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SUBMITTER: Zhang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7558457 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Xing X Green Dixy E DE Schultz Victor L VL Lin Lei L Han Xiaorui X Wang Ruitong R Yaksic Alexander A Kim So Young SY DeAngelis Paul L PL Linhardt Robert J RJ
The Journal of organic chemistry 20170825 18
Unnatural chemically modified nucleotide sugars UDP-4-N<sub>3</sub>-GlcNAc and UDP-4-N<sub>3</sub>-GalNAc were chemically synthesized for the first time. These unnatural UDP sugar products were then tested for incorporation into hyaluronan, heparosan, or chondroitin using polysaccharide synthases. UDP-4-N<sub>3</sub>-GlcNAc served as a chain termination substrate for hyaluronan or heparosan synthases; the resulting 4-N<sub>3</sub>-GlcNAc-terminated hyaluronan and heparosan were then successfully ...[more]