The Biological Activity of a Novel PhotoaffinityLabelled Imino Sugar Jane Atkin St. Hilda’s College.

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The Biological Activity of a Novel Photoaffinity Labelled Imino Sugar

Jane Atkin St. Hilda’s College

OVERVIEW

Background Methods Results & Discussion Acknowledgements Questions

BACKGROUND (1)

Glc Glc Glc Man Man Man Man Man Variable Core Man Man Man Man GlcNAc GlcNAc NH 3 + ---X-Asn-X-(Ser/Thr)---COO  Glycoprotein formation: transfer of an oligosaccharide from a lipid precursor to a polypeptide  Processing of this glycan region – variable residues  Endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi

BACKGROUND (2)

BACKGROUND (3)

 Terminally misfolded proteins are broken down by ER-

associated protein degradation (ERAD)

 Retrotranslocation, then deglycosylation  Protein moiety is ubiquitinated and broken down by the proteasome  Free oligosaccharides (FOS) broken down in the lysosome

Sec61 ER lumen Cytosol Misfolded glycoprotein PNGase Proteasome

BACKGROUND (4)

 NB-DNJ is an inhibitor of α -glucosidases I and II  Inhibition monitored by glucosylated FOS build-up  Potential for anti-viral therapy: HIV, Hepatitis B

BACKGROUND (5)

 DNJ-nitro-phenyl azide (DNJ-NAP) made to investigate the behaviour of NB-DNJ  Cross-links to neighbouring amide groups upon exposure to short-wave ultraviolet (UV) light 

20-100-fold better inhibitory activity than NB DNJ on α -glucosidases in the cell

AIMS

 To determine the biological activity of this DNJ-NAP  To observe the interactions this DNJ-NAP compound makes during its time in the cell by incubating it with cell samples for different time periods before exposure to UV light

METHODS

 Produced NB-DNJ derivative by reacting DNJ with the aldehyde linker Aldehyde Linker Reductive Amination DNJ DNJ-NAP  Compared its inhibitory activity to that of an existing version of the compound and NB-DNJ, by incubating with HL60 cells and analysing the resulting glucosylated free oligosaccharides

RESULTS

 Build-up of glucosylated FOS  My compound (NAP) is slightly more potent than previously synthesised compound (GS)

IN VITRO

EXPERIMENTS (1)

  Radiolabelled the photo-activatable inhibitor with 3 H Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) in vitro experiments: • Denatured the protein 1. Added 3 H-DNJ-NAP to BSA and exposed to UV to see if it could react in the cell 2. Ran on SDS gel 3. Measured radioactivity of gel slices using scintillation counter • No radioactivity associated with protein • Suggests BSA and DNJ-NAP do not interact – i.e. cross linking is not random

IN VITRO

EXPERIMENTS (4)

 Therefore, repeated experiment with glucosidase enzymes – α , β  Also, crude rat liver extract to investigate how selective the binding is  Analysed using a radioactivity detector plate  Could not see any radioactivity associated with protein bands in the gels

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IN VITRO

EXPERIMENTS (5)

Results e.g. β -glucosidase (impure) Same for liver extract and α -glucosidase β-glucosidase + 3 H-DNJ NAP + UV

Free radioactivity

CELLULAR EXPERIMENTS (1)

 Incubated light 3 H-DNJ-NAP with HL60 cells for different time periods before exposure to UV  0, 1, 2, 4, 10, 30, 60 minutes  Control: 60 minute incubation but no UV exposure  2-day long-term experiment

CELLULAR EXPERIMENTS (2)

 Again, no radioactivity could be observed using the screen  Tried new technique  Cut up dried gels into ~2mm slices and measured the radioactivity using scintillation counter  Results promising…

RESULTS

All radioactivity was free and not associated with protein from 0-4 minutes

Radioactivity of Gel Slices From 4 Minute Incubation

300 250 200 150 100 50 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22

Slice Number

24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38

RESULTS (2)

  After 10 minutes, radioactivity was associated with a protein More binding after 30 minutes (~4x higher cpm) 250

Radioactivity of Gel Slices From 10 Minute Incubation

200 150 100 50 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22

Slice Number

24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40

Radioactivity of Gel Slices From 30 Minute Incubation

900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26

Slice Number

28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46

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RESULTS (3)

After 60 minutes, there is no longer any radioactivity associated with protein. Also seen after two days

Radioactivity of Gel Slices from 60 Minute Incubation

60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22

Slice Number

24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40

RESULTS (4)

 Used this technique to analyse β -glucosidase gel  No radioactivity associated with protein  May be due to: • • Lower affinity for DNJ-NAP Not enough protein (and associated radioactivity) on the gel

CONCLUSIONS

 The photolabile DNJ-NAP will only cross-link to its substrate - specific  It seems to take 4 - 10 minutes to reach its target and bind  Binding is increased after 30 minutes  There is no longer binding after 60 minutes  Most likely due to cell lysis

FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

 Investigation into events between 30 and 60 minutes  More detailed analysis of the time-course of the binding reaction – repeats  Identify the species to which it is bound

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 Dr Terry Butters  Dr David Neville, Gabriele Reinkensmeier, Dom Alonzi, and Stephanie Boomkamp  Dr Mark Wormald  Professor Raymond Dwek

Thank you for listening Any Questions?