INHIBITION OF EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION BY NUCLEOSIDE 5'-MONOPHOSPHATE ANALOGS OF MESSENGER-RNA 5'-CAP - CHANGES IN N7 SUBSTITUENT AFFECT ANALOG ACTIVITY
INHIBITION OF EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION BY NUCLEOSIDE 5'-MONOPHOSPHATE ANALOGS OF MESSENGER-RNA 5'-CAP - CHANGES IN N7 SUBSTITUENT AFFECT ANALOG ACTIVITY
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00437a038
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发表时间:
1989-05-30
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
TAHARA, SM
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DARZYNKIEWICZ, E;STEPINSKI, J;TAHARA, SM
Nucleotide cap analogues of 7-methylguanosine 5''-monophosphate (m7GMP) were synthesized in which the 7-methyl moiety was replaced with 7-ethyl (e7), 7-propyl (p7), 7-isopropyl (ip7), 7-butyl (b7), 7-isobutyl (ib7), 7-cyclopentyl (cp7), 7-(carboxymethyl) (cm7), 7-benzyl (bn7), 7-(2-phenylethyl) [7-(2-PhEt)], and 7-(1-phenylethyl) [7-(1-PhEt)]. These derivatives were assayed as competitive inhibitors of capped mRNA translation in reticulocyte lysate. We observed that N7 alkyl and alicyclic substituents larger than ethyl significantly decreased the inhibitory activity of these cap analogues presumably by decreasing their affinity for cap binding proteins, which participate in the initiation of translation. This result defined a maximum size for this class of N7 substituents in the nucleotide binding domain of cap binding proteins. Like m7GMP, the N7-substituted GMP derivatives synthesized in this study were found to be predominantly in the anti conformation as determined by proton NMR analyses. However, bn7GMP and 7-(2-PhEt)GMP, which have aromatic N7 substituents, were more effective than m7GMP as competitive inhibitors of translation. The increased affinity of bn7GMP for cap binding proteins was further examined by synthesis of .beta.-globin mRNA containing 5''-bn7G, 5''-m7G, or 5''-e7G cap structures. These modified mRNAs were tested as translation templates. Messenger RNA capped with bn7G was observed to increase the translation activity of the template 1.8-fold relative to that of its m7G-capped mRNA counterpart. By contrast, e7G-capped mRNA was 25% less active than m7G-capped mRNA. UV photo-cross-linking of m7G-capped mRNA to cap binding proteins was also inhibited to a greater extent by bn7GMP than by m7GMP or e7GMP. Thus, from these data the inhibitory effect of bn7GMP was due to its increased affinity for cap binding proteins and not by inhibition at another step of initiation.