微液滴质谱法促进的酰胺键构建及其在小分子和蛋白偶联中的应用

Facilitated by Microdroplet Mass Spectrometry on Amide Bond Construction and its Application in Conjugation of Small Molecules and Proteins

  • 摘要: 酰胺键的构建在小分子药物合成、高分子材料合成和修饰、抗体药物偶联物的制备中具有重要作用。本研究探讨了电喷雾微液滴质谱技术促进酚酯氨解形成酰胺键的优势,以及在小分子-蛋白共价偶联复合物制备方面的应用。以4-硝基苯基-2-(((苄氧基)羰基)氨基)乙酸酯(Z-Gly-ONP)与溶菌酶的游离氨基氨解反应为模型,研究电喷雾微液滴技术中样品流速、鞘气压力、电场强度、溶剂极性等对酰胺键偶联效率的影响。结果表明,样品流速和鞘气压力在微液滴中酚酯氨解构建酰胺键反应过程中发挥着主要作用。这可能是由于在电喷雾过程中,雾化气体气流大和样品流速低的情况下,喷口处的样品溶液去溶剂化效率高,导致样品的局部浓度提高,促使样品分子之间发生碰撞的频率增大,酰胺键形成反应的转化率提高。另外,微液滴技术成功应用于肿瘤抗原多肽与模型蛋白的共价偶联,蛋白偶联转化率达89%,且溶液相中反应剩余模型蛋白原料相对信号达74%。同等条件下与溶液相相比,微液滴中Z-Gly-ONP与溶菌酶的游离氨基氨解形成酰胺键的转化率明显提高,表明电喷雾微液滴技术在肿瘤抗原多肽-含T表位的载体蛋白共价偶联复合物的高效制备方面具有潜在的应用价值。

     

    Abstract: The construction of amide bonds plays a very important role in the production of small molecule drugs, preparation and modification of polymer materials, conjugation of proteins and drugs, and the synthesis of vaccines, especially in the field of covalent coupling of tumor-associated antigens and carrier proteins. In this study, the advantages of electrospray microdroplet technology in promoting the aminolysis reaction between activated phenolic ester and the free amino groups in nature proteins for amide bond formation, and its application in the conjugation of small organic molecules with nature proteins were discussed. The effects of sample flow rate, sheath pressure, electric field strength and solvent polarity on the coupling efficiency of amide bonds in electrospray microdroplet technique were studied by using N-carbobenzoxyglycine 4-nitrophenyl ester (Z-Gly-ONP) and nature protein lysozyme as model substrates and employing an home-made device with two independent liquid channels for microdroplet generation. When the two kinds of microdroplets coming from the two liquid channels were fused, followed by the aminolysis reaction, and the mixtures of the microdroplet reaction were collected, dissolved, desalted, diluted and detected. The results after the optimization showed that, in the microdroplet system, although a certain amount of positive and high voltage will slightly improve the reaction conversion, the sample flow rate and sheath pressure play a major role in the amide bond formation reaction. Below a certain pressure of sheath gas, high pressure of the sheath gas and low flow rate of the sample will benefit for the desolvation efficiency of the sample solution at the nozzle, generating small particle size of the microdroplets and increasing of the local concentration of reactive substates and the frequency of collision between sample molecules, leading to the fast mass transfer between liquid containing active esters and liquid containing nature proteins. As a consequence, the conversion rate of protein covalent modification reaction in microdroplets is significantly higher than that in the bulk solution system under the same reactant conditions. Furthermore, the microdroplet chemistry has been successfully applied to the covalent coupling of tumor antigen peptides to nature protein lysozyme, with a conversion rate of 89%, which is much higher than that in the bulk solution system. The results of this study indicate that microdroplet chemistry has a potential in the efficient conjugation of tumor antigen polypeptides and T-epitope-containing carrier proteins.

     

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