Copper(II) complexes of HPH-NH2 (L1) and HPHPY-NH2 (L2) peptides have been studied as small molecular models of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases by pH-metry, UV-VIS, CD and EPR spectroscopy. The coordination properties...
Our goal was to explore the possible interactions of the potential metallodrug (η 5 -Cp*)Rh(III) complexes with histidine containing biomolecules (peptides/proteins) in order to understand the most important thermodynamic factors influencing the biospeciation and biotransformation of (η 5 -Cp*)Rh(III) complexes. To this end, here we report systematic solution thermodynamic and solution structural study on the interaction of (η 5 -Cp*)Rh(III) cation with histidine containing peptides and their constituents ((N-methyl)imidazole, GGA-OH, GGH-OH, histidine-amide, HGG-OH, GHG-NH 2 ), based on extensive 1 H NMR, ESI-MS and potentiometric investigations. The comparative evaluation of our data indicated that (η 5 -Cp*)Rh(III) cation is able to induce the deprotonation of amide nitrogen well below pH 7. Consequently, at physiological pH the peptides are coordinated to Rh(III) by tridentate manner, with the participation of amide nitrogen. At pH 7.4 the (η 5 -Cp*)Rh(III) binding affinity of peptides follow the order GGA-OH < < GGH-OH < < histidine-amide < HGG-OH < GHG-NH 2 , i.e. the observed binding strength essentially depends on the presence and position of histidine within the peptide sequence. We also performed computational study on the possible solution structures of complexes present at near physiological pH. At pH 7.4 all histidine containing peptides form ternary complexes with strongly coordinating (N,N) bidentate ligands (ethylenediamine or bipyridyl), in which the peptides are monodentately coordinated to Rh(III) through their imidazole N 1 -nitrogens. In addition, the strongest chelators histidine-amide, HGG-OH and GHG-NH 2 are also able to displace these powerful bidentate ligands from the coordination sphere of Rh(III).
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