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"Close-to-Release": Spontaneous Bioorthogonal Uncaging Resulting from Ring-Closing Metathesis
Journal
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume
141
Number
43
Pages / Article-Number
17048-17052
Abstract
Bioorthogonal uncaging reactions offer versatile tools in chemical biology. In recent years, reactions have been developed to proceed efficiently under physiological conditions. We present herein an uncaging reaction that results from ring-closing metathesis (RCM). A caged molecule, tethered to a diolefinic substrate, is released via spontaneous 1,4-elimination following RCM. Using this strategy, which we term "close-to-release", we show that drugs and fluorescent probes are uncaged with fast rates, including in the presence of mammalian cells or in the periplasm of Escherichia coli. We envision that this tool may find applications in chemical biology, bioengineering and medicine.
