Yan Zhang, Zhilin Zhang, Mengru Niu, Yaqi Wang, Kan Zhong, Haiyang Wu, Jinfeng Ye, Zhifei Hu, Saddam M. Muthana, Hongzhi Cao
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Abstract
The biological functions of chondroitin sulfate (CS)
are strongly
influenced by its sulfation pattern. However, the limited site selectivity
of currently available sulfotransferases has made it challenging to
access CS oligosaccharides with diverse sulfation patterns. Herein,
we report a redox-controlled site-specific O-sulfation strategy for
the programmable installation of CS-A, CS-C, or CS-E sequences at
defined positions along chondroitin backbones, enabling the diversity-oriented
synthesis of 28 structurally well-defined CS oligosaccharides with
distinct sulfation sequences.
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