Effect of the acyl-group length on the chemoselectivity of the lipase-catalyzed acylation of propranolol—a computational study
The selective N-acylation of 1,2-amino alcohols has been proposed to occur through the proton shuttle mechanism. However, the O-acetylation of propranolol catalyzed by Candida antarctica lipase B is an exception. We investigated the relation between the chemoselectivity of this reaction and the acyl...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of molecular modeling 2021-07, Vol.27 (7), p.198-198, Article 198 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The selective N-acylation of 1,2-amino alcohols has been proposed to occur through the proton shuttle mechanism. However, the O-acetylation of propranolol catalyzed by
Candida antarctica
lipase B is an exception. We investigated the relation between the chemoselectivity of this reaction and the acyl group length. For this purpose, we compared the acyl groups: ethanoyl, butanoyl, octanoyl, and hexadecanoyl. We studied the Michaelis complexes between serine-acylated
Candida antarctica
lipase B and propranolol, employing a computational approach that involved sampling Michaelis complex conformations through ensemble docking plus consensus scoring and molecular dynamics simulations. The conformations were then classified as near attack conformations for acylation of the amino or hydroxy group. The relative populations of these two classes of conformations were found to be consistent with the experimentally observed chemoselective O-acetylation. We predict that increasing the length of the hydrocarbon chain of the acyl group will cause O-acylation to be unfavorable with respect to N-acylation. The nucleophilic attack of propranolol to the acylated lipase was found to be more favorable through the classical mechanism when compared with the proton shuttle mechanism. |
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ISSN: | 1610-2940 0948-5023 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00894-021-04808-y |