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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sun, Lifeng
• Chopra, Pradeep
• Boons, Geert-Jan

Titel

Modular Synthesis of Heparan Sulfate Oligosaccharides Having N‑Acetyl and N‑Sulfate Moieties

Ist Teil von

• Journal of organic chemistry, 2020-12, Vol.85 (24), p.16082-16098

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Heparan sulfates are structurally diverse sulfated polysaccharides that reside at the surface of all animal cells where they can interact with a multitude of proteins, thereby modulating a wide range of physiological and disease processes. We describe here a modular synthetic methodology that can provide libraries of heparan sulfate oligosaccharides that have glucosamine residues modified by different patterns of N-acetyl and N-sulfate moieties. It is based on the use of glycosyl donors that are modified at C2 by an azido- or trifluoromethylphenyl-methanimine moiety, which allowed the selective installation of α-glycosides. The amino protecting groups can be selectively unmasked by a reduction or acid treatment, allowing the installation of N-acetyl and N-sulfate moieties, respectively. In combination with the orthogonal hydroxyl protecting groups levulinic (Lev) ester, thexyldimethylsilyl (TDS) ether, allyloxycarbonate (Alloc), and 9-fluorenylmethyl carbonate (Fmoc), different patterns of O-sulfation can be installed. The methodology was applied to prepare four hexasaccharides that differ in the pattern of N- and O-sulfation. These compounds, together with a number of previously prepared HS oligosaccharides, were printed as a glycan microarray to examine the binding selectivities of several HS-binding proteins.