Linked Glycopeptides

The advantages of the methoxyethyl ester over some of the other water-solubilizing esters are that many of the amino acid esters are crystalline and thus easily purified, are cleaved with a number of readily available lipases, and are useful for the synthesis of A-linked glycopeptides. ... 

The complex oligosaccharides comprising the Y and T antennae of three glycoproteins have been studied by c.d. spectroscopy. Five antennae were studied in all, because two of the proteins have two closely related forms. The c.d. for the three fundamental oligosaccharides are given in Fig. 36. These are asparagine-linked glycopeptides, and the intense, conservative c.d. band that results from the interaction between the two amides has already been discussed in Section III,2. Fig. 36 shows that the c.d. spectra... 

Removal of the oligosaccharide chain from the glycoprotein usually involves the use of one of three main methods treatment with NaOH-NaBH4, hydrazinolysis, or proteolysis.34-36 The NaOH-NaBH4 treatment is used to release, somewhat specifically, oligosaccharides O-linked to serine and threonine. Hydrazinolysis is used to break N-linkages, and proteolysis, to isolate glycopeptides. Each method apparently still has some drawbacks. 

The N-linked pentasaccharide core Man3(GlcNAc)2 glycopeptide bearing the extracellular MMP inducer sequence 517 (emmprin 34—58) has been successfully linked to G(l) PAMAM aminodendrimer by thioester activation (Fig. 63). The resulting octameric 30 kDa construct was obtained in low yield, but was purified by preparative electrophoresis and fully characterized by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The multivalent architecture was built to evaluate the requirement of emmprin multimerization for inducing MMP expression.384... 

Imperiali, B. and O Connor, S. 1999. Effect of N-linked glycosylation on glycopeptide and glycoprotein structure. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 3(6), 643-649. 

In fact, other studies have shown that TMSOTf catalyzes the glycosylation of a silylated acceptor with a silylated hemiacetal donor [49]. Nudel man s procedure was applied to the synthesis [1-glucuronide 30, isolated in 57% yield. Kiyoi and Kondo have applied the TMSOTf activation protocol to protected L-fucose hemiacetal donors for glycopeptide synthesis and obtained glycopeptide fragment 31 in 74% yield (a p, 20 1) [50], Posner and Bull have developed a procedure that uses excess TMSOTf in the presence of molecular sieves (SYLOSIV A4) to synthesize various l.l -linked disaccharides such as the galactopyranose dimer 32 [51,52]. 

Chemical-ionization, mass fragmentography was used for quantitative determination of variously linked monosaccharides in a study of the high-molecular-weight glycopeptide of erythrocytes.75 It appears... 

Endo-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-)3-D-glucosidase has been used in structural studies of glycopeptides.30 The enzyme cleaves the linkage between the two 2-amino-2-deoxyglucose residues that constitute the chitobiose residue linked to L-asparagine in glycoproteins containing... 

The solid-phase synthesis of glycopeptides was first realized by applying the polymeric benzyl ester principle of Merrifield. According to this methodology, Lavielle and associates (50) used 7V-(tm-butyloxycarbonyl)-<9-glycosyl serine derivative 153 for condensation with resin-linked alanine 154. 

Scheme 2.21 Synthesis of iV-linked glycopeptides on a solid support.

Scheme 13.18 JV-linked glycopeptide with a triantennary structure.

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