Oxime-Based Synthesis of New Chromogenic and Fluorogenic Oligosaccharides
作者:Olivier Renaudet、Pascal Dumy
DOI:10.1002/ejoc.200800855
日期:2008.11
A new simple approach for the synthesis of labelled oligosaccharides is described. Free synthetic carbohydrate recognition building blocks were conjugated with fluorogenic and chromogenic dyes under mild experimental conditions by using oxime ligation. The resulting oligosaccharide probes presenting well-defined anomer configuration might find broad interests for recognition studies with a large panel
In this report, we describe an efficient way to generate libraries of macrocyclic glycopeptides in one step by reacting phage-displayed libraries of peptides with dichloro-oxime derivatives. We showed that the reactions do not interfere with the ability of phage to replicate in bacteria. The reactions are site-selective for phage-displayed peptides and they do not modify any other proteins of phage
Bacterial and fungal pathogens involved in lung infection in cystic fibrosis patients utilize a particular family of glycan-binding proteins, characterized by the presentation of six fucose-binding sites on a ring-shaped scaffold. These lectins are attractive targets for anti-infectious compounds that could interfere in the recognition of host tissues by pathogens. The design of a cyclopeptide-based hexavalent structure allowed for the presentation of six fucose residues. The synthetic hexavalent compound displays liable geometry resulting in high-avidity binding by lectins from Aspergillus fumigatus and Burkholderia ambifaria. Replacing the fucose residue with a conformationally constrained fucomimetic does not alter the affinity and provides fine specificity with no binding to other fucose-specific lectins.
Following an iterative oxime ligation procedure, cyclopeptide (R) and lysine-based dendron (D) were combined in all possible arrangements and successively functionalized with alpha-fucose and beta-fucose to provide a new series of hexadecavalent glycosylated scaffolds (i.e., scaffolds RD16, RR16, DR16 and DD16). These compounds and smaller analogs (tetra- and hexavalent scaffolds R-4 and R-6) were used to evaluate the influence of the ligand valency and architecture, and of the anomer configuration in the binding to the alpha Fuc-specific lectin LecB from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Competitive enzyme-linked lectin assays (ELLA) revealed that only the RD16 architecture displaying alpha Fuc (9A) reaches strong binding improvement (IC50 of 0.6 nM) over alpha MeFuc, and increases the alpha-selectivity of LecB. Dissociation constant of 28 nM was measured by isothermal titration micorcalorimetry (ITC) for 9A, which represents the highest affinity ligand ever reported for LecB. ITC and molecular modeling suggested that the high affinity observed might be due to an aggregative chelate binding involving four sugar head groups and two lectins. Interestingly, unprecedented binding effects were observed with beta-fucosylated conjugates, albeit being less active than the corresponding ligands of the alpha Fuc series. In particular, the more flexible lysine-based dendritic structures (15B and 18B) showed a slight inhibitory enhancement in comparison with those having cyclopeptide core.