Conformational consequences of protein glycosylation: Preparation of O‐mannosyl serine and threonine building blocks, and their incorporation into glycopeptide sequences derived from α‐dystroglycan
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Peptide Science
- Vol. 90 (3), 358-368
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bip.20847
Abstract
With the goal to investigate the structural impact of O-mannosyl glycosylation on α-dystroglycan, a glycoprotein that has an important role in the extracellular organization of muscle, glycopeptides derived from its mucin-like sequence have been prepared by solid-phase peptide synthesis. Two approaches have been explored to obtain needed mannosylated serine and threonine building blocks. With the α-carboxyl group unprotected, and with tetraaceto-1-fluoro-α-D-mannose as the sugar donor, the desired α-O-mannosyl-Fmoc-Ser/Thr formed, along with mannosyl ester isomers and the species with mannose attached to both hydroxyl and carboxyl functions. Relevant mechanistic questions and stability issues were elucidated. Alternatively, building blocks were made with the α-carboxyl protected/activated as the pentafluorophenyl (Pfp) ester. Glycopeptides synthesized herein contained 5–9 residues, and featured one, two, and four consecutive Ser and/or Thr residues O-glycosylated with mannose. Circular dichroism (CD) spectra for Man-containing glycopeptides recorded in water show them to be not well ordered. For one of the α-dystroglycan-derived sequences, the comparative conformational consequences of glycosylation by either Man or GalNAc have been examined by CD and NMR, with both methods showing a more organized structure when GalNAc is present. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers (Pept Sci) 90: 358–368, 2008. This article was originally published online as an accepted preprint. The “Published Online” date corresponds to the preprint version. You can request a copy of the preprint by emailing the Biopolymers editorial office at biopolymers@wiley.comKeywords
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