Diazirine-functionalized mannosides for photoaffinity labeling: trouble with FimH

• Femke Beiroth,
• Tomas Koudelka,
• Thorsten Overath,
• Stefan D. Knight,
• Andreas Tholey and
• Thisbe K. Lindhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1890–1900, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.163

• , Christiana Albertina University of Kiel, Niemannsweg 11, D-24105 Kiel, Germany Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala Biomedical Centre, P.O. Box 596, S-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden 10.3762/bjoc.14.163 Abstract Photoaffinity labeling is frequently employed for the investigation of

• X-ray crystallography, studies in solution add valuable information in molecular recognition studies as they take molecular dynamics as well as solvent effects into consideration. In the latter respect, photoaffinity labeling has evolved as a useful tool for studies under physiological conditions [1

• ][2][3][4]. Photoaffinity labeling requires a ligand equipped with a photolabile group, which can be converted into a highly reactive intermediate upon irradiation with light of an appropriate wavelength. This technique involves incubation of the photolabile ligand with the target protein (receptor

Glyco-gold nanoparticles: synthesis and applications

• Federica Compostella,
• Olimpia Pitirollo,
• Alessandro Silvestri and
• Laura Polito

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1008–1021, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.100

• embedded on PEGylated-gold nanoparticles and the sugar moiety displayed on the outer shell of the nanosystem is available for interaction with lectin. In 2016, Sakurai and co-workers [81] combined the multiple display of the carbohydrate moiety on AuNPs with the photoaffinity labeling (PAL), to concentrate

• coating. When galactoside-coated AuNPs interact with lectin, AuNPs aggregates, inducing a plasmonic band shift. Reprinted with permission from [25]. Copyright 2015 American Chemical Society. A photoaffinity labeling (PAL) approach based on glyco-gold nanoparticles is able to recognize and isolate only the

Design and synthesis of tag-free photoprobes for the identification of the molecular target for CCG-1423, a novel inhibitor of the Rho/MKL1/SRF signaling pathway

• Jessica L. Bell,
• Andrew J. Haak,
• Susan M. Wade,
• Yihan Sun,
• Richard R. Neubig and
• Scott D. Larsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 966–973, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.111

• , click ligation of a fluorescent dye, and gel electrophoresis revealed specific labeling of a single 24 kDa band that could be blocked with an active competitor. Future work will focus on identifying the labeled protein(s). Keywords: CCG-1423; click ligation; photoaffinity labeling; Rho pathway

Development of peptidomimetic ligands of Pro-Leu-Gly-NH₂ as allosteric modulators of the dopamine D₂ receptor

• Swapna Bhagwanth,
• Ram K. Mishra and
• Rodney L. Johnson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 204–214, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.24

• /bjoc.9.24 Abstract A variety of stable, small-molecule peptidomimetic ligands have been developed to elucidate the mechanism by which the neuropeptide Pro-Leu-Gly-NH2 (PLG) modulates dopaminergic neurotransmission. Photoaffinity labeling ligands based upon PLG peptidomimetics have been used to

• receptor agonists to dopamine receptors [7], and to prevent neuroleptic drug-induced supersensitivity of post-synaptic dopamine receptors [8]. The molecular basis behind this enhancement of dopaminergic neurotransmission did not become known until several decades later when photoaffinity-labeling

Continuous flow photolysis of aryl azides: Preparation of 3H-azepinones

• Farhan R. Bou-Hamdan,
• François Lévesque,
• Alexander G. O'Brien and
• Peter H. Seeberger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1124–1129, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.129

• tools, both for preparative heterocycle synthesis [16][17] and for photoaffinity labeling of proteins [18][19][20]. The photolysis of aryl azide 1 [21], a well-studied and widely used reaction [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30], generates the singlet aryl nitrene intermediate 12 (Scheme 1). Ring

En route to photoaffinity labeling of the bacterial lectin FimH

• Thisbe K. Lindhorst,
• Michaela Märten,
• Andreas Fuchs and
• Stefan D. Knight

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 810–822, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.91

• FimH that can complex α-D-mannosides. However, as the precise nature of the ligand–receptor interactions in mannose-specific adhesion is not yet fully understood, it is of interest to identify carbohydrate recognition domains on the fimbrial lectin also in solution. Photoaffinity labeling serves as an

• appropriate methodology in this endeavour and hence biotin-labeled photoactive mannosides were designed and synthesized for photoaffinity labeling of FimH. So far, the photo-crosslinking properties of the new photoactive mannosides could be detailed with the peptide angiotensin II and labeling of FimH was

• shown both by MS/MS studies and by affino dot–blot analysis. Keywords: diazirines; FimH; lectins; MS/MS analysis; photoactive mannoside ligands; photoaffinity labeling; Introduction Photoaffinity labeling is a technique by which ligand binding sites of a receptor protein can be identified in solution