Monitoring Glycan–Protein Interactions by NMR Spectroscopic Analysis: A Simple Chemical Tag That Mimics Natural CH–π Interactions
作者:Luis P. Calle、Begoña Echeverria、Antonio Franconetti、Sonia Serna、M. Carmen Fernández‐Alonso、Tammo Diercks、F. Javier Cañada、Ana Ardá、Niels‐Christian Reichardt、Jesús Jiménez‐Barbero
DOI:10.1002/chem.201501248
日期:2015.8.3
propose the difluoroacetamide moiety (an acetamide bioisoster) as a novel tag for detecting by NMR analysis those glycan–protein interactions that involve N‐acetylated sugars. Although difluoroacetamide has been used previously as a substituent in medicinal chemistry, here we employ it as a specific sensor to monitor interactions between GlcNAc‐containing glycans and a model lectin (wheat germ agglutinin)
分子识别过程的检测需要鲁棒,特定且易于实现的传感方法,尤其是对于筛选应用。在这里,我们提出了二氟乙酰胺部分(乙酰胺生物甾醇)作为一种新型标签,用于通过NMR分析检测涉及N-乙酰化糖类的糖蛋白相互作用。尽管二氟乙酰胺以前曾在药物化学中用作取代基,但在这里我们将其用作监测含GlcNAc的聚糖与模型凝集素(小麦胚芽凝集素)之间相互作用的特异传感器。与广泛使用的三氟乙酰胺基相反,二氟乙酰胺标签包含双子1 H和19 F原子,允许1 H和19F NMR方法可轻松,可靠地检测涉及一系列结合亲和力的GlcNAc-(或GalNAc-)部分的分子识别过程。CHF 2 CONH-部分的行为与所涉及的芳族糖相互作用中的天然乙酰胺片段非常相似,提供相似的结合能和构象,而全氟化CF 3 CONH-类似物的区别则更大。