Health Research, Inc.

Incara Research Laboratories

Advanced Medicine, Inc.

Rakesh K Jain

Michael J Sofia

Ramesh Kakarla

Tin Yau Chan

Dashan Liu

Nicole T Hatzenbuhler

Khushi L Matta

Rui Liang

Nigel Mark Allanson

Domingos J Silva

Robert D Locke

E V Chandrasekaran

A combinatorial chemical library of compounds structurally related to the moenomycin class of antibiotics has the formula

Combinatorial library of moenomycin analogs and methods of producing same

A combinatorial chemical library of compounds structurally related to the moenomycin class of antibiotics has the formula ##STR1## wherein D is a donor mono- or disaccharide, A is an acceptor monosaccharide, and P-R is a lipophosphoglycerate mimetic group. Members of the library have a glycosidic linkage between the anomeric carbon of D and the C2 carbon of A, and the D-A moiety is in turn covalently linked through the anomeric carbon of A to the P-R group. Members of the library exhibit their greatest structural diversity in terms of substitutions occurring at the C3 position of the A residue, substitutions at the C2 position of the D residue, and different P-R groups used in assembling the compounds. Members of the library are preferably synthesized by solid phase techniques involving stepwise coupling of the respective units to a support, functionalizing the A and/or D saccharides either before or after immobilizing them on the support, and cleaving the assembled compounds from the support. Preferred functionalities attached to the sugar residues are amides, carbamates, ureas, sulfonamides, substituted amines, esters, carbonates, and sulfates. Exemplary P-R groups are derivatives of homoserine, glyceric acid, salicylates and mandelic acid. Members of the library can be screened for anti-microbial activity by contacting them with a culture of microbes and monitoring the growth rate of the microbes.

Compounds which bind to selectin receptors and thus may modulate the course of inflammation, cancer and related processes by intervening with cell-cell adhesion events. Further, such compounds can be used for identification and analysis of such receptors. In this regard the invention is directed to compounds of formula (I). ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is independently H, alkyl, aryl, an aryl alkyl, alkenyl or one or more additional saccharide residues; R.sup.2 =H or OH provided that when R.sup.2 is H, R.sup.3 is OH; R.sup.3 =H or OH provided that when R.sup.3 is H, R.sup.2 is OH; X=H, SO.sub.3.sup.- or PO.sub.4.sup.- ; Y is independently H, OH, OR.sup.4 or NHCOR.sup.4, wherein R.sup.4 is alkyl, and Z is an organic acid residue. .alpha.-L-Fucose residue can be modified or replaced with suitable bioisosters or a different saccharide residue such as D-mannose. Modification of L-fucose may include replacement of each or all of the hydroxyl groups with H or OR' wherein R' can be methyl, ethyl or allyl groups.

Synthetic core 2-like branched structures containing GalNAc-lewis.sup.x

A biologically active oligosaccharide compound comprising at least two L hexose rings connected together by an ether oxygen atom. The ether oxygen atom is connected to a first of the rings at the first carbon atom to the right of the hexose ring oxygen atom. The compound contains at least one sulfate or phosphate group connected to the first ring at the third carbon atom to the right of the ring oxygen or to a methyl group at the fifth carbon atom to the right of the ring oxygen atom. The invention further includes the method for using the above oligosaccharide compound to detect .alpha. 1,3-L-fucosyltransferases or to block the activity of such .alpha. 1,3-L-fucosyltransferases or structures which mimic the structure of such fucosyltransferases to the extent that such structures bind to compounds of the present invention, e.g., as in the case of HIV virus.

Acceptor for fucosyl transferase

A novel, efficient glycosylating reagent, R 3,4-O-isopropylidene-2-O-(4-methoxybenzyl)-1-thio-.beta. -L-fucopyranoside wherein R is a lower alkyl or lower alkenyl of 1 to 8 carbons such as methyl or pentenyl, is described. This novel reagent provides for the facile synthesis of linear and other .alpha.-L-fucosyl oligosaccharides. In addition, a method for the preparation of 2'-O-.alpha.-L-fucopyranosyl-lactose, which comprises reacting the abovementioned glycosylating reagent with solvated 4-O-(6-O-acetyl-3,4-O-isopropylidene-.beta.-D-galactopyranosyl)-2,3,5,6-di -O-isopropylidene-D-glucose, dimethyl acetal, a tetrabutylammonium halide and a catalyst and then de-O-acetylating the resulting reaction product with sodium methoxide methanol, is also disclosed.

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Rakesh K Jain