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ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 390-397Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cb400631w
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- National Science Council [NSC 99-2113-M-110 -007 -MY2]
- National Sun Yat-sen University [01C030703, 01A06802]
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A new chemical method for the traceless labeling of glycoproteins with synthetic boronic acid (BA)tosyl probes was successfully developed. The BA moiety acts as an affinity head to direct the formation of a cyclic boronate diester with the diol groups of glycans. Following this step, the electrophilic tosyl group is displaced by an S(N)2 reaction with a nucleophilic residue of the boronated glycoprotein, and finally, a reporter group is tagged onto the glycoprotein via an ether linkage. In the presence of polyols, a competition reaction recovers the native glycan of the tagged glycoprotein, conserving its biological significance. The BA-tosyl probes were used successfully for the specific labeling of glycosylated fetuins in a mixed protein pool and from crude Escherichia coli (E. coli) lysate. Further, a BA-tosyl-functionalized glass slide was used to fabricate glycoprotein microarrays with highly conserved glycans. By interacting with various lectins (carbohydrate-binding proteins), such as Concanavalin A (Con A) and wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), the types of carbohydrates and specific linkages of glycoproteins (alpha or beta) could be systematically monitored. It is believed that the newly developed method will greatly accelerate the understanding of glycoproteins.
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