| Synthesis and NMR spectroscopic analysis of acylated pentasaccharide fragments of mycobacterial arabinogalactan. | |
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PMID: 20963246 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The mycolyl-arabinogalactan (mAG) complex, a large glycolipid composed of arabinofuranose and galactofuranose monosaccharides and mycolic acid lipids, provides mycobacteria with substantial protection from their environment. It has been proposed that the presence of flexible furanose rings in the mAG facilitates the packing of the hydrophobic mycolic acids, forming a dense protective barrier of low permeability. In a previous article, we probed this "flexible scaffold hypothesis" through the synthesis and NMR analysis of di- and trisaccharide fragments of the mAG acylated with linear fatty acids. However, we saw few conformational changes due to the presence of the acyl chains. We proposed that branched pentasaccharide glycolipids 5-8 might exhibit larger changes due to the presence of more acyl chains, and studies with these compounds are described here. The carbohydrate portion of 5-8 was synthesized in a 1 + 2 + 2 manner. First, the monosaccharide diol was treated with an excess of appropriately protected thioglycoside donor to give a trisaccharide, which, following selective deprotection to a diol, was converted to the pentasaccharide in a one-pot glycosylation. The resulting differentially protected pentasaccharide 20 gave glycolipids 5-8 upon removal of the protecting groups at the primary positions, acylation, and hydrogenolysis. The conformations of 5-8 were probed using NMR spectroscopy, and chemical shift selective filtering 1D-TOCSY spectra allowed for the determination of all the ring coupling constants. It was found that the addition of four fatty acids to the parent pentasaccharide had little effect on the conformation of the compounds in solution. |
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Chunjuan Liu; Michele R Richards; Todd L Lowary |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-10-21 |
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Title: Organic & biomolecular chemistry Volume: 9 ISSN: 1477-0539 ISO Abbreviation: Org. Biomol. Chem. Publication Date: 2011 Jan |
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Created Date: 2010-12-14 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101154995 Medline TA: Org Biomol Chem Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 165-76 Citation Subset: IM |
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Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Carbohydrate Science and Department of Chemistry, The University of Alberta, Gunning-Lemieux Chemistry Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. tlowary@ualberta.ca. |
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