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tetrasaccharide 28. Final deprotection as described earlier There are no conflicts to declare.
afforded tertrasaccharide 4 with small aromatic impurities
present related to the hydrogenation. The pure compound 4
was obtained after C18-chromatography.
DOI: 10.1039/C9OB00108E
Allergenicity Data
Acknowledgements
With the synthesized suspected allergenic 4PX (2) and
We would like to thank Paul B. White for his help with the
NMR analyses of 1-4.
regioisomer 4PY (4) in hand we set out to study their
allergenicity on blood samples from adult subjects with
previously confirmed GOS-related allergy in Singapore. The
effect of 4PX and 4PY on basophil activation was determined
by measuring the expression of the activation markers CD203c
and CD63 for each subject. Figure 1 shows that the positive 1.
control Vivinal GOS (blue line) induces dose-dependent
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A modular approach was developed for the efficient synthesis
of GOS fragments using three standard building blocks. The
method was applied to the successful synthesis of four 12.
oligosaccharides and holds the potential to be extended to the
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