The Importance of Hydration for Inhibiting Ice Recrystallization with C-Linked Antifreeze Glycoproteins
摘要:
The role of hydration in modulating solution conformation, molecular recognition, and biological activity of oligosaccharides, proteins, and nucleotides is widely recognized but is often neglected when investigating many biological processes such as the mechanism by which biological antifreezes inhibit the growth of ice. We have investigated the relationship between carbohydrate configuration and recrystallization-inhibition (RI) activity in functional C-linked antifreeze glycoprotein (AFGP) analogues using a series of analogues 1-4. While analogues 1-4 did not show any thermal hysteresis (TH) activity, 1 did exhibit weak dynamic ice shaping indicating that this compound had the ability to interact with the ice lattice. The D-mannose and D-talose analogues (3 and 4, respectively) exhibited very weak RI activity with mean largest grain size values similar to phosphate buffered saline, the negative control. D-Glucose analogue 2 exhibited moderate RI activity while D-galactose analogue 1 was the most potent analogue with RI activity comparable to the native AFGP 8. These results suggest that the configuration of the carbohydrate moiety in C-linked AFGP analogues is extremely important and modulates recrystallization-inhibition activity. It seems likely that differences in hydration for each C-linked pyranose alter the compatibility of the carbohydrate moiety with the three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network of supercooled bulk water. Consequently, the energy associated with transferring a water molecule to the ice lattice changes and can result in inhibition of ice growth. These results emphasize the importance of continued studies to further elucidate the role of hydration in antifreeze activity.
Decorated Macrocycles via Ring-Closing Double-Reductive Amination. Identification of an Apoptosis Inducer of Leukemic Cells That at Least Partially Antagonizes a 5-HT2 Receptor
作者:Jian Zhou、Mairead Reidy、Ciaran O’Reilly、Dilip V. Jarikote、Arvind Negi、Afshin Samali、Eva Szegezdi、Paul V. Murphy
DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00404
日期:2015.4.3
A build-couple-pair strategy, including double-reductive amination macrocyclization, has been used to generate decorated macrocycles (eannaphanes) with an embedded triazole and monosaccharide. Biological screening led to the identification of an inducer of apoptosis in leukemic cells, which acts at least partially as a 5-HT2 antagonist.
Hydration IndexA Better Parameter for Explaining Small Molecule Hydration in Inhibition of Ice Recrystallization
作者:Roger Y. Tam、Sandra S. Ferreira、Pawel Czechura、Jennifer L. Chaytor、Robert N. Ben
DOI:10.1021/ja806284x
日期:2008.12.24
Several simple mono- and disaccharides have been assessed for their ability to inhibit ice recrystallization. Two carbohydrates were found to be effective recrystallization inhibitors. D-Galactose (1) was the best monosaccharide and D-melibiose (5) was the most active disaccharide. The ability of each carbohydrate to inhibit ice growth was correlated to its respective hydration number reported in the literature. A hydration number reflects the number of tightly bound water molecules to the carbohydrate and is a function of carbohydrate stereochemistry. It was discovered that using the absolute hydration number of a carbohydrate does not allow one to accurately predict its ability to inhibit ice recrystallization. Consequently, we have defined a hydration index in which the hydration number is divided by the molar volume of the carbohydrate. This new parameter not only takes into account the number of water molecules tightly bound to a carbohydrate but also the size or volume of a particular solute and ultimately the concentration of hydrated water molecules. The hydration index of both mono- and disaccharides correlates well with experimentally measured RI activity. C-Linked derivatives of the monosaccharides appear to have RI activity comparable to that of their O-linked saccharides but a more thorough investigation is required. The relationship between carbohydrate concentration and RI activity was shown to be noncolligative and a 0.022 M solution of D-galactose (1) and C-linked galactose derivative (10) inhibited recrystallization as well as a 3% DMSO solution. The carbohydrates examined in this study did not possess any thermal hysteresis activity (selective depression of freezing point relative to melting point) or dynamic ice shaping. As such, we propose that they are inhibiting recrystallization at the interface between bulk water and the quasi liquid layer (a semiordered interface between ice and bulk water) by disrupting the preordering of water.