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JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 104, Issue 3, Pages 274-281Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2009.12.001
Keywords
Vanadium; Phosphatase inhibition; Vanadium complexes; X-ray crystallography
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In the course of our investigations of vanadium-containing complexes for use as insulin-enhancing agents, we have generated a series of novel vanadium coordination complexes with bidentate ligands. Specifically we have focused on two ligands: anthranilate (anc(-)), a natural metabolite of tryptophan, and imidizole-4-carboxylate (imc(-)), meant to mimic naturally occurring N-donor ligands. For each ligand, we have generated a series of complexes containing the V(III), V(IV), and V(V) oxidation states. Each complex was investigated using phosphatase inhibition studies of three different phosphatases (acid, alkaline, and tyrosine (PTP1B) phosphatase) as prima facia evidence for potential use as an insulin-enhancing agent. Using p-nitrophenyl phosphate as an artificial phosphatase substrate, the levels of inhibition were determined by measuring the absorbance of the product at 405 nm using UV/vis spectroscopy. Under our experimental conditions, for instance, V(imc)(3) appears to be as potent an inhibitor of alkaline phosphatase as sodium orthovanaclate when comparing the K-cat/K-m term. VO(anc)(2) is as potent an inhibitor of acid phosphatase and tyrosine phosphatase as the Na3VO4. Thus, use of these complexes can increase our mechanistic understanding of the effects of vanadium in vivo. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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