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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 27, Issue 66, Pages 16377-16388Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202102359
Keywords
Activity-based probes; Carbohydrates; Cyclitols; Fluorescent Probes; beta-Glucocerebrosidase; Inhibitors; Structural Biology
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [2018-714.018.002]
- European Research Council [ERC-2011-AdG-290836, ERC-2012-AdG-322942]
- BBSRC
- Sanofi Genzyme
- BBSRC [BB/R001162/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The study synthesized a series of cyclophellitol epoxide and aziridine inhibitors and activity-based probes, revealing their binding modes with GBA and potential applications in GD treatment. A bi-functional aziridine ABP may serve as a more powerful imaging agent, but did not achieve additional benefits over the first generation ABPs.
Gaucher disease (GD) is a lysosomal storage disorder caused by inherited deficiencies in beta-glucocerebrosidase (GBA). Current treatments require rapid disease diagnosis and a means of monitoring therapeutic efficacy, both of which may be supported by the use of GBA-targeting activity-based probes (ABPs). Here, we report the synthesis and structural analysis of a range of cyclophellitol epoxide and aziridine inhibitors and ABPs for GBA. We demonstrate their covalent mechanism-based mode of action and uncover binding of the new N-functionalised aziridines to the ligand binding cleft. These inhibitors became scaffolds for the development of ABPs; the O6-fluorescent tags of which bind in an allosteric site at the dimer interface. Considering GBA's preference for O6- and N-functionalised reagents, a bi-functional aziridine ABP was synthesized as a potentially more powerful imaging agent. Whilst this ABP binds to two unique active site clefts of GBA, no further benefit in potency was achieved over our first generation ABPs. Nevertheless, such ABPs should serve useful in the study of GBA in relation to GD and inform the design of future probes.
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