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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 10, Issue 17, Pages 4265-4282Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200306063
Keywords
heparin; combinatorial chemistry; cytokines; glycosylation; oligosaccharides
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We have recently described the preparation of three building blocks for the combinatorial synthesis of heparan sulfate (HS) fragments. Herein we show that one of these building blocks (disaccharide 4) allows the preparation, in high yields and with total a stereoselectivity, of tetra-, hexa- and octasaccharides from the heparin (HP) regular region, by using 2+2, 2+ 4 and 4+4 glycosylation strategies, respectively. These oligosaccharides were processed into sulfated derivatives bearing an allyl moiety in the anomeric position. The UV-promoted conjugation of these compounds with a,omega-bis(thio)poly (ethylene glycol) spacers of three different lengths allowed us to prepare nine benzylated glycoconjugates. After final deprotection, the glycoconjugates la-c, 2a-c and 3a-c were obtained and their ability to inhibit the interaction between IFN-gamma and HP was tested by using surface plasmon resonance detection. Compound 3b, containing two HP octasaccharides linked by a 50-Angstrom linker was able to inhibit the IFN-gamma/HP interaction with an IC50 value of approximately 35 nm. In addition, the nine glycoconjugates were perfect tools in the study to ascertain the topology of the IFN-gamma binding site on HS. Compounds la-c, 2a-c and 3a-c, by mimicking the alternating sulfated and nonsulfated regions found in HS, thus comprise the first example of a library of synthetic HS mimetics giving access to the second level of molecular diversity found in HS.
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