Synthesis of azide-modified glycerophospholipid precursor analogs for detection of enzymatic reactions.

Glycerophospholipids (GPLs) are major cell membrane components. Although various phosphorylated molecules are attached to lipid moieties as their headgroups, GPLs are biosynthesized from phosphatidic acid (PA) via its derivatives, diacylglycerol (DAG) or cytidine diphosphate diacylglycerol (CDP-DAG). A variety of molecular probes capable of introducing detection tags have been developed to investigate biological events involved in GPLs. In this study, we report the design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel analytical tools suitable to monitor the activity of GPL biosynthetic enzymes in vitro. Our synthetic targets, namely, azide-modified PA, azide-modified DAG, and azide-modified CDP-DAG, were successfully obtained from solketal as their common starting material. Moreover, using CDP-diacylglycerol-inositol 3-phosphatidyltransferase (CDIPT), an enzyme that catalyzed the final reaction step in synthesizing phosphatidylinositol, we demonstrated that azide-modified CDP-DAG worked as a substrate for CDIPT. © 2023 Wiley-VCH GmbH.

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Rina Ueshima, Takashi Kikuma, Kanae Sano, Nahoko Toda, Peter Greimel, Yoichi Takeda. Synthesis of azide-modified glycerophospholipid precursor analogs for detection of enzymatic reactions. Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology. 2024 Feb 01;25(3):e202300699

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