Selective inhibition of glycosyltransferases by bivalent imidazolium salts

…, JZ Vlahakis, WA Szarek, I Brockhausen

Index: Gao, Yin; Vlahakis, Jason Z.; Szarek, Walter A.; Brockhausen, Inka Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 2013 , vol. 21, # 5 p. 1305 - 1311

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Abstract

Galactosyltransferases (GalTs) extend the glycan chains of mammalian glycoproteins by adding Gal to terminal GlcNAc residues, and thus build the scaffolds for biologically important glycan structures. We have shown that positively charged bivalent imidazolium salts in which the two imidazolium groups are linked by an aliphatic chain of 20 or 22 carbons form potent inhibitors of purified human β3-GalT5, using GlcNAcβ-benzyl as ...