7p32

Publication Abstract from PubMed

alpha-Glucosidase inhibitors are potential therapeutics for the treatment of diabetes, viral infections, and Pompe disease. Herein, we report a 1,6-epi-cyclophellitol cyclosulfamidate as a new class of reversible alpha-glucosidase inhibitors that displays enzyme inhibitory activity by virtue of its conformational mimicry of the substrate when bound in the Michaelis complex. The alpha-d-glc-configured cyclophellitol cyclosulfamidate 4 binds in a competitive manner the human lysosomal acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA), ER alpha-glucosidases, and, at higher concentrations, intestinal alpha-glucosidases, displaying an excellent selectivity over the human beta-glucosidases GBA and GBA2 and glucosylceramide synthase (GCS). Cyclosulfamidate 4 stabilizes recombinant human GAA (rhGAA, alglucosidase alfa, Myozyme) in cell medium and plasma and facilitates enzyme trafficking to lysosomes. It stabilizes rhGAA more effectively than existing small-molecule chaperones and does so in vitro, in cellulo, and in vivo in zebrafish, thus representing a promising therapeutic alternative to Miglustat for Pompe disease.

1,6-epi-Cyclophellitol Cyclosulfamidate Is a Bona Fide Lysosomal alpha-Glucosidase Stabilizer for the Treatment of Pompe Disease.,Kok K, Kuo CL, Katzy RE, Lelieveld LT, Wu L, Roig-Zamboni V, van der Marel GA, Codee JDC, Sulzenbacher G, Davies GJ, Overkleeft HS, Aerts JMFG, Artola M J Am Chem Soc. 2022 Aug 17;144(32):14819-14827. doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c05666. Epub, 2022 Aug 2. PMID:35917590^[1]

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