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CHEMBIOCHEM
卷 8, 期 15, 页码 1826-1833出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700398
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 13956, R01 GM013956, GM 54029, R01 GM054029] Funding Source: Medline
Tobacco 5-epi-aristolochene synthase (TEAS) catalyzes the Mg-II-dependent cyclizations and rearrangements of (E,E)-farnesyl diphosphate (PP) to the bicyclic sesquiterpene hydrocarbon via a tightly bound (+)-germacrene A as a deprotonated intermediate. With the native enzyme, only a few percent of the putative germacrene A intermediate is released from the active site during the catalytic cycle. 6-Fluorofamesyl PP was designed and synthesized with the aim of arresting the cyclization-rearrangement mechanism en route to 5-epi-aristolochene. Indeed, incubation of (2E,6Z)-6-fluorofarnesyl PP with recombinant TEAS afforded (-)- 1-fluororogermacrene A as the sole product in 58 % yield. Steady-state kinetic experiments with farnesyl PP and the 6-fluoro analogue showed that the overall catalytic efficiencies (k(cat)/K-m) are essentially the some for both substrates. 1-Fluorogermacrene A was characterized by chromatographic properties (TLC, GC), MS, optical rotation, UV, IR and H-1 NMR data, and by heat-induced Cope rearrangement to (+)-1-fluoro-beta-elemene. H-1 NMR spectra at room temperature revealed that this (E,E)-configured fluorocyclodecadiene exists in solution as a 7:3 mixture of UU and UD conformers. 1-Fluorogermacrene A underwent trifluoroacetic acid-catalyzed cyclization to give three 1 alpha-fluoroselinene isomers at a rate estimated to be about 1000 times slower than that of the similar cyclization of (+)-germacrene A to the parent selinenes.
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