Chemical Fucosylation of a Polysaccharide: A Semisynthetic Access to Fucosylated Chondroitin Sulfate

Biomacromolecules. 2015 Jul 13;16(7):2237-45. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00640. Epub 2015 Jul 2.

Abstract

Chemical O-glycosylation of polysaccharides is an almost unexplored reaction. This is mainly due to the difficulties in derivatizing such complex biomacromolecules in a quantitative manner and with a fine control of the obtained structural parameters. In this work, chondroitin raw material from a microbial source was chemo- and regioselectively protected to give two polysaccharide intermediates, that acted in turn as glycosyl acceptors in fucosylation reactions. Further manipulations on the fucosylated polysaccharides, including multiple de-O-benzylation and sulfation, furnished for the first time nonanimal sourced fucosylated chondroitin sulfates (fCSs)-polysaccharides obtained so far exclusively from sea cucumbers (Echinoidea, Holothuroidea) and showing several very interesting biological activities. A semisynthetic fCS was characterized from a structural point of view by means of 2D-NMR techniques, and preliminarily assayed in an anticoagulant test.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anticoagulants / chemical synthesis
  • Anticoagulants / chemistry
  • Anticoagulants / pharmacology
  • Chondroitin Sulfates / chemical synthesis*
  • Chondroitin Sulfates / chemistry
  • Chondroitin Sulfates / pharmacology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Molecular Structure

Substances

  • Anticoagulants
  • fucosylated chondroitin sulfate
  • Chondroitin Sulfates