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. 1999 Apr-May;18(4-5):521-30.
doi: 10.1080/15257779908041487.

Conformationally restricted nucleosides. The reaction of adenosine deaminase with substrates built on a bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane template

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Conformationally restricted nucleosides. The reaction of adenosine deaminase with substrates built on a bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane template

V E Marquez et al. Nucleosides Nucleotides. 1999 Apr-May.

Abstract

Adenosine deaminase (ADA) can discriminate between two distinct (North and South), conformationally rigid substrate conformers. (N)-methanocarba-2'dA (4) is deaminated 100 times faster than the antipodal (S)-methanocarba-2'dA (5), whereas a non-rigid analogue, aristeromycin (6), is deaminated at an intermediate rate. These results are in agreement with crystallographic data from ADA-ribonucleoside complexes showing the furanose ring of the bound purine in a C3'-endo (North) conformation. The data presented here suggests that 4 and 5 are useful probes to ascertain conformational preferences by purine metabolizing enzymes.

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