title: Metabolic glycoengineering: sialic acid and beyond.
abstract: This report provides a perspective on metabolic glycoengineering methodology developed over the past two decades that allows natural sialic acids to be replaced with chemical variants in living cells and animals. Examples are given demonstrating how this technology provides the glycoscientist with chemical tools that are beginning to reproduce Mother Nature's control over complex biological systems - such as the human brain - through subtle modifications in sialic acid chemistry. Several metabolic substrates (e.g., ManNAc, Neu5Ac, and CMP-Neu5Ac analogs) can be used to feed flux into the sialic acid biosynthetic pathway resulting in numerous - and sometime quite unexpected - biological repercussions upon nonnatural sialoside display in cellular glycans. Once on the cell surface, ketone-, azide-, thiol-, or alkyne-modified glycans can be transformed with numerous ligands via bioorthogonal chemoselective ligation reactions, greatly increasing the versatility and potential application of this technology. Recently, sialic acid glycoengineering methodology has been extended to other pathways with analog incorporation now possible in surface-displayed GalNAc and fucose residues as well as nucleocytoplasmic O-GlcNAc-modified proteins. Finally, recent efforts to increase the "druggability" of sugar analogs used in metabolic glycoengineering, which have resulted in unanticipated "scaffold-dependent" activities, are summarized.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: M Adam
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Meledeo
authors.forename: Zhiyun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hargun S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Khanna
authors.forename: Venkata D P
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Paruchuri
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Yarema
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D001921:Brain / Q000196:embryology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D054794:Glycomics / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D019158:N-Acetylneuraminic Acid / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D011134:Polysaccharides; D019158:N-Acetylneuraminic Acid
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