A new method of chemical modification of N6-amino group in adenine nucleotides with formaldehyde and a thiol and its application to preparing immobilized ADP and ATP.

Reaction of AMP with formaldehyde and 3-mercaptopropionic acid at pH 11.7 gave a new AMP derivative, N6-[(2-carboxyethyl)thiomethyl]-AMP (I) in 91% yield and reaction at pH 3.1 gave another new derivative, N6,N6-bis[(2-carboxyethyl)thiomethyl]-AMP (II) in 57% yield. The structures were determined by their 13C and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectra coupled with those of the simple analogues, N6-[(2-carboxyethyl)thiomethyl]-9-methyladenine (III) and N6,N6-bis[(2-carboxyethyl)thiomethyl]-9-methyladenine (IV) which were synthesized from 9-methyladenine in the same way as for derivatives I and II. ADP and ATP were treated in the same way as AMP to afford the corresponding carboxyl derivatives, N6-[(2-carboxyethyl)thiomethyl]-ADP (V), N6-[(2-carboxyethyl)thiomethyl]-ATP (VI), N6,N6-bis[(2-carboxyethyl)thiomethyl]-ADP (X) and N6,N6-bis[(2-carboxyethyl)thiomethyl]-ATP (XI) in 71%, 75%, 53% and 40% yield, respectively. These compounds were coupled to 1,3-diaminopropane with a water-soluble carbodiimide to give the corresponding amino derivatives, N6-([N-3-aminopropyl)carbamoylethyl]thiomethyl)-ADP (VIII), N6-(N-(3-aminopropyl)carbamoylethyl]thiomethyl)-ATP (IX), N6,N6-bis([N-(3-aminopropyl)carbamoylethyl]thiomethyl)-ADP (XIII), and N6,N6-bis([N-(3-aminopropyl)carbamoylethyl]thiomethyl)-ATP (XIV), which were further bound to CNBr-activated dextran to give new polymer-bound derivatives of ADP and ATP. These free and bo-nd derivatives were tested for their coenzymic activities against several kinases. The activities of the ADP derivatives, V, VIII, X, XIII, dextran-bound VIII, and dextran-bound XIII against acetate kinase were 82%, 81%, 68%, 55%, 35%, and 15%, respectively, relative to ADP and those of the ATP derivatives, VI, IX, XI, XIV, dextran-bound IX, and dextran-bound XIV against hexokinase were 88%, 94%, 60%, 81%, 58%, and 49%, respectively, relative to ATP.

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