Iminosugar C-Glycosides Work as Pharmacological Chaperones of NAGLU, a Glycosidase Involved in MPS IIIB Rare Disease**

Sha Zhu, Yerri Jagadeesh, Anh Tuan Tran, Shuki Imaeda, Alisdair Boraston, Dominic S. Alonzi, Ana Poveda, Yongmin Zhang, Jérôme Désiré, Julie Charollais-Thoenig, Stéphane Demotz, Atsushi Kato, Terry D. Butters, Jesús Jiménez-Barbero, Matthieu Sollogoub*, Yves Blériot*

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Abstract

Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB is a devastating neurological disease caused by a lack of the lysosomal enzyme, α-N-acetylglucosaminidase (NAGLU), leading to a toxic accumulation of heparan sulfate. Herein we explored a pharmacological chaperone approach to enhance the residual activity of NAGLU in patient fibroblasts. Capitalizing on the three-dimensional structures of two modest homoiminosugar-based NAGLU inhibitors in complex with bacterial homolog of NAGLU, CpGH89, we have synthesized a library of 17 iminosugar C-glycosides mimicking N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and bearing various pseudo-anomeric substituents of both α- and β-configuration. Elaboration of the aglycon moiety results in low micromolar selective inhibitors of human recombinant NAGLU, but surprisingly it is the non-functionalized and wrongly configured β-homoiminosugar that was proved to act as the most promising pharmacological chaperone, promoting a 2.4 fold activity enhancement of mutant NAGLU at its optimal concentration.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11291-11297
Number of pages7
JournalChemistry - A European Journal
Volume27
Issue number44
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021/08/05

Keywords

  • X-ray crystallography
  • glycosidase
  • iminosugars
  • pharmacological chaperones

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Organic Chemistry

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