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Becer CR, Gibson MI, Geng J, Ilyas R, Wallis R, Mitchell DA, Haddleton DM. High-affinity glycopolymer binding to human DC-SIGN and disruption of DC-SIGN interactions with HIV envelope glycoprotein. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:15130-2. [PMID: 20932025 PMCID: PMC3091610 DOI: 10.1021/ja1056714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2010] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Noncovalent interactions between complex carbohydrates and proteins drive many fundamental processes within biological systems, including human immunity. In this report we aimed to investigate the potential of mannose-containing glycopolymers to interact with human DC-SIGN and the ability of these glycopolymers to inhibit the interactions between DC-SIGN and the HIV envelope glycoprotein gp120. We used a library of glycopolymers that are prepared via combination of copper-mediated living radical polymerization and azide-alkyne [3+2] Huisgen cycloaddition reaction. We demonstrate that a relatively simple glycopolymer can effectively prevent the interactions between a human dendritic cell associated lectin (DC-SIGN) and the viral envelope glycoprotein gp120. This approach may give rise to novel insights into the mechanisms of HIV infection and provide potential new therapeutics.
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Miller GJ, Gardiner JM. Adaptable synthesis of C-glycosidic multivalent carbohydrates and succinamide-linked derivatization. Org Lett 2010; 12:5262-5. [PMID: 20961035 DOI: 10.1021/ol102310x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A modular approach to the synthesis of trivalent C-glycosidic carbohydrates is described. The approach is illustrated employing carboxylate-terminated C-glycosidic d-mannose, d-glucose, and d-galactose derivatives with different length C1-linked spacer units and also core units with different length linker units attached. The central core scaffold is additionally functionalized via a succinamide-based, conjugatable linker unit, exemplified in an extended multivalent derivative [31] and a pyrene-bearing fluorsecent-labeled tris-C-mannosyl conjugate [33].
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- Gavin J Miller
- School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
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Multivalent Antimicrobial Peptides as Therapeutics: Design Principles and Structural Diversities. Int J Pept Res Ther 2010; 16:199-213. [PMID: 20835389 PMCID: PMC2931633 DOI: 10.1007/s10989-010-9230-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/17/2010] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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This review highlights the design principles, progress and advantages attributed to the structural diversity associated with both natural and synthetic multivalent antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Natural homo- or hetero-dimers of AMPs linked by intermolecular disulfide bonds existed in the animal kingdom, but the multivalency strategy has been adopted to create synthetic branched or polymeric AMPs that do not exist in nature. The multivalent strategy for the design of multivalent AMPs provides advantages to overcome the challenges faced in clinical applications of AMPs, such as: stability, efficiency, toxicity, maintenance of activity in high salt concentrations and under physiological conditions, and importantly overcoming bacterial resistance which is currently a leading health problem in the world. The multivalency strategy is valuable for moving multivalent AMPs toward clinical applications.
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Faivre V, Rosilio V. Interest of glycolipids in drug delivery: from physicochemical properties to drug targeting. Expert Opin Drug Deliv 2010; 7:1031-48. [DOI: 10.1517/17425247.2010.511172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Peptide and glycopeptide dendrimers and analogous dendrimeric structures and their biomedical applications. Amino Acids 2010; 40:301-70. [DOI: 10.1007/s00726-010-0707-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2010] [Accepted: 07/15/2010] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Parera Pera N, Branderhorst HM, Kooij R, Maierhofer C, van der Kaaden M, Liskamp RMJ, Wittmann V, Ruijtenbeek R, Pieters RJ. Rapid Screening of Lectins for Multivalency Effects with a Glycodendrimer Microarray. Chembiochem 2010; 11:1896-904. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201000340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Roubos-van den Hil PJ, Schols HA, Nout MJR, Zwietering MH, Gruppen H. First characterization of bioactive components in soybean tempe that protect human and animal intestinal cells against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infection. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2010; 58:7649-7656. [PMID: 20550210 DOI: 10.1021/jf101379y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Tempe extracts can inhibit the adhesion of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) to intestinal cells and thereby can play a role in controlling ETEC-induced diarrhea. The component responsible for this adhesion inhibition activity is still unknown. This research describes the purification and partial characterization of this bioactive component of tempe. After heating, defatting, and protease treatment, the extracts were found to remain active. However, after treatment with polysaccharide-degrading enzyme mixtures the bioactivity was lost. Ultrafiltration revealed the active component to be >30 kDa. Further purification of the bioactive tempe extracts yielded an active fraction with an increased carbohydrate content of higher arabinose content than the nonactive fractions. In conclusion, the bioactive component contains arabinose and originates from the arabinan or arabinogalactan side chain of the pectic cell wall polysaccharides of the soybeans, which is probably released or formed during fermentation by enzymatic modifications.
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Schierholt A, Hartmann M, Schwekendiek K, Lindhorst TK. Cysteine-Based Mannoside Glycoclusters: Synthetic Routes and Antiadhesive Properties. European J Org Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201000185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Pera NP, Kouki A, Haataja S, Branderhorst HM, Liskamp RMJ, Visser GM, Finne J, Pieters RJ. Detection of pathogenic Streptococcus suis bacteria using magnetic glycoparticles. Org Biomol Chem 2010; 8:2425-9. [PMID: 20448902 DOI: 10.1039/c000819b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Detection of the zoonotic bacterial pathogen Streptococcus suis was achieved using magnetic glycoparticles. The bacteria contain an adhesion protein for the carbohydrate sequence Galalpha1,4Gal. After incubation with various amounts of the pathogen, magnetic concentration and ATP detection, bacterial levels down to 10(5) cfu could be detected. Submicrometer particles were needed, since with the larger microparticles the method did not succeed.
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- Núria Parera Pera
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80082, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Cumpstey I, Ramstadius C, Akhtar T, Goldstein IJ, Winter HC. Non-Glycosidically Linked Pseudodisaccharides: Thioethers, Sulfoxides, Sulfones, Ethers, Selenoethers, and Their Binding to Lectins. European J Org Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200901481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Munoz EM, Correa J, Fernandez-Megia E, Riguera R. Probing the Relevance of Lectin Clustering for the Reliable Evaluation of Multivalent Carbohydrate Recognition. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:17765-7. [DOI: 10.1021/ja9074826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Eva Maria Munoz
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química, and Unidad de RMN de Biomoléculas Asociada al CSIC, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Avda. de las Ciencias S.N. 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química, and Unidad de RMN de Biomoléculas Asociada al CSIC, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Avda. de las Ciencias S.N. 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química, and Unidad de RMN de Biomoléculas Asociada al CSIC, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Avda. de las Ciencias S.N. 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química, and Unidad de RMN de Biomoléculas Asociada al CSIC, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Avda. de las Ciencias S.N. 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Comegna D, De Riccardis F. An efficient modular approach for the assembly of s-linked glycopeptoids. Org Lett 2009; 11:3898-901. [PMID: 19655735 DOI: 10.1021/ol901524k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A short and convenient methodology for the synthesis of S-glycosylated peptoid models is described. The thioglycosylated building blocks were prepared from proper peracetylated sugars via glycosyl iodides in a one-pot fashion and directly employed in a submonomer solid-phase stategy.
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- Daniela Comegna
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy.
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Zinger-Yosovich KD, Gilboa-Garber N. Blocking of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Ralstonia solanacearum Lectins by plant and microbial branched polysaccharides used as food additives. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2009; 57:6908-13. [PMID: 19572540 DOI: 10.1021/jf900631j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa antibiotic resistance prompted the search for glycodecoys that would block its lectin-dependent adhesion to human cells. We have used the lectins of this pathogen, PA-IL (galactophilic LecA) and PA-IIL (fucophilic LecB), and two additional pathogenic bacterial lectins, CV-IIL (fucophilic, of Chromobacterium violaceum) and RS-IIL (mannophilic, of Ralstonia solanacearum), for assaying the pathogenic lectin-blocking abilities of some plant and microbial polysaccharidic food additives, adding the mannophilic plant lectin Con A as a reference. Locust-bean and guar galactomannans and acacia gum very strongly inhibited PA-IL. The other lectins, excluding CV-IIL, were very strongly inhibited by yeast mannan. Xanthan and inulin were weak inhibitors. The differential blocking of these lectins by galactosylated branches of plant polysaccharides and by mannan matched their inhibition by avian egg whites, human milk, and royal jelly (protecting animal embryos and neonates from infections). The nondigestability and nontoxicity of the food additives are advantageous for curing gastrointestinal and external infections.
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- Keren D Zinger-Yosovich
- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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Schierholt A, Shaikh HA, Schmidt-Lassen J, Lindhorst TK. Utilizing Staudinger Ligation for the Synthesis of Glycoamino Acid Building Blocks and Other Glycomimetics. European J Org Chem 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200900437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Welsh D, Jones S, Smith D. “On-Off” Multivalent Recognition: Degradable Dendrons for Temporary High-Affinity DNA Binding. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200900401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Welsh D, Jones S, Smith D. “On-Off” Multivalent Recognition: Degradable Dendrons for Temporary High-Affinity DNA Binding. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009; 48:4047-51. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.200900401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Gouin SG, Wellens A, Bouckaert J, Kovensky J. Synthetic Multimeric Heptyl Mannosides as Potent Antiadhesives of UropathogenicEscherichia coli. ChemMedChem 2009; 4:749-55. [PMID: 19343765 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.200900034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- Sébastien G Gouin
- Department of Chemistry, Laboratoire des Glucides UMR CNRS 6219, Institut de Chimie de Picardie, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 33 Rue Saint Leu, 80039 Amiens Cedex, France.
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Kolomiets E, Swiderska M, Kadam R, Johansson EM, Jaeger KE, Darbre T, Reymond JL. Glycopeptide Dendrimers with High Affinity for the Fucose-Binding Lectin LecB fromPseudomonas aeruginosa. ChemMedChem 2009; 4:562-9. [DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.200800380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Polymeric materials have been applied in therapeutic applications, such as drug delivery and tissue regeneration, for decades owing to their biocompatibility and suitable mechanical properties. In addition, select polymer-drug conjugates have been used as bioactive pharmaceuticals owing to their increased drug efficacy, solubility, and target specificity compared with small-molecule drugs. Increased synthetic control of polymer properties has permitted the production of polymer assemblies for the targeted and controlled delivery of drugs, and polymeric sequestrants take advantage of their lack of solubility for the sequestration of target molecules in vivo. In more recent studies reviewed in greater detail here, the properties of polymers that distinguish them from small-molecule drugs, such as their high molecular weight and their ability to display multiple pendant moieties, have been specifically exploited for activating cellular targets or inhibiting the binding of pathogens. The elucidation of relevant structure-function relationships in investigations of this kind has relied on the combination of living polymerization methods with chemical conjugation methods, and protein engineering methods have shown increasing potential in the manipulation of architectural features of such polymer therapeutics. Garnering a detailed understanding of the various mechanisms by which multivalent polymers engage biological targets is certain to expand the role of polymers as therapeutics, by enabling highly specific activities of designed polymers in the biological environment.
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- Shuang Liu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, 201 DuPont Hall, Newark, Delaware 19716, and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, 15 Innovation Way, Newark, Delaware 19711
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Pieters RJ. Toward multivalent carbohydrate drugs. DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY. TECHNOLOGIES 2009; 6:e1-e40. [PMID: 24128989 DOI: 10.1016/j.ddtec.2009.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Pieters RJ. Maximising multivalency effects in protein–carbohydrate interactions. Org Biomol Chem 2009; 7:2013-25. [DOI: 10.1039/b901828j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Touaibia M, Roy R. First Synthesis of “Majoral-Type” Glycodendrimers Bearing Covalently Bound α-d-Mannopyranoside Residues onto a Hexachlocyclotriphosphazene Core. J Org Chem 2008; 73:9292-302. [DOI: 10.1021/jo801850f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Mohamed Touaibia
- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, P.O. Box 8888, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3P8
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- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, P.O. Box 8888, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3P8
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Imberty A, Chabre Y, Roy R. Glycomimetics and Glycodendrimers as High Affinity Microbial Anti-adhesins. Chemistry 2008; 14:7490-9. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.200800700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Niederhafner P, Reinis M, Sebestík J, Jezek J. Glycopeptide dendrimers, part III: a review. Use of glycopeptide dendrimers in immunotherapy and diagnosis of cancer and viral diseases. J Pept Sci 2008; 14:556-87. [PMID: 18275089 DOI: 10.1002/psc.1011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Glycopeptide dendrimers containing different types of tumor associated-carbohydrate antigens (T(N), TF, sialyl-T(N), sialyl-TF, sialyl-Le(x), sialyl-Le(a) etc.) were used in diagnosis and therapy of different sorts of cancer. These dendrimeric structures with incorporated T-cell epitopes and adjuvants can be used as antitumor vaccines. Best results were obtained with multiantigenic vaccines, containing, e.g. five or six different TAAs. The topic of TAAs and their dendrimeric forms at molecular level are reviewed, including structure, syntheses, and biological activities. Use of glycopeptide dendrimers as antiviral vaccines against HIV and influenza is also described. Their syntheses, physico-chemical properties, and biological activities are given with many examples.
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- Petr Niederhafner
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Ohlson S. Designing transient binding drugs: a new concept for drug discovery. Drug Discov Today 2008; 13:433-9. [PMID: 18468561 DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2008.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2007] [Revised: 01/27/2008] [Accepted: 02/01/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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A multitude of weak, or transient, biological interactions (dissociation constant: K(d)>microM), either working alone or in concert, occur frequently throughout biological systems. We are starting to appreciate their importance in complex biological networks. This realization has important implications to drug discovery as we can question the current paradigm of drug design to find the highest possible binders (drugs) to a given target (receptor). Development of transient drugs, defined by their binding to target, can be based on high-off-rates, multivalent approaches or multiple targets. Now, techniques are available to discover such drug candidates. The greatest problem yet to overcome is probably the mind-set of the individual researcher that weak binders are undesired and therefore of no benefit.
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- Sten Ohlson
- School of Pure and Applied Natural Sciences, University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden.
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Branderhorst HM, Kooij R, Salminen A, Jongeneel LH, Arnusch CJ, Liskamp RMJ, Finne J, Pieters RJ. Synthesis of multivalent Streptococcus suis adhesion inhibitors by enzymatic cleavage of polygalacturonic acid and ‘click’ conjugation. Org Biomol Chem 2008; 6:1425-34. [DOI: 10.1039/b800283e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Ohlsen K, Oelschlaeger TA, Hacker J, Khan AS. Carbohydrate receptors of bacterial adhesins: implications and reflections. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2008; 288:17-65. [PMID: 22328026 DOI: 10.1007/128_2008_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Bacteria entering a host depend on adhesins to achieve colonization. Adhesins are bacterial surface structures mediating binding to host surficial areas. Most adhesins are composed of one or several proteins. Usually a single bacterial strain is able to express various adhesins. The adhesion type expressed may influence host-, tissue or even cell tropism of Gram-negative and of Gram-positive bacteria. The binding of fimbrial as well as of afimbrial adhesins of Gram-negative bacteria to host carbohydrate structures (=receptors) has been elucidated in great detail. In contrast, in Gram-positives, most well studied adhesins bind to proteinaceous partners. Nevertheless, for both bacterial groups the binding of bacterial adhesins to eukaryotic carbohydrate receptors is essential for establishing colonization or infection. The characterization of this interaction down to the submolecular level provides the basis for strategies to interfere with this early step of infection which should lead to the prevention of subsequent disease. However, this goal will not be achieved easily because bacterial adherence is not a monocausal event but rather mediated by a variety of adhesins.
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- K Ohlsen
- Institut für Molekulare Infektionsbiologie, Röntgenring 11, 97070, Würzburg
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