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ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
Volume 8, Issue 10, Pages 2392-2396Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c000332h
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- Edmond J. Safra Foundation
- Israel Science Foundation
- NIH [GM059380]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM059380] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Ubiquitin thioester is a key intermediate in the ubiquitylation of proteins and is formed enzymatically through the activation of alpha-COOH of ubiquitin in an ATP dependent manner using the E1 enzyme. The current methods used for the preparation of ubiquitin thioester rely on either the enzymatic machinery or on expressed protein ligation technology. In this article, we report a new chemical strategy, combining native chemical ligation and N-methylcysteine containing peptides, to chemically prepare ubiquitin thioester for the first time. The N-methylcysteine is utilized as an N -> S acyl transfer device, and in its protected form serves as a latent thioester functionality. This enabled us to trigger the formation of ubiquitin thioester subsequent to the assembly of the ubiquitin polypeptide via native chemical ligation. The synthetic ubiquitin thioester showed a similar behavior in peptide ubiquitylation to the one obtained via expression. This approach should allow for higher flexibility in the chemical manipulation of ubiquitin thioester in a wide variety of ubiquitylated peptides and proteins for structural and biochemical analysis and for the synthesis of ubiquitin chains.
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