Natural product disaccharide engineering through tandem glycosyltransferase catalysis reversibility and neoglycosylation

Pauline Peltier-Pain, Karen Marchillo, Maoquan Zhou, David R. Andes, Jon S. Thorson

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Abstract

A two-step strategy for disaccharide modulation using vancomycin as a model is reported. The strategy relies upon a glycosyltransferase-catalyzed 'reverse' reaction to enable the facile attachment of an alkoxyamine-bearing sugar to the vancomycin core. Neoglycosylation of the corresponding aglycon led to a novel set of vancomycin 1,6-disaccharide variants. While the in vitro antibacterial properties of corresponding vancomycin 1,6-disaccharide analogs were equipotent to the parent antibiotic, the chemoenzymatic method presented is expected to be broadly applicable.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5086-5089
Number of pages4
JournalOrganic Letters
Volume14
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 5 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry

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