Highly efficient synthesis of bioactive oleanane-type saponins
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A Customizable Approach for the Enzymatic Production and Purification of Diterpenoid Natural Products
Published on: October 4, 2019
Jing-Jing Sui1, Wen-Hui Zhou2, De-Yong Liu1
1The National Research Centre for Carbohydrate Synthesis, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang, 330022, China.
Abstract:
Leveraging on Schmidt glycosylation method, a highly efficient approach to obtain oleanane-type triterpene saponins was fixed, whereby oleanyl mono-, disaccharide (guaianin N), trisaccharide (elatoside E), as well as tetrasaccharide (elatoside F) were obtained efficiently. The synthetic investigation has resulted in the discovery of the effect of branch-sugar incorporation sequence on the overall synthetic efficiency. Moreover, through bioactivity investigation, the cytotoxic activity of the obtained triterpenoid saponins was evaluated, and the preliminary structure-activity relationship was deduced.
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