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ArticleBioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters2021

Your mother was right, washing matters: An alkyne-analog of ibuprofen reveals unwanted reactivity of aromatic compounds with proteins during copper-catalyzed click chemistry.

Giuliano Cutolo, Sahiti N Shankar, Matthew R Pratt

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Article in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Giuliano CutoloDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
Sahiti N ShankarDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
Matthew R PrattDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States. Electronic address: matthew.pratt@usc.edu.

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Chemical Tools for the Investigation and Manipulation of Protein GlycosylationR01GM125939 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI PRATT, MATTHEW ROBERT · 2017 to 2025
$2.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM125939
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Abstract

Bioorthogonal chemistry, in particular the copper(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC), has enabled the robust identification of covalent protein targets of probes and drugs. Ibuprofen is commonly used pain and fever reducer and is sold as an enantiomeric racemate. Interestingly, the stereoisomers can be enzymatically converted through an ibuprofen-CoA thioester intermediate, which might non-specifically react with protein nucleophiles. Here, we use an alkyne-analog of ibuprofen to make two discoveries. First, we find that ibuprofen likely does not result in notable chemical labeling of proteins. However, we secondly find that aromatic compounds can react with proteins during the CuAAC reaction unless they are appropriately washed out of the mixture. This second discovery of false positive labeling has important technical implications for the application of this approach.

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AlkynesCatalysisCell LineClick ChemistryCopperHumansIbuprofenMolecular StructureProteinsAlkynesCopperIbuprofenProteinsBioorthongonal chemistryClick chemistryIbuprofenProtein labeling

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PMCPMC8349869

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