Jin Xuefeng, Cheng Hanchao, Chen Xiaohui, Cao Xuefeng, Xiao Cong, Ding Fengling, Qu Huirong, Wang Peng George, Feng Yan, Yang Guang-Yu
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Department of Clinical Pharmaceutics, The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China.
Commun Chem. 2024 Jan 18;7(1):17. doi: 10.1038/s42004-024-01102-9.
Gangliosides play vital biological regulatory roles and are associated with neurological system diseases, malignancies, and immune deficiencies. They have received extensive attention in developing targeted drugs and diagnostic markers. However, it is difficult to obtain enough structurally defined gangliosides and analogs especially at an industrial-relevant scale, which prevent exploring structure-activity relationships and identifying drug ingredients. Here, we report a highly modular chemoenzymatic cascade assembly (MOCECA) strategy for customized and large-scale synthesis of ganglioside analogs with various glycan and ceramide epitopes. We typically accessed five gangliosides with therapeutic promising and systematically prepared ten GM1 analogs with diverse ceramides. Through further process amplification, we achieved industrial production of ganglioside GM1 in the form of modular assembly at hectogram scale. Using MOCECA-synthesized GM1 analogs, we found unique ceramide modifications on GM1 could enhance the ability to promote neurite outgrowth. By comparing the structures with synthetic analogs, we further resolved the problem of contradicting descriptions for GM1 components in different pharmaceutical documents by reinterpreting the exact two-component structures of commercialized GM1 drugs. Because of its applicability and stability, the MOCECA strategy can be extended to prepare other glycosphingolipid structures, which may pave the way for developing new glycolipid drugs.
神经节苷脂发挥着至关重要的生物调节作用,与神经系统疾病、恶性肿瘤和免疫缺陷相关。它们在开发靶向药物和诊断标志物方面受到了广泛关注。然而,难以获得足够数量的结构明确的神经节苷脂及其类似物,尤其是在工业相关规模上,这阻碍了对构效关系的探索和药物成分的鉴定。在此,我们报告了一种高度模块化的化学酶级联组装(MOCECA)策略,用于定制和大规模合成具有各种聚糖和神经酰胺表位的神经节苷脂类似物。我们通常获得了五种具有治疗前景的神经节苷脂,并系统地制备了十种具有不同神经酰胺的GM1类似物。通过进一步扩大工艺规模,我们实现了以模块化组装形式在百克规模上工业生产神经节苷脂GM1。使用MOCECA合成的GM1类似物,我们发现GM1上独特的神经酰胺修饰可以增强促进神经突生长的能力。通过将结构与合成类似物进行比较,我们通过重新解释商业化GM1药物的确切双组分结构,进一步解决了不同药学文献中对GM1成分描述相互矛盾的问题。由于其适用性和稳定性,MOCECA策略可扩展用于制备其他糖鞘脂结构,这可能为开发新型糖脂药物铺平道路。
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