Artigo Revisado por pares

Weak interactions in metal complexes of amino acids with a phosphorylated side chain. Conversion of aromatic ring stacking to electrostatic bonding by tyrosine phosphorylation

1992; Elsevier BV; Volume: 198-200; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0020-1693(00)92420-4

ISSN

1873-3255

Autores

Osamu Yamauchi, Akira Odani, Hideki Masuda,

Tópico(s)

Trace Elements in Health

Resumo

Ternary Cu(II) complexes with the phosphoesters of amino acids (A=O-phosphoserine (Pser) or I=0.1 and 1.0 M(KNO3) and the stability enhancement due to the ligand-ligand interactions was evaluated by calculating the equilibrium constant K for the following hypothetical equilibrium from the overall stability constant of each ternary species: , where A′ refers to serine or tyrosine (Tyr) and B′ to alanine and the interactions are possible only in CU(L-A)(L-B). The ionic strength dependence of the log K values (> 0) indicated that Cu(L-A)(L-B) is stabilized by electrostatic interactions. X-ray crystal structure analysis of [Cu(bpy)(L-Tyr)ClO4]·2H2O (bpy=22′-bipyridine) revealed that the non-phosphorylated complex involves aromatic ring stacking between the Tyr phenol and coordinated bpy rings with the average spacing of 3.35 Å in a tetrahedrally distorted square-pyramidal structure with the two nitrogen atoms of bpy and the nitrogen and oxygen atoms of L-Tyr at the equatorial positions and an oxygen atom of the perchlorate ion at the axial position. The results show that the stacked Tyr phenol ring is phosphorylated to be involved in the electrostatic interactions with the positively charged side chain of Arg or Lys which may be a possible mechanism of the conformational change due to Tyr phosphorylation in proteins.

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