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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 284, Issue 47, Pages 32425-32433Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M109.047092
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- Canterbury-West Coast Division
- National Division of the Cancer Society of New Zealand
- Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust
- University of Otago Oxidative Stress Theme
- German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [BE 1977/4-1/FOR809]
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Isothiocyanates are a class of phytochemicals with widely reported anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory activity. However, knowledge of their activity at a molecular level is limited. The objective of this study was to identify biological targets of phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC) using an affinity purification approach. An analogue of PEITC was synthesized to enable conjugation to a solid-phase resin. The pleiotropic cytokine macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) was the major protein captured from cell lysates. Site-directed mutagenesis and mass spectrometry showed that PEITC covalently modified the N-terminal proline residue of MIF. This resulted in complete loss of catalytic tautomerase activity and disruption of protein conformation, as determined by impaired recognition by a monoclonal antibody directed to the region that receptors and interacting proteins bind to MIF. The conformational change was supported by in silico modeling. Monoclonal antibody binding to plasma MIF was disrupted in humans consuming watercress, a major dietary source of PEITC. The isothiocyanates have significant potential for development as MIF inhibitors, and this activity may contribute to the biological properties of these phytochemicals.
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