Citation: Xingyu Ma, Yi-Xin Chen, Zi Ye, Chong-Jing Zhang. Isotope-labeled click-free probes to identify protein targets of lysine-targeting covalent reversible molecules[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(5): 110203. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110203 shu

Isotope-labeled click-free probes to identify protein targets of lysine-targeting covalent reversible molecules

State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines and Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substance Discovery and Druggability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, China

zhangchongjing@imm.ac.cn

Received Date: 14 May 2024
Revised Date: 24 June 2024
Accepted Date: 1 July 2024
Available Online: 2 July 2024

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Recent advances in drug development and bioactive molecules that covalently target lysine residues have shown substantial progress. Both reversible and irreversible covalent inhibitors are developed for targeting lysine residues. The identification of protein targets and binding sites of these lysine-targeting molecules in the whole proteome is crucial to understand their proteome-wide selectivity. For covalent inhibitors, the pull down-based methods including activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) are commonly used to profile their target proteins. For covalent reversible inhibitors, it is not easy to pull down the potential protein targets as the captured proteins may get off beads because of the reversible manner. Here, we report a pair of isotope-labelled click-free probes to competitively identify the protein targets of lysine-targeting covalent reversible small molecules. This pair of isotopic probes consists of a lysine-reactive warhead, a desthiobiotin moiety and isotopicable linker. This integrated probe could eliminate the background proteins induced by the click chemistry during the pull-down process. To demonstrate the feasibility of our newly-developed probes for the protein target identification, we selected the natural product Gossypol in that we proved for the first time that it could modify the lysine residue in a covalent reversible manner. Finally, we confirmed that this pair of integrated probes can be used in a competitive manner to precisely identify the protein target as well as binding sites of Gossypol. Interestingly, pretreatment of Gossypol could stop the antibody from recognizing Gossypol-binding proteins. Together, our isotope-labeled click-free probes could be used for whole-proteome profiling of lysine-targeting covalent reversible small molecules.
- Target identification,
- Chemical proteomic,
- Covalent inhibitor,
- Click-chemistry,
- Isotopic probes
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