Ketone isosteres of 2-N-acetamidosugars as substrates for metabolic cell surface engineering
Ketone isosteres of 2-N-acetamidosugars as substrates for metabolic cell surface engineering
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DOI:
10.1021/ja002962b
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发表时间:
2001-02-14
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15
通讯作者:
Bertozzi, CR
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作者:
Hang, HC;Bertozzi, CR
Metabolic oligosaccharide engineering using unnatural substrates has provided an avenue for the introduction of novel chemical reactivity on cell surfaces. 1 This approach exploits the unnatural substrate tolerance of enzymes involved in carbohydrate biosynthesis (depicted schematically in Figure 1A). For example, derivatives of N-acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) which bear a selectively reactive chemical handle, such as a ketone2 or azide, 3 on the N-acyl group are transformed into glycoconjugate-bound sialosides by human cells. The selective reactivity of ketones with aminooxy or hydrazide groups, and azides with modified phosphine reagents, permits exogenous chemical cell surface targeting. 4 If the substrate promiscuity exhibited by the enzymes and transporters of the sialic acid pathway is a general feature of other carbohydrate metabolic pathways, multiple avenues for metabolic engineering will be available. So far, few studies have addressed the unnatural substrate tolerance of other carbohydrate biosynthetic pathways. 1The ubiquitous presence of the 2-N-acetamidosugars, 5 N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and N-acetylgalactosamine (Gal-NAc), in glycoproteins, proteoglycans, and glycolipids makes them attractive targets for metabolic engineering. GlcNAc and GalNAc are converted within cells to their UDP-activated analogues via salvage pathways. 6 UDP-GlcNAc can be subsequently converted to ManNAc or UDP-GalNAc, or utilized by GlcNAc transferases that incorporate the sugar into various glycoconjugates. Likewise, GalNAc transferases utilize UDP-GalNAc as a substrate and deliver the sugar to numerous glycoconjugates. We considered the possibility that unnatural GlcNAc and GalNAc derivatives might gain access to the cell surface through their respective salvage pathways. We designed “2-ketosugars”, which are C2-carbon isosteres of the 2-N-acetamidosugars (Figure 1B), as novel analogues that possess a ketone group for chemoselective reaction with aminooxy or hydrazide reagents. A concise synthesis of 2-ketosugars was developed from known 2-iodosugars, which are readily available by electrophilic iodination of commerically available glycals. 7