| Literature DB >> 18759479 |
Michel Weïwer1, Trevor Sherwood, Dixy E Green, Miao Chen, Paul L DeAngelis, Jian Liu, Robert J Linhardt.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18759479 PMCID: PMC2639712 DOI: 10.1021/jo801409c
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Org Chem ISSN: 0022-3263 Impact factor: 4.354