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[摘要]：Certain carbohydrate structures are recognized as cancer antigens, and identification of these and relevant epitopes are essential in fighting the disease. The trisaccharide beta-D-GlcpNAc-(1?3)-beta-D-Galp-(1?4)-beta-D-GlcpNAc-OMe represents a model for the central region of the LeaLex hexasaccharide and it has herein been investigated by 1D 1H,1H-NOESY experiments to obtain effective interresidue protonproton distances as well as by 2D J-HMBC experiments to determine transglycosidic 3JCH coupling constants. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using explicit water as solvent and three different carbohydrate force fields, namely, GLYCAM06, PARM22/SU01, and CHARMM2011, were employed for the interpretation of experimental data. Overall, the force field based MD simulations are able to reproduce the experimental data and the ? torsion angle at the beta-(1?3)-linkage is concluded to be flexible. In addition, different minor states were present for the three force fields with either anti-? or non-exo-anomeric conformations. Transitions between the exo-anomeric and the non-exo-anomeric conformations for the f torsion angle at the beta-(1?4)-linkage in one of the MD simulations were analyzed in detail. It was found that hydrogen-bonding water molecules, interresidue hydrogen bonds and the transitions between antiperiplanar and synperiplanar conformations for the tH torsion angle of an N-acetyl group were all essential in the description of the glycosidic transition process. In particular, the transition of tH may be a general way of regulating other transitions into less populated but biologically important conformational regions. |
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