Programmable One-Pot Synthesis of Oligosaccharides.

Cheng-Wei Cheng, Chung-Yi Wu, Wen-Lian Hsu, Chi-Huey Wong

Biochemistry 2020 Sep 01

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Carbohydrates make up one of the four major classes of biomolecules, often conjugated with proteins as glycoproteins or with lipids as glycolipids, and participate in many important biochemical functions in living species. However, glycoproteins or glycolipids often exist as mixtures, and as a consequence, it is difficult to isolate individual glycoproteins or glycolipids as pure forms to understand the role carbohydrates play in the glycoconjugate. Currently, the only feasible way to obtain pure glycoconjugates is through synthesis, and of the many methods developed for the synthesis of oligosaccharides, those with automatic and programmable potential are considered to be more effective for addressing the issues of carbohydrate diversity and related functions. In this Perspective, we describe how data science, including algorithm and machine learning, can be used to assist the chemical synthesis of oligosaccharide in a programmable and one-pot manner and how the programmable method can be used to accelerate the construction of diverse oligosaccharides to facilitate our understanding of glycosylation in biology.

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Cheng-Wei Cheng, Chung-Yi Wu, Wen-Lian Hsu, Chi-Huey Wong. Programmable One-Pot Synthesis of Oligosaccharides. Biochemistry. 2020 Sep 01;59(34):3078-3088