中文名称 | 英文名称 | CAS号 | 化学式 | 分子量 |
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—— | 8-methoxycarbonyloctyl 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-β-D-glucopyranoside | 65567-18-2 | C18H33NO8 | 391.462 |
中文名称 | 英文名称 | CAS号 | 化学式 | 分子量 |
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—— | 8-methoxycarbonyloctyl 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-4-O-(alpha-L-fucopyranosyl)-3-O-(beta-D-galactopyranosyl)-beta-D-glucopyranoside | 56343-02-3 | C30H53NO17 | 699.747 |
—— | 8-(methoxycarbonyl)octyl (5-acetamido-3,5-dideoxy-D-glycero-α-D-galacto-2-nonulopyranosylonic acid)-(2->3)-β-D-galactopyranosyl-(1->3)-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-β-D-glucopyranoside | 122290-69-1 | C35H60N2O21 | 844.862 |
Chemical syntheses are reported for GDP-fucose (5), GDP-3-deoxy-fucose (6), and GDP-arabinose (7), the demethyl analog of 5. All three sugar nucleotides were found to act as donor substrates for an α(1 → 4) fucosyltransferase isolated from human milk when *BDGal(1 → 3)*BDGlcNAc-O(CH2)8COOMe (1) was used as the acceptor. The rate of transfer of sugar residues to 1 was measured using a coupled spectrophotometric assay and was found to be 100% (5), 2.3% (6), and 5.9% (7). The product Lea-active oligosaccharide analogs were identified by both an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and by 1H NMR spectroscopy. Keywords: glycosyltransferase, oligosaccharide synthesis, sugar-nucleotide analog, ELISA assay, fucosyltransferase.
Research over the past two decades has uncovered numerous biological roles for carbohydrates, e.g. in cell adhesion processes, signal transduction, malignant transformation, or viral and bacterial cell-surface recognition. Carbohydrates and structural analogues thereof are therefore considered as potential new leads. Although the chemical synthesis of carbohydrates is well established, the preparation of particular oligosaccharides still remains a costly and cumbersome challenge. A complementary approach to the chemical synthesis is the use of enzymatic methods. The transfer of monosaccharide moieties to natural substrates, catalyzed by glycosyltransferases, exhibits excellent chemo-, regio- and stereoselectivity. In addition, enzymatic glycosylations permit the synthesis of carbohydrate derivatives and even carbohydrate mimetics. Our results reveal a remarkable synthetic potential of fucosyltransferases VI (EC 2.4.1.65) and III (EC 2.4.1.65), and ? (2?3)-sialyltransferase ST3Gal III (EC 2.4.99.6). Their use for the preparative synthesis of oligosaccharides and derivatives as well as mimetics thereof is demonstrated.