Construction of highly glycosylated mucin-type glycopeptides based on microwave-assisted solid-phase syntheses and enzymatic modifications

J Org Chem. 2006 Apr 14;71(8):3051-63. doi: 10.1021/jo0526643.

Abstract

A MUC1-related glycopeptide having five core-2 hexasaccharide branches (C330H527N46O207, MW = 8450.9) was synthesized by a new strategy using a combination of microwave-assisted solid-phase synthesis (MA-SPGS) and enzymatic sugar elongation. Synthesis of a key glycopeptide intermediate was best achieved in a combination of PEGA [poly(ethylene glycol)-poly-(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) copolymer] resin and MA-SPGS using glycosylated amino acid building blocks with high speed and high purity. Deprotection of the glycopeptide intermediate and subsequent glycosyltransferase-catalyzed sugar elongations were performed for generation of the additional diversities with the sugar moieties of glycopeptides using beta1,4-galactosyltransferase (beta1,4-GalT) and two kinds of alpha2,3-sialyltransferases [ST3Gal III; alpha2,3-(N)-SiaT and ST3Gal II; alpha2,3-(O)-SiaT]. These reactions proceeded successfully in the presence of 0.2% Triton X-100 to convert the chemically synthesized trisaccharide glycans to disialylated hexasaccharide.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amino Acids / chemistry
  • Carbohydrate Conformation
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Glycopeptides / chemical synthesis
  • Glycopeptides / chemistry*
  • Glycopeptides / metabolism*
  • Glycosylation
  • Glycosyltransferases / metabolism*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Microwaves*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mucins / chemical synthesis
  • Mucins / chemistry*
  • Mucins / metabolism*
  • Polyethylene Glycols / chemistry
  • Polystyrenes / chemistry
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • Glycopeptides
  • Mucins
  • Polystyrenes
  • Tentagel resin
  • bis(polyoxyethylene bis(amine))
  • Polyethylene Glycols
  • Glycosyltransferases