A panel of α-helical, dimeric coiled-coil peptides has been
designed and synthesized for the evaluation of the effect of
glycosylation on the conformation of these coiled-coil peptides. Two
glycosylated building blocks,
Nα
-(fluoren-9-ylmethoxycarbonyl)-O-(2,3,4-tri-
O-acetyl-6-azido-6-deoxy-β-D
-glucopyranosyl)-L-threonine pentafluorophenyl
ester 8 and
Nα
-(fluoren-9-ylmethoxycarbonyl)-O-2,3,4-tri-
O-acetyl-6-[2â²-(tert
-butoxycarbonylamino)benzoylamino]-6-deoxy-β-D
-glucopyranosyl}-L-threonine
pentafluorophenyl ester 9 containing the fluorogenic 2-aminobenzamide
(Abz) group, have been synthesized. These compounds have been obtained
by the glycosylation of
Nα-Fmoc-Thr-OPfp with the
corresponding glycosyl trichloroacetimidate donors and have been
incorporated into the solid-phase synthesis of the peptides 1â3
and 7 and glycopeptides 4â6. Compounds 1 and 4â7 have been
synthesized as internally quenched fluorogenic compounds where the Abz
group has been employed as the fluorogenic probe and 3-nitrotyrosine
Tyr(NO2) as the quenching chromophore. Steady-state
fluorescence studies have provided evidence to support the dimerization
of the α-helical peptides. Denaturation studies, by fluorescence
as well as CD spectroscopy, indicate that the introduction of a
carbohydrate moiety into the coiled-coil peptides has a significant
destabilizing effect on the α-helicity.
设计并合成了一组α-螺旋二聚体缠绕螺旋肽,以评估糖基化对这些缠绕螺旋肽构象的影响。合成了两个糖基化构建块,Nα-(荧光-9-基甲氧基碳酰基)-O-(2,3,4-三-O-乙酰-6-氮化-6-脱氧-β-
D-葡萄糖吡喃糖)-
L-苏氨酸五氟苯酯8和Nα-(荧光-9-基甲氧基碳酰基)-O-2,3,4-三-O-乙酰-6-[2'-(叔丁氧羰基
氨基)苯甲酰
氨基]-6-脱氧-β-
D-葡萄糖吡喃糖}-
L-苏氨酸五氟苯酯9,这些分子含有荧光基团2-
氨基苯酰胺(Abz)。这些化合物是通过Nα-Fmoc-Thr-OPfp与相应的糖基三
氯乙
酰亚胺供体糖基化而获得的,并已整合到肽1-3和7以及糖肽4-6的固相合成中。化合物1和4-7被合成为内部猝灭荧光化合物,其中Abz基团作为荧光探针,
3-硝基
酪氨酸Tyr(
NO2)作为猝灭
颜料。稳态荧光研究提供了支持α-螺旋肽二聚化的证据。荧光及圆二色谱的变性研究表明,向缠绕螺旋肽中引入
糖类基团对α-螺旋的稳定性有显著的破坏作用。