Chemical Contributions to Understanding Heparin Activity: Synthesis of Related Sulfated Oligosaccharides

✍ Scribed by Laura Poletti; Luigi Lay

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 708 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-193X
• DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200200721

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Heparin and heparan sulfate are complex polysaccharides that modulate several biological events through the recognition of a number of distinct proteins. Chemical synthesis is a powerful tool to identify the unique binding domains responsible for the specific interactions and to generate potent analogues of the natural sequences. The present review reports the synthetic efforts of the last decade that are focused on the preparation of tailored fragments of these two polymers and analogues thereof. (© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2003)