ISSN:
0018-019X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Organic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The structure of the β-glycosidase inhibitors 1-7 and 10-13 suggests that protonation of O-C(1) (the glycosidic O-center) of the substrate by a carboxy group of the retaining β-glycosidases does not occur in the plane perpendicular to the ring of the glycon (β-side; ‘from the top’), but in the plane of the ring (‘from the side’). The triazoles 17 and 18 have been prepared in six steps from the L-xylofuranose 21. They possess a CH group instead of the N-center of the related tetrazoles 4 and 5, corresponding to the glycosidic O-atom, and a very similar structure, both in solution and in the solid state. Unlike the tetrazoles, however, which are good-to-medium inhibitors of retaining β-glycosidases, the triazoles do not inhibit the β-glycosidases from sweet almonds, snail, and bovine liver, and only slightly inhibit the β-glucosidase from Caldocellum saccharolyticum. This is in keeping with the proposed direction of protonation in the plane of the saccharide ring and with modelling studies, docking 4 into the active site of the white clover cyanogenic β-glucosidase and 6 into the E. coli β-galactosidase and the Lactococcus lactis 6-phospho-β-galactosidase.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19960790814
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