fluorescent assays.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2498-2503
Number of pages6
JournalChemical Science
Volume12
Issue number7
Early online date7 Feb 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Feb 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Numbers JP19K22255, JP18H03935, JP17H06409 ?Frontier Research on Chemical Communications? to K. K. and JP17H02210, JP18K19402, JP20H02879 to Y. H.), JSPS A3 Foresight Program, JSPS Asian CORE Program, ?Asian Chemical Biology Initiative?, Japan (JSPS)-UK (RSC) Research Cooperative Program (JPJSBP120195705 to K. K.), Toray Science Foundation (19-6008) and Royal Society International Exchange (IEC\R3\183068 to S. D. Bull).

Publisher Copyright:
© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021.

Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Funding

This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Numbers JP19K22255, JP18H03935, JP17H06409 ?Frontier Research on Chemical Communications? to K. K. and JP17H02210, JP18K19402, JP20H02879 to Y. H.), JSPS A3 Foresight Program, JSPS Asian CORE Program, ?Asian Chemical Biology Initiative?, Japan (JSPS)-UK (RSC) Research Cooperative Program (JPJSBP120195705 to K. K.), Toray Science Foundation (19-6008) and Royal Society International Exchange (IEC\R3\183068 to S. D. Bull).

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry

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