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Photoswitchable Isoprenoid Lipids Enable Optical Control of Peptide Lipidation

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ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 10, Pages 2945-2953

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.2c00645

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  1. NCI
  2. NIH
  3. National Institutes of Health
  4. National Science Foundation
  5. [K00]
  6. [K00CA253758]
  7. [R01GM132606]
  8. [R01NS108151]
  9. [NSF/CHE 1905204]

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This study describes the development of photoswitchable analogs of an isoprenoid lipid and evaluates their potential for optically controlling the isoprenylation processing pathway. The results show that the analog effectively controls substrate prenylation but has minimal impact on subsequent processing steps.
Photoswitchable lipids have emerged as attractive tools for the optical control of lipid bioactivity, metabolism, and biophysical properties. Their design is typically based on the incorporation of an azobenzene photoswitch into the hydrophobic lipid tail, which can be switched between its trans- and cis-form using two different wavelengths of light. While glycero-and sphingolipids have been successfully designed to be photo-switchable, isoprenoid lipids have not yet been investigated. Herein, we describe the development of photoswitchable analogs of an isoprenoid lipid and systematically assess their potential for the optical control of various steps in the isoprenylation processing pathway of CaaX proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. One photoswitchable analog of farnesyl diphosphate (AzoFPP-1) allowed effective optical control of substrate prenylation by farnesyltransferase. The subsequent steps of isoprenylation processing (proteolysis by either Ste24 or Rce1 and carboxyl methylation by Ste14) were less affected by photoisomerization of the group introduced into the lipid moiety of the substrate a-factor, a mating pheromone from yeast. We assessed both proteolysis and methylation of the a-factor analogs in vitro and the bioactivity of a fully processed a-factor analog containing the photoswitch, exogenously added to cognate yeast cells. Combined, these data describe the first successful conversion of an isoprenoid lipid into a photolipid and suggest the utility of this approach for the optical control of protein prenylation.

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