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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2007

Routes to covalent catalysis by reactive selection for nascent protein nucleophiles.

Andrey V Reshetnyak, Maria Francesca Armentano, Natalia A Ponomarenko, Domenica Vizzuso, Oxana M Durova, Rustam Ziganshin, Marina Serebryakova, Vadim Govorun, Gennady Gololobov, Herbert C Morse and 4 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Chemical neighborhood exploration for substrate discovery in biocatalysis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Multiscale computation delivers organophosphorus reactivity and stereoselectivity to immunoglobulin scavengers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  10. Reactibodies generated by kinetic selection couple chemical reactivity with favorable protein dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011
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  14. Reactive immunization suppresses advanced glycation and mitigates diabetic nephropathy.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2009
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5 · Who and what money

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14 authors.

Andrey V ReshetnyakShemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, 16/10, Miklukho-Maklaya str, Moscow, 117871, Russia.
Maria Francesca Armentano
Natalia A Ponomarenko
Domenica Vizzuso
Oxana M Durova
Rustam Ziganshin
Marina Serebryakova
Vadim Govorun
Gennady Gololobov
Herbert C Morse
Alain Friboulet
Sudesh P Makker
Alexander G Gabibov
Alfonso Tramontano

Funding

Molecular Regulation of B-Cell Differentiation and FunctionZ01AI001024 · NIAID · NIAID EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES · PI MORSE, HERBERT · 2007 to 2008
$2.2M
Catalytic Immunity and Autoimmune MechanismsR01CA090564 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI TRAMONTANO, ALFONSO · 2002 to 2004
$794k
Membranous Nephritis Antigen Defined by Phage AntibodiesR21DK070256 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI MAKKER, SUDESH PAUL · 2006 to 2007
$411k
PATHOGENESIS OF MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHROPATHYR01DK033941 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR SAN ANT · PI MAKKER, SUDESH PAUL · 1988 to 2000
$226k
Intramural NIH HHSNCI NIH HHS CA90564NCI NIH HHS R01 CA090564NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK033941NIDDK NIH HHS R21 DK070256
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reactivity-based selection strategies have been used to enrich combinatorial libraries for encoded biocatalysts having revised substrate specificity or altered catalytic activity. This approach can also assist in artificial evolution of enzyme catalysis from protein templates without bias for predefined catalytic sites. The prevalence of covalent intermediates in enzymatic mechanisms suggests the universal utility of the covalent complex as the basis for selection. Covalent selection by phosphonate ester exchange was applied to a phage display library of antibody variable fragments (scFv) to sample the scope and mechanism of chemical reactivity in a naive molecular library. Selected scFv segregated into structurally related covalent and noncovalent binders. Clones that reacted covalently utilized tyrosine residues exclusively as the nucleophile. Two motifs were identified by structural analysis, recruiting distinct Tyr residues of the light chain. Most clones employed Tyr32 in CDR-L1, whereas a unique clone (A.17) reacted at Tyr36 in FR-L2. Enhanced phosphonylation kinetics and modest amidase activity of A.17 suggested a primitive catalytic site. Covalent selection may thus provide access to protein molecules that approximate an early apparatus for covalent catalysis.

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CatalysisModels, MolecularProteinsSubstrate SpecificityProteins

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PMID18044899
PMCPMC2527816

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