Gram-scale synthesis of uridine 5'-diphospho-N-acetylglucosamine: comparison of enzymic and chemical routes
摘要:
Practical chemoenzymatic and chemical routes to uridine 5'-diphospho-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) on a gram scale have been developed. The chemoenzymatic synthesis provided convenient access to glucosamine-6-phosphate and N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate (GlcNAc-6-P) in > 10-mmol quantities. The condensation between GlcNAc-6-P and UTP was catalyzed by readily available crude enzyme extracts from dried cells of the yeast Candida utilis and afforded a 17% yield of UDP-GlcNAc from GlcNAc-6-P. The otherwise straightforward chemoenzymatic sequence was hampered by the need to purify the product from the final complex reaction mixture. The chemical synthesis of UDP-GlcNAc proceeded through five steps in an overall yield of 15% from penta-acetylglucosamine with the selective formation of tetraacetylglucosamine-alpha-1-phosphate as the key reaction.
Gram-scale synthesis of uridine 5'-diphospho-N-acetylglucosamine: comparison of enzymic and chemical routes
摘要:
Practical chemoenzymatic and chemical routes to uridine 5'-diphospho-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) on a gram scale have been developed. The chemoenzymatic synthesis provided convenient access to glucosamine-6-phosphate and N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate (GlcNAc-6-P) in > 10-mmol quantities. The condensation between GlcNAc-6-P and UTP was catalyzed by readily available crude enzyme extracts from dried cells of the yeast Candida utilis and afforded a 17% yield of UDP-GlcNAc from GlcNAc-6-P. The otherwise straightforward chemoenzymatic sequence was hampered by the need to purify the product from the final complex reaction mixture. The chemical synthesis of UDP-GlcNAc proceeded through five steps in an overall yield of 15% from penta-acetylglucosamine with the selective formation of tetraacetylglucosamine-alpha-1-phosphate as the key reaction.