Okamoto Ryo, Souma Shingo, Kajihara Yasuhiro
International Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yokohama City University, 22-2, Seto, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0027, Japan.
J Org Chem. 2009 Mar 20;74(6):2494-501. doi: 10.1021/jo8026164.
This paper reports the synthesis of a 40-residue glycopeptide having two antigenic sialyl-T(N) (NeuAc-alpha-(2,6)-GalNAc-Thr) residues in the MUC1 sequence. This target glycopeptide is a tandem repeat form of 20-residue glycopeptides. For the synthesis of this large molecule, native chemical ligation (NCL) at the serine site was used ((Cys)NCL(Ser)). The concept of (Cys)NCL(Ser) relies on the following: (1) conventional NCL between peptide-alpha-thioester and the cysteine residue of another peptide segment; (2) methylation of the thiol that was used for NCL; (3) acidic CNBr conversion of the cysteine residue to the serine residue forming an O-ester linkage; and (4) an O- to N-acyl shift to couple the two glycopeptides through a native amide bond. To synthesize glycopeptide having an acid-labile sugar moiety, a 20-residue glycopeptide-alpha-thioester and 20-residue glycopeptide having a cysteine residue at the N-terminal were synthesized by solid phase glycopeptide synthesis, and then coupled by (Cys)NCL(Ser). As the result of extensive investigation, CNBr activation with an additional acid (trifluoroacetic acid) was found to be essential to obtain good reactivity and yield, and this condition afforded a tandem repeat form of 40-residue sialylglycopeptide having two sialyl-T(N) residues. In addition to this, it was demonstrated that the cysteine thiol protected by the acetoamidomethyl (Acm) group did not react with the CNBr reagent, and therefore (Cys)NCL(Ser) can be used for repetitive native chemical ligation in the presence of a protecting N-terminal cysteine residue with an Acm group.
本文报道了一种在MUC1序列中具有两个抗原性唾液酸-T(N)(NeuAc-α-(2,6)-GalNAc-Thr)残基的40个残基糖肽的合成。该目标糖肽是20个残基糖肽的串联重复形式。为了合成这种大分子,在丝氨酸位点使用了天然化学连接(NCL)((Cys)NCL(Ser))。(Cys)NCL(Ser)的概念基于以下几点:(1)肽-α-硫酯与另一个肽段的半胱氨酸残基之间的传统NCL;(2)用于NCL的硫醇的甲基化;(3)半胱氨酸残基经酸性溴化氰转化为丝氨酸残基形成O-酯键;(4)O-到N-酰基转移,通过天然酰胺键连接两个糖肽。为了合成具有酸不稳定糖部分的糖肽,通过固相糖肽合成法合成了一个20个残基的糖肽-α-硫酯和一个在N端具有半胱氨酸残基的20个残基糖肽,然后通过(Cys)NCL(Ser)进行偶联。经过广泛研究发现,额外添加酸(三氟乙酸)进行溴化氰活化对于获得良好的反应性和产率至关重要,这种条件得到了具有两个唾液酸-T(N)残基的40个残基唾液酸糖肽的串联重复形式。除此之外,还证明了由乙酰氨基甲基(Acm)基团保护的半胱氨酸硫醇不与溴化氰试剂反应,因此(Cys)NCL(Ser)可用于在存在带有Acm基团的N端保护半胱氨酸残基的情况下进行重复的天然化学连接。