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Broadening the Scope of the Reverse Orthogonal Strategy for Oligosaccharide Synthesis. J Org Chem 2022; 87:9887-9895. [PMID: 35862424 PMCID: PMC9402073 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c00905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The reverse orthogonal strategy was invented in 2011 in an attempt to address drawbacks of other strategies for glycan assembly. Different from the classical orthogonal approach that relies on the orthogonality of leaving groups, the reverse strategy is based on orthogonal protecting groups that could be removed during the glycosylation step. This strategy remained largely unexplored due to only one combination of orthogonal protecting groups that would fit into this concept. Reported herein are new orthogonal combinations of leaving and protecting groups that help to streamline the glycan assembly. Also reported is further refinement of the previously reported reaction conditions.
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Grabarics M, Lettow M, Kirschbaum C, Greis K, Manz C, Pagel K. Mass Spectrometry-Based Techniques to Elucidate the Sugar Code. Chem Rev 2022; 122:7840-7908. [PMID: 34491038 PMCID: PMC9052437 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Cells encode information in the sequence of biopolymers, such as nucleic acids, proteins, and glycans. Although glycans are essential to all living organisms, surprisingly little is known about the "sugar code" and the biological roles of these molecules. The reason glycobiology lags behind its counterparts dealing with nucleic acids and proteins lies in the complexity of carbohydrate structures, which renders their analysis extremely challenging. Building blocks that may differ only in the configuration of a single stereocenter, combined with the vast possibilities to connect monosaccharide units, lead to an immense variety of isomers, which poses a formidable challenge to conventional mass spectrometry. In recent years, however, a combination of innovative ion activation methods, commercialization of ion mobility-mass spectrometry, progress in gas-phase ion spectroscopy, and advances in computational chemistry have led to a revolution in mass spectrometry-based glycan analysis. The present review focuses on the above techniques that expanded the traditional glycomics toolkit and provided spectacular insight into the structure of these fascinating biomolecules. To emphasize the specific challenges associated with them, major classes of mammalian glycans are discussed in separate sections. By doing so, we aim to put the spotlight on the most important element of glycobiology: the glycans themselves.
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- Márkó Grabarics
- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität
Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4−6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Dulaney SB, Huang X. Strategies in Synthesis of Heparin/Heparan Sulfate Oligosaccharides: 2000-Present. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 2021; 80:121-164. [PMID: 34872655 DOI: 10.1016/bs.accb.2021.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Heparin and heparan sulfate are members of the glycosaminoglycan family that are involved in a multitude of biological processes. The great interests in the anticoagulant properties of heparin have stimulated major advances in synthetic strategies toward clinically effective analogues, as demonstrated importantly by the approval of the fully synthetic pentasaccharide fragment, termed fondaparinux (Arixtra®), of the heparin macromolecule for treatment of deep-vein thrombosis. Given the highly complex nature of heparin and heparan sulfate, the chemical synthesis of their components is a challenging endeavor. In the past decade, multiple approaches have been developed to improve the overall synthetic efficiency. New strategies have emerged that can generate libraries of oligosaccharide components of heparin and heparan sulfate. This article discusses recent developments in the assembly of heparin and heparan sulfate oligosaccharides and the associated challenges in their synthesis.
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- Steven B Dulaney
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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Hogan JD, Wu J, Klein JA, Lin C, Carvalho L, Zaia J. GAGrank: Software for Glycosaminoglycan Sequence Ranking Using a Bipartite Graph Model. Mol Cell Proteomics 2021; 20:100093. [PMID: 33992776 PMCID: PMC8214146 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2021.100093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Revised: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are long, linear polysaccharide chains that are typically found as the glycan portion of proteoglycans. These GAGs are characterized by repeating disaccharide units with variable sulfation and acetylation patterns along the chain. GAG length and modification patterns have profound impacts on growth factor signaling mechanisms central to numerous physiological processes. Electron activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry is a very effective technique for assigning the structures of GAG saccharides; however, manual interpretation of the resulting complex tandem mass spectra is a difficult and time-consuming process that drives the development of computational methods for accurate and efficient sequencing. We have recently published GAGfinder, the first peak picking and elemental composition assignment algorithm specifically designed for GAG tandem mass spectra. Here, we present GAGrank, a novel network-based method for determining GAG structure using information extracted from tandem mass spectra using GAGfinder. GAGrank is based on Google's PageRank algorithm for ranking websites for search engine output. In particular, it is an implementation of BiRank, an extension of PageRank for bipartite networks. In our implementation, the two partitions comprise every possible sequence for a given GAG composition and the tandem MS fragments found using GAGfinder. Sequences are given a higher ranking if they link to many important fragments. Using the simulated annealing probabilistic optimization technique, we optimized GAGrank's parameters on ten training sequences. We then validated GAGrank's performance on three validation sequences. We also demonstrated GAGrank's ability to sequence isomeric mixtures using two mixtures at five different ratios.
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- John D Hogan
- Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Sun L, Chopra P, Boons GJ. Modular Synthesis of Heparan Sulfate Oligosaccharides Having N-Acetyl and N-Sulfate Moieties. J Org Chem 2020; 85:16082-16098. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Lifeng Sun
- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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Li W, Yu B. Temporary ether protecting groups at the anomeric center in complex carbohydrate synthesis. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 2020; 77:1-69. [PMID: 33004110 DOI: 10.1016/bs.accb.2019.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
The synthesis of a carbohydrate building block usually starts with introduction of a temporary protecting group at the anomeric center and ends with its selective cleavage for further transformation. Thus, the choice of the anomeric temporary protecting group must be carefully considered because it should retain intact during the whole synthetic manipulation, and it should be chemoselectively removable without affecting other functional groups at a late stage in the synthesis. Etherate groups are the most widely used temporary protecting groups at the anomeric center, generally including allyl ethers, MP (p-methoxyphenyl) ethers, benzyl ethers, PMB (p-methoxybenzyl) eithers, and silyl ethers. This chapter provides a comprehensive review on their formation, cleavage, and applications in the synthesis of complex carbohydrates.
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- Wei Li
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
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Geringer SA, Mannino MP, Bandara MD, Demchenko AV. Picoloyl protecting group in synthesis: focus on a highly chemoselective catalytic removal. Org Biomol Chem 2020; 18:4863-4871. [PMID: 32608450 DOI: 10.1039/d0ob00803f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The picoloyl ester (Pico) has proven to be a versatile protecting group in carbohydrate chemistry. It can be used for the purpose of stereocontrolling glycosylations via an H-bond-mediated Aglycone Delivery (HAD) method. It can also be used as a temporary protecting group that can be efficiently introduced and chemoselectively cleaved in the presence of practically all other common protecting groups used in synthesis. Herein, we will describe a new method for rapid, catalytic, and highly chemoselective removal of the picoloyl group using inexpensive copper(ii) or iron(iii) salts.
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- Scott A Geringer
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri - St Louis, One University Boulevard, St Louis, MO 63121, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri - St Louis, One University Boulevard, St Louis, MO 63121, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri - St Louis, One University Boulevard, St Louis, MO 63121, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri - St Louis, One University Boulevard, St Louis, MO 63121, USA.
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Pawar NJ, Wang L, Higo T, Bhattacharya C, Kancharla PK, Zhang F, Baryal K, Huo C, Liu J, Linhardt RJ, Huang X, Hsieh‐Wilson LC. Expedient Synthesis of Core Disaccharide Building Blocks from Natural Polysaccharides for Heparan Sulfate Oligosaccharide Assembly. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201908805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- Nitin J. Pawar
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringCalifornia Institute of Technology Pasadena CA 91125 USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringCalifornia Institute of Technology Pasadena CA 91125 USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringCalifornia Institute of Technology Pasadena CA 91125 USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringCalifornia Institute of Technology Pasadena CA 91125 USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringCalifornia Institute of Technology Pasadena CA 91125 USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Chemical and Biological EngineeringCenter for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary StudiesRensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy NY 12180 USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical EngineeringMichigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical EngineeringMichigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal ChemistryEshelman School of PharmacyUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC 27599 USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Chemical and Biological EngineeringCenter for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary StudiesRensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy NY 12180 USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical EngineeringMichigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringCalifornia Institute of Technology Pasadena CA 91125 USA
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Pawar NJ, Wang L, Higo T, Bhattacharya C, Kancharla PK, Zhang F, Baryal K, Huo CX, Liu J, Linhardt RJ, Huang X, Hsieh-Wilson LC. Expedient Synthesis of Core Disaccharide Building Blocks from Natural Polysaccharides for Heparan Sulfate Oligosaccharide Assembly. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:18577-18583. [PMID: 31553820 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201908805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 08/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
The complex sulfation motifs of heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans (HS GAGs) play critical roles in many important biological processes. However, an understanding of their specific functions has been hampered by an inability to synthesize large numbers of diverse, yet defined, HS structures. Herein, we describe a new approach to access the four core disaccharides required for HS/heparin oligosaccharide assembly from natural polysaccharides. The use of disaccharides rather than monosaccharides as minimal precursors greatly accelerates the synthesis of HS GAGs, providing key disaccharide and tetrasaccharide intermediates in about half the number of steps compared to traditional strategies. Rapid access to such versatile intermediates will enable the generation of comprehensive libraries of sulfated oligosaccharides for unlocking the "sulfation code" and understanding the roles of specific GAG structures in physiology and disease.
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- Nitin J Pawar
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
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Earley DF, Bailly B, Maggioni A, Kundur AR, Thomson RJ, Chang CW, von Itzstein M. Efficient Blocking of Enterovirus 71 Infection by Heparan Sulfate Analogues Acting as Decoy Receptors. ACS Infect Dis 2019; 5:1708-1717. [PMID: 31307190 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a major etiological agent of hand, foot, and mouth disease, for which there is no antiviral therapy. We have developed densely sulfated disaccharide heparan sulfate (HS) analogues that are potent small molecule inhibitors of EV71 infection, binding to the viral capsid and acting as decoy receptors to block early events of virus replication. The simplified structures, more potent than defined HS disaccharides and with no significant anticoagulant activity, offer promise as anti-EV71 agents.
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- Daniel F. Earley
- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia
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- School of Medical Science, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia
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Pomin VH, Wang X. Synthetic Oligosaccharide Libraries and Microarray Technology: A Powerful Combination for the Success of Current Glycosaminoglycan Interactomics. ChemMedChem 2018; 13:648-661. [PMID: 29160016 PMCID: PMC5895483 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201700620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2017] [Revised: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are extracellular matrix and/or cell-surface sulfated glycans crucial to the regulation of various signaling proteins, the functions of which are essential in many pathophysiological systems. Because structural heterogeneity is high in GAG chains and purification is difficult, the use of structurally defined GAG oligosaccharides from natural sources as molecular models in both biophysical and pharmacological assays is limited. To overcome this obstacle, GAG-like oligosaccharides of well-defined structures are currently being synthesized by chemical and/or enzymatic means in many research groups around the world. These synthetic GAG oligosaccharides serve as useful molecular tools in studies of GAG-protein interactions. In this review, besides discussing the commonest routes used for the synthesis of GAG oligosaccharides, we also survey some libraries of these synthetic models currently available for research and discuss their activities in interaction studies with functional proteins, especially through the microarray approach.
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- Vitor H Pomin
- Program of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis and University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-913, Brazil
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
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Hogan JD, Klein JA, Wu J, Chopra P, Boons GJ, Carvalho L, Lin C, Zaia J. Software for Peak Finding and Elemental Composition Assignment for Glycosaminoglycan Tandem Mass Spectra. Mol Cell Proteomics 2018; 17:1448-1456. [PMID: 29615495 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.ra118.000590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2018] [Revised: 03/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) covalently linked to proteoglycans (PGs) are characterized by repeating disaccharide units and variable sulfation patterns along the chain. GAG length and sulfation patterns impact disease etiology, cellular signaling, and structural support for cells. We and others have demonstrated the usefulness of tandem mass spectrometry (MS2) for assigning the structures of GAG saccharides; however, manual interpretation of tandem mass spectra is time-consuming, so computational methods must be employed. In the proteomics domain, the identification of monoisotopic peaks and charge states relies on algorithms that use averagine, or the average building block of the compound class being analyzed. Although these methods perform well for protein and peptide spectra, they perform poorly on GAG tandem mass spectra, because a single average building block does not characterize the variable sulfation of GAG disaccharide units. In addition, it is necessary to assign product ion isotope patterns to interpret the tandem mass spectra of GAG saccharides. To address these problems, we developed GAGfinder, the first tandem mass spectrum peak finding algorithm developed specifically for GAGs. We define peak finding as assigning experimental isotopic peaks directly to a given product ion composition, as opposed to deconvolution or peak picking, which are terms more accurately describing the existing methods previously mentioned. GAGfinder is a targeted, brute force approach to spectrum analysis that uses precursor composition information to generate all theoretical fragments. GAGfinder also performs peak isotope composition annotation, which is typically a subsequent step for averagine-based methods. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD009101.
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- John D Hogan
- From the ‡Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University - Boston, MA 02215.,§Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine - Boston, MA 02118
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- From the ‡Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University - Boston, MA 02215.,§Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine - Boston, MA 02118
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- §Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine - Boston, MA 02118
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- ¶Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia - Athens, GA 30602
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- ¶Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia - Athens, GA 30602
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- From the ‡Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University - Boston, MA 02215.,‖Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University - Boston, MA 02215
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- §Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine - Boston, MA 02118
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- From the ‡Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University - Boston, MA 02215; .,§Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine - Boston, MA 02118
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Zong C, Huang R, Condac E, Chiu Y, Xiao W, Li X, Lu W, Ishihara M, Wang S, Ramiah A, Stickney M, Azadi P, Amster IJ, Moremen KW, Wang L, Sharp JS, Boons GJ. Integrated Approach to Identify Heparan Sulfate Ligand Requirements of Robo1. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:13059-13067. [PMID: 27611601 PMCID: PMC5068570 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b08161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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An integrated methodology is described to establish ligand requirements for heparan sulfate (HS) binding proteins based on a workflow in which HS octasaccharides are produced by partial enzymatic degradation of natural HS followed by size exclusion purification, affinity enrichment using an immobilized HS-binding protein of interest, putative structure determination of isolated compounds by a hydrophilic interaction chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry platform, and chemical synthesis of well-defined HS oligosaccharides for structure-activity relationship studies. The methodology was used to establish the ligand requirements of human Roundabout receptor 1 (Robo1), which is involved in a number of developmental processes. Mass spectrometric analysis of the starting octasaccharide mixture and the Robo1-bound fraction indicated that Robo1 has a preference for a specific set of structures. Further analysis was performed by sequential permethylation, desulfation, and pertrideuteroacetylation followed by online separation and structural analysis by MS/MS. Sequences of tetrasaccharides could be deduced from the data, and by combining the compositional and sequence data, a putative octasaccharide ligand could be proposed (GlA-GlcNS6S-IdoA-GlcNS-IdoA2S-GlcNS6S-IdoA-GlcNAc6S). A modular synthetic approach was employed to prepare the target compound, and binding studies by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) confirmed it to be a high affinity ligand for Robo1. Further studies with a number of tetrasaccharides confirmed that sulfate esters at C-6 are critical for binding, whereas such functionalities at C-2 substantially reduce binding. High affinity ligands were able to reverse a reduction in endothelial cell migration induced by Slit2-Robo1 signaling.
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- Chengli Zong
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Mohamed S, Ferro V. Synthetic Approaches to L-Iduronic Acid and L-Idose: Key Building Blocks for the Preparation of Glycosaminoglycan Oligosaccharides. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 2015; 72:21-61. [PMID: 26613814 DOI: 10.1016/bs.accb.2015.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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L-Iduronic acid (IdoA) is an important monosaccharide component of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) such as heparin, heparan sulfate and dermatan sulfate. GAGs are complex, highly sulfated polysaccharides that mediate a multitude of physiological and pathological processes via their interactions with a range of diverse proteins. The main challenge in the synthesis of GAG oligosaccharides is the efficient gram-scale preparation of IdoA building blocks since neither IdoA nor L-idose is commercially available or readily accessible from natural sources. In this review, the different synthetic approaches for the preparation of IdoA and its derivatives, including L-idose, are presented and discussed. Derivatives of the latter are often used in GAG synthesis and are elaborated to IdoA via selective oxidation at C-6 after incorporation into a GAG chain. Particular focus will be given to the preparation of IdoA synthons most commonly used for GAG oligosaccharide synthesis, and on the progress made since the last systematic review in this area.
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- Shifaza Mohamed
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Ágoston K, Watt GM, Fügedi P. A new set of orthogonal protecting groups on a monosaccharide scaffold. Tetrahedron Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2015.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Pomin VH. A Dilemma in the Glycosaminoglycan-Based Therapy: Synthetic or Naturally Unique Molecules? Med Res Rev 2015; 35:1195-219. [DOI: 10.1002/med.21356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2015] [Revised: 05/23/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Vitor H. Pomin
- Program of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis, University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro RJ 21941-913 Brazil
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Farrugia BL, Lord MS, Melrose J, Whitelock JM. Can we produce heparin/heparan sulfate biomimetics using "mother-nature" as the gold standard? Molecules 2015; 20:4254-76. [PMID: 25751786 PMCID: PMC6272578 DOI: 10.3390/molecules20034254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Revised: 02/13/2015] [Accepted: 02/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Heparan sulfate (HS) and heparin are glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) that are heterogeneous in nature, not only due to differing disaccharide combinations, but also their sulfate modifications. HS is well known for its interactions with various growth factors and cytokines; and heparin for its clinical use as an anticoagulant. Due to their potential use in tissue regeneration; and the recent adverse events due to contamination of heparin; there is an increased surge to produce these GAGs on a commercial scale. The production of HS from natural sources is limited so strategies are being explored to be biomimetically produced via chemical; chemoenzymatic synthesis methods and through the recombinant expression of proteoglycans. This review details the most recent advances in the field of HS/heparin synthesis for the production of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and as a tool further our understanding of the interactions that occur between GAGs and growth factors and cytokines involved in tissue development and repair.
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- Brooke L Farrugia
- Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
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- Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
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- Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
- The Raymond Purves Research Labs, Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, The Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia.
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- Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
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Tu Z, Liu PK, Wu MC, Lin CH. Expeditious Synthesis of Orthogonally Protected Saccharides through Consecutive Protection/Glycosylation Steps. Isr J Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201400166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Miller GJ, Hansen SU, Baráth M, Johannessen C, Blanch EW, Jayson GC, Gardiner JM. Synthesis of a heparin-related GlcN-IdoA sulfation-site variable disaccharide library and analysis by Raman and ROA spectroscopy. Carbohydr Res 2014; 400:44-53. [PMID: 25457609 PMCID: PMC4245711 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2014.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Revised: 06/19/2014] [Accepted: 06/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Synthesis of an array of differentially sulfated GlcN-IdoA disaccharides, accessible on good scale, directly from l-iduronate components is described. These are specifically directed to provide the sulfation variability at the key most common biologically relevant sulfation-variable l-IdoA O-2 and d-GlcN O-6 and amino sites of this heparin disaccharide. This sulfation-varied matrix has allowed the first evaluation of using Raman/ROA spectroscopy to characterize changes in spectra as a function of both site and level of sulfation with pure, defined heparin-related disaccharide species. This provides analysis of both similarities and differences to digest native heparin and this shows evidence of different types of changes in conformations and conformational freedom as a function of some specific sulfation changes at the disaccharide level. It is anticipated that this data set will open the way for applications to further site-specific sulfated saccharides and demonstrates the capability offered by Raman-ROA towards fingerprinting sulfation in heparin fragments.
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- Gavin J Miller
- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK; Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
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- Institute of Cancer Sciences, Christie Hospital and University of Manchester, Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 4BX, UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK.
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Zhou J, Yang L, Hu W. Stereoselective synthesis of a sulfated tetrasaccharide corresponding to a rare sequence in the galactofucan isolated from Sargassum polycystum. J Org Chem 2014; 79:4718-26. [PMID: 24766314 DOI: 10.1021/jo500503r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The first chemical synthesis of a highly sulfated tetrasaccharide 1, as the rare sequence in the galactofucan isolated from the brown alga Sargassum polycystum, was achieved in a convergent and stereoselective manner. The key features of the synthetic strategy include construction of multiple contiguous 1,2-cis glycosidic bonds and [2 + 2] assembly based on the rationally developed d-galactose building block 6. The synthesized oligosaccharides were fully characterized using a combination of coupled-HSQC and other 2D NMR techniques.
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- Jun Zhou
- Shanghai Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, and Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University , Shanghai, 200062, PR China
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Dhamale OP, Zong C, Al-Mafraji K, Boons GJ. New glucuronic acid donors for the modular synthesis of heparan sulfate oligosaccharides. Org Biomol Chem 2014; 12:2087-98. [PMID: 24549353 PMCID: PMC4009994 DOI: 10.1039/c3ob42312c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Although hundreds of heparan sulfate (HS) binding proteins have been implicated in a myriad of physiological and pathological processes, very little information is known about ligand requirements for binding and mediating biological activities by these proteins. We report here a streamlined approach for the preparation of modular disaccharide building blocks that will facilitate the assembly of libraries of HS oligosaccharides for structure-activity relationship studies. In particular, we have found that glucuronic acid donors, which usually perform poorly in glycosylations, can give high yields of coupling products when the C-2 hydroxyl is protected with a permanent 4-acetoxy-2,2-dimethyl butanoyl- (PivOAc) or temporary levulinoyl (Lev) ester and the C-4 hydroxyl modified with a selectively removable 2-methylnaphthyl (Nap) ether. It has been shown that the PivOAc ester can be removed without affecting sulfate esters making it an ideal protecting group for HS oligosaccharide assembly. Iduronic acid donors exhibit more favorable glycosyl donating properties and a compound protected with a Lev ester at C-2 and an Fmoc function at the C-4 hydroxyl gave coupling products in high yield. The new donors avoid post-glycosylation oxidation and therefore allow the facile preparation of modular disaccharide building blocks.
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- Omkar P Dhamale
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, The University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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Tu Z, Hsieh HW, Tsai CM, Hsu CW, Wang SG, Wu KJ, Lin KI, Lin CH. Synthesis and Characterization of Sulfated Gal-β-1,3/4-GlcNAc Disaccharides through Consecutive Protection/Glycosylation Steps. Chem Asian J 2013; 8:1536-50. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.201201204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2012] [Revised: 03/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Kozioł A, Lendzion-Paluch A, Manikowski A. A Fast and Effective Hydrogenation Process of Protected Pentasaccharide: A Key Step in the Synthesis of Fondaparinux Sodium. Org Process Res Dev 2013. [DOI: 10.1021/op300367c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Anna Kozioł
- Organic Synthesis Laboratory, Adamed Sp. z o.o., Pienków 149, 05-152 Czosnów, Poland
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- Organic Synthesis Laboratory, Adamed Sp. z o.o., Pienków 149, 05-152 Czosnów, Poland
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- Organic Synthesis Laboratory, Adamed Sp. z o.o., Pienków 149, 05-152 Czosnów, Poland
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Zong C, Venot A, Dhamale O, Boons GJ. Fluorous supported modular synthesis of heparan sulfate oligosaccharides. Org Lett 2013; 15:342-5. [PMID: 23293947 PMCID: PMC3563243 DOI: 10.1021/ol303270v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The modular synthesis of heparan sulfate fragments is greatly facilitated by employing an anomeric aminopentyl linker protected by a benzyloxycarbonyl group modified by a perfluorodecyl tag, which made it possible to purify highly polar intermediates by fluorous solid phase extraction. This tagging methodology made it also possible to perform repeated glycosylations to drive reactions to completion.
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- Chengli Zong
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, GA 30602
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, GA 30602
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, GA 30602
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Manikowski A, Kozioł A, Czajkowska-Wojciechowska E. An alternative route for fondaparinux sodium synthesis via selective hydrogenations and sulfation of appropriate pentasaccharides. Carbohydr Res 2012; 361:155-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2012.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2012] [Revised: 08/25/2012] [Accepted: 08/27/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Dulaney SB, Huang X. Strategies in synthesis of heparin/heparan sulfate oligosaccharides: 2000-present. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 2012; 67:95-136. [PMID: 22794183 PMCID: PMC3646295 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-396527-1.00003-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Steven B Dulaney
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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Fujikawa K, Ganesh NV, Tan YH, Stine KJ, Demchenko AV. Reverse orthogonal strategy for oligosaccharide synthesis. Chem Commun (Camb) 2011; 47:10602-4. [PMID: 21892457 DOI: 10.1039/c1cc13409d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Herein, we report the invention of a novel expeditious concept for oligosaccharide synthesis. Unlike the classic orthogonal strategy based on leaving groups, the reverse approach is based on orthogonal protecting groups, herein p-methoxybenzyl and 4-pentenoyl, which allows for efficient oligosaccharide assembly in the reverse direction.
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- Kohki Fujikawa
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, One University Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63121, USA
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Daragics K, Fügedi P. (2-Nitrophenyl)acetyl: a new, selectively removable hydroxyl protecting group. Org Lett 2010; 12:2076-9. [PMID: 20361745 DOI: 10.1021/ol100562f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The utility of the (2-nitrophenyl)acetyl (NPAc) group for the protection of hydroxyl functions is reported. (2-Nitrophenyl)acetates are readily prepared starting from the commercially available, inexpensive (2-nitrophenyl)acetic acid, and these esters are stable under a series of common carbohydrate transformations. The NPAc group can be removed selectively using Zn and NH(4)Cl without affecting a series of common protecting groups. This new protecting group is orthogonal with the commonly used tert-butyldimethylsilyl, levulinoyl, 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl, naphthylmethyl, and p-methoxybenzyl groups.
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- Katalin Daragics
- Department of Carbohydrate Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1025 Budapest, Hungary
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Wang Z, Xu Y, Yang B, Tiruchinapally G, Sun B, Liu R, Dulaney S, Liu J, Huang X. Preactivation-based, one-pot combinatorial synthesis of heparin-like hexasaccharides for the analysis of heparin-protein interactions. Chemistry 2010; 16:8365-75. [PMID: 20623566 PMCID: PMC3094016 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201000987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Heparin (HP) and heparan sulfate (HS) play important roles in many biological events. Increasing evidence has shown that the biological functions of HP and HS can be critically dependent upon their precise structures, including the position of the iduronic acids and sulfation patterns. However, unraveling the HP code has been extremely challenging due to the enormous structural variations. To overcome this hurdle, we investigated the possibility of assembling a library of HP/HS oligosaccharides using a preactivation-based, one-pot glycosylation method. A major challenge in HP/HS oligosaccharide synthesis is stereoselectivity in the formation of the cis-1,4-linkages between glucosamine and the uronic acid. Through screening, suitable protective groups were identified on the matching glycosyl donor and acceptor, leading to stereospecific formation of both the cis-1,4- and trans-1,4-linkages present in HP. The protective group chemistry designed was also very flexible. From two advanced thioglycosyl disaccharide intermediates, all of the required disaccharide modules for library preparation could be generated in a divergent manner, which greatly simplified building-block preparation. Furthermore, the reactivity-independent nature of the preactivation-based, one-pot approach enabled us to mix the building blocks. This allowed rapid assembly of twelve HP/HS hexasaccharides with systematically varied and precisely controlled backbone structures in a combinatorial fashion. The speed and the high yields achieved in glycoassembly without the need to use a large excess of building blocks highlighted the advantages of our approach, which can be of general use to facilitate the study of HP/HS biology. As a proof of principle, this panel of hexasaccharides was used to probe the effect of backbone sequence on binding with the fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2). A trisaccharide sequence of 2-O-sulfated iduronic acid flanked by N-sulfated glucosamines was identified to be the minimum binding motif and N-sulfation was found to be critical. This provides useful information for further development of more potent compounds towards FGF-2 binding, which can have potential applications in wound healing and anticancer therapy.
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- Zhen Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (USA)
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- Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (USA)
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- Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (USA)
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- Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (USA)
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Witczak ZJ. Recent advances in the synthesis of functionalized carbohydrate azides. CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY 2010. [DOI: 10.1039/9781849730891-00176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Zbigniew J. Witczak
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nesbitt School of Pharmacy, Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, 84 W. South Street 18766 Pennsylvania U.S.A
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Seyrek E, Dubin P. Glycosaminoglycans as polyelectrolytes. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2010; 158:119-29. [PMID: 20444439 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2010.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2009] [Revised: 02/27/2010] [Accepted: 03/03/2010] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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One of the barriers to understanding structure-property relations for glycosaminoglycans has been the lack of constructive interplay between the principles and methodologies of the life sciences (molecular biology, biochemistry and cell biology) and the physical sciences, particularly in the field of polyelectrolytes. To address this, we first review the similarities and differences between the physicochemical properties of GAGs and other statistical chain polyelectrolytes of both natural and abioitic origin. Since the biofunctionality and regulation of the structures of GAGs is intimately connected with interactions with their cognate proteins, we particularly compare and contrast aspects of protein binding, i.e. effects of both GAGs and other polyelectrolytes on protein stability, protein aggregation and phase behavior. The protein binding affinities and their dependences on pH and ionic strength for the two groups are discussed not only in terms of observable differences, but also with regard to contrasting descriptions of the bound state and the role of electrostatics. We conclude that early studies of the heparin-Antithromin system, proceeding to a large extent through the methods and models of protein chemistry and drug discovery, established not only many enabling precedents but also constraining paradigms. Current studies on heparan sulfate and chondroitin sulfate seem to reflect a more ecumenical view likely to be more compatible with concepts from physical and polymer chemistry.
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- Emek Seyrek
- CNRS, Insitut Charles Sadron, 23 Rue Loess, BP 84047, F-67037 Strasbourg 2, France
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Pastore A, Adinolfi M, Iadonisi A, Valerio S. One-Pot Catalytic Glycosidation/Fmoc Removal - An Iterable Sequence for Straightforward Assembly of Oligosaccharides Related to HIV gp120. European J Org Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200901122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Arungundram S, Al-Mafraji K, Asong J, Leach FE, Amster IJ, Venot A, Turnbull JE, Boons GJ. Modular synthesis of heparan sulfate oligosaccharides for structure-activity relationship studies. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:17394-405. [PMID: 19904943 PMCID: PMC2820250 DOI: 10.1021/ja907358k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Although hundreds of heparan sulfate binding proteins have been identified and implicated in a myriad of physiological and pathological processes, very little information is known about the ligand requirements for binding and mediating biological activities by these proteins. This difficulty results from a lack of technology for establishing structure-activity relationships, which in turn is due to the structural complexity of natural heparan sulfate (HS) and difficulties of preparing well-defined HS oligosaccharides. To address this deficiency, we developed a modular approach for the parallel combinatorial synthesis of HS oligosaccharides that utilizes a relatively small number of selectively protected disaccharide building blocks, which can easily be converted into glycosyl donors and acceptors. The utility of the modular building blocks has been demonstrated by the preparation of a library of 12 oligosaccharides, which has been employed to probe the structural features of HS for inhibiting the protease, BACE-1. The complex variations in activity with structural changes support the view that important functional information is embedded in HS sequences. Furthermore, the most active derivative provides an attractive lead compound for the preparation of more potent compounds, which may find use as a therapeutic agent for Alzheimer's disease.
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- Sailaja Arungundram
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, Tel: (+1) 706-542-916
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, GA 30602-2556
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, Tel: (+1) 706-542-916
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, Tel: (+1) 706-542-916
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, GA 30602-2556
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, GA 30602-2556
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, GA 30602-2556
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, Tel: (+1) 706-542-916
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- Center for Glycobiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, Tel: (+1) 706-542-916
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, GA 30602-2556
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Boltje TJ, Buskas T, Boons GJ. Opportunities and challenges in synthetic oligosaccharide and glycoconjugate research. Nat Chem 2009; 1:611-22. [PMID: 20161474 PMCID: PMC2794050 DOI: 10.1038/nchem.399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 536] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Synthetic oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates are increasingly used as probes for biological research and as lead compounds for drug and vaccine discovery. These endeavors are, however, complicated by a lack of general methods for the routine preparation of this important class of compounds. Recent development such as one-pot multi-step protecting group manipulations, the use of unified monosaccharide building blocks, the introduction of stereoselective glycosylation protocols, and convergent strategies for oligosaccharide assembly, are beginning to address these problems. Furthermore, oligosaccharide synthesis can be facilitated by chemo-enzymatic methods, which employ a range of glycosyl transferases to modify a synthetic oligosaccharide precursor. Glycosynthases, which are mutant glycosidases, that can readily form glycosidic linkages are addressing a lack of a wide range glycosyltransferases. The power of carbohydrate chemistry is highlighted by an ability to synthesize glycoproteins.
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- Thomas J Boltje
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA, USA
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Harvey DJ. Analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry: An update for 2003-2004. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2009; 28:273-361. [PMID: 18825656 PMCID: PMC7168468 DOI: 10.1002/mas.20192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2008] [Revised: 07/07/2008] [Accepted: 07/07/2008] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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This review is the third update of the original review, published in 1999, on the application of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry to the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates and brings the topic to the end of 2004. Both fundamental studies and applications are covered. The main topics include methodological developments, matrices, fragmentation of carbohydrates and applications to large polymeric carbohydrates from plants, glycans from glycoproteins and those from various glycolipids. Other topics include the use of MALDI MS to study enzymes related to carbohydrate biosynthesis and degradation, its use in industrial processes, particularly biopharmaceuticals and its use to monitor products of chemical synthesis where glycodendrimers and carbohydrate-protein complexes are highlighted.
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- David J Harvey
- Department of Biochemistry, Oxford Glycobiology Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.
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Weïwer M, Sherwood T, Green DE, Chen M, DeAngelis PL, Liu J, Linhardt RJ. Synthesis of uridine 5'-diphosphoiduronic acid: a potential substrate for the chemoenzymatic synthesis of heparin. J Org Chem 2008; 73:7631-7. [PMID: 18759479 PMCID: PMC2639712 DOI: 10.1021/jo801409c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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An improved understanding of the biological activities of heparin requires structurally defined heparin oligosaccharides. The chemoenzymatic synthesis of heparin oligosaccharides relies on glycosyltransferases that use UDP-sugar nucleotides as donors. Uridine 5'-diphosphoiduronic acid (UDP-IdoA) and uridine 5'-diphosphohexenuronic acid (UDP-HexUA) have been synthesized as potential analogues of uridine 5'-diphosphoglucuronic acid (UDP-GlcA) for enzymatic incorporation into heparin oligosaccharides. Non-natural UDP-IdoA and UDP-HexUA were tested as substrates for various glucuronosyltransferases to better understand enzyme specificity.
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- Michel Weïwer
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 Eighth Street, Troy, New York 12180
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 Eighth Street, Troy, New York 12180
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 940 Stanton L. Young Blvd., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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- University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, CB no. 7360 Beard Hall, Room 309, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7360
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 940 Stanton L. Young Blvd., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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- University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, CB no. 7360 Beard Hall, Room 309, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7360
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 Eighth Street, Troy, New York 12180
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 Eighth Street, Troy, New York 12180
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Liu R, Chanthamontri C, Han H, Hernández-Torres JM, Wood KV, McLuckey SA, Wei A. Solid-phase synthesis of alpha-glucosamine sulfoforms with fragmentation analysis by tandem mass spectrometry. J Org Chem 2008; 73:6059-72. [PMID: 18610984 DOI: 10.1021/jo800713m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Sulfated epitopes of alpha-glucosamine (GlcN sulfoforms) were prepared by solid-phase synthesis as models of internal glucosamines within heparan sulfate. An orthogonally protected 2'-hydroxyethyl GlcN derivative was immobilized on a trityl resin support and subjected to regioselective deprotection and sulfonation conditions, which were optimized with the aid of on-resin infrared or Raman analysis. The sulfoforms were cleaved from the resin under mild Lewis acid conditions without affecting the O- or N-sulfate groups and purified by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The alpha-GlcN sulfoforms and their 4- O-benzyl ethers were examined by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS), with product ion spectra produced by collision-induced dissociation (CID). ESI-MS/MS revealed significant differences in parent ion stabilities and fragmentation rates as a function of sulfate position. Ion fragmentation by CID resulted in characteristic mass losses with strong correlation to the positions of both free hydroxyl groups and sulfate ions. Most of these fragmentation patterns are consonant with elimination pathways, and suggest possible strategies for elucidating the structures of glucosamine-derived sulfoforms with identical m/ z ratios. In particular, fragmentation analysis can easily distinguish GlcN sulfoforms bearing the relatively rare 3- O-sulfate from isomers with the more common 6- O-sulfate.
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- Runhui Liu
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2084, USA
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Tatai J, Osztrovszky G, Kajtár-Peredy M, Fügedi P. An efficient synthesis of l-idose and l-iduronic acid thioglycosides and their use for the synthesis of heparin oligosaccharides. Carbohydr Res 2008; 343:596-606. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2007.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2007] [Revised: 12/16/2007] [Accepted: 12/18/2007] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Dilhas A, Lucas R, Loureiro-Morais L, Hersant Y, Bonnaffé D. Mixture Synthesis and “Charge Tagging” Based Demixing: An Efficient Strategy for the Preparation of Heparan Sulfate Libraries. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 10:166-9. [DOI: 10.1021/cc8000019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Anna Dilhas
- Univ Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Multifonctionnelle, Equipe de Glycochimie Moléculaire et Macromoléculaire, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, UMR CNRS-UPS 8182, Bat. 420, UPS, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Univ Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Multifonctionnelle, Equipe de Glycochimie Moléculaire et Macromoléculaire, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, UMR CNRS-UPS 8182, Bat. 420, UPS, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Univ Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Multifonctionnelle, Equipe de Glycochimie Moléculaire et Macromoléculaire, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, UMR CNRS-UPS 8182, Bat. 420, UPS, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Univ Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Multifonctionnelle, Equipe de Glycochimie Moléculaire et Macromoléculaire, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, UMR CNRS-UPS 8182, Bat. 420, UPS, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Univ Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Multifonctionnelle, Equipe de Glycochimie Moléculaire et Macromoléculaire, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, UMR CNRS-UPS 8182, Bat. 420, UPS, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Lu LD, Shie CR, Kulkarni SS, Pan GR, Lu XA, Hung SC. Synthesis of 48 disaccharide building blocks for the assembly of a heparin and heparan sulfate oligosaccharide library. Org Lett 2007; 8:5995-8. [PMID: 17165913 DOI: 10.1021/ol062464t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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[Structure: see text] An efficient synthesis of the entire set of suitably protected 48 disaccharide building blocks for the assembly of a heparin and heparan sulfate oligosaccharide library is described here.
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- Lung-Dai Lu
- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
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Heparin and its low molecular weight heparin derivatives, widely used as clinical anticoagulants, are acidic polysaccharide members of a family of biomacromolecules called glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Heparin and the related heparan sulfate are biosynthesized in the Golgi apparatus of eukaryotic cells. Heparin is a polycomponent drug that currently is prepared for clinical use by extraction from animal tissues. A heparin pentasaccharide, fondaparinux, has also been prepared through chemical synthesis for use as a homogenous anticoagulant drug. Recent enabling technologies suggest that it may now be possible to synthesize heparin and its derivatives enzymatically. Moreover, new technologies including advances in synthetic carbohydrate synthesis, enzyme-based GAG synthesis, micro- and nano-display of GAGs, rapid on-line structural analysis, and microarray/microfluidic technologies might be applied to the enzymatic synthesis of heparins with defined structures and exhibiting selected activities. The advent of these new technologies also makes it possible to consider the construction of an artificial Golgi to increase our understanding of the cellular control of GAG biosyntheses in this organelle.
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- Robert J Linhardt
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA.
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Fan RH, Achkar J, Hernández-Torres JM, Wei A. Orthogonal sulfation strategy for synthetic heparan sulfate ligands. Org Lett 2006; 7:5095-8. [PMID: 16235966 PMCID: PMC1851889 DOI: 10.1021/ol052130o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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[reaction: see text] An orthogonal sulfation strategy involving six different protecting groups has been developed for generating sulfated carbohydrate libraries based on heparan. Chemoselective cleavage conditions (optimized for a heparan disaccharide) can be performed in the presence of sulfate esters as well as the remaining protecting groups.
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- Ren-Hua Fan
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2084, USA
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- Jeremy E Turnbull
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, England L69 7ZB, UK
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Biotechnology Center 4005, 110 8 Street, Troy, New York 12180, USA
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Synthetic carbohydrates and glycoconjugates are used to study their roles in biological important processes such as inflammation, cell-cell recognition, immunological response, metastasis, and fertilization. The development of an automated oligosaccharide synthesizer greatly accelerates the assembly of complex, naturally occurring carbohydrates as well as chemically modified oligosaccharide structures and promises to have major impact on the field of glycobiology. Tools such as microarrays, surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy, and fluorescent carbohydrate conjugates to map interactions of carbohydrates in biological systems are presented. Case studies of the successful application of carbohydrates as active agents are discussed, for example, fully synthetic oligosaccharide vaccines to combat tropical diseases (e.g., malaria), bacterial infections (e.g., tuberculosis), viral infections such as HIV, and cancer. Aminoglycosides serve as examples of drugs acting through carbohydrate-nucleic-acid interactions, while heparin works by carbohydrate-protein interactions. A general, modular strategy for the complete stereoselective synthesis of defined heparin oligosaccharides is presented. A carbohydrate-functionalized fluorescent polymer has been shown to detect miniscule amounts of bacteria faster than commonly used methods.
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- Daniel B Werz
- Laboratory for Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, ETH-Hönggerberg, HCI F315, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Seeberger PH, Werz DB. Automated synthesis of oligosaccharides as a basis for drug discovery. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2005; 4:751-63. [PMID: 16138107 DOI: 10.1038/nrd1823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Carbohydrates present both potential and problems - their biological relevance has been recognized, but problems in procuring sugars rendered them a difficult class of compounds to handle in drug discovery efforts. The development of the first automated solid-phase oligosaccharide synthesizer and other methods to assemble defined oligosaccharides rapidly has fundamentally altered this situation. This review describes how quick access to oligosaccharides has not only contributed to biological, biochemical and biophysical investigations, but also to drug discovery. Particular focus will be placed on the development of carbohydrate-based vaccines, defined heparin oligosaccharides and aminoglycosides that have recently begun to affect drug discovery.
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- Peter H Seeberger
- Laboratory for Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, HCI F315, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Noti C, Seeberger PH. Chemical Approaches to Define the Structure-Activity Relationship of Heparin-like Glycosaminoglycans. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 12:731-56. [PMID: 16039522 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2005.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2005] [Revised: 05/05/2005] [Accepted: 05/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Heparin, the drug of choice for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disorders, has been shown to interact with many proteins. Despite its widespread medical use, little is known about the precise sequences that interact with specific proteins. The minimum heparin binding sequence for FGF1 and FGF2 necessary to promote signaling was investigated. A characteristic pentasaccharide sequence, DEFGH, is required to accelerate the inhibition of thrombin and factor Xa in the blood-coagulation cascade. The first synthetic heparin pentasaccharide drug has been approved in Europe and the US and is sold under the trade name Arixtra. Other oligosaccharides with different composition are under clinical investigation. The enormous interest in the assembly of heparin oligosaccharides will stimulate the development of new synthetic approaches. Heparin-oligosaccharide-synthesis automation similar to that of DNA or peptide synthesis will play an important role.
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- Christian Noti
- Laboratory for Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, HCI F315, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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[reactions: see text] N-Iodosuccinimide provides a mild, convenient, and tuneable reagent for the selective mono- or didebenzylation in representative, multifunctionalized carbohydrate and amino acid derived N-dibenzylamines with neighboring O-functionality.
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- Elizabeth J Grayson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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Litjens REJN, den Heeten R, Timmer MSM, Overkleeft HS, van der Marel GA. An Expedient Synthesis of the Repeating Unit of the Acidic Polysaccharide of the Bacteriolytic Complex of Lysoamidase. Chemistry 2005; 11:1010-6. [PMID: 15614860 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200400862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The first synthesis of the trisaccharide repeating unit of the acidic polysaccharide of the bacteriolytic complex of lysoamidase is presented. The construction is based on a linear glycosylation strategy that starts from the reducing end and employs thio- and selenoglycosides in a highly stereoselective manner by a single set of activation conditions. The thus-formed trisaccharide is selectively deprotected and oxidised, after which a final deprotection step furnishes the desired repeating unit.
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- Remy E J N Litjens
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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