Streamlined chemoenzymatic total synthesis of prioritized ganglioside cancer antigens

Org Biomol Chem. 2018 Jun 6;16(22):4076-4080. doi: 10.1039/c8ob01087k.

Abstract

A highly efficient streamlined chemoenzymatic strategy for total synthesis of four prioritized ganglioside cancer antigens GD2, GD3, fucosyl GM1, and GM3 from commercially available lactose and phytosphingosine is demonstrated. Lactosyl sphingosine (LacβSph) was chemically synthesized (on a 13 g scale), subjected to sequential one-pot multienzyme (OPME) glycosylation reactions with facile C18-cartridge purification, followed by improved acylation conditions to form target gangliosides, including fucosyl GM1 which has never been synthesized before.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Antigens, Neoplasm / chemistry*
  • G(M1) Ganglioside / analogs & derivatives*
  • G(M1) Ganglioside / chemical synthesis
  • G(M3) Ganglioside / chemical synthesis*
  • Glycosylation
  • Lactose / chemistry
  • Sphingosine / analogs & derivatives
  • Sphingosine / chemistry

Substances

  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • G(M3) Ganglioside
  • G(M1) Ganglioside
  • fucosyl GM1 ganglioside
  • phytosphingosine
  • Lactose
  • Sphingosine