Methods of incorporating an amino acid comprising a bcn group into a polypeptide using an orthogonal codon encoding it and an orthorgonal pylrs synthase
a polypeptide and orthogonal codon technology, applied in the field of site-specific incorporation of bioorthogonal groups, can solve the problem of slow reaction rate of techniques
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Chemistry and Addition Reactions
[0159]The rate constants for the reactions of various dienophiles (BCN, TCO (trans-cyclooctene-4-ol) and sTCO (bicyclo[6.1.0]non-4-ene-9-ylmethanol)) with tetrazines have been determined3-5,9,11. However, in many cases, researchers have used different tetrazines, solvent systems or measurement methods making it challenging to quantitatively compare the reactivity of each dienophile with tetrazines of interest. Our initial experiments confirmed that the rates for the reactions of each dienophile with tetrazine 6 (FIG. 1) were too fast to study by manual mixing under pseudo first order conditions. We therefore turned to stopped-flow techniques to directly determine the pseudo first order rate constants for these reactions. By following the exponential decay in absorbance at 320 nm upon reaction with a 10- to 100-fold excess of BCN in a methanol / water (55 / 45) mixture we determined the rate constants for the reaction of BCN with 6 and 7 as 437 M−1 s−1 (+ / ...
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Amino Acid Design
[0161]Next, we aimed to design, synthesize and genetically encode amino acids bearing BCN. TCO and sTCO for site-specific protein labeling with a diverse range of probes both in vitro and in cells. The Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) / tRNACUA pairs from Methanosarcina species, including M. barkeri (Mb) and M. mazei (Mm), and their evolved derivatives have been used to direct the site-specific incorporation of a growing list of structurally diverse unnatural amino acids in response to the amber codon19-26. The PylRS / tRNACUA pair is emerging as perhaps the most versatile system for incorporating unnatural amino acids into proteins since it is orthogonal in a range of hosts, allowing synthetases evolved in E. coli to be used for genetic code expansion in a growing list of cells and organisms, including: E. coli, Salmonella typhimurium, yeast, human cells and C. elegans7,27-31. We designed the unnatural amino acids 1, 2 and 3 (FIG. 1) with the goal of incorporating th...
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Genetic Incorporation into Polypeptides and tRNA Synthetases
[0162]We screened the MbPylRS / tRNACUA pair along with a panel of mutants of MbPylRS, previously generated in our laboratory for the site-specific incorporation of diverse unnatural amino acids into proteins, for their ability to direct the incorporation of 1, 2 and 3 in response to an amber codon introduced at position 150 in a C-terminally hexahistidine- (His6) tagged superfolder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP). The MbPylRS / tRNACUA pair did not direct the incorporation of any of the unnatural amino acids tested, as judged by western blot against the C-terminal His6 tag. However, cells containing a mutant of MbPylRS, containing three amino acid substitutions Y271M, L274G, C313A32 in the enzyme active site (which we named BCN-tRNA synthetase, BCNRS), and a plasmid that encodes MbtRNACUA and sfGFP-His6 with an amber codon at position 150 (psfGFP150TAGPylT-His6) led to amino acid dependent synthesis of full length sfGFP-His6...
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