University of Minnesota

Molecular Probes, Inc.

Timothy F Walseth

Robert A Aarhus

Hon Cheung Lee

Kyle R Gee

Richard P Haugland

Antonio De Flora

Elena Zocchi

Marina Podesta

Hon-Cheung Lee

Richard M Graeff

Long Wong

Cyclic-ADP-ribose analogs

The present invention describes a family of photolabile caged nucleotides, including cyclic nucleotides. The compounds of the present invention are caged analogs and derivatives of NAD.sup.+, NADH, NADP, NADPH, NAADP and cADPR. The photolysis of the present compounds allows the release of the free nucleotide in vivo or in vitro with precise spatial and temporal control. The compounds are useful for the photolytic generation of free nucleotides in aqueous samples, for example, in the study of calcium mobilization in cells and cell homogenates.

Caged nucleotides

Cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) analogs block cADPR from releasing Ca.sup.+2, and also inhibit cADPR from potentiating Ca.sup.+2 release induced by either divalent cations or by caffeine. 8-amino-cADPR and two other 8-substituted analogs were also synthesized. Both 8-Br- and 8-azido-cADPR were also antagonists, although with less potency than 8-amino-cADPR. These results show that alterations at the 8-position of the adenine group do not inhibit cADPR from binding to its receptor but do eliminate the ability of the metabolite to activate the Ca.sup.+2 release mechanism.

Cyclic ADP ribose antagonists

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Timothy F Walseth