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Synthesis of structural variants of Staphylococcus aureus lipoteichoic acid (LTA)
Figueroa-Perez, Ignacio,Stadelmaier, Andreas,Morath, Siegfried,Hartung, Thomas,Schmidt, Richard R.
, p. 493 - 506 (2007/10/03)
Based on 1,2-O-isopropylidene-sn-glycerol, which is readily available from d-mannitol, five chiral building blocks for the construction of structural variants of Staphylococcus aureus LTA designed and synthesized. Ligation of these building blocks led readily to the target molecules 1 and 2. They demonstrated that the d-alanine residues at the glycerophosphate backbone are decisive for the activation of the immune system.
