Development of a chemical scaffold for inhibiting nonribosomal peptide synthetases in live bacterial cells

• Fumihiro Ishikawa,
• Sho Konno,
• Hideaki Kakeya and
• Genzoh Tanabe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 445–451, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.39

• inhibitors of NRPSs, A-domain inhibitors have been widely developed as potential therapeutic agents for treating infectious diseases. Aryl acid A-domains are involved in the synthesis of several bacterial siderophores such as vibriobactin from Vibrio cholera, yersiniabactin from Yersinia pestis, and

Convenient synthesis of the pentasaccharide repeating unit corresponding to the cell wall O-antigen of Escherichia albertii O4

• Tapasi Manna,
• Arin Gucchait and
• Anup Kumar Misra

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 106–110, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.12

• cell wall polysaccharides with suitable proteins, which include vaccines against Haemophilia influenza type b (Hib) [12][13], meningitis [14], pneumococcal infections [15][16] and enteric diseases such as cholera [17], diarrhea [18] and urinary tract infections [19]. Despite the possibility of

Carbohydrate inhibitors of cholera toxin

• Vajinder Kumar and
• W. Bruce Turnbull

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 484–498, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.34

• Vajinder Kumar W. Bruce Turnbull Department of Chemistry, Akal University, Talwandi Sabo, Punjab, India School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK 10.3762/bjoc.14.34 Abstract Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by a protein toxin

• released by Vibrio cholera in the host’s intestine. The toxin enters intestinal epithelial cells after binding to specific carbohydrates on the cell surface. Over recent years, considerable effort has been invested in developing inhibitors of toxin adhesion that mimic the carbohydrate ligand, with

• particular emphasis on exploiting the multivalency of the toxin to enhance activity. In this review we introduce the structural features of the toxin that have guided the design of diverse inhibitors and summarise recent developments in the field. Keywords: carbohydrate; cholera; multivalency; toxin

Glycoscience@Synchrotron: Synchrotron radiation applied to structural glycoscience

• Serge Pérez and
• Daniele de Sanctis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1145–1167, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.114

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

• , on the base of different expression level of the bacterial lectin FimH with a colorimetric assay. A simple and fast bioassay has been developed by Lee et al. [83] to recognize cholera toxin (CT), a protein secreted by the Vibrio cholerae bacterium which is responsible for cholera disease. A thiol

• (FRET). In the presence of the analyte (i.e., cholera toxin), galactose-AuNPs recognize the protein, avoiding the formation of QD complex and, consequently recovering the fluorescence. This method, although based on a monosaccharide, showed the impressive improvement obtained for using multivalent glyco

Clicked and long spaced galactosyl- and lactosylcalix[4]arenes: new multivalent galectin-3 ligands

• Silvia Bernardi,
• Paola Fezzardi,
• Gabriele Rispoli,
• Stefania E. Sestito,
• Francesco Peri,
• Francesco Sansone and
• Alessandro Casnati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1672–1680, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.175

• efficient multivalent ligands for a series of pathological lectins. For instance, cholera toxin is bound rather efficiently by calix[4]arene [16] and calix[5]arene [17] derivatives, while examples of Pseudomonas aeruginosa LecB binding were reported with galactosylcalixarenes blocked in different

Bis(β-lactosyl)-[60]fullerene as novel class of glycolipids useful for the detection and the decontamination of biological toxins of the Ricinus communis family

• Hirofumi Dohi,
• Takeru Kanazawa,
• Akihiro Saito,
• Keita Sato,
• Hirotaka Uzawa,
• Yasuo Seto and
• Yoshihiro Nishida

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1504–1512, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.155

• ; ricin; Introduction Carbohydrate-binding proteins (lectins) and proteotoxins, e.g., verotoxins [1][2] and cholera toxins [3], can cause serious damages to human cells. The carbohydrate binding proteins are able to interact with cell-surface glycoconjugates such as glycoproteins and glycolipids to

High-affinity multivalent wheat germ agglutinin ligands by one-pot click reaction

• Henning S. G. Beckmann,
• Heiko M. Möller and
• Valentin Wittmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 819–826, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.91

• ligands for the Shiga-like [14][15] and cholera toxins [16][17] both belonging to the AB5 family of bacterial toxins. The frequent observation that the binding affinity of a multivalent ligand increases exponentially with the number of binding sites has been termed the glycoside cluster effect [18][19

Synthetic glycopeptides and glycoproteins with applications in biological research

• Ulrika Westerlind

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 804–818, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.90

• microbe and lectin binding studies, glycopeptide based glycoclusters/dendrimers were applied, employing linear peptide backbones, cyclic peptide scaffolds or multi-lysine scaffolds [106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118]. The pentavalent cholera toxin protein secreted by Vibrio

• cholerae, causes severe diarrhea and massive dehydration upon binding and entrance into the intestinal epithelial cells [119]. The AB5-type toxin consists of one toxic ADP-ribosyltransferase and five lectin subunits that bind to the gangloside GM1 ligands on the epithelial cell surface [120]. The cholera

• -toxin–GM1 complex is one of the most well characterized protein–carbohydrate interactions [95][96][97][98][99]. Development of inhibitors targeting the cholera-toxin protein–carbohydrate binding events is a novel strategy for disease prevention and therapy as well as for detection of the toxin in