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SUBMITTER: Kim H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6511957 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20190424 5
A series of α-GalCer analogues containing an α-fluorocarbonyl moiety at the terminal position of the acyl chain were designed for targeting polar residues in the hydrophobic cavity of CD1d using a structure-based approach. The acyl chain length was efficiently adjusted by an asymmetric alkyne-alkyne cross coupling strategy, and the newly synthesized α-GalCer analogues showed the high Th2-selective activity of iNKT cells. The biased activity of ligands could be caused by the hydrogen-bonding inte ...[more]