2616-64-0Relevant articles and documents
Identification of novel inhibitors of UDP-Glc 4′-epimerase, a validated drug target for african sleeping sickness
Urbaniak, Michael D.,Tabudravu, Jioji N.,Msaki, Aichi,Matera, Kathy Mansfield,Brenk, Ruth,Jaspars, Marcel,Ferguson, Michael A.J.
, p. 5744 - 5747 (2006)
Novel inhibitors of Trypanosoma brucei and mammalian UDP-Glc 4′-epimerase were identified by screening a small library of natural products and commercially available drug-like molecules. The inhibitors possess low micromolar potency against the T. brucei and human enzymes in vitro, display a degree of selectivity between the two enzymes, and are cytotoxic to cultured T. brucei and mammalian cells.
Enzymatic Synthesis of Uridine 5'-Diphosphoglucuronic Acid on a Gram Scale
Toone, Eric J.,Simon, Ethan S.,Whitesides, George M.
, p. 5603 - 5606 (1991)
A pratical route to uridine 5'-diphosphoglucuronic acid (UDP-GlcUA) from uridine 5'-diphosphoglucose (UDP-Glc) on a 1-g scale has been developed using uridine 5'-diphosphoglucose dehydrogenase (UDP-Glc DH, EC 1.1.1.22) from bovine liver.Crude UDP-Glc dehydrogenase was isolated fron beef liver (450 units from 2.4 kg of frozen liver).Commercially available UDP-Glc dehydrogenase as well as a preparation fron calf liver acetone powder were also evaluated as catalysts for large-scale production of UDP-GlcUA: both preparations exhibited too little activity to be synthetically useful.A platinum-catalyzed oxygen oxidation of UDP-Glc was also examined as a possible route to UDP-GlcUA: enzymatic oxidation was superior.These results establish a route to another of the important activated monosaccharides required for cell-free enzymatic syntheses of mammalian oligo- and polysaccharides.
Catalytic mechanism of human UDP-glucose 6-dehydrogenase: In situ proton NMR studies reveal that the C-5 hydrogen of UDP-glucose is not exchanged with bulk water during the enzymatic reaction
Eixelsberger, Thomas,Brecker, Lothar,Nidetzky, Bernd
, p. 209 - 214 (2012)
Human UDP-glucose 6-dehydrogenase (hUGDH) catalyzes the biosynthetic oxidation of UDP-glucose into UDP-glucuronic acid. The catalytic reaction proceeds in two NAD+-dependent steps via covalent thiohemiacetal and thioester enzyme intermediates. Formation of the thiohemiacetal adduct occurs through attack of Cys276 on C-6 of the UDP-gluco-hexodialdose produced in the first oxidation step. Because previous studies of the related enzyme from bovine liver had suggested loss of the C-5 hydrogen from UDP-gluco-hexodialdose due to keto-enol tautomerism, we examined incorporation of solvent deuterium into product(s) of UDP-glucose oxidation by hUGDH. We used wild-type enzyme and a slow-reacting Glu161→Gln mutant that accumulates the thioester adduct at steady state. In situ proton NMR measurements showed that UDP-glucuronic acid was the sole detectable product of both enzymatic transformations. The product contained no deuterium at C-5 within the detection limit (≤2%). The results are consistent with the proposed mechanistic idea for hUGDH that incipient UDP-gluco-hexodialdose is immediately trapped by thiohemiacetal adduct formation.
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Mills et al.
, p. 103,105 (1958)
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Uridine diphosphate beta-glucuronic acid. A new substrate for beta-glucuronidase.
Das,Wentworth,Ide,Sie,Fishman
, p. 375 - 377 (1970)
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Gram-scale production of sugar nucleotides and their derivatives
Li, Shuang,Wang, Shuaishuai,Wang, Yaqian,Qu, Jingyao,Liu, Xian-Wei,Wang, Peng George,Fang, Junqiang
supporting information, p. 2628 - 2633 (2021/04/21)
Here, we report a practical sugar nucleotide production strategy that combined a high-concentrated multi-enzyme catalyzed reaction and a robust chromatography-free selective precipitation purification process. Twelve sugar nucleotides were synthesized on a gram scale with a purity up to 98%.
Isotope Probing of the UDP-Apiose/UDP-Xylose Synthase Reaction: Evidence of a Mechanism via a Coupled Oxidation and Aldol Cleavage
Eixelsberger, Thomas,Horvat, Doroteja,Gutmann, Alexander,Weber, Hansj?rg,Nidetzky, Bernd
, p. 2503 - 2507 (2017/02/23)
The C-branched sugar d-apiose (Api) is essential for plant cell-wall development. An enzyme-catalyzed decarboxylation/pyranoside ring-contraction reaction leads from UDP-α-d-glucuronic acid (UDP-GlcA) to the Api precursor UDP-α-d-apiose (UDP-Api). We examined the mechanism of UDP-Api/UDP-α-d-xylose synthase (UAXS) with site-selectively2H-labeled and deoxygenated substrates. The analogue UDP-2-deoxy-GlcA, which prevents C-2/C-3 aldol cleavage as the plausible initiating step of pyranoside-to-furanoside conversion, did not give the corresponding Api product. Kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) support an UAXS mechanism in which substrate oxidation by enzyme-NAD+and retro-aldol sugar ring-opening occur coupled in a single rate-limiting step leading to decarboxylation. Rearrangement and ring-contracting aldol addition in an open-chain intermediate then give the UDP-Api aldehyde, which is intercepted via reduction by enzyme-NADH.