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Mishra B, Yuan Y, Yu H, Kang H, Gao J, Daniels R, Chen X. Synthetic Sialosides Terminated with 8-N-Substituted Sialic Acid as Selective Substrates for Sialidases from Bacteria and Influenza Viruses. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202403133. [PMID: 38713874 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202403133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2024] [Revised: 04/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/09/2024]
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Sialosides containing C8-modified sialic acids are challenging synthetic targets but potentially useful probes for diagnostic substrate profiling of sialidases and elucidating the binding specificity of sialic acid-interacting proteins. Here, we demonstrate efficient chemoenzymatic methods for synthesizing para-nitrophenol-tagged α2-3- and α2-6-linked sialyl galactosides containing C8-acetamido, C8-azido, or C8-amino derivatized N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac). High-throughput substrate specificity studies showed that the C8-modification of sialic acid significantly changes its recognition by sialidases from humans, various bacteria, and different influenza A and B viruses. Sialosides carrying Neu5Ac with a C8-azido modification were generally well tolerated by all the sialidases we tested, whereas sialosides containing C8-acetamido-modified Neu5Ac were only cleaved by selective bacterial sialidases. In contrast, sialosides with C8-amino-modified Neu5Ac were cleaved by a combination of selective bacterial and influenza A virus sialidases. These results indicate that sialosides terminated with a C8-amino or C8-acetamido-modified sialic acid can be used with other sialosides for diagnostic profiling of disease-causing sialidase-producing pathogens.
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- Bijoyananda Mishra
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California, 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California, 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California, 95616, United States
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- Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20993, United States
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- Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20993, United States
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- Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20993, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California, 95616, United States
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Chen X. Enabling Chemoenzymatic Strategies and Enzymes for Synthesizing Sialyl Glycans and Sialyl Glycoconjugates. Acc Chem Res 2024; 57:234-246. [PMID: 38127793 PMCID: PMC10795189 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Sialic acids are fascinating negatively charged nine-carbon monosaccharides. Sialic acid-containing glycans and glycoconjugates are structurally diverse, functionally important, and synthetically challenging molecules. We have developed highly efficient chemoenzymatic strategies that combine the power of chemical synthesis and enzyme catalysis to make sialic acids, sialyl glycans, sialyl glycoconjugates, and their derivatives more accessible, enabling the efforts to explore their functions and applications. The Account starts with a brief description of the structural diversity and the functional importance of naturally occurring sialic acids and sialosides. The development of one-pot multienzyme (OPME) chemoenzymatic sialylation strategies is then introduced, highlighting its advantages in synthesizing structurally diverse sialosides with a sialyltransferase donor substrate engineering tactic. With the strategy, systematic access to sialosides containing different sialic acid forms with modifications at C3/4/5/7/8/9, various internal glycans, and diverse sialyl linkages is now possible. Also briefly described is the combination of the OPME sialylation strategy with bacterial sialidases for synthesizing sialidase inhibitors. With the goal of simplifying the product purification process for enzymatic glycosylation reactions, glycosphingolipids that contain a naturally existing hydrophobic tag are attractive targets for chemoenzymatic total synthesis. A user-friendly highly efficient chemoenzymatic strategy is developed which involves three main processes, including chemical synthesis of lactosyl sphingosine as a water-soluble hydrophobic tag-containing intermediate, OPME enzymatic extension of its glycan component with a single C18-cartridge purification of the product, followed by a facile chemical acylation reaction. The strategy allows the introduction of different sialic acid forms and diverse fatty acyl chains into the products. Gram-scale synthesis has been demonstrated. OPME sialylation has also been demonstrated for the chemoenzymatic synthesis of sialyl glycopeptides and in vitro enzymatic N-glycan processing for the formation of glycoproteins with disialylated biantennary complex-type N-glycans. For synthesizing human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) which are glycans with a free reducing end, acceptor substrate engineering and process engineering strategies are developed, which involve the design of a hydrophobic tag that can be easily installed into the acceptor substrate to allow facile purification of the product from enzymatic reactions and can be conveniently removed in the final step to produce target molecules. The process engineering involves heat-inactivation of enzymes in the intermediate steps in multistep OPME reactions for the production of long-chain sialoside targets in a single reaction pot and with a single C18-cartridge purification process. In addition, a chemoenzymatic synthon strategy has been developed. It involves the design of a derivative of the sialyltransferase donor substrate precursor, which is tolerated by enzymes in OPME reactions, introduced to enzymatic products, and then chemically converted to the desired target structures in the final step. The chemoenzymatic synthon approach has been used together with the acceptor substrate engineering method in the synthesis of complex bacterial glycans containing sialic acids, legionaminic acids, and derivatives. The biocatalysts characterized and their engineered mutants developed by the Chen group are described, with highlights on synthetically useful enzymes. We anticipate further development of chemoenzymatic strategies and biocatalysts to enable exploration of the sialic acid space.
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- Xi Chen
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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Dolan JP, Cosgrove SC, Miller GJ. Biocatalytic Approaches to Building Blocks for Enzymatic and Chemical Glycan Synthesis. JACS AU 2023; 3:47-61. [PMID: 36711082 PMCID: PMC9875253 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.2c00529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2022] [Revised: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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While the field of biocatalysis has bloomed over the past 20-30 years, advances in the understanding and improvement of carbohydrate-active enzymes, in particular, the sugar nucleotides involved in glycan building block biosynthesis, have progressed relatively more slowly. This perspective highlights the need for further insight into substrate promiscuity and the use of biocatalysis fundamentals (rational design, directed evolution, immobilization) to expand substrate scopes toward such carbohydrate building block syntheses and/or to improve enzyme stability, kinetics, or turnover. Further, it explores the growing premise of using biocatalysis to provide simple, cost-effective access to stereochemically defined carbohydrate materials, which can undergo late-stage chemical functionalization or automated glycan synthesis/polymerization.
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- Jonathan P. Dolan
- School of Chemical and Physical
Sciences & Centre for Glycosciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemical and Physical
Sciences & Centre for Glycosciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemical and Physical
Sciences & Centre for Glycosciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
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Kooner A, Yuan Y, Yu H, Kang H, Klenow L, Daniels R, Chen X. Sialosides Containing 7- N-Acetyl Sialic Acid Are Selective Substrates for Neuraminidases from Influenza A Viruses. ACS Infect Dis 2022; 9:33-41. [PMID: 36455156 PMCID: PMC9840695 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Sialidases or neuraminidases are sialic-acid-cleaving enzymes that are expressed by a broad spectrum of organisms, including pathogens. In nature, sialic acids are monosaccharides with diverse structural variations, but the lack of novel probes has made it difficult to determine how sialic acid modifications impact the recognition by sialidases. Here, we used a chemoenzymatic synthon strategy to generate a set of α2-3- and α2-6-linked sialoside probes that contain 7-N-acetyl or 7,9-di-N-acetyl sialic acid as structure mimics for those containing the less stable naturally occurring 7-O-acetyl- or 7,9-di-O-acetyl modifications. These probes were used to compare the substrate specificity of several sialidases from different origins. Our results show that 7-N-acetyl sialic acid was readily cleaved by neuraminidases from H1N1 and H3N2 influenza A viruses, but not by sialidases of human or bacterial origin, thereby indicating that the influenza enzymes possess a distinctive and more promiscuous substrate binding pocket.
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- Anoopjit
Singh Kooner
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Division
of Viral Products, Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Division
of Viral Products, Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Division
of Viral Products, Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States,
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Yuan L, Zhao Y, Sun XL. Sialidase substrates for Sialdiase assays - activity, specificity, quantification and inhibition. Glycoconj J 2020; 37:513-531. [PMID: 32813176 DOI: 10.1007/s10719-020-09940-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Revised: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Sialidases are glycosidases responsible for the removal of sialic acid (Sia) residues (desialylation) from glycan portions of either glycoproteins or glycolipids. By desialylation, sialidases are able to modulate the functionality and stability of the Sia-containing molecules and are involved in both physiological and pathological pathways. Therefore, evaluation of sialidase activity and specificity is important for understanding the biological significance of desialylation by sialidases and its function and the related molecular mechanisms of the physiological and pathological pathways. In addition, it is essential for developing novel mechanisms and approaches for disease treatment and diagnosis and pathogen detection as well. This review summarizes the most recent sialidase substrates for evaluating sialidase activity and specificity and screening sialidase inhibitors, including (i) general sialidase substrates, (ii) specific sialidase substrates, (iii) native sialidase substrates and (iv) cellular sialidase substrates. This review also provides a brief introduction of recent instrumental methods for quantifying the sialidase activity, such as UV, fluorescence, HPLC and LC-MS methods.
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- Lei Yuan
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease (GRHD), Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115, USA.,School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, 110016, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease (GRHD), Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease (GRHD), Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115, USA.
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Kooner AS, Yu H, Chen X. Synthesis of N-Glycolylneuraminic Acid (Neu5Gc) and Its Glycosides. Front Immunol 2019; 10:2004. [PMID: 31555264 PMCID: PMC6724515 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Sialic acids constitute a family of negatively charged structurally diverse monosaccharides that are commonly presented on the termini of glycans in higher animals and some microorganisms. In addition to N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac), N-glycolyl neuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) is among the most common sialic acid forms in nature. Nevertheless, unlike most animals, human cells loss the ability to synthesize Neu5Gc although Neu5Gc-containing glycoconjugates have been found on human cancer cells and in various human tissues due to dietary incorporation of Neu5Gc. Some pathogenic bacteria also produce Neu5Ac and the corresponding glycoconjugates but Neu5Gc-producing bacteria have yet to be found. In addition to Neu5Gc, more than 20 Neu5Gc derivatives have been found in non-human vertebrates. To explore the biological roles of Neu5Gc and its naturally occurring derivatives as well as the corresponding glycans and glycoconjugates, various chemical and enzymatic synthetic methods have been developed to obtain a vast array of glycosides containing Neu5Gc and/or its derivatives. Here we provide an overview on various synthetic methods that have been developed. Among these, the application of highly efficient one-pot multienzyme (OPME) sialylation systems in synthesizing compounds containing Neu5Gc and derivatives has been proven as a powerful strategy.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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Li W, Santra A, Yu H, Slack TJ, Muthana MM, Shi D, Liu Y, Chen X. 9-Azido-9-deoxy-2,3-difluorosialic Acid as a Subnanomolar Inhibitor against Bacterial Sialidases. J Org Chem 2019; 84:6697-6708. [PMID: 31083938 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b00385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A library of 2(a),3(a/e)-difluorosialic acids and their C-5 and/or C-9 derivatives were chemoenzymatically synthesized. Pasteurella multocida sialic acid aldolase (PmAldolase), but not its Escherichia coli homologue (EcAldolase), was found to catalyze the formation of C5-azido analogue of 3-fluoro(a)-sialic acid. In comparison, both PmAldolase and EcAldolase could catalyze the synthesis of 3-fluoro(a/e)-sialic acids and their C-9 analogues although PmAldolase was generally more efficient. The chemoenzymatically synthesized 3-fluoro(a/e)-sialic acid analogues were purified and chemically derivatized to form the desired difluorosialic acids and derivatives. Inhibition studies against several bacterial sialidases and a recombinant human cytosolic sialidase hNEU2 indicated that sialidase inhibition was affected by the C-3 fluorine stereochemistry and derivatization at C-5 and/or C-9 of the inhibitor. Opposite to that observed for influenza A virus sialidases and hNEU2, compounds with axial fluorine at C-3 were better inhibitors (up to 100-fold) against bacterial sialidases compared to their 3F-equatorial counterparts. While C-5-modified compounds were less-efficient antibacterial sialidase inhibitors, 9-N3-modified 2,3-difluoro-Neu5Ac showed increased inhibitory activity against bacterial sialidases. 9-Azido-9-deoxy-2-(e)-3-(a)-difluoro- N-acetylneuraminic acid [2(e)3(a)DFNeu5Ac9N3] was identified as an effective inhibitor with a long effective duration selectively against pathogenic bacterial sialidases from Clostridium perfringens (CpNanI) and Vibrio cholerae.
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- Wanqing Li
- Department of Chemistry , University of California-Davis , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California-Davis , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California-Davis , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California-Davis , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California-Davis , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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Li W, Ghosh T, Bai Y, Santra A, Xiao A, Chen X. A substrate tagging and two-step enzymatic reaction strategy for large-scale synthesis of 2,7-anhydro-sialic acid. Carbohydr Res 2019; 479:41-47. [PMID: 31132641 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2019.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/15/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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A sialyltransferase acceptor tagging and two-step enzymatic reaction strategy has been developed for multigram-scale chemoenzymatic synthesis of 2,7-anhydro-N-acetylneuraminic acid (2,7-anhydro-Neu5Ac), a compound that can serve as a sole carbon source for the growth of Ruminococcus gnavus, a common human gut commensal. Different approaches of introducing hydrophobic UV-active tags to lactose as well-suited sialyltransferase acceptors have been explored and a simple two-step high-yield chemical synthetic procedure has been identified. The UV-active hydrophobic tag facilitates monitoring reaction progress and allows facile product purification by C18-cartridges. A two-step enzyme-catalyzed reaction procedure has been established to combine with C18 cartridge-based purification process for high-yield production of the desired product in multigram scales with the recycled use of chromophore-tagged lactoside starting material and sialoside intermediate. This study demonstrated an environmentally friendly highly-efficient synthetic and purification strategy for the production of 2,7-anhydro-Neu5Ac to explore its potential functions.
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- Wanqing Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
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The translation of biological glycosylation in humans to the clinical applications involves systematic studies using homogeneous samples of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates, which could be accessed by chemical, enzymatic or other biological methods. However, the structural complexity and wide-range variations of glycans and their conjugates represent a major challenge in the synthesis of this class of biomolecules. To help navigate within many methods of oligosaccharide synthesis, this Perspective offers a critical assessment of the most promising synthetic strategies with an eye on the therapeutically relevant targets.
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- Larissa Krasnova
- Department of Chemistry , The Scripps Research Institute , 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road , La Jolla , California 92037 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , The Scripps Research Institute , 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road , La Jolla , California 92037 , United States.,Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica , Taipei 115 , Taiwan
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Slack TJ, Li W, Shi D, McArthur JB, Zhao G, Li Y, Xiao A, Khedri Z, Yu H, Liu Y, Chen X. Triazole-linked transition state analogs as selective inhibitors against V. cholerae sialidase. Bioorg Med Chem 2018; 26:5751-5757. [PMID: 30389408 PMCID: PMC6326775 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2018.10.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2018] [Revised: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 10/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
Abstract
Sialidases or neuraminidases are enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of terminal sialic acids from oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates. They play important roles in bacterial and viral infection and have been attractive targets for drug development. Structure-based drug design has led to potent inhibitors against neuraminidases of influenza A viruses that have been used successfully as approved therapeutics. However, selective and effective inhibitors against bacterial and human sialidases are still being actively pursued. Guided by crystal structural analysis, several derivatives of 2-deoxy-2,3-didehydro-N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac2en or DANA) were designed and synthesized as triazole-linked transition state analogs. Inhibition studies revealed that glycopeptide analog E-(TriazoleNeu5Ac2en)-AKE and compound (TriazoleNeu5Ac2en)-A were selective inhibitors against Vibrio cholerae sialidase, while glycopeptide analog (TriazoleNeu5Ac2en)-AdE selectively inhibited Vibrio cholerae and A. ureafaciens sialidases.
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- Teri J. Slack
- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA,These authors contributed equality to this work
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA,These authors contributed equality to this work
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- Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children’s National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Ave, NW, Washington DC 20012, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children’s National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Ave, NW, Washington DC 20012, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children’s National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Ave, NW, Washington DC 20012, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA,Corresponding author. Tel: +1 530 754 6037; fax: +1 530 752 8995. (X. Chen)
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Xiao A, Slack TJ, Li Y, Shi D, Yu H, Li W, Liu Y, Chen X. Streptococcus pneumoniae Sialidase SpNanB-Catalyzed One-Pot Multienzyme (OPME) Synthesis of 2,7-Anhydro-Sialic Acids as Selective Sialidase Inhibitors. J Org Chem 2018; 83:10798-10804. [PMID: 30105908 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Streptococcus pneumoniae sialidase SpNanB is an intramolecular trans-sialidase (IT-sialidase) and a virulence factor that is essential for streptococcal infection of the upper and lower respiratory tract. SpNanB catalyzes the formation of 2,7-anhydro- N-acetylneuraminic acid (2,7-anhydro-Neu5Ac), a potential prebiotic that can be used as the sole carbon source of a common human gut commensal anaerobic bacterium. We report here the development of an efficient one-pot multienzyme (OPME) system for synthesizing 2,7-anhydro-Neu5Ac and its derivatives. Based on a crystal structure analysis, an N-cyclohexyl derivative of 2,7-anhydro-neuraminic acid was designed, synthesized, and shown to be a selective inhibitor against SpNanB and another Streptococcus pneumoniae sialidase SpNanC. This study demonstrates a new strategy of synthesizing 2,7-anhydro-sialic acids in a gram scale and the potential application of their derivatives as selective sialidase inhibitors.
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- An Xiao
- Department of Chemistry , University of California , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Children's National Medical Center , 111 Michigan Ave , NW, Washington, DC 20012 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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- Children's National Medical Center , 111 Michigan Ave , NW, Washington, DC 20012 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California , One Shields Avenue , Davis , California 95616 , United States
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Alisson-Silva F, Liu JZ, Diaz SL, Deng L, Gareau MG, Marchelletta R, Chen X, Nizet V, Varki N, Barrett KE, Varki A. Human evolutionary loss of epithelial Neu5Gc expression and species-specific susceptibility to cholera. PLoS Pathog 2018; 14:e1007133. [PMID: 29912959 PMCID: PMC6023241 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Revised: 06/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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While infectious agents have typical host preferences, the noninvasive enteric bacterium Vibrio cholerae is remarkable for its ability to survive in many environments, yet cause diarrheal disease (cholera) only in humans. One key V. cholerae virulence factor is its neuraminidase (VcN), which releases host intestinal epithelial sialic acids as a nutrition source and simultaneously remodels intestinal polysialylated gangliosides into monosialoganglioside GM1. GM1 is the optimal binding target for the B subunit of a second virulence factor, the AB5 cholera toxin (Ctx). This coordinated process delivers the CtxA subunit into host epithelia, triggering fluid loss via cAMP-mediated activation of anion secretion and inhibition of electroneutral NaCl absorption. We hypothesized that human-specific and human-universal evolutionary loss of the sialic acid N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) and the consequent excess of N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) contributes to specificity at one or more steps in pathogenesis. Indeed, VcN was less efficient in releasing Neu5Gc than Neu5Ac. We show enhanced binding of Ctx to sections of small intestine and isolated polysialogangliosides from human-like Neu5Gc-deficient Cmah-/- mice compared to wild-type, suggesting that Neu5Gc impeded generation of the GM1 target. Human epithelial cells artificially expressing Neu5Gc were also less susceptible to Ctx binding and CtxA intoxication following VcN treatment. Finally, we found increased fluid secretion into loops of Cmah-/- mouse small intestine injected with Ctx, indicating an additional direct effect on ion transport. Thus, V. cholerae evolved into a human-specific pathogen partly by adapting to the human evolutionary loss of Neu5Gc, optimizing multiple steps in cholera pathogenesis.
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- Frederico Alisson-Silva
- Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
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- Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
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- Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis, Davis CA, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
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- Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AV); (KEB)
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- Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AV); (KEB)
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McArthur JB, Yu H, Tasnima N, Lee CM, Fisher AJ, Chen X. α2-6-Neosialidase: A Sialyltransferase Mutant as a Sialyl Linkage-Specific Sialidase. ACS Chem Biol 2018. [PMID: 29543427 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The lack of α2-6-linkage specific sialidases limits the structural and functional studies of sialic-acid-containing molecules. Photobacterium damselae α2-6-sialyltransferase (Pd2,6ST) was shown previously to have α2-6-specific, but weak, sialidase activity. Here, we develop a high-throughput blue-white colony screening method to identify Pd2,6ST mutants with improved α2-6-sialidase activity from mutant libraries generated by sequential saturation mutagenesis. A triple mutant (Pd2,6ST S232L/T356S/W361F) has been identified with 100-fold improved activity, high α2-6-sialyl linkage selectivity, and ability to cleave two common sialic acid forms, N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) and N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc). It is a valuable tool for sialoglycan structural analysis and functional characterization. The sequential saturation mutagenesis and screening strategy developed here can be explored to evolve other linkage-specific neoglycosidases from the corresponding glycosyltransferases.
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- John B. McArthur
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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Santra A, Xiao A, Yu H, Li W, Li Y, Ngo L, McArthur JB, Chen X. A Diazido Mannose Analogue as a Chemoenzymatic Synthon for Synthesizing Di-N
-acetyllegionaminic Acid-Containing Glycosides. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201712022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Abhishek Santra
- Department of Chemistry; University of California, Davis; One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California, Davis; One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California, Davis; One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California, Davis; One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California, Davis; One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California, Davis; One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California, Davis; One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California, Davis; One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA
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Santra A, Xiao A, Yu H, Li W, Li Y, Ngo L, McArthur JB, Chen X. A Diazido Mannose Analogue as a Chemoenzymatic Synthon for Synthesizing Di-N-acetyllegionaminic Acid-Containing Glycosides. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:2929-2933. [PMID: 29349857 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201712022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A chemoenzymatic synthon was designed to expand the scope of the chemoenzymatic synthesis of carbohydrates. The synthon was enzymatically converted into carbohydrate analogues, which were readily derivatized chemically to produce the desired targets. The strategy is demonstrated for the synthesis of glycosides containing 7,9-di-N-acetyllegionaminic acid (Leg5,7Ac2 ), a bacterial nonulosonic acid (NulO) analogue of sialic acid. A versatile library of α2-3/6-linked Leg5,7Ac2 -glycosides was built by using chemically synthesized 2,4-diazido-2,4,6-trideoxymannose as a chemoenzymatic synthon for highly efficient one-pot multienzyme (OPME) sialylation followed by downstream chemical conversion of the azido groups into acetamido groups. The syntheses required 10 steps from commercially available d-fucose and had an overall yield of 34-52 %, thus representing a significant improvement over previous methods. Free Leg5,7Ac2 monosaccharide was also synthesized by a sialic acid aldolase-catalyzed reaction.
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- Abhishek Santra
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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Xiao A, Li Y, Li X, Santra A, Yu H, Li W, Chen X. Sialidase-catalyzed one-pot multienzyme (OPME) synthesis of sialidase transition-state analogue inhibitors. ACS Catal 2018; 8:43-47. [PMID: 29713561 PMCID: PMC5920526 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Sialidase transition state analog inhibitor 2,3-dehydro-2-deoxy-N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac2en, DANA) has played a leading role in developing clinically used anti-influenza virus drugs. Taking advantage of the Neu5Ac2en-forming catalytic property of Streptococcus pneumoniae sialidase SpNanC, an effective one-pot multienzyme (OPME) strategy has been developed to directly access Neu5Ac2en and its C-5, C-9, and C-7-analogs from N-acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) and analogs. The obtained Neu5Ac2en analogs can be further derivatized at various positions to generate a larger inhibitor library. Inhibition studies demonstrated improved selectivity of several C-5- or C-9-modified Neu5Ac2en derivatives against several bacterial sialidases. The study provides an efficient enzymatic method to access sialidase inhibitors with improved selectivity.
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- An Xiao
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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Li W, Xiao A, Li Y, Yu H, Chen X. Chemoenzymatic synthesis of Neu5Ac9NAc-containing α2-3- and α2-6-linked sialosides and their use for sialidase substrate specificity studies. Carbohydr Res 2017; 451:51-58. [PMID: 28961426 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2017.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2017] [Revised: 09/09/2017] [Accepted: 09/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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O-Acetylation of sialic acid (Sia) modulates its recognition by sialic acid-binding proteins and plays an important role in biological and pathological processes. 9-O-Acetylation is the most common modification of sialic acid in human. However, study of O-acetylated sialoglycans is hampered due to the instability of O-acetyl group towards pH changes and sensitivity to esterases. Our previous studies demonstrated a chemical biology method to this problem by replacing the oxygen atom in the C9 ester group of sialic acid by a nitrogen to form an amide. Here, we synthesized a library of sixteen new 9-acetamido-9-deoxy-N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac9NAc)-containing α2-3- and α2-6-linked sialosides with various underlying glycans using efficient one-pot three-enzyme (OP3E) sialylation systems. Neu5Ac9NAc-containing compounds with a para-nitrophenol aglycon have been used together with their 9-O-acetyl analogs in microtiter plate-based high-throughput substrate specificity studies of nine different sialidases including those from humans and bacteria. In general, similar to 9-O-acetylation, 9-N-acetyl modification of sialic acid in the substrates lowers sialic acid-cleavage activity of most sialidases. In most cases, Neu5Ac9NAc is a good analog of 9-O-acetyl sialic acid. However, exceptions do exist. For example, 9-N- and 9-O-acetyl modifications have different effects on the sialosides cleave efficiencies of a commercially available C. perfringens sialidase as well as recombinant Streptococcus pneumoniae sialidase SpNanC and Bifidobacterium infantis sialidase BiNanH2. The mechanism for the difference awaits further investigation.
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- Wanqing Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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McArthur JB, Yu H, Zeng J, Chen X. Converting Pasteurella multocidaα2-3-sialyltransferase 1 (PmST1) to a regioselective α2-6-sialyltransferase by saturation mutagenesis and regioselective screening. Org Biomol Chem 2017; 15:1700-1709. [PMID: 28134951 DOI: 10.1039/c6ob02702d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A microtiter plate-based screening assay capable of determining the activity and regioselectivity of sialyltransferases was developed. This assay was used to screen two single-site saturation libraries of Pasteurella multocidaα2-3-sialyltransferase 1 (PmST1) for α2-6-sialyltransferase activity and total sialyltransferase activity. PmST1 double mutant P34H/M144L was found to be the most effective α2-6-sialyltransferase and displayed 50% reduced donor hydrolysis and 50-fold reduced sialidase activity compared to the wild-type PmST1. It retained the donor substrate promiscuity of the wild-type enzyme and was used in an efficient one-pot multienzyme (OPME) system to selectively catalyze the sialylation of the terminal galactose residue in a multigalactose-containing tetrasaccharide lacto-N-neotetraoside.
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- John B McArthur
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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