| Literature DB >> 19088853 |
Prabagaran Narayanasamy1, Hyungjin Eoh, Dean C Crick.
Abstract
Enantiomerically pure 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate 1 (MEP) is synthesized from 1,2-O-isopropylidene-α-D-xylofuranose via facile benzylation in good yield. Subsequently, 1 is used for enzymatic synthesis of 4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 2 (CDP-ME) using 4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methyl-D-erythritol synthase (IspD). The chemoenzymatically synthesized 2 can be used as substrate for assay of IspE and for high throughput screening to identify IspE inhibitors.Entities:
Year: 2008 PMID: 19088853 PMCID: PMC2832204 DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2008.05.074
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tetrahedron Lett ISSN: 0040-4039 Impact factor: 2.415