Chemo-enzymatic total synthesis: current approaches toward the integration of chemical and enzymatic transformations

• Ryo Tanifuji and
• Hiroki Oguri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1693–1712, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.151

• substrate tolerance of MaDA for chemical probe design. After several attempts, Lei and co-workers designed and synthesized chemical probe 49 bearing a diazirine photoaffinity labelling unit with an alkyne tag on the phenolic hydroxy group of biosynthetic intermediate 44 (Scheme 5B). The treatment of

Synthesis of the polyketide section of seragamide A and related cyclodepsipeptides via Negishi cross coupling

• Jan Hendrik Lang and
• Thomas Lindel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 577–583, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.53

• partial structures is driven by an interest in the chemistry of photoreactive amino acids and heterocycles that may find application in photoaffinity labelling. Knowing the binding of a natural product to a biological target at atomic resolution, as it is the case for the cyclodepsipeptide jasplakinolide

• A (1, Scheme 1) [1][2], is an ideal situation for the validation of the chemoselectivity and efficiency of photoaffinity labelling. Recently, it has been determined by cryo-electron microscopy how jasplakinolide A (1) binds to F-actin and alters the actin skeleton in vivo, resulting in pronounced

• -bromoabrine unit of 1 could be replaced by phototryptophan [7], whereas photo β-phenylalanine [8] could replace the β-tyrosine moiety. For photoaffinity labelling studies with seragamides and geodiamolides, D-photophenylalanine could be incorporated. In this paper we describe, as the first step of such an

Diazirine-functionalized mannosides for photoaffinity labeling: trouble with FimH

• Femke Beiroth,
• Tomas Koudelka,
• Thorsten Overath,
• Stefan D. Knight,
• Andreas Tholey and
• Thisbe K. Lindhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1890–1900, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.163

• accuracy. We are concluding from this study that photolabeling of FimH with sugar diazirines has only very limited success and cannot be regarded a facile approach for covalent modification of FimH. Keywords: diazirines; docking; FimH; lectin ligands; mannosides; mass spectrometry; photoaffinity labelling