Cytidine synthesis

Froehler, B.C. et al. Oligonucleotides derived from 5-(l-propynyl)-2 -0-aUyl-uridine and 5-(l-propynyl)-2 -0-allyl-cytidine — synthesis and RNA duplex formation. Tetrahedron Lett., 34,1003,1993. 

Amination of Aromatic Heterocyclic Lactam Systems (Synthesis of Cytidines)... 

While mammahan cells reutilize few free pyrimidines, salvage reactions convert the ribonucleosides uridine and cytidine and the deoxyribonucleosides thymidine and deoxycytidine to their respective nucleotides. ATP-dependent phosphoryltransferases (kinases) catalyze the phosphorylation of the nucleoside diphosphates 2 "-de-oxycytidine, 2 -deoxyguanosine, and 2 -deoxyadenosine to their corresponding nucleoside triphosphates. In addition, orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (reaction 5, Figure 34-7), an enzyme of pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis, salvages orotic acid by converting it to orotidine monophosphate (OMP). 

In ref. [178] other tri(azolyl)phosphines are used for the synthesis of uridine-, adenosine-, and cytidine-oligoribonucleotides according to this method, with azolyl groups... 

Bidentate sites may be available in DNA itself. In the binding of Hg2+ and Ag+ we surmise that the binding is to amino-groups of cytidine and adenine and possibly the N(7) of guanine as all these positions are accessable in DNA. The introduction of a more kinetically permanent group such at [Pt(NH3)2]2+ attached to two such groups, e.g. two amino groups could lead to the formation of an inter-strand cross-link and an inhibition of DNA synthesis (90). 

Outstanding in this field has been the contribution of Todd and his co-workers. The significance of their work has been, first, that it has led to successful syntheses of adenosine, guanosine, cytidine, and uridine. Equally important, however, has been its contribution toward the final confirmation of the structures of the nucleosides. This may be illustrated in the following way. By the route I to V, which had been developed for the synthesis of pentosylpurines (purine 1-deoxypentosides), it was possible to obtain 9-/3-n-mannopyranosyladenine (V), in which the position of the carbohydrate residue was known with certainty.19 This nucleoside, on oxi-... 

It was snbseqnently discovered that the first enzyme in the pathway for isoleucine synthesis, which is threonine deaminase, was inhibited by isoleucine in an extract of E. coli. No other amino acid caused inhibition of the enzyme. Threonine deaminase is, in fact, the rate-limiting enzyme in the pathway for isoleucine synthesis, so that this was interpreted as a feedback control mechanism (Fignre 3.13(a)). Similarly it was shown that the hrst enzyme in the pathway for cytidine triphosphate synthesis, which is aspartate transcarbamoylase, was inhibited by cytidine triphosphate (Fignre 3.13(b)). Since the chemical structures of isoleucine and threonine, or cytidine triphosphate and aspartate, are completely different, the qnestion arose, how does isolencine or cytidine triphosphate inhibit its respective enzyme The answer was provided in 1963, by Monod, Changenx Jacob. 

Figure 20.9 The positions in the pathway for de novo pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis where GLUCOSE provides the ribose molecule and GLUTAMINE provides nitrogen atoms. Glucose forms ribose 5-phosphate, via the pentose phosphate pathway (see chapter 6), which enters the pathway, after phosphorylation, as 5-phospho-ribosyl 1-pyrophosphate. Glutamine provides the nitrogen atom to synthesise carbamoylphos-phate (with formation of glutamate), and also to form cytidine triphosphate (CTP) from uridine triphosphate (UTP), catalysed by the enzyme CTP synthetase. It is the amide nitrogen of glutamine that is the nitrogen atom that is provided in these reactions.

Example 5 Hayakawa and Noyori group in their studies on new activators for phosphoroamidite coupling reactions have applied the most effective member of the group of acid/azole complexes AT-(phenyl)imidazolium tri-flate (N-PhIMT) in the efficient synthesis of biologically important compounds [20j]. A noteworthy example is synthesis of cytidine-5 -monophos-pho-AT-acetylneuraminic acid. This compound is a source of sialic acid in the sialyltransferase-catalysed biosynthesis of sialyl oligosaccharides [25]. 

The intermediate phosphite employed in this synthesis was prepared by condensation of duly protected sialic acid with the nucleosidyl phospho-roamidite in the presence of N-PhIMT. Oxidation by TBHP and deprotection according to standard procedures gave the cytidine-S -monophospho-iST-ace-tylneuraminic acid. This synthetic route is claimed to have advantages over procedures published earlier [26]. The same group demonstrated the importance of 3 A and 4 A molecular sieves as moisture scavengers in the reaction of nucleoside phosphoroamidite with a nucleotide. This approach should be likely to find application in the synthesis of biophosphates outside nucleotide chemistry. 

During the past 15 years data from experiments with different types of animal tissues and micro-organisms, using intact cells, crude extracts or purified enzymes, have firmly established the general occurrence of nucleotide reductases and have stressed their importance for DNA synthesis in essentially all types of rapidly growing cells [54]. It has been proposed that ribonucleotide diphosphates lose a hydroxide ion from C-2 to form a carbonium ion which is then stero-specifically reduced by a hydride ion derived from thioredoxin [54]. Adenosine diphosphate and guanosine diphosphate (as well as uridine and cytidine diphosphates) are reduced in this manner. 

The enzyme is also responsible for converting cytidine diphosphate (CDP) to 2 -dCDP and uridine diphosphate (UDP) to 2 -dUDP for use in making nucleotides for DNA synthesis. 

Mutation of one of the two enzyme activities of UMP synthase leads to orotic aciduria, characterized by accumulation of its first substrate orotic acid and insufficient levels of the product UMP, which reduces availability of uridine triphosphate (UTP) and cytidine triphosphate (CTP) for use in nucleic acid synthesis. 

RNA polymerase, and the triphosphates of the purine ribonucleosides, uridine, and cytidine, and otherwise the same conditions, will prime the synthesis of RNA. The amounts of synthetic DNA or RNA are many fold greater than the amount of primer DNA the DNA product is nearly the same in most measurable ways as the primer DNA. The efficiency of the DNA in initiating these syntheses is known as the primer activity of the DNA, and can be affected by alterations of the bases which compose the nucleic acid, and by other factors. 

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