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CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages 722-732Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2011.05.008
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- NIH [R01 EB005011, R01 AI 078947]
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
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Sentrin specific proteases (SENPs) are responsible for activating and deconjugating SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifier) from target proteins. It remains difficult to study this posttranslational modification due to the lack of reagents that can be used to block the removal of SUMO from substrates. Here, we describe the identification of small molecule SENP inhibitors and active site probes containing aza-epoxide and acyloxymethyl ketone (AOMK) reactive groups. Both classes of compounds are effective inhibitors of hSENPs 1, 2, 5, and 7 while only the AOMKs efficiently inhibit hSENP6. Unlike previous reported peptide vinyl sulfones, these compounds covalently labeled the active site cysteine of multiple recombinantly expressed SENP proteases and the AOMK probe showed selective labeling of these SENPs when added to complex protein mixtures. The AOMK compounds therefore represent promising new reagents to study the process of SUMO deconjugation.
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