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ArticleNature chemistry2021

Site-selective tyrosine bioconjugation via photoredox catalysis for native-to-bioorthogonal protein transformation.

Beryl X Li, Daniel K Kim, Steven Bloom, Richard Y-C Huang, Jennifer X Qiao, William R Ewing, Daniel G Oblinsky, Gregory D Scholes, David W C MacMillan

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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9 authors.

Beryl X Li *Merck Center for Catalysis at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Daniel K Kim *Merck Center for Catalysis at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Steven BloomMerck Center for Catalysis at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Richard Y-C HuangPharmaceutical Candidate Optimization, Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7172-110X
Jennifer X QiaoDiscovery Chemistry, Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6685-2092
William R EwingDiscovery Chemistry, Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Daniel G OblinskyDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7460-8260
Gregory D ScholesDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3336-7960
David W C MacMillanMerck Center for Catalysis at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. dmacmill@princeton.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3352-4532

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Abstract

abstactThe growing prevalence of synthetically modified proteins in pharmaceuticals and materials has exposed the need for efficient strategies to enable chemical modifications with high site-selectivity. While genetic engineering can incorporate non-natural amino acids into recombinant proteins, regioselective chemical modification of wild-type proteins remains a challenge. Herein, we use photoredox catalysis to develop a site-selective tyrosine bioconjugation pathway that incorporates bioorthogonal formyl groups, which subsequently allows for the synthesis of structurally defined fluorescent conjugates from native proteins. A water-soluble photocatalyst, lumiflavin, has been shown to induce oxidative coupling between a previously unreported phenoxazine dialdehyde tag and a single tyrosine site, even in the presence of multiple tyrosyl side chains, through the formation of a covalent C-N bond. A variety of native proteins, including those with multiple tyrosines, can successfully undergo both tyrosine-specific and single-site-selective labelling. This technology directly introduces aldehyde moieties onto native proteins, enabling rapid product diversification using an array of well-established bioorthogonal functionalization protocols including the alkyne-azide click reaction.

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AldehydesAminationCatalysisFlavinsLightModels, ChemicalMolecular ProbesOxazinesOxidation-ReductionProteinsTyrosineAldehydesFlavinslumiflavinMolecular ProbesOxazinesphenoxazineProteinsTyrosine

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