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SUBMITTER: Chang PV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2907715 | biostudies-other | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Chang Pamela V PV Dube Danielle H DH Sletten Ellen M EM Bertozzi Carolyn R CR
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100701 28
Glycans can be imaged by metabolic labeling with azidosugars followed by chemical reaction with imaging probes; however, tissue-specific labeling is difficult to achieve. Here we describe a strategy for the use of a caged metabolic precursor that is activated for cellular metabolism by enzymatic cleavage. An N-azidoacetylmannosamine derivative caged with a peptide substrate for the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) protease was converted to cell-surface azido sialic acids in a PSA-dependent manner ...[more]