文摘
Metabolic oligosaccharide engineering is a valuable tool to monitor cellular carbohydrates. Here, we report the synthesis of a novel N-acyl-mannosamine derivative bearing a methylcyclopropene tag that is attached to the sugar via a carbamate moiety. This derivative undergoes rapid Diels鈥揂lder reaction with inverse electron demand. We demonstrate that the cell鈥檚 biosynthetic machinery incorporates this non-natural mannosamine derivative into glycoconjugates that can, subsequently, be labeled within less than 10 min with a new sulfo-Cy3鈥搕etrazine conjugate. Using this tetrazine-dye conjugate for the detection of the methylcyclopropene-tagged mannosamine derivative, we could achieve dual labeling of two different metabolically incorporated sugars combining a Diels鈥揂lder reaction with inverse electron demand and a strain-promoted azide鈥揳lkyne cycloaddition which are carried out simultaneously in a single step.