DADP 2 -deoxyadenosine

Adenine Deoxyadenosine Deoxyadenyiic acid Deoxyadenosine monophosphate (dAMP) Deoxyadenosine diphosphate (dADP) Deoxyadenosine triphosphate (dATP)... 

When two acid molecules condense by elimination of a molecule of water, the product is called an acid anhydride, as can be seen in Figure 12.60. Acid anhydrides are always very reactive, or high-energy, compounds. When deoxy-adenosine monophosphate forms an anhydride with phosphoric acid, we have deoxyadenosine diphosphate (dADP). Of course, if we add an additional phosphate group, we have deoxyadenosine triphosphate (dATP). 

The overall reaction for the synthesis of, for example, deoxyadenosine diphosphate (dADP)... 

The synthesis of the two diastereoisomers of P -l-(2-nitrophenyl)ethyl adenosine S -lri-phosphate (91) has been achieved using resolved (R)- and (5)-l-(2-nilroidienyl)ethanol. The alcohols were converted to (R)- and (5)-l-(2-nitrophenyl)ethyl phosphates by phosphitylation with N,)V-diisopropyl-fi(s-(2-cyanoethyl)phosphoramidite (92) and subsequent oxidation with 3-chlorobenzoic acid. Each of the monophosphates was activated with carbonyidiimidazole and condensed with adenosine diphosphate to give the desired triphosphate. These ATP analogues can be used for the rapid release (by flash photolysis) of ATP in biological systems. The 8-azido-3 -0-anthraniloyl derivatives of 2 -dADP (93) and 2 -dATP (94) have been prepared in seven steps from 8-azido-2 -deoxyadenosine. These compounds are of interest as fluorescent and photoactivatable probes for the nucleotide binding site of kinases and cyclases. In particular, (94) was shown to be a competitive inhibitor of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase and the observed K- (74 pM) was close to tiiat predicted from the K- value of 3 -0-anthraniloyl-2 -dATP. ... 

The E. coli DNA polymerase I (Pharmacia 3427-0626 E. coli CM 5197), an enzyme already known to be multifunctional (the polymerase and the 3, 5 -exonuclease activity belong to the same polypeptide chain and can be split off only proteolytical-ly) has still other, as yet imsuspected, capabilities. It deaminates 2 -deoxyadenosine to make 2 -deoxyinosine, and reduces ADP to dADP in the presence of dGTP and NADPH. The multifunctional enzyme from E. coli is also active as a nucleoside diphosphate kinase. This last activity has also been observed by A. Kornberg (6). 

There are three plausible mechanisma to explain malaria parasite killing following vivo deoxycoformycin inhibition of ADA. First, there could be an IE deficiency of the catabolite hypoxanthine which is needed by the parasite for nucleotide synthesis. Second, there may be direct toxicity to critical parasite enzymes from accumulated adenosine or deoxyadenosine. Increased levels of 2 -deoxyadenosine, for example, have been shown to irreversibly inactivate S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase due to accumulation of S-adenosylhomocysteine which inhibits methyltrans-ferase reactions (9). Third, there could be an accumulation of deoxyadenosine triphosphate, dATP, such as has been observed in ADA associated severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) CIO). DeoxyATP could act to inhibit ribonucleotide reductase and thereby interfere with DNA synthesis (11). In line with this third mechanism we observed an accumulation of both dADP and dATP in nucleotide profiles (24 hr) of PEBC following in vivo 2 -deoxycof ormycin treatment of the IP. knowlesi infected rhesus monkeys. 

Scheme 14.11. A proposal for the use of ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase (ribonucleotide diphosphate reductase, EC 1.17.4.1) to convert adenosine diphosphate (ADP), uridine diphosphate (UDP), and cytidine diphosphate (CDP) into their respective 2 -deoxy analogues deoxyadenosine diphosphate (dADP),deoxyuridine diphosphate (dUDP),and deoxy-cytidine diphosphate (dCDP), or, in general, ribonucleic acids (RNAs) into the corresponding deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) (after Stubbe, J. 7. Biol. Chem., 1990,265, 5330).

Hayaishi and colleagues, who devised the purification for the Brevibacter-ium liquefaciens enzyme, used it to characterize the reversibility of the adenylate cyclase reaction (Kurashina et ai, 1974) and found that the equilibrium constant for the reaction written in the direction of cyclic AMP formation is 0.12 Mat pH 7.3 at this pH the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are comparable but about the rate of the forward reaction measured at its pH optimum, pH 9. Our plan for determining the stereochemical course of the reaction is shown in Fig. 14. Since we had synthesized the diastereomers of cyclic [, 0]dAMP, we would use the cyclase to catalyze their pyrophosphorolysis and form the diastereomers of [a- 0, 0]dATP. However, the thermodynamics of the cyclase reaction prevents an efficient conversion of cyclic dAMP to dATP, so this reaction was coupled to the glycerol kinase reaction the kinase reaction utilizes the thermodynamic instability of the )J,y-anhydride bond to displace the overall equilibrium to favor the synthesis of the diastereomers of [a- 0, 0]dADP. Both the cyclase and glycerol kinase can utilize deoxyadenosine nucleotides as substrates, but only the cyclase reaction can alter the configuration of the chiral phosphorus atoms. 

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