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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 62, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202211985
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biological activity; carbohydrates; heparan sulfate; library synthesis; oligosaccharides
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A divergent approach was used to synthesize a library of HS tetrasaccharides that covered all possible sulfation structures. This library helped identify the structural requirements for HS sequences to bind to fibroblast growth factor-2 and showed weak affinity for platelet factor-4. This could lead to the development of new HS-based therapeutics without the adverse effect of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
Heparan sulfate (HS) has multifaceted biological activities. To date, no libraries of HS oligosaccharides bearing systematically varied sulfation structures are available owing to the challenges in synthesizing a large number of HS oligosaccharides. To overcome the obstacles and expedite the synthesis, a divergent approach was designed, where 64 HS tetrasaccharides covering all possible structures of 2-O-, 6-O- and N-sulfation with the glucosamine-glucuronic acid-glucosamine-iduronic acid backbone were successfully produced from a single strategically protected tetrasaccharide intermediate. This extensive library helped identify the structural requirements for HS sequences to have strong fibroblast growth factor-2 binding but a weak affinity for platelet factor-4. Such a strategy to separate out these two interactions could lead to new HS-based potential therapeutics without the dangerous adverse effect of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
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