Abstract
Nucleotide triphosphate α-(4-azidophenyl)-1,N6-etheno-dATP 3 and its monophosphate 3m were synthesized by condensation of 2-halo-2-(4-azidophenyl)acetaldehyes with dATP and dAMP, respectively. Structure analysis shows that the azidophenyl side chain is attached to the α-position of the etheno ring (i.e., the carbon attached to N1 of the purine), and conformation calculations show minima in the etheno-phenyl bond rotation at 50 and 130° where the bulk of the phenyl ring projects out from the plane of the etheno group. Like DNA Pol inhibitor 2-(4-azidophenacyl)thio- 2′-deoxyadenosine 5′-triphosphate 1, nucleotide 3 is a template-competitive DNA polymerase inhibitor (TCPI), with a competitive Ki for Pol I KF of 3.41 μM, but has only weak activity as an HIV RT inhibitor relative to the template-competitive reverse transcriptase inhibitor 2-(4-azidophenacyl)thio-1,N6-etheno-2′-deoxyadenosine 5′-triphosphate 2. Additionally, 3 photoinactivates KF in a time-dependent manner, confirming the kinetic data that 3 binds to the free form of KF. The TCPI activity of 3 provides evidence for an extended side chain conformational preference in the combined substrate polymerase inhibitors.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1751-1765 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2004 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Nucleotide triphosphate a-(4-azidophenyl)-1,N6-etheno-dATP 3 and its monophosphate 3m were synthesized by condensation of 2-halo-2-(4-azidophenyl)acetaldehyes with dATP and dAMP, respectively. Structure analysis shows that the azidophenyl side chain is attached to the a-position of the etheno ring (i.e., the carbon attached to N1 of the purine), and conformation calculations show minima in the etheno-phenyl bond rotation at 50 and 130° where the bulk of the phenyl ring projects out from the plane of the etheno group. Like DNA Pol inhibitor 2-(4-azidophenacyl)thio-2’-deoxyadenosine 5’-triphosphate 1, nucleotide 3 is a template-competitive DNA polymerase inhibitor (TCPI), with a competitive Ki for Pol I KF of 3.41 µM, but has only weak activity as an HIV RT inhibitor relative to the template-competitive reverse #This work was funded in part by the Louisiana Board of Regents 044UG-02 and the National Institutes of Health GM067686. *Correspondence: Michael B. Doughty, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Southeastern Louisiana University, SLU Box 10878, Hammond, LA 70402, USA; Fax: (985) 549-5126; E-mail: mdoughty@selu.edu.
Keywords
- DNA polymerase inhibitors
- Klenow fragment
- Reverse transcriptase inhibitors