CuAAC-mediated diversification of aminoglycoside-arginine conjugate mimics by non-reducing di- and trisaccharides.

Di- and triguanidinylation of trehalose, sucrose, and melizitose has been achieved via a Huisgen-cycloaddition approach. They can serve as aminoglycoside-arginine conjugate mimics, which has been demonstrated by their biological profiles in assays against Bacillus subtilis. For comparative studies, tetraguanidinylated neamine and kanamycin derivatives have also been synthesized and evaluated.

Higher-order multicomponent reactions: beyond four reactants.

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) are by far the most successful class of reactions leading to high structural diversity and molecular complexity through a single transformation. As part of the ongoing search for pharmacologically active lead structures, the obtained structural diversity allows for the fast exploration of a large chemical space. Not surprisingly, the development of MCRs, leading to new structural frameworks or serving as key transformations in the total synthesis of natural products, has expanded rapidly over the last few decades.

Multidimensional nano-HPLC coupled with tandem mass spectrometry for analyzing biotinylated proteins.

Multidimensional high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a key method in shotgun proteomics approaches for analyzing highly complex protein mixtures by complementary chromatographic separation principles. Here, we describe an integrated 3D-nano-HPLC/nano-electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry system that allows an enzymatic digestion of proteins followed by an enrichment and subsequent separation of the created peptide mixtures. The online 3D-nano-HPLC system is composed of a monolithic trypsin reactor in the first dimension, a monolithic affinity column with immobilized monomeric avidin in the second dimension, and a reversed phase C18 HPLC-Chip in the third dimension that is coupled to a nano-ESI-Q-TOF mass spectrometer.

Fast and efficient MCR-based synthesis of clickable rhodamine tags for protein profiling.

Protein profiling probes are important tools for studying the composition of the proteome and as such have contributed greatly to the understanding of various complex biological processes in higher organisms. For this purpose the application of fluorescently labeled activity or affinity probes is highly desirable. Especially for in vivo detection of low abundant target proteins, otherwise difficult to analyse by standard blotting techniques, fluorescently labeled profiling probes are of high value.

Seven-component reactions by sequential chemoselective Ugi-Mumm/Ugi-Smiles reactions.

A seven-component reaction was accomplished by utilizing the different chemoselectivities of the Ugi-Mumm and the Ugi-Smiles reaction. The sequential multicomponent reactions led to highly diverse peptide and glycopeptide like structures.