Fungicidal activity of phosphinic analogues of amino acids involved in methionine metabolism.
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Capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) was applied to analysis and characterization of phosphinic pseudopeptides with the general structure N-Ac-Val-Ala(psi)(PO2(-)-CH(2)) Leu-Xaa-NH(2), where Xaa represents one of 20 proteinogenic amino acid residues. Pseudopeptides containing neutral or acidic amino acid residues in position Xaa were analyzed as anions in weakly alkaline (pH 8.1) Tris-Tricine background electrolyte (BGE), pseudopeptides with basic amino acid residues in position Xaa were analyzed as cations in acid BGEs (Tris-phosphate buffers). Acidity of phosphinic acid moiety in peptides with basic amino acid residues was determined from the dependence of effective mobility of these peptides on pH in the acid pH region (pH 1.4-2.8). Additionally, separation of diastereomers of some peptides was achieved.
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Negative-ion photoelectron spectroscopy is applied to the PH-, PH2-, P2H-, P2H2-, and P2H3-molecular anions. Franck-Condon simulations of the photoelectron spectra are used to analyze the spectra and to identify various P2H(n)- species. The simulations employ density-functional theory calculations of molecular geometries and vibrational frequencies and normal modes, and coupled-cluster theory calculations of electron affinities. The following electron affinities are obtained: EA0(PH) = 1.027 +/- 0.006 eV, EA0(PH2) = 1.263 +/- 0.006 eV, and EA0(P2H) = 1.514 +/- 0.010 eV. A band is identified as a mixture of trans-HPPH- and cis-HPPH-. Although the trans and cis bands cannot be definitively assigned from experimental information, using theory as a guide we obtain EA0(trans-HPPH)= 1.00 +/- 0.01 eV and EA0(cis-HPPH) = 1.03 +/- 0.01 eV. A weak feature tentatively assigned to P2H3- has a vertical detachment energy of 1.74 eV. The derived gas-phase acidity of phosphine is delta(acid)G298(PH3) < or = 1509.7 +/- 2.1 kJ mo1(-1).
The phosphinic and methylphosphinic analogues of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) are potent GABA(C) receptor antagonists but are even more potent as GABA(B) receptor agonists. Conformationally restricted unsaturated phosphinic and methylphosphinic analogues of GABA and some potent GABA(B) receptor phosphonoamino acid antagonists were tested on GABA(C) receptors in Xenopus oocytes expressing human retinal rho1 mRNA. 3-Aminopropyl-n-butyl-phosphinic acid (CGP36742), an orally active GABA(B) receptor antagonist, was found to be a moderately potent GABA(C) receptor antagonist (IC50 = 62 microM). The unsaturated methylphosphinic and phosphinic analogues of GABA were competitive antagonists of the GABA(C) receptors, the order of potency being [(E)-3-aminopropen-1-yl]methylphosphinic acid (CGP44530, IC50 = 5.53 microM) > [(E)-3-aminopropen-1-yl]phosphinic acid (CGP38593, IC50 = 7.68 microM) > [(Z)-3-aminopropen-1-yl]methylphosphinic acid (CGP70523, IC50 = 38.94 microM) > [(Z)-3-aminopropen-1-yl]phosphinic acid (CGP70522, IC50 > 100 microM). This order of potency differs from that reported for these compounds as GABA(B) receptor agonists, where the phosphinic acids are more potent than the corresponding methylphosphinic acids.
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We have recently reported that the isoprenoid compound farnesol accelerates degradation of the cholesterologenic enzyme 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, when added to cultured cells. We have thus proposed that farnesol is a required nonsterol regulator of this degradation event (T. E. Meigs, D. S. Roseman, and R. D. Simoni, 1996, J. Biol. Chem. 271, 7916-7922). In this report, we have studied the enzyme farnesyl pyrophosphatase (FPPase) in Chinese hamster ovary cells. We demonstrate that FPPase activity increases under conditions of increased metabolic flow through the isoprenoid pathway. Also, we show that a nonhydrolyzable analog of farnesyl pyrophosphate, an isoprenoid (phosphinylmethyl)phosphonate, inhibits FPPase in vitro, and when added to cells this inhibitor blocks the mevalonate-dependent, sterol-induced degradation of HMG-CoA reductase. Furthermore, exogenous farnesol overcomes the effect of this inhibitor. These results suggest an isoprenoid-mediated regulatory mechanism governing intracellular farnesol production and support the hypothesis that farnesol is a nonsterol regulator of reductase degradation.
Thiophosphinate hydrolysis involving P-S bond scission is desirable for the degradation of organophosphate neurotoxins, and we report the first case for such a hydrolytic process by an organometallic compound. The metallocene, bis(cyclopentadienyl)molybdenum(IV) dichloride, Cp(2)MoCl(2) (Cp = eta(5)-C(5)H(5)), hydrolyzes a variety of thioaryl diphenylphosphinates in an aqueous THF solution. P-S scission of p-methoxythiophenyl diphenylphosphinate has a 500-fold rate of acceleration in the presence of Cp(2)MoCl(2)(aq) with activation parameters of 20(3) kcal mol(-)(1) and -15(3) cal mol(-)(1) K(-)(1) for DeltaH(double dagger) and DeltaS(double dagger), respectively. These activation parameters and the rate acceleration are consistent with an intermolecular hydrolytic process in which the Cp(2)Mo serves as a Lewis acid to activate the phosphinate for nucleophilic attack. Furthermore, rho = 2.3 (25 degrees C) which indicates a single nonconcerted mechanism in which the rate determining step is the nucleophilic attack on the activated phosphinate.
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The phosphinic analogues of tyrosine and pyruvate were first demonstrated to be substrates in the reactions of elimination and synthesis catalyzed by tyrosine phenol-lyase. Kinetic parameters of the enzymatic process were determined, and the first enzymic synthesis of an aminophosphinic acid was carried out. Replacement of the planar HOOC-group by the tetrahedral (HO)(O)PH-group in the substrate slightly affected its affinity for the enzyme but substantially diminished the conversion rate. For phosphonic analogues, containing (HO)2(O)P group, the affinity to the enzyme was decreased considerably while the conversion was completely prevented. Thus, the structural parameters of the acid group are important not only for the affinity for the enzyme, but also for the formation of the catalytically competent conformation of the active site.
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