Presented by CD1d protein, KRN7000, a potent synthetic cc-galactosylceramide, is known to stimulate the iNKT cells to produce different bioactive cytokines. Six new KRN7000 analogues, in which the amide bond in KRN7000 is replaced with O, NH, or ester groups incorporating variation of the acyl chain, or possessing an additional four-atom linker between the galactose and phytosphingosine moiety, were designed and synthesized. The synthetic compounds were evaluated for their ability to stimulate cytokine release and the preliminary structure activity relationships were discussed. The synthetic strategy will benefit the construction of more KRN7000 derivatives, which may contribute to cytokine profile bias. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A Facile Synthesis of Phytosphingosine from Diisopropylidene-<scp>d</scp>-mannofuranose
作者:Hsin-Yi Chiu、Der-Lii M. Tzou、Laxmikant Narhari Patkar、Chun-Cheng Lin
DOI:10.1021/jo034224m
日期:2003.7.1
study, an efficient method with a high overall yield for preparing phytosphingosine and an analogue was developed. Starting with commercially available 2,3;5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-d-mannofuranose, a variety of lipid moieties were incorporated to obtain phytosphingosine and an analogue. Through an eight-step manipulation, phytosphingosine was obtained with an overall yield of 57%.