Designing Selectivity in Dirhodium Metallopeptide Catalysts for Protein Modification

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• 作者：Samuel C. Martin ; Farrukh Vohidov ; Haopei Wang ; Sarah E. Knudsen ; Alex A. Marzec ; Zachary T. Ball
• 刊名：Bioconjugate Chemistry
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 15, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：28
• 期：2
• 页码：659-665
• 全文大小：515K
• ISSN：1520-4812

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The ability to chemically alter proteins is important for broad areas of chemical biology, biophysics, and medicine. Chemical catalysts for protein modification, and particularly rhodium(II) conjugates, represent an important new approach to protein modification that develops novel functionalization approaches while shedding light on the development of selective chemistries in complex environments. Here, we elucidate the reaction parameters that allow selective catalysis and even discrimination among highly similar proteins. Furthermore, we show that quantifying modification allows the measurement of competitive ligand affinity, permitting straightforward measurement of protein–peptide interactions and inhibitors thereof. Taken as a whole, rhodium(II) conjugates replicate many features of enzymes in an entirely chemical construct.