Chládek S, Bhuta P. Inhibition of the peptidyltransferase acceptor site by 2'(3')-O-cycloleucyl- and alpha-aminoisobutyryl derivatives of cytidylyl-(3'-5')adenosine.
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1982;
696:212-7. [PMID:
7037056 DOI:
10.1016/0167-4781(82)90031-8]
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Abstract
2'(3')-O-(N-Benzyloxycarbonylcycloleucyl)adenosine (1a) was prepared by esterification of 5'-O-(4-methoxytrityl)adenosine with N-benzyloxycarbonylcycloleucine in the presence of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and subsequent deprotection in acidic medium. The compound 1a was separated into pure 2'- and 3'-isomers using HPLC; these isomers were found to undergo an easy interconversion. Compound 1a was coupled with N-dimethylaminomethylene-2',5'-di-O-tetrahydropyranylcytidine 3'-phosphate in the presence of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide to give, after subsequent deblocking, cytidylyl(3' leads to 5')2'(3')-O-cycloleucyladenosine (1c). Compound 1c, as well as the related cytidylyl(3' leads to 5')2'(3')-O-(alpha-aminoisobutyryl)adenosine (1d), inhibited the peptidyltransferase catalyzed transfer of an AcPhe residue to puromycin in the Ac[14C]Phe-tRNA . poly(U) . 70 S E. coli ribosome system. A half of the maximum inhibition of AcPhe-puromycin formation (at 10(-5) M puromycin) was achieved at 9.5 . 10(-6) M of compound 1c and 9 . 10(-5) M of compound 1d, respectively. The inhibition of the puromycin reaction by compound 1d shows a mixed-type of inhibition kinetics. Further, none of the compounds 1c and 1d was an acceptor in the peptidyltransferase reaction. Both compounds 1c and 1d inhibited the binding of C-A-C-C-A[14C]Phe to the A site of peptidyltransferase in a system containing tRNAPhe . poly(U) . 70 S E. coli ribosomes, in which compound 1d was a much stronger inhibitor than 1c. These results indicate that the derivatives such as compounds 1c and 1d which contain an anomalous amino acid with a substituent in lieu of alpha-hydrogen can interfere with the peptidyltransferase A site; however, they are not acceptors in the peptidyltransferase reaction probably due to a misfit of the alpha-substituent.
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