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ACS OMEGA
卷 4, 期 2, 页码 3508-3513出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b03199
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [15H01064, 17K08257]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15H01064, 17K08257] Funding Source: KAKEN
The nonenzymatic deamidation reactions of asparagine (Asn) and glutamine (Gln) residues in proteins are associated with protein turnover and age-related diseases. The reactions are also believed to provide a molecular clock for biological processes. Although Gln deamidation is assumed to occur through the glutarimide intermediate, the mechanisms for this are unclear because under normal physiological conditions, Gln deamidation occurs relatively less frequently and at a lower rate than Asn deamidation. We investigate the mechanisms underlying glutarimide formation from Gln residues, which proceeds in two steps (cyclization and deammoniation) catalyzed by phosphate and carbonate. We also compare these reactions with noncatalytic mechanisms and water-catalyzed mechanisms. The calculations were performed on the model compound Ace-Gln-Nme (Ace = acetyl, Nme = methylamino) using the density functional theory with the B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory. Our results suggest that all the catalysts used in our study can mediate the proton relays required for glutarimide formation. We further determined that the calculated activation barriers of the reactions catalyzed by phosphate ions (115 kJ mol(-1)) and carbonate ions (112 kJ mol(-1)) are sufficiently low for the reactions to occur under normal physiological conditions. We also show that nucleophilic enhancement of Nme nitrogen is essential for the cyclization of Gln residues.
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