Carbohydrate PEGylation, an approach to improve pharmacological potency

• M. Eugenia Giorgi,
• Rosalía Agusti and
• Rosa M. de Lederkremer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1433–1444, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.147

• yielding a more defined product. Thus, glycoPEGylation was successfully applied to the introduction of a PEGylated sialic acid to a preexisting or enzymatically linked glycan in a protein. Carbohydrates are now recognized as playing an important role in host–pathogen interactions in protozoal, bacterial

• -carbohydrates, in particular multiarm PEGylation, is presented. Keywords: bioavailability; carbohydrates; conjugates; glycoPEGylation; multivalent glycosystems; multivalent PEGylation; Introduction In recent years, the modification of biotherapeutics by covalent conjugation with polyethyleneglycol (PEG) known

• interaction with the target site. GlycoPEGylation of proteins PEGylation of proteins is usually performed on the ε-amine group of lysine or on the unprotected α-amino of the N-terminal amino acid using N-hydroxysuccinimidyl (NHS) activated PEGs or aldehyde PEGs. This conjugation leads to heterogeneous