Mischarging Escherichia coli tRNAPhe with L-4'-[3-(trifluoromethyl)-3H-diazirin-3-yl]phenylalanine, a photoactivatable analogue of phenylalanine
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Mischarging Escherichia coli tRNAPhe with L-4'-[3-(trifluoromethyl)-3H-diazirin-3-yl]phenylalanine, a photoactivatable analogue of phenylalanine
Abstract
The Boc-protected derivative of a photoactivatable, carbene-generating analogue of phenylalanine, L-4'-[3-(trifluoromethyl)-3H-diazirin-3-yl]phenylalanine [(Tmd)Phe], was used to acylate 5'-O-phosphorylcytidylyl(3'-5')adenosine (pCpA). A diacyl species was isolated which upon successive treatments with trifluoroacetic acid and 0.01 M HCl yielded a 1:1 mixture of 2'(3')-O-(Tmd)phenylalanyl-pCpA and of its 2'-5'-phosphodiester isomeric form. Adapting a procedure introduced by Hecht's group [Heckler, T.G., Chang, L.H., Zama, Y., Naka, T., Chorghade, M.S., & Hecht, S.M. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 1468-1473], brief incubation of a 15 molar excess of this material with Escherichia coli tRNAPhe, missing at the acceptor stem the last two nucleotides (pCpA), in the presence of T4 RNA ligase and ATP afforded "chemically misaminoacylated" tRNAPhe in approximately 50% yield. Following chromatographic purification on DEAE-Sephadex A-25, benzoylated DEAE-cellulose, and Bio-Gel P-6, the misaminoacylated tRNAPhe was characterized by (i) urea-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, (ii) enzymatic reaminoacylation under homologous conditions following chemical deacylation, and (iii) its ability to stimulate protein synthesis in an in vitro translation system which, through the addition of the phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitor phenylalaninyl-AMP, was unable to charge its endogenous tRNAPhe. The data demonstrate that we have prepared a biologically active misaminoacylated tRNAPhe.
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