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Figure4.11 Self-adjuvanting strategy.
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Figure4.12 Chemical structures of adjuvant–antigen complexes. (a) MPL conjugated with α-2,9-oligosialic acid. (b) RC-529 conjugated with a Thomsen— Friedenreich antigen. (c) RX-527 conjugated with peptide antigen.
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4.9 Conclusions
In this chapter, the structure–activity relationship of TLR4ligands, especially of lipid As, and their potential as vaccine adjuvants have been discussed. Similar to the case of MPL and parasitic bacterial lipid As, structural modifications can regulate the activation of the TLR4/MD2 receptor and selective induction of intracellular signals. Therefore, cell-mediated, humoral, or mucosal immune responses can be controlled using a specific lipid A derivative. Various lipid A derivatives, mainly MPLs, are being developed as adjuvants, and next-generation safe adjuvants such as symbiotic bacterial lipid A also show great potential. Since the clinical use of lipid A-based adjuvants, including the AS series (GSK), has already been expanding in development as components of various novel vaccines such as anticancer vaccines and antiprotozoal vaccines, including antimalarial vaccines, the importance of lipid A adjuvants will increase in the future. The development of a self-adjuvanting strat­egy that can further enhance the function of lipid A adjuvants is also expected. In contrast, lipid A activity is significantly affected by subtle differences in its chemical structure, that is, the balance between the hydrophobic region formed by fatty acids and the hydrophilic region formed by sugar moieties, the number and position of phosphate groups, and the addition of Kdo. Hence, it is difficult to modify lipid A while retaining its immune function. Once a simple and universal lipid A modifica­tion method that can retain its function has been developed, it will be a break­through in developing innovative self-adjuvanting vaccines.
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Antiadhesive Carbohydrates and Glycomimetics
Jonathan Cramer
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University of Basel, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacenter, Klingelbergstrasse 50, Basel
CH-4056, Switzerland
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Institute for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1,
Düsseldorf DE-40225, Germany
3
WuXi AppTec UK LTD, 5 New Street Square, London EC4A 3TW, United Kingdom
1,2
, Lijuan Pang3, and Beat Ernst
1
5.1 Introduction
Infectious diseases are still a major cause of death, disability, and social and economic disorder for millions of people throughout the world. Poverty, poor access to health care, human migration, emerging disease agents, and antibiotic resistance all contrib­ute to the expanding impact of these illnesses[1]. Prevention and treatment strategies for infectious diseases are derived from a thorough understanding of the complex interactions between specific viral or bacterial pathogens and the human host.
Glycans are found on the surfaces of all bacteria and viruses, as well as on their hosts. Thus, a majority of interactions between microbial pathogens and their hosts are based on the interaction of carbohydrate epitopes on the one hand and glycan­binding receptors on the other hand[2]. This initially leads to the colonization of host epithelial surfaces, a prerequisite for spreading infection. In this chapter, the status of the development stage of Antiadhesive Carbohydrates and Glycomimetics is presented by means of some selected examples.
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5.1.1  Carbohydrate–Protein Interactions inViral Adhesion  toHost Cells
The surfaces of viruses and host cells are densely covered with diverse glycans. Many viruses exploit carbohydrate–protein interactions for adhesion to host cells, initiation of virus internalization, and evasion of immune surveillance[3–5]. Whereas bacterial adhe­sion is most commonly mediated by the interaction of bacterial lectins with host-derived glycoproteins, viruses have a more diverse arsenal of adhesion mechanisms. Similar to bacteria, some viral pathogens display carbohydrate-binding proteins on their surface that can specifically recognize certain host glycans [5]. A well-studied example is the interaction of the hemagglutinin glycoprotein expressed on the surface of influenza
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A viruses with sialic acid-containing host glycans. Furthermore, glycosaminoglycans, acidic linear polysaccharides that commonly decorate host cell surfaces, can serve as an initial attachment factor for many different viruses. Alternatively, endocytic carbohydrate­binding receptors on host cells can promote adhesion to viral envelope glycoproteins and subsequent internalization[3, 4]. An archetypical example of this process, the interaction of the myeloid C-type lectin DC-SIGN with viral glycoproteins, will be discussed in this book chapter. Many viruses employ different strategies for adhesion simultaneously. Besides mediating the interaction with sialic acid receptors, the influenza A hemaggluti­nin glycoprotein is also heavily modified with N-linked glycans. These structures are rec­ognized by DC-SIGN and mediate a secondary, sialic acid-independent adhesion and entry mechanism into host cells[6].
5.1.2  Bacterial Adhesins and Antiadhesion Therapy
An essential step of bacterial infection and pathogenesis is the adherence of bacteria to cell surfaces of the host tissue, granting the bacteria substantial resistance to nat­ural defense mechanisms, mechanical shear stress, and antibiotics[7]. Bacteria can express more than one type of adherence factors or “adhesins.” Most of these adhes­ins are lectins that bind directly to cell-surface carbohydrate motifs on glycoproteins or glycosphingolipids via carbohydrate-recognition domains (CRDs)[8, 9]. Bacterial lectins commonly exist in the form of elongated, hair-like, multi-subunit protein appendages, known as fimbriae (hair) or pili (threads), protruding from the surface of bacteria[7, 8]. Although carbohydrate–lectin interactions are generally of low affinity, such pili structures provide a multivalent, Velcro-like binding to epithelial surfaces, hence facilitating bacterial survival and invasion[8, 10]. Therefore, antiad­hesive agents that block bacterial adherence to host tissues may offer a novel strat­egy to combat infectious diseases.
Similar to animal lectins, bacterial lectins bind to terminal sugar residues or inter­nal glycan sequences present in linear or branched oligosaccharide chains [11]. Since Sharon etal. first described bacterial surface lectins in 1970s,[12] researchers have identified a large fraction of the carbohydrate epitopes (“adhesin receptors”) used by bacteria for colonization and entry into host tissues (Table 5.1) [31]. Although the natural carbohydrate epitopes show effectiveness in blocking micro­bial adhesion, their susceptibility to enzymatic degradation and undesirable phar­macokinetic properties hamper their clinical applications [32]. Based on resolved protein structures, structure-based rational design advanced the identification and optimization of antiadhesive glycomimetics, allowing improved metabolic stability, binding selectivity, and bioavailability[33–35]. In the era of increasing antimicro­bial resistance, one exceptional advantage of antiadhesive therapeutics is that they do not kill or restrict the growth of the pathogens and are therefore less likely to promote antibacterial resistance. Additionally, antiadhesive agents could poten­tially reduce overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics and thus prevent long-lasting detrimental effects on the healthy human microbiota. Furthermore, target-specific antiadhesion therapy makes precision antimicrobial treatment possible [36, 37]. The search for FimH and PA-IL/IIL inhibitors depicts representative examples of modern antiadhesive therapeutics.
5.2 DC-SIGN-Mediated Viral Adhesion and Entry into Myeloid Cells
5.1.3  Selected Examples
In this chapter on Antiadhesive Carbohydrates and Glycomimetics, we are forced to limit ourselves to a few selected examples. From a plethora of therapeutic targets for which the involved carbohydrate ligands and lectins have been elucidated, only the most prominent examples, namely DC-SIGN and the virulence factors FimH, PA-IL, and PA-IIL, were selected for discussion.
The C-type lectin receptor DC-SIGN is a pattern recognition receptor expressed on macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs). It has been identified as a promiscuous entry receptor for many pathogenic agents, including pandemic viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, ebola, and HIV[38]. The virulence factors FimH, PapG, PA-IL, and PA-IIL are expressed by pathogenic bacteria that represent an immediate or future threat to public health in the light of emerging antibiotic resistance.
FimH is one of the most studied adhesins expressed by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) strains because it is a key determinant of urovirulence [39]. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are becoming increasingly important threats to human health, and the antiadhesive strategy emerged as a relevant alternative therapeutic approach. Recently, the FimH antagonist GSK3882347 entered Phase I clinical trials in a collaboration between Fimbrion Therapeutics and GlaxoSmithKline.
Finally, Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces biofilms that can cause chronic oppor­tunistic infections, which often cannot be treated effectively with traditional antibi­otics [40]. Since P. aeruginosa is considered a model organism for the study of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, its virulence factors PA-IL and PA-IIL were extensively studied.
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5.2   DC-SIGN-Mediated Viral Adhesion and Entry into  Myeloid Cells
5.2.1 Introduction
C-type lectin receptors (CLRs), a class of proteins expressed on the membrane of myeloid cells such as DCs and macrophages, are often exploited as entry receptors by viral pathogens[38, 41]. Physiologically, CLRs recognize conserved carbohydrate epitopes on diverse pathogens and initiate tailored immune responses. However, some viruses have developed the ability to circumvent the physiological function of CLRs and infect myeloid cells themselves (cis-infection) or other cells under media­tion of myeloid CLRs (trans-infections). The CLR DC-specific ICAM-3-grabbing nonintegrin (DC-SIGN, CD209) has been proven vulnerable to viral exploitation, most famously in the pathology of HIV infections[38, 41–43]. DC-SIGN-mediated adhesion and internalization of virus particles can result in trafficking to nonlysoso­mal compartments and virus persistence in a protected intracellular environment.
viruses, such as dengue, zika, ebola, and coronaviruses [38]. Because of their
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Table5.1  Carbohydrate epitopes used by bacteria for colonization and entry in host tissues.
Pathogen Adhesin Binding epitope References
Campylobacter jejuni
Escherichia coli Type-1 fimbriae Manα(1-3)Manα(1-6)Man [14]
Haemophilus influenzae
Helicobacter pylori BabA Lewis B [21]
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Salmonella typhimurium
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Streptococcus suis SadP Galα(1-4)Galα(1-4)Glc [30]
Flagella, LPS Fucα(1-2)Galβ(1-4)GlcNAc [13]
P fimbriae Galα(1-4)Gal [15] S fimbriae Neu5Acα(2-3)Galβ(1-4)
K99 fimbriae Gangliosides GM3,
CFA1 AsialoGM1, Lewis A [18, 19] HMW1 adhesin Neu5Acα(2-3)Galβ(1-4)
SabA Sialyl Lewis X [22] Type-1 fimbriae Man [23]
Heparin-binding hemag-glutinin adhesin (HBHA)
Opa proteins LacCer, Neu5Acα(2-3)
PA-IL (LecA) Galactosides [26]
PA-IIL (LecB) Lewis A, Fuc [27] Type-1 fimbriae Man [28]
Carbohydrate-binding modules of β-galactosidase, BgaA
GalNAc
Neu5Glcα(2-3)Galβ(1-4)Glc
GlcNAc
Heparan sulfate [24]
Galβ(1-4)GlcNAc, syndecans, heparan sultate
Lactose, N-acetyl­lactosamine, Neu5Acα(2-3) Gal
[16]
[17]
[20]
[25]
[29]
potential to interfere with viral adhesion, carbohydrate-based molecules and glyco­mimetic drugs targeting DC-SIGN are of tremendous interest. This treatment strat­egy circumvents common resistance mechanisms through attenuation of virulence and provides a host-directed pharmacological response to not only established but also newly emerging infections with pandemic potential.
DC-SIGN is anchored to the cell membrane by a hydrophobic neck domain that induces tetramerization (Figure5.1a). Carbohydrate ligands are bound to the CRD by a calcium ion acting as a cofactor in the primary binding site (Figure 5.1b).
5.2 DC-SIGN-Mediated Viral Adhesion and Entry into Myeloid Cells
(a) (b)
Figure5.1  Structure of DC-SIGN. (a) Schematic depiction of DC-SIGN domain organization. (b) The carbohydrate-binding site of DC-SIGN in complex with α-1,2-mannobiose (PDB 2IT6). Secondary interaction sites commonly targeted by glycomimetics are highlighted.
DC-SIGN naturally binds to underprocessed high-mannose-type glycans (e.g.
GlcNAc2) that are abundantly presented on viral envelope glycoproteins.
Man
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Fragments of this glycan as well as mannose itself also bind to DC-SIGN, albeit with lower binding affinity. In addition, DC-SIGN recognizes fucosylated glycans such as Lewis-type and ABO antigens. Canonically, mannose or fucose epitopes coordinate with the central calcium ion via their 3-OH and 4-OH groups[44, 45]. However, it has been demonstrated that mannose ligands are able to bind in a variety of tran­sient binding modes, also employing other hydroxyl functions [46]. Various con­cepts have been employed to identify glycomimetic ligands that utilize secondary binding sites to achieve higher monovalent affinity toward DC-SIGN. Besides ligand-/structure-based design[47, 48], combinatorial[49, 50] and fragment-based approaches[51, 52] were successful. Important sites for additional secondary inter­actions in an extended binding site are highlighted in Figure5.1: In the long loop, Val351mediates binding of Lewis-type antigens to DC-SIGN[45, 53]. A hydropho­bic subsite in the vicinity of Phe313 is an additional target for glycomimetics[52, 54]. This allosteric pocket, as well as several other distal areas, have been identified as binding sites for noncarbohydrate fragments. Finally, Glu358 and Ser360have been shown to act as binding partners for positively charged residues[47]. In gen­eral, druggability of DC-SIGN and other CLRs has been soundly demonstrated by experimental and computational approaches[51].
Approaches for the development of carbohydrate-based inhibitors of viral attach­ment and entry can be categorized into two different groups. Firstly, natural mono­or oligosaccharide ligands of DC-SIGN have been utilized for the synthesis of various multivalent systems. A second approach relies on the design of carbohy­drate derivatives or glycomimetics that surpass the affinity of natural ligands and can be employed as monovalent therapeutics or utilized for the construction of mul­tivalent systems with improved affinity.
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