Abstract
The assembly of complex bacterial glycans presenting rare structural motifs and cis-glycosidic linkages is significantly obstructed by the lack of knowledge of the reactivity of the constituting building blocks and the stereoselectivity of the reactions in which they partake. We here report a strategy to map the reactivity of carbohydrate building blocks and apply it to understand the reactivity of the bacterial sugar, caryophyllose, a rare C12-monosaccharide, containing a characteristic tetrasubstituted stereocenter. We mapped reactivity–stereoselectivity relationships for caryophyllose donor and acceptor glycosides by a systematic series of glycosylations in combination with the detection and characterization of different reactive intermediates using experimental and computational techniques. The insights garnered from these studies enabled the rational design of building blocks with the required properties to assemble mycobacterial lipooligosaccharide fragments of M. marinum.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 937-945 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 28 Aug 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 11 Jan 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH GmbH
Funding
Quantum chemical calculations were performed at the SurfSARA HPC center in Amsterdam; access was provided via NWO‐Rekentijd grant 17569 (to T.H. and J.D.C.C.). This work was supported by an ERC‐CoG (726072) and NWO VICI (VI.C.182.020) grant awarded to J.D.C.C. We kindly acknowledge Mark Somers for technical support. Quantum chemical calculations were performed at the SurfSARA HPC center in Amsterdam; access was provided via NWO-Rekentijd grant 17569 (to T.H. and J.D.C.C.). This work was supported by an ERC-CoG (726072) and NWO VICI (VI.C.182.020) grant awarded to J.D.C.C. We kindly acknowledge Mark Somers for technical support.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| ERC-Cog | |
| Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | 726072 |
| NWO-Rekentijd | 17569 |
| Not added | 053.70.337 |
Keywords
- density functional calculations
- glycosyl cation
- glycosylation
- reactivity
- stereoselectivity