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Quantum Chemical Calculations and Experimental Validation of the Photoclick Reaction for Fluorescent Labeling of the 5' cap of Eukaryotic mRNAs.
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- Photoclick reaction for rapid and simple fluorescence detection of itaconic acid and its derivatives in fungal cultures.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2023Article
- Chemical biology and medicinal chemistry of RNA methyltransferases.Nucleic acids research · 2022Article
- Covalent labeling of nucleic acids.Chemical Society reviews · 2020Review
- Repurposing enzymatic transferase reactions for targeted labeling and analysis of DNA and RNA.Current opinion in biotechnology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Bioorthogonal click reactions are powerful tools to specifically label biomolecules in living cells. Considerable progress has been made in site-specific labeling of proteins and glycans in complex biological systems, but equivalent methods for mRNAs are rare. We present a chemo-enzymatic approach to label the 5' cap of eukaryotic mRNAs using a bioorthogonal photoclick reaction. Herein, the N7-methylated guanosine of the 5' cap is enzymatically equipped with an allyl group using a variant of the trimethylguanosine synthase 2 from Giardia lamblia (GlaTgs2). To elucidate whether the resulting N (2)-modified 5' cap is a suitable dipolarophile for photoclick reactions, we used Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) and calculated the HOMO and LUMO energies of this molecule and nitrile imines. Our in silico studies suggested that combining enzymatic allylation of the cap with subsequent labeling in a photoclick reaction was feasible. This could be experimentally validated. Our approach generates a turn-on fluorophore site-specifically at the 5' cap and therefore presents an important step towards labeling of eukaryotic mRNAs in a bioorthogonal manner.
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