Synthesis and Applications of Biologically Active Carbohydrate Derivatives and Related Compounds

该提案包括三个单独的部分。第一部分提出了针对尿路感染（UTI）的抗粘连策略的改进，尿路感染是第二大诊断疾病。 抗粘连药物干扰细菌蛋白与组织表面上的碳水化合物的结合，从而防止细菌定植。 持续性UTI是由某些大肠杆菌表面线状突起末端的FimH蛋白结合引发的。大肠杆菌，甘露糖连接到蛋白质之一，尿斑蛋白Ia，在泌尿道表面。 结合改变了构成表面的分子的形状，从而允许细菌进入和定植。 该建议是合成与已知的最佳结合甘露糖衍生物的结构相匹配的化合物，然后将尽可能多的化合物附着到聚酯树枝状聚合物或树枝状纳米颗粒或树枝状聚合物上，以便尽可能多地结合每个细菌上的200-500个皮利，以消除被屏蔽的细菌菌落。

This proposal contains three separate sections. The first section proposes improvement of the anti-adhesion strategy against urinary tract infections (UTI), the second most diagnosed disease. Anti-adhesion drugs interfere with the binding of bacterial proteins to carbohydrates on tissue surfaces and thereby prevent bacterial colonization. Persistant UTI are initiated by binding of a protein, FimH, at the end of threadlike projections from the surfaces of certain strains of E. coli, to mannose attached to one of the proteins, uroplakin Ia, at the surface of the urinary tract. Binding changes the shape of the molecules making up the surface that allows bacterial entry and colonization. The proposal is to synthesize compounds that match what is known about the structures of the best binding mannose derivatives, then attach as many as possible to polyester dendrimers or to dendritic nanoparticles or to dendritic polymers, so as to bind as many as possible of the 200-500 pili on each bacterium, to eliminate the shielded bacterial colonies.