ISSN:
0947-6539
Keywords:
conformational analysis
;
galabioside
;
hydrogen bonds
;
protein recognition
;
thioglycosides
;
Chemistry
;
General Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The two thio analogues (2 and 3) of TMSEt galabioside [2-(trimethylsilyl)ethyl 4-O-(α-D-galactopyranosyl)-β-D-galactopyranoside, 1], having anomeric sulfur instead of anomeric oxygen atoms, were synthesized and their conformations investigated by NMR and computational (MM 3) methods. A spacer galabioside was covalently coupled to aminated microtiter plates, and binding of a bacterial pilus adhesin (PapG) to the plates was inhibited by the soluble ligands 1, 2 and 3. The ligand 2, which has an intersaccharidic sulfur linkage, was a much less efficient inhibitor than 1, which has the natural oxygen linkage. The inhibitory power of ligand 3 was only slightly less than that of 1. An NMR experiment with 1 and 2, in which hydroxyl-group hydrogens had been partially (50%) substituted by deuterium, demonstrated the presence (in 1) and absence (in 2) of an intramolecular (HO 2′ - HO 6) hydrogen bond. This result indicates that the conformations of 1 and 2 are different and that the difference is sufficient to cause the observed (≈ 30 times) reduction of the saccharide-protein binding strength.
Additional Material:
8 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.19960020310
