Polymeric iminosugars improve the activity of carbohydrate-processing enzymes

Bioconjug Chem. 2015 Apr 15;26(4):766-72. doi: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.5b00081. Epub 2015 Mar 13.

Abstract

Multivalent iminosugars have recently emerged as powerful tools to inhibit the activities of specific glycosidases. In this work, biocompatible dextrans were coated with iminosugars to form linear and ramified polymers with unprecedently high valencies (from 20 to 900) to probe the evolution of the multivalent inhibition as a function of ligand valency. This study led to the discovery that polyvalent iminosugars can also significantly enhance, not only inhibit, the enzymatic activity of specific glycoside-hydrolase, as observed on two galactosidases, a fucosidase, and a bacterial mannoside phosphorylase for which an impressive 70-fold activation was even reached. The concept of glycosidase activation is largely unexplored, with a unique recent example of small-molecules activators of a bacterial O-GlcNAc hydrolase. The possibility of using these polymers as "artificial enzyme effectors" may therefore open up new perspectives in therapeutics and biocatalysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Coated Materials, Biocompatible / chemistry*
  • Dextrans / chemistry*
  • Enzyme Activation
  • Glycoside Hydrolases / chemistry*
  • Imino Sugars / chemistry*
  • Ligands
  • Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases / chemistry
  • Phosphorylases / chemistry
  • Polymerization
  • alpha-L-Fucosidase / chemistry

Substances

  • Coated Materials, Biocompatible
  • Dextrans
  • Imino Sugars
  • Ligands
  • Phosphorylases
  • Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases
  • Glycoside Hydrolases
  • alpha-L-Fucosidase