{"id":643,"date":"2026-04-15T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=643"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:27:02","slug":"gemcitabine-5-triphosphate-is-a-stoichiometric-mechanism-based-inhibitor-of-lactobacillus-leichmannii-ribonucleoside-triphosphate-reductase-evidence-for-thiyl-radical-mediated-nucle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Gemcitabine 5\u2018-Triphosphate Is a Stoichiometric Mechanism-Based Inhibitor of <i>Lactobacillus leichmannii<\/i> Ribonucleoside Triphosphate Reductase:\u2009 Evidence for Thiyl Radical-Mediated Nucleotide Radical Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>DOI:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/bi972934e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1021\/bi972934e<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Authors:<\/h4>\n<p>Domingos J. Silva, JoAnne Stubbe, Vicente S\u00e1mano, Morris J. Robins<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract:<\/h4>\n<p>Ribonucleoside triphosphate reductase (RTPR) from Lactobacillus leichmannii utilizes adenosylcobalamin and catalyzes the conversion of nucleoside triphosphates to deoxynucleoside triphosphates. One equivalent of 2&prime;,2&prime;-difluoro-2&prime;-deoxycytidine 5&prime;-triphosphate, F2dCTP, rapidly inactivates RTPR. Analysis of the reaction products reveals that inactivation is accompanied by release of two fluoride ions and 0.84 equiv of 5&prime;-deoxyadenosine and attachment of 1 equiv of corrin covalently to an active-site cysteine residue of RTPR. No cytosine release was detected. Proteolysis of corrin-labeled RTPR with endoproteinase Glu-C and peptide mapping at pH 5.8 revealed that C419 was predominantly modified. The kinetics of the inactivation have been examined by stopped-flow (SF) UV-vis spectroscopy and rapid freeze quench (RFQ) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Monitoring DeltaA525 nm shows that cob(II)alamin is formed with an apparent kobs of 50 s-1, only 2. 5-fold slower than a similar experiment carried out with cytidine 5&prime;-triphosphate (CTP). The same reaction mixture was thus quenched at times from 22 ms to 30 s and examined by EPR spectroscopy. At early time points the EPR spectrum resembled a thiyl radical exchange coupled to cob(II)alamin. From 22 to 255 ms the total spin concentration remained unchanged at 1.4 spins\/RTPR, twice that predicted by the amount of cob(II)alamin determined by SF. However, with time the signal attributed to the thiyl radical-cob(II)alamin disappears and new signal(s) with broad feature(s) at g = 2.33 and a sharp feature at g = 2.00 appeared, suggesting formation of cob(II)alamin and a nucleotide-based radical with only dipolar interactions. These studies have been interpreted to support the proposal that an RTPR-based thiyl radical can give rise to a nucleotide-based radical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOI: 10.1021\/bi972934e Authors: Domingos J. Silva, JoAnne Stubbe, Vicente S\u00e1mano, Morris J. Robins Abstract: Ribonucleoside triphosphate reductase (RTPR) from Lactobacillus leichmannii utilizes adenosylcobalamin and catalyzes the conversion of nucleoside triphosphates to deoxynucleoside triphosphates. One equivalent of 2&prime;,2&prime;-difluoro-2&prime;-deoxycytidine 5&prime;-triphosphate, F2dCTP, rapidly inactivates RTPR. Analysis of the reaction products reveals that inactivation is accompanied by release of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freeze-quench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}