91183-98-1Relevant articles and documents
Chemoenzymatic synthesis of uridine diphosphate-GlcNAc and uridine diphosphate-GalNAc analogs for the preparation of unnatural glycosaminoglycans
Masuko, Sayaka,Bera, Smritilekha,Green, Dixy E.,Weiwer, Michel,Liu, Jian,Deangelis, Paul L.,Linhardt, Robert J.
experimental part, p. 1449 - 1456 (2012/03/11)
Eight N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate and N-acetylgalactosamine-1-phosphate analogs have been synthesized chemically and were tested for their recognition by the GlmU uridyltransferase enzyme. Among these, only substrates that have an amide linkage to the C-2 nitrogen were transferred by GlmU to afford their corresponding uridine diphosphate(UDP)-sugar nucleotides. Resin-immobilized GlmU showed comparable activity to nonimmobilized GlmU and provides a more facile final step in the synthesis of an unnatural UDP-donor. The synthesized unnatural UDP-donors were tested for their activity as substrates for glycosyltransferases in the preparation of unnatural glycosaminoglycans in vitro. A subset of these analogs was useful as donors, increasing the synthetic repertoire for these medically important polysaccharides.
Gram-Scale Synthesis of Uridine 5'-Diphospho-N-acetylglucosamine: Comparison of Enzymatic and Chemical Routes
Heidlas, Juergen E.,Lees, Watson J.,Pale, Patrick,Whitesides, George M.
, p. 146 - 151 (2007/10/02)
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 extract from dried cells of the yeast Candida utilis and afforded a 17 percent 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 percent from pentaacetylglucosamine with the selective formation of tetraacetylglucosamine-α-1-phosphate as the key reaction.
