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Imaging cell surface glycosylation in vivo using "double click" chemistry.

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Neves, André A 
Stöckmann, Henning 
Wainman, Yelena A 
Kuo, Joe C-H 
Fawcett, Sarah 

Abstract

Dynamic alterations in cell surface glycosylation occur in numerous biological processes that involve cell-cell communication and cell migration. We report here imaging of cell surface glycosylation in live mice using double click chemistry. Cell surface glycans were metabolically labeled using peracetylated azido-labeled N-acetylgalactosamine and then reacted, in the first click reaction, with either a cyclooctyne, in a Huisgen [3 + 2] cycloaddition, or with a Staudinger phosphine, via Staudinger ligation. The second click reaction was a [4 + 2] inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reaction between a trans-cyclooctene and a tetrazine, where the latter reagent had been fluorescently labeled with a far-red fluorophore. After administration of the fluorescent tetrazine, the bifunctional cyclooctyne-cyclooctene produced significant azido sugar-dependent fluorescence labeling of tumor, kidney, liver, spleen, and small intestine in vivo, where the kidney and tumor could be imaged noninvasively in the live mouse.

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Acetylgalactosamine, Animals, Azides, Click Chemistry, Cyclization, Cyclooctanes, Female, Glycosylation, Humans, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Nude, Molecular Structure, Neoplasms, Polysaccharides, Tumor Cells, Cultured

Journal Title

Bioconjug Chem

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Journal ISSN

1043-1802
1520-4812

Volume Title

24

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American Chemical Society (ACS)