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Automated Synthesis of Oligosaccharides
Palmacci, Emma R.,Plante, Obadiah J.,Hewitt, Michael C.,Seeberger, Peter H.
, p. 3975 - 3990 (2007/10/03)
The chemical synthesis of oligosaccharides with an automated solid-phase synthesizer is described. An octenediol linker served to attach the growing oligosaccharide chain to the solid support, and the desired structures were cleaved from the support via o
Automated solid-phase synthesis of a branched Leishmania cap tetrasaccharide.
Hewitt,Seeberger
, p. 3699 - 3702 (2007/10/03)
[reaction--see text] Described is the first automated solid-phase synthesis of a branched oligosaccharide by stepwise assembly from monosaccharides. Cap tetrasaccharide 1, found as part of the cell surface lipophosphoglycan (LPG) of the protozoan parasite
Solution and solid-support synthesis of a potential leishmaniasis carbohydrate vaccine
Hewitt,Seeberger
, p. 4233 - 4243 (2007/10/03)
The synthesis of a potential carbohydrate vaccine for the parasitic disease leishmaniasis is described. New solution- and solid-phase synthetic strategies were explored for the assembly of a unique tetrasaccharide antigen found on the Leishmania lipophosphoglycan. An initial solution-phase synthesis relied on thioglycosides as building blocks and the establishment of the central disaccharide from lactal via an oxidation-reduction sequence. A second approach was completed both in solution and on solid support. The solid-phase synthesis relied on assembly from monosaccharide units and was used to evaluate different glycosylating agents in the efficient installation of the galactose β-(1-4) mannoside. Glycosyl phosphates proved most successful in this endeavor. This first solid-phase synthesis of the Leishmania cap provided rapid access to the tetrasaccharide in 18% overall yield while requiring only a single purification step. The synthetic cap tetrasaccharide was conjugated to the immunostimulator Pam3Cys to create fully synthetic carbohydrate vaccine 1 and to the carrier protein KLH to form semisynthetic vaccine 2. Currently, both constructs have entered initial immunological experiments in mice targeted at the development of a vaccine against the parasitic disease leishmaniasis.
