Semi)-Synthetic Fucosylated Chondroitin Sulfate Oligo- and Polysaccharides.

Giulia Vessella, Serena Traboni, Antonio Laezza, Alfonso Iadonisi, Emiliano Bedini

Marine drugs 2020 Jun 01

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Fucosylated chondroitin sulfate (fCS) is a glycosaminoglycan (GAG) polysaccharide with a unique structure, displaying a backbone composed of alternating N-acetyl-d-galactosamine (GalNAc) and d-glucuronic acid (GlcA) units on which l-fucose (Fuc) branches are installed. fCS shows several potential biomedical applications, with the anticoagulant activity standing as the most promising and widely investigated one. Natural fCS polysaccharides extracted from marine organisms (Echinoidea, Holothuroidea) present some advantages over a largely employed antithrombotic drug such as heparin, but some adverse effects as well as a frequently found structural heterogeneity hamper its development as a new drug. To circumvent these drawbacks, several efforts have been made in the last decade to obtain synthetic and semi-synthetic fCS oligosaccharides and low molecular weight polysaccharides. In this Review we have for the first time collected these reports together, dividing them in two topics: (i) total syntheses of fCS oligosaccharides and (ii) semi-synthetic approaches to fCS oligosaccharides and low molecular weight polysaccharides as well as glycoclusters displaying multiple copies of fCS species.

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Giulia Vessella, Serena Traboni, Antonio Laezza, Alfonso Iadonisi, Emiliano Bedini. Semi)-Synthetic Fucosylated Chondroitin Sulfate Oligo- and Polysaccharides. Marine drugs. 2020 Jun 01;18(6)