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ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 5, Issue 11, Pages 1053-1063Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cb100161u
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [79271, 56858]
- Canada Research Chairs program
- Dutch Science Foundation (NWO-VENI)
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
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Protein arginine N-methyltransferases (PRMTs) catalyze the post-translational methylation of arginine residues within substrate proteins. Their roles in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression make them viable targets for drug discovery. Peptides containing a single arginine residue substituted at the guanidino nitrogen (N-eta) with an ethyl group bearing zero to three fluorine atoms (R1-1, -2, -3, and -4) have been synthesized and tested for methylation and inhibition activity with PRMT1, PRMT6, and CARM1. Only the nonfluorinated R1-1 peptide is methylated by PRMT1, demonstrating that the N-eta-substituted arginine is accommodated by its active site, The R1-1 ethyl-substituted guanidine was further identified as the methylation site via mass spectrometry. Although weak inhibitors of CARM1, R1-1, -2, -3, and -4 are potent Inhibitors of PRMT1 and PRMT6. These peptides are more potent against PRMT1 than product inhibitor peptides, showing that Nil-substituted arginyl peptides do not work by a purely product inhibitor mechanism. A trend of increasing potency with an increase in the number of fluorine atoms is observed for PRMT1, which may result from the corresponding change in the guanidino dipole moment. Modeling of the ethyl-arginine moiety of the R1-1 peptide demonstrates that the active site of PRMT1 accommodates such modifications. N-eta-Substituted arginyl peptides represent lead compounds for the further development of inhibitors that target the methyl-acceptor binding site of PRMTs.
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