Described is a modular, general synthetic strategy for the preparation in solution and on a solid support of heparin, heparin-like glycosaminoglycans, glycosaminoglycans and non-natural analogs of each of them. Additionally, the modular strategy provides the basis for the preparation of combinatorial libraries and parallel libraries of defined glycosaminoglycan oligosaccharides. The defined glycosaminoglycan structures may be used in high-throughput screening experiments to identify carbohydrate sequences that regulate a host of recognition and signal-transduction processes. The determination of specific sequences involved in receptor binding holds great promise for the development of molecular tools which will allow modulation of processes underlying viral entry, angiogenesis, kidney diseases and diseases of the central nervous system. Notably, the present invention enables the automated synthesis of glycosaminoglycans in much the same fashion that peptides and oligonucleotides are currently assembled.
本文介绍了一种模块化的、通用的合成策略,用于在溶液和固相支持上制备
肝素、类
肝素的糖胺聚糖、糖胺聚糖和它们的非天然类似物。此外,这种模块化策略为定义的糖胺聚糖
寡糖的组合式库和并行式库的制备提供了基础。这些定义的糖胺聚糖结构可以用于高通量筛选实验,以识别调节多种识别和信号传导过程的
碳水化合物序列。确定参与受体结合的特定序列对于开发分子工具来调节病毒进入、血管生成、肾脏疾病和中枢神经系统疾病的过程具有巨大的前景。值得注意的是,本发明使糖胺聚糖的自动化合成方式与目前蛋白质和寡核苷酸的组装方式非常相似。