Enzymatic glycosidation of sugar oxazolines having a carboxylate group catalyzed by chitinase

Carbohydr Res. 2004 Dec 6;339(17):2769-88. doi: 10.1016/j.carres.2004.08.016.

Abstract

Enzymatic glycosidation using sugar oxazolines 1-3 having a carboxylate group as glycosyl donors and compounds 4-6 as glycosyl acceptors was performed by employing a chitinase from Bacillus sp. as catalyst. All the glycosidations proceeded with full control in stereochemistry at the anomeric carbon of the donor and regio-selectivity of the acceptor. The N,N'-diacetyl-6'-O-carboxymethylchitobiose oxazoline derivative 1 was effectively glycosidated, under catalysis by the enzyme, with methyl N,N'-diacetyl-beta-chitobioside (4), pent-4-enyl N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminide (5), and methyl N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminide (6), affording in good yields the corresponding oligosaccharide derivatives having 6-O-carboxymethyl group at the nonreducing GlcNAc residue. The N,N'-diacetyl-6-O-carboxymethylchitobiose oxazoline derivative 2 was subjected to catalysis by the enzyme catalysis; however, no glycosidated products were produced through the reactions with 4, 5, and 6. Glycosidation reactions of the beta-d-glucosyluronic-(1-->4)-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine oxazoline derivative 3 proceeded with each of the glycosyl acceptors, giving rise to the corresponding oligosaccharide derivative having a GlcA residue at their nonreducing termini in good yields.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bacillus / enzymology
  • Carbohydrate Conformation
  • Carbohydrate Sequence
  • Carbohydrates / chemistry*
  • Carboxylic Acids / chemistry*
  • Catalysis
  • Chitinases / chemistry*
  • Disaccharides / chemistry
  • Glycosylation
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Oxazoles / chemical synthesis*

Substances

  • Carbohydrates
  • Carboxylic Acids
  • Disaccharides
  • Oxazoles
  • Chitinases