ArticleNature chemistry2024
Single-electron transfer between sulfonium and tryptophan enables site-selective photo crosslinking of methyllysine reader proteins.
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- Chemical biology tools for studying histone post-translational modifications.Cell chemical biology · 2026Review
- Recent Advances in Bioconjugation of Aromatic Amino Acid Residues by a Reactivity-Guided Approach.Chemical record (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Review
- Development of Dimethylsulfonium Probes for Broad Profiling of Methyllysine Reader Proteins.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Histone probes for reader and eraser investigations.Chemical science · 2025Review
- The Cation-π Interaction in Chemistry and Biology.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Facile preparation of sulfonium peptide and protein probes for selective crosslinking of methyllysine readers.Chemical science · 2025Article
- Using dimethylsulfonium to identify readers of methylation.Nature chemistry · 2024Article
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Abstract
The identification of readers, an important class of proteins that recognize modified residues at specific sites, is essential to uncover the biological roles of post-translational modifications. Photoreactive crosslinkers are powerful tools for investigating readers. However, existing methods usually employ synthetically challenging photoreactive warheads, and their high-energy intermediates generated upon irradiation, such as nitrene and carbene, may cause substantial non-specific crosslinking. Here we report dimethylsulfonium as a methyllysine mimic that binds to specific readers and subsequently crosslinks to a conserved tryptophan inside the binding pocket through single-electron transfer under ultraviolet irradiation. The crosslinking relies on a protein-templated σ-π electron donor-acceptor interaction between sulfonium and indole, ensuring excellent site selectivity for tryptophan in the active site and orthogonality to other methyllysine readers. This method could escalate the discovery of methyllysine readers from complex cell samples. Furthermore, this photo crosslinking strategy could be extended to develop other types of microenvironment-dependent conjugations to site-specific tryptophan.
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