Enzymatic route to preparative-scale synthesis of UDP–GlcNAc/GalNAc, their analogues and GDP–fucose
- 11 March 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Protocols
- Vol. 5 (4) , 636-646
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2010.3
Abstract
Enzymatic synthesis using glycosyltransferases is a powerful approach to building polysaccharides with high efficiency and selectivity. Sugar nucleotides are fundamental donor molecules in enzymatic glycosylation reactions by Leloir-type glycosyltransferases. The applications of these donors are restricted by their limited availability. In this protocol, N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc)/N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) are phosphorylated by N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase (NahK) and subsequently pyrophosphorylated by N-acetylglucosamine uridyltransferase (GlmU) to give UDP–GlcNAc/GalNAc. Other UDP–GlcNAc/GalNAc analogues can also be prepared depending on the tolerance of these enzymes to the modified sugar substrates. Starting from l-fucose, GDP–fucose is constructed by one bifunctional enzyme l-fucose pyrophosphorylase (FKP) via two reactions.Keywords
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