Preparation of Some Glycosyl Amino Acid Building Blocks via Click Reaction and Construction of a Glycotetrapeptide Library Using Spot Synthesis

Abstract

The copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction between ethyl 2,3,4-tri-O-actetyl-6-azido-6-deoxy-1-thio-β -d-glucopyranoside (2), ethyl 2,3,4-tri-O-actetyl-6-azido-6-deoxy-1-thio-β -d-galactopyranoside (4), methyl 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-6-azido-6-deoxy-α -d-mannopyranoside (7), and methyl 2,3,6-tri-O-acetyl-2-azido-2-deoxy-β -d-glucopyranoside (9), and tert-butyl-protected Fmoc-asparaginic acid propargylamide (10) gave the corresponding protected glycosyl amino acid building blocks 11, 13, 15, and 17 in 67% to 95% yield. The latter were converted into the corresponding pentafluorophenyl esters 12, 14, 16, and 18, which were used for a spot synthesis of a combinatorial library containing 256 glycotetrapeptides. The library was screened for lectin-binding affinity with the lectins Concanavalin A (Con A), phaseolus vulgaris (PHA-E), and galantus nivalis (GNA).

Keywords:

• Glycosyl amino acids
• Click reaction
• Glycopeptides
• Combinatorial spot synthesis
• Oligosaccharide mimics

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We thank the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for financial support of this work and the groups of Profs. Albert and Zeller for measuring the NMR and MS spectra.