Immucillin-H [ImmH; (1S)-1-(9-deazahypoxanthin-9-yl)-1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-ribitol] is a 23 pM inhibitor of bovine purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) specifically designed as a transition state mimic [Miles, R. W., Tyler, P. C., Furneaux, R. H., Bagdassarian, C. K., and Schramm, V. L. (1998) Biochemistry 37, 8615-8621]. Cocrystals of PNP and the inhibitor are used to provide structural information for each step through the reaction coordinate of PNP. The X-ray crystal structure of free ImmH was solved at 0.9 A resolution, and a complex of PNP.ImmH.PO(4) was solved at 1.5 A resolution. These structures are compared to previously reported complexes of PNP with substrate and product analogues in the catalytic sites and with the experimentally determined transition state structure. Upon binding, ImmH is distorted to a conformation favoring ribosyl oxocarbenium ion formation. Ribosyl destabilization and transition state stabilization of the ribosyl oxocarbenium ion occur from neighboring group interactions with the phosphate anion and the 5'-hydroxyl of the ribosyl group. Leaving group activation of hypoxanthine involves hydrogen bonds to O6, N1, and N7 of the purine ring. Ordered water molecules provide a proton transfer bridge to O6 and N7 and permit reversible formation of these hydrogen bonds. Contacts between PNP and catalytic site ligands are shorter in the transition state analogue complex of PNP.ImmH.PO(4) than in the Michaelis complexes of PNP.inosine.SO(4) or PNP.hypoxanthine.ribose 1-PO(4). Reaction coordinate motion is dominated by translation of the carbon 1' of ribose between relatively fixed phosphate and purine groups. Purine and pyrimidine phosphoribosyltransferases and nucleoside N-ribosyl hydrolases appear to operate by a similar mechanism.
Structural determinations of ammonia borane (BH3NH3) have been carried out for the orthorhombic (at 90 K) and tetragonal (at 298 K) modifications using single-crystal X-ray data. The orthorhombic structure (space group Pmn21) agreed with a previously published neutron determination, while the tetragonal structure (I4mm) exhibited halos of hydrogen atom occupancy around both the nitrogen and boron atoms. The bond angles to the regions of hydrogen occupancy are consistent with the expected tetrahedral geometry for –BH3 and –NH3 groups. A new model for tetragonal BH3NH3 was constructed which accounts for the hydrogen disorder in the I4mm structure while introducing only weak new diffraction peaks. These peaks could not be found, however, and it is likely that the hydrogen disorder in tetragonal BH3NH3 arises from either rotations of higher than 3-fold order, or from random orientations of hydrogen-containing groups.
Ethyl- (7), benzyl- (8), tert-butyl- (9), and fluorenylmethyl-4-chlorobenzoyloxycarbamates (10) have been prepared as storable and easy-to-prepare nitrogen sources for use in the intermolecular Sharpless aminohydroxylation reaction and its asymmetric variant. These reagents were found to be effective under base-free reaction conditions. The scope and limitations of these methods have been explored using a variety of alkenes, among which, trans-cinnamates, in particular, proved to be good substrates.
Decoupling the roles
of the farnesoid X nuclear receptor and Takeda
G-protein-coupled bile acid receptor 5 is essential for the development
of novel bile acid therapeutics targeting metabolic and neurodegenerative
diseases. Herein, we describe the synthesis of 12β-methyl-18-nor-bile acids which may serve as probes in the search for
new bile acid analogues with clinical applicability. A Nametkin-type
rearrangement was applied to protected cholic acid derivatives, giving
rise to tetra-substituted Δ13,14- and Δ13,17-unsaturated 12β-methyl-18-nor-bile
acid intermediates (24a and 25a). Subsequent
catalytic hydrogenation and deprotection yielded 12β-methyl-18-nor-chenodeoxycholic acid (27a) and its 17-epi-epimer (28a) as the two major reaction
products. Optimization of the synthetic sequence enabled a chromatography-free
route to prepare these bile acids at a multi-gram scale. In addition,
the first cis-C-D ring-junctured bile acid and a
new 14(13 → 12)-abeo-bile acid are described.
Furthermore, deuteration experiments were performed to provide mechanistic
insights into the formation of the formal anti-hydrogenation product
12β-methyl-18-nor-chenodeoxycholic acid (27a).
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