Bert L H Beerkens, Vasiliki Andrianopoulou, Xuesong Wang, Rongfang Liu, Gerard J P van Westen, Willem Jespers, Adriaan P IJzerman, Laura H Heitman, Daan van der Es
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Abstract
Small molecular tool compounds play an essential role in the study of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). However, tool compounds most often occupy the orthosteric binding site, hampering the study of GPCRs upon ligand binding. To overcome this problem, ligand-directed labeling techniques have been developed that leave a reporter group covalently bound to the GPCR, while allowing subsequent orthosteric ligands to bind. In this work, we applied such a labeling strategy to the adenosine A2B receptor (A2BAR). We have synthetically implemented the recently reported N-acyl-N-alkyl sulfonamide (NASA) warhead into a previously developed ligand and show that the binding of the A2BAR is not restricted by NASA incorporation. Furthermore, we have investigated ligand-directed labeling of the A2BAR using SDS-PAGE, flow cytometric, and mass spectrometry techniques. We have found one of the synthesized probes to specifically label the A2BAR, although detection was hindered by nonspecific protein labeling most likely due to the intrinsic reactivity of the NASA warhead. Altogether, this work aids the future development of ligand-directed probes for the detection of GPCRs.
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