- Sulfonyl imidazolium salts as reagents for the rapid and efficient synthesis of nucleoside polyphosphates and their conjugates
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A procedure for the synthesis of nucleoside polyphosphates and their conjugates using sulfonylimidazolium salts as key reagents is described. The procedure is rapid and high yielding, does not require prior protection and subsequent deprotection of the donors or acceptors, and can be used to activate nucleoside mono-, di- and triphosphates, and a wide variety of acceptors and donors can be used.
- Mohamady, Samy,Desoky, Ahmed,Taylor, Scott D.
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p. 402 - 405
(2012/02/16)
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- Convenient syntheses of cytidine 5'-triphosphate, guanosine 5'-triphosphate, and uridine 5'-triphosphate and their use in the preparation of UDP-glucose, UDP-glucuronic acid, and GDP-mannose
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This paper compares enzymatic and chemical methods for the synthesis of cytidine 5'-triphosphate, guanosine 5'-triphosphate, and uridine 5'-triphosphate from the corresponding nucleoside monophosphates on scales of ~10 g. These nucleoside triphosphates are important as intermediates in Leloir pathway biosyntheses of complex carbohydrates; the nucleoside monophosphates are readily available commercially. The best route to CTP is based on phosphorylation of CMP using adenylate kinase (EC 2.7.4.3); the route to GTP involves phosphorylation of GMP using guanylate kinase (EC 2.7.4.8); chemical deamination of CTP (prepared enzymatically from CMP) is the best synthesis of UTP. For the 10-200-mmol-scale reactions described in this paper, it is more convenient to prepare phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), used in the enzymatic preparations, from D-(-)-3-phosphoglyceric acid (3-PGA) in the reaction mixture rather than to synthesize PEP in a separate chemical step. The in situ conversion of 3-PGA to PEP requires the coupled action of phosphoglycerate mutase (EC 2.7.5.3) and enolase (EC 4.2.1.11). The enzyme-catalyzed syntheses of uridine 5'-diphosphoglucose (UDP-Glc), uridine 5'-diphosphoglucuronic acid (UDP-GlcUA), and guanosine 5'-diphosphomannose (GDP-Man) illustrate the use of the nucleoside triphosphates.
- Simon,Grabowski,Whitesides
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p. 1834 - 1841
(2007/10/02)
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