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- Title
L‐Glycosidase‐Cleavable Natural Glycans Facilitate the Chemical Synthesis of Correctly Folded Disulfide‐Bonded D‐Proteins.
- Authors
Shi, Weiwei; Wang, Tongyue; Yang, Ziyi; Ren, Yuxiang; Han, Dongyang; Zheng, Yupeng; Deng, Xiangyu; Tang, Shan; Zheng, Ji‐Shen
- Abstract
D‐peptide ligands can be screened for therapeutic potency and enzymatic stability using synthetic mirror‐image proteins (D‐proteins), but efficient acquisition of these D‐proteins can be hampered by the need to accomplish their in vitro folding, which often requires the formation of correctly linked disulfide bonds. Here, we report the finding that temporary installation of natural O‐linked‐β‐N‐acetyl‐D‐glucosamine (O‐GlcNAc) groups onto selected D‐serine or D‐threonine residues of the synthetic disulfide‐bonded D‐proteins can facilitate their folding in vitro, and that the natural glycosyl groups can be completely removed from the folded D‐proteins to afford the desired chirally inverted D‐protein targets using naturally occurring O‐GlcNAcase. This approach enabled the efficient chemical syntheses of several important but difficult‐to‐fold D‐proteins incorporating disulfide bonds including the mirror‐image tumor necrosis factor alpha (D‐TNFα) homotrimer and the mirror‐image receptor‐binding domain of the Omicron spike protein (D‐RBD). Our work establishes the use of O‐GlcNAc to facilitate D‐protein synthesis and folding and proves that D‐proteins bearing O‐GlcNAc can be good substrates for naturally occurring O‐GlcNAcase.
- Subjects
CHEMICAL synthesis; SYNTHETIC proteins; TUMOR necrosis factors; THREONINE; CONOTOXINS; SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant; SERINE/THREONINE kinases
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2024, Vol 136, Issue 9, p1
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202313640