PMID:21894909

Citation	Wagner, AM, Fegley, MW, Warner, JB, Grindley, CL, Marotta, NP and Petersson, EJ (2011) N-terminal protein modification using simple aminoacyl transferase substrates. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133:15139-47
Abstract	Methods for synthetically manipulating protein structure enable greater flexibility in the study of protein function. Previous characterization of the Escherichia coli aminoacyl tRNA transferase (AaT) has shown that it can modify the N-terminus of a protein with an amino acid from a tRNA or a synthetic oligonucleotide donor. Here, we demonstrate that AaT can efficiently use a minimal adenosine substrate, which can be synthesized in one to two steps from readily available starting materials. We have characterized the enzymatic activity of AaT with aminoacyl adenosyl donors and found that reaction products do not inhibit AaT. The use of adenosyl donors removes the substrate limitations imposed by the use of synthetases for tRNA charging and avoids the complex synthesis of an oligonucleotide donor. Thus, our AaT donors increase the potential substrate scope and reaction scale for N-terminal protein modification under conditions that maintain folding.
Links	PubMed PMC3189496 Online version:10.1021/ja2055098
Keywords	Adenosine/chemistry; Adenosine/metabolism; Aminoacyltransferases/chemistry; Aminoacyltransferases/metabolism; Biocatalysis; Caseins/chemistry; Caseins/metabolism; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Molecular Structure; Substrate Specificity
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