The present invention relates to a chemically modified mutant protein including a cysteine residue substituted for a residue other than cysteine n a precursor protein, the substituted cysteine residue being subsequently modified by reacting the cysteine residue with a glycosylated thiosulfonate. Also a method of producing the chemically modified mutant protein is provided. The present invention also realtes to a glycosylated methanethiosulfonate. Another aspect of the present invention is a method of modifying the functional characteristics of a protein including providing a protein and reacting the protein with a glycosylated methanethiosulfonate reagent under conditions effective to produce a glycoprotein with altered functional characteristics as compared to the protein. In addition, the present invention relates to methods of determining the structure-function relationships of chemically modified mutant proteins. The present invention also relates to synthetic methods for producing thio-glycoses, the thio-glycoses so produced, and to methods for producing glycodendrimer reagents.
本发明涉及一种
化学修饰的突变蛋白,包括在一个前体蛋白中用半胱
氨酸残基取代半胱
氨酸以外的残基,然后通过将半胱
氨酸残基与糖基化的
硫代
磺酸酯反应来进一步修饰取代的半胱
氨酸残基。本发明还提供了一种制备
化学修饰突变蛋白的方法。本发明还涉及一种糖基化的甲
硫基
磺酸酯。本发明的另一方面是一种修改蛋白质功能特性的方法,包括提供蛋白质并将蛋白质与糖基化的甲
硫基
磺酸酯试剂反应,在有效条件下产生与蛋白质相比具有改变的功能特性的糖蛋白。此外,本发明还涉及确定
化学修饰突变蛋白的结构-功能关系的方法。本发明还涉及合成
硫基糖的方法,所产生的
硫基糖,以及产生糖基树枝试剂的方法。