State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance & Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100050, PR China.
Future Med Chem. 2019 Jun;11(12):1403-1415. doi: 10.4155/fmc-2019-0011. Epub 2019 Jul 15.
Chondroitin sulfate (CS) is a class of highly sulfated polysaccharides that possess many important biological functions. The heterogeneity of CS limits pharmacological research and leads to ambiguous mechanisms. Thus, glycomimetics are demanded as replacement of natural polysaccharides to explore important biological processes. Here the preparation of CS glycodendrimers is reported as well as their use as CS mimetics to regulate the NF-κB pathway. Multivalent presentation of sugar epitopes on appropriate dendrimer scaffolds increased the suppression of the NF-κB pathway. The interaction between CS-E molecules and TNF-α was examined by nuclear magnetic resonance technology. Overall, the glycodendrimer reported here may be potentially employed as molecular tool to investigate the biological functions of CS.
硫酸软骨素(CS)是一类高度硫酸化的多糖,具有许多重要的生物学功能。CS 的异质性限制了药理学研究,并导致机制不明确。因此,需要糖模拟物来替代天然多糖,以探索重要的生物学过程。本文报道了 CS 糖基树突的制备及其作为 CS 模拟物调节 NF-κB 途径的用途。在适当的树突状支架上多价呈现糖表位增加了对 NF-κB 途径的抑制。通过核磁共振技术研究了 CS-E 分子与 TNF-α 的相互作用。总的来说,本文报道的糖基树突可能可作为研究 CS 生物学功能的分子工具。
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