• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Synthesis of glycosylated β3-homo-threonine conjugates for mucin-like glycopeptide antigen analogues
  • Contributor: Karch, Florian; Hoffmann-Röder, Anja
  • Published: Beilstein Institut, 2010
  • Published in: Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 6 (2010)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.6.47
  • ISSN: 1860-5397
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  • Description: Glycopeptides from the mucin family decorated with tumour-associated carbohydrate antigens (TACA) have proven to be important target structures for the development of molecularly defined anti-cancer vaccines. The strategic incorporation of β-amino acid building blocks into such mucin-type sequences offers the potential to create pseudo-glycopeptide antigens with improved bioavailability for tumour immunotherapy. Towards this end, TN and TF antigen conjugates O-glycosidically linked to Fmoc-β3-homo-threonine were prepared in good yield via Arndt–Eistert homologation of the corresponding glycosyl α-amino acid derivative. By incorporation of TN-Fmoc-β3hThr conjugate into the 20 amino acid tandem repeat sequence of MUC1 using sequential solid-phase glycopeptide synthesis, a first example of a mixed α/β-hybrid glycopeptide building block was obtained. The latter is of interest for the development of novel glycoconjugate mimics and model structures for anti-cancer vaccines with increased biological half-life.
  • Access State: Open Access