Diazo transfer and click chemistry in the solid phase syntheses of lysine-based glycodendrimers as antagonists against Escherichia coli FimH

Mol Pharm. 2012 Mar 5;9(3):394-403. doi: 10.1021/mp200490b. Epub 2012 Jan 20.

Abstract

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infections, ultimately leading to cystitis and pyelonephritis, are initially mediated by the adhesion of the bacterial FimH to the transmembrane glycoprotein uroplakin-1a present at the surface of urothelial cells. The adhesion is based on the recognition and high avidity binding between the high-mannose glycans of the uroplakin and the FimH, a mannose-specific lectin located at the tip of type 1 fimbriae. We found that synthetic multiantennary mannopyranosides glycodendrons, harboring triazole functionality at the anomeric position, were potent hemagglutination inhibitors of guinea pig erythrocytes and E. coli. A mannosylated dendrimer exposing up to sixteen sugar residues showed an HAI titer of 1 μM and was thus 500-fold more potent than the corresponding monovalent methyl α-d-mannopyranoside. The synthesis of the glycodendrons involved highly efficient solid-phase synthesis of branched l-lysine scaffolds, diazo transfer reaction on the terminal amine residues, and 1,3-dipolar copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition using propargyl α-d-mannopyranoside.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adhesins, Escherichia coli
  • Animals
  • Dendrimers / chemical synthesis*
  • Dendrimers / chemistry
  • Dendrimers / pharmacology*
  • Fimbriae Proteins / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Guinea Pigs
  • Hemagglutination / drug effects
  • Lysine / chemistry*
  • Solid-Phase Synthesis Techniques / methods*

Substances

  • Adhesins, Escherichia coli
  • Dendrimers
  • fimH protein, E coli
  • Fimbriae Proteins
  • Lysine