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Crich D. En Route to the Transformation of Glycoscience: A Chemist's Perspective on Internal and External Crossroads in Glycochemistry. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:17-34. [PMID: 33350830 PMCID: PMC7856254 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c11106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Carbohydrate chemistry is an essential component of the glycosciences and is fundamental to their progress. This Perspective takes the position that carbohydrate chemistry, or glycochemistry, has reached three crossroads on the path to the transformation of the glycosciences, and illustrates them with examples from the author's and other laboratories. The first of these potential inflexion points concerns the mechanism of the glycosylation reaction and the role of protecting groups. It is argued that the experimental evidence supports bimolecular SN2-like mechanisms for typical glycosylation reactions over unimolecular ones involving stereoselective attack on naked glycosyl oxocarbenium ions. Similarly, it is argued that the experimental evidence does not support long-range stereodirecting participation of remote esters through bridged bicyclic dioxacarbenium ions in organic solution in the presence of typical counterions. Rational design and improvement of glycosylation reactions must take into account the roles of the counterion and of concentration. A second crossroads is that between mainstream organic chemistry and glycan synthesis. The case is made that the only real difference between glycan and organic synthesis is the formation of C-O rather than C-C bonds, with diastereocontrol, strategy, tactics, and elegance being of critical importance in both areas: mainstream organic chemists should feel comfortable taking this fork in the road, just as carbohydrate chemists should traveling in the opposite direction. A third crossroads is that between carbohydrate chemistry and medicinal chemistry, where there are equally many opportunities for traffic in either direction. The glycosciences have advanced enormously in the past decade or so, but creativity, input, and ingenuity of scientists from all fields is needed to address the many sophisticated challenges that remain, not the least of which is the development of a broader and more general array of stereospecific glycosylation reactions.
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- David Crich
- Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia, 250 West Green Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 140 Cedar Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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Zhang W, Meredith R, Yoon MK, Wang X, Woods RJ, Carmichael I, Serianni AS. Synthesis and O-Glycosidic Linkage Conformational Analysis of 13C-Labeled Oligosaccharide Fragments of an Antifreeze Glycolipid. J Org Chem 2019; 84:1706-1724. [PMID: 30624062 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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NMR studies of two 13C-labeled disaccharides and a tetrasaccharide were undertaken that comprise the backbone of a novel thermal hysteresis glycolipid containing a linear glycan sequence of alternating [βXyl p-(1→4)-βMan p-(1→4)] n dimers. Experimental trans-glycoside NMR J-couplings, parameterized equations obtained from density functional theory (DFT) calculations, and an in-house circular statistics package ( MA'AT) were used to derive conformational models of linkage torsion angles ϕ and ψ in solution, which were compared to those obtained from molecular dynamics simulations. Modeling using different probability distribution functions showed that MA'AT models of ϕ in βMan(1→4)βXyl and βXyl(1→4)βMan linkages are very similar in the disaccharide building blocks, whereas MA'AT models of ψ differ. This pattern is conserved in the tetrasaccharide, showing that linkage context does not influence linkage geometry in this linear system. Good agreement was observed between the MA'AT and MD models of ψ with respect to mean values and circular standard deviations. Significant differences were observed for ϕ, indicating that revision of the force-field employed by GLYCAM is probably needed. Incorporation of the experimental models of ϕ and ψ into the backbone of an octasaccharide fragment leads to a helical amphipathic topography that may affect the thermal hysteresis properties of the glycolipid.
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center , University of Georgia , Athens , Georgia 30602 , United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center , University of Georgia , Athens , Georgia 30602 , United States
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Vessella G, Casillo A, Fabozzi A, Traboni S, Iadonisi A, Corsaro MM, Bedini E. Synthesis of the tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the cryoprotectant capsular polysaccharide from Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H. Org Biomol Chem 2019; 17:3129-3140. [DOI: 10.1039/c9ob00104b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Synthesis of the threonine-decorated tetrasaccharide repeating unit of a cryoprotectant polysaccharide with a glycosaminoglycan-like structure.
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- Giulia Vessella
- Department of Chemical Sciences
- University of Naples Federico II
- Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo
- I-80126 Napoli
- Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences
- University of Naples Federico II
- Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo
- I-80126 Napoli
- Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences
- University of Naples Federico II
- Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo
- I-80126 Napoli
- Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences
- University of Naples Federico II
- Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo
- I-80126 Napoli
- Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences
- University of Naples Federico II
- Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo
- I-80126 Napoli
- Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences
- University of Naples Federico II
- Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo
- I-80126 Napoli
- Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences
- University of Naples Federico II
- Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo
- I-80126 Napoli
- Italy
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Li W, Gao Y, Li Q, Li ZJ. Ionic-liquid supported rapid synthesis of an N-glycan core pentasaccharide on a 10 g scale. Org Biomol Chem 2018; 16:4720-4727. [DOI: 10.1039/c8ob01046c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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A hetero-branched N-glycan core pentasaccharide was rapidly assembled on a new ionic liquid support on a 10 g scale.
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- Wei Li
- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Peking University
- Beijing 100191
- China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Peking University
- Beijing 100191
- China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Peking University
- Beijing 100191
- China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Peking University
- Beijing 100191
- China
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Sardar MYR, Krishnamurthy VR, Park S, Mandhapati AR, Wever WJ, Park D, Cummings RD, Chaikof EL. Synthesis of Lewis X-O-Core-1 threonine: A building block for O-linked Lewis X glycopeptides. Carbohydr Res 2017; 452:47-53. [PMID: 29065342 PMCID: PMC5682196 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2017.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Revised: 10/07/2017] [Accepted: 10/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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LewisX (LeX) is a branched trisaccharide Galβ1→4(Fucα1→3)GlcNAc that is expressed on many cell surface glycoproteins and plays critical roles in innate and adaptive immune responses. However, efficient synthesis of glycopeptides bearing LeX remains a major limitation for structure-function studies of the LeX determinant. Here we report a total synthesis of a LeX pentasaccharide 1 using a regioselective 1-benzenesulfinyl piperidine/triflic anhydride promoted [3 + 2] glycosylation. The presence of an Fmoc-threonine amino acid facilitates incorporation of the pentasaccharide in solid phase peptide synthesis, providing a route to diverse O-linked LeX glycopeptides. The described approach is broadly applicable to the synthesis of a variety of complex glycopeptides containing O-linked LeX or sialyl LewisX (sLeX).
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- Mohammed Y R Sardar
- Department of Surgery, Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Voets IK. From ice-binding proteins to bio-inspired antifreeze materials. SOFT MATTER 2017; 13:4808-4823. [PMID: 28657626 PMCID: PMC5708349 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm02867e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/16/2017] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Ice-binding proteins (IBP) facilitate survival under extreme conditions in diverse life forms. IBPs in polar fishes block further growth of internalized environmental ice and inhibit ice recrystallization of accumulated internal crystals. Algae use IBPs to structure ice, while ice adhesion is critical for the Antarctic bacterium Marinomonas primoryensis. Successful translation of this natural cryoprotective ability into man-made materials holds great promise but is still in its infancy. This review covers recent advances in the field of ice-binding proteins and their synthetic analogues, highlighting fundamental insights into IBP functioning as a foundation for the knowledge-based development of cheap, bio-inspired mimics through scalable production routes. Recent advances in the utilisation of IBPs and their analogues to e.g. improve cryopreservation, ice-templating strategies, gas hydrate inhibition and other technologies are presented.
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- I K Voets
- Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Post Office Box 513, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands. and Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Post Office Box 513, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands and Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Post Office Box 513, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Kawahara H, Matsuda Y, Sakaguchi T, Arai N, Koide Y. Antifreeze Activity of Xylomannan from the Mycelium and Fruit Body of Flammulina velutipes. Biocontrol Sci 2017; 21:153-9. [PMID: 27667520 DOI: 10.4265/bio.21.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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An identified class of antifreeze, a xylomannan-based thermal hysteresis (TH)-producing glycolipid, has been discovered from diverse taxa, including plants, insects, and amphibians. We isolated xylomannan from the mycelium and fruit body of the basidiomycete Flammulina velutipes using successive hot extraction with water, 2% and 25% aqueous KOH, and gel filtration chromatography. The xylomannan from the fruit body had a recrystallization inhibiting (RI) activity (RI=0.44) at 0.5 mg/mL. The dried weight yield of the fruit body (7.7×10(-2)%, w/w) was higher than that of the mycelium. Although the purified xylomannan from both soures were composed of mannose and xylose in a 2 : 1 molar ratio, the molecular weight of the xylomannan from the mycelium and fruit body was 320,000 and 240,000, respectively. The RI activity of mycelial xylomannan was higher than that from the fruit body (RI=0.57) at 45 µg/mL. Although this RI activity was able to remain constant after exposure to various conditions, we confirmed that the decrease of RI activity was stimulated by the decrease of molecular weight that was caused by heating during the alkaline condition. The survival rate of the CHO cells at -20℃ for two days increased to 97% due to the addition of 20 µg/mL of purified xylomannan. This was the first report to indicate that xylomannan from the mycelium of Flammulina velutipes had a high level of ice recrystallization inhibiting activity like antifreeze proteins from plants and had rhe potential to become a new material for cell storage.
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Tang SL, Pohl NLB. Automated fluorous-assisted solution-phase synthesis of β-1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,6-mannan oligomers. Carbohydr Res 2016; 430:8-15. [PMID: 27155895 PMCID: PMC4893899 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2016.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2016] [Revised: 03/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Automated solution-phase syntheses of β-1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,6-mannan oligomers have been accomplished by applying a β-directing C-5 carboxylate strategy. Fluorous-tag-assisted purification after each reaction cycle allowed the synthesis of short β-mannan oligomers with limited loading of glycosyl donor-as low as 3.0 equivalents for each glycosylation cycle. This study showed the capability of the automated solution-phase synthesis protocol for synthesizing various challenging glycosides, including use of a C-5 ester as a protecting group that could be converted under reductive conditions to a hydroxymethyl group for chain extension.
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- Shu-Lun Tang
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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- Maya Bar Dolev
- Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel; ,
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel; ,
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada;
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Duman JG. Animal ice-binding (antifreeze) proteins and glycolipids: an overview with emphasis on physiological function. J Exp Biol 2015; 218:1846-55. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.116905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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ABSTRACT
Ice-binding proteins (IBPs) assist in subzero tolerance of multiple cold-tolerant organisms: animals, plants, fungi, bacteria etc. IBPs include: (1) antifreeze proteins (AFPs) with high thermal hysteresis antifreeze activity; (2) low thermal hysteresis IBPs; and (3) ice-nucleating proteins (INPs). Several structurally different IBPs have evolved, even within related taxa. Proteins that produce thermal hysteresis inhibit freezing by a non-colligative mechanism, whereby they adsorb onto ice crystals or ice-nucleating surfaces and prevent further growth. This lowers the so-called hysteretic freezing point below the normal equilibrium freezing/melting point, producing a difference between the two, termed thermal hysteresis. True AFPs with high thermal hysteresis are found in freeze-avoiding animals (those that must prevent freezing, as they die if frozen) especially marine fish, insects and other terrestrial arthropods where they function to prevent freezing at temperatures below those commonly experienced by the organism. Low thermal hysteresis IBPs are found in freeze-tolerant organisms (those able to survive extracellular freezing), and function to inhibit recrystallization – a potentially damaging process whereby larger ice crystals grow at the expense of smaller ones – and in some cases, prevent lethal propagation of extracellular ice into the cytoplasm. Ice-nucleator proteins inhibit supercooling and induce freezing in the extracellular fluid at high subzero temperatures in many freeze-tolerant species, thereby allowing them to control the location and temperature of ice nucleation, and the rate of ice growth. Numerous nuances to these functions have evolved. Antifreeze glycolipids with significant thermal hysteresis activity were recently identified in insects, frogs and plants.
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first automated solution-phase synthesis of β-1,4-mannuronate
and β-1,4-mannan oligomers has been accomplished by using a
β-directing C-5 carboxylate strategy. By utilizing fluorous-tag
assisting purification after repeated reaction cycles, β-1,4-mannuronate
was synthesized up to a hexasaccharide with limited loading of a glycosyl
donor (up to 3.5 equiv) for each glycosylation cycle due to the homogeneous
solution-phase reaction condition. After a global reduction of the
uronates, the β-1,4-mannan hexasaccharide was obtained, thereby
demonstrating a new approach to β-mannan synthesis.
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- Shu-Lun Tang
- †Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States.,‡Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Ishiwata A, Sakurai A, Nishimiya Y, Tsuda S, Ito Y. Synthetic study and structural analysis of the antifreeze agent xylomannan from Upis ceramboides. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:19524-35. [PMID: 22029271 DOI: 10.1021/ja208528c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The novel antifreeze factor, xylomannan, first isolated from the freeze-tolerant Alaskan beetle Upis ceramboides , demonstrates a high degree of thermal hysteresis, comparable to that of the most active insect antifreeze proteins. Although the presence of a lipid component in this factor has not yet been verified, it has been proposed that the glycan backbone consists of a β-D-mannopyranosyl-(1→4)-β-D-xylopyranose-disaccharide-repeating structure according to MS and NMR analyses. In this contribution, we report the stereoselective synthesis of the tetrasaccharide β-D-mannopyranosyl-(1→4)-β-D-xylopyranosyl-(1→4)-β-D-mannopyranosyl-(1→4)-D-xylopyranoside, a structural component of xylomannan. Our synthesis features the use of 2-naphthylmethyl (NAP)-ether-mediated intramolecular aglycon delivery (IAD) as the key reaction in obtaining β-mannopyranoside stereoselectively. Various donors for NAP-IAD were tested to determine the most suitable for the purposes of this synthesis. Fragment coupling between a disaccharyl fluoride and a disaccharide acceptor obtained from a common β-D-mannopyranosyl-(1→4)-β-D-xylopyranoside derivative was successfully carried out to afford the desired tetrasaccharide in the presence of Cp(2)HfCl(2)-AgClO(4). Structural analysis of the resulting synthetic tetrasaccharide using NMR techniques and molecular modeling was performed in order to demonstrate the presence of the proposed xylomannan linkages in this molecule.
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- Akihiro Ishiwata
- RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
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