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Chemobacterial Synthesis of a Sialyl-Tn Cyclopeptide Vaccine Candidate.

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Richard, Emeline | Pifferi, Carlo | Fiore, Michele | Samain, Eric | Fort, Sébastien | Renaudet, Olivier | Priem, Bernard | Le Gouellec, Audrey

Edité par CCSD ; Wiley-VCH Verlag -

International audience. A conjugatable form of the tumour-associated carbohydrate antigen sialyl-Tn (Neu5Ac-α-2,6-GalNAc) was efficiently produced in Escherichia coli. Metabolically engineered E. coli strains overexpressing the 6-sialyltransferase gene of Photobacterium sp. and CMP-Neu5Ac synthetase genes of Neisseria meningitidis were cultivated at high density in the presence of GalNAc-α-propargyl as the exogenous acceptor. The target disaccharides, which were produced on the scale of several hundreds of milligrams, were then conjugated by using copper(I)-catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition click chemistry to a fully synthetic and immunogenic scaffold with the aim to create a candidate anticancer vaccine. Four sialyl-Tn epitopes were introduced on the upper face of an azido-functionalised multivalent cyclopeptide scaffold, the lower face of which was previously modified by an immunogenic polypeptide, PADRE. The ability of the resulting glycoconjugate to interact with oncofoetal sialyl-Tn monoclonal antibodies was confirmed in ELISA assays.

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