Sugar rearrangement system

The ingenious sugar rearrangement system uses two enzymes, transketolase and transaldolase. 

The sugar rearrangement system together with the glycolytic enzymes that convert glucose 6-P to glycer-aldehyde 3-P can function to transform hexose phosphates into pentose phosphates (Fig. 17-8B Eq. 17-16) which may be utilized for nucleic acid synthesis in erythrocytes and other cells.130 131... 

A variation of the heterolactic fermentation is used by Bifidobacterium (Eq. 17-34).149 Phosphoketolase and a phosphohexoketolase, which cleaves fructose 6-P to erythrose 4-P and acetyl-P, are required, as are the enzymes of the sugar rearrangement system (Section E,3). The net yield of ATP is 2 V2 molecules per molecule of glucose. 

Figure 1. Amadori rearrangement of glycosylated proteins. Integration of known reactions leading to browning in sugar-amine systems. (Reproduced from Ref. 101. Copyright 1953, American Chemical Society.)...

Optically pure 7-oxanorbom-5-en-2-yl derivatives ("naked sugars") are readily available. Substitution of their centers C(3), C(5) and C(6) can be done with high stereo- and regioselectivity in a predictable fashion. The polysubstituted 7-oxanor-boman-2-ones so-obtained can be transformed into D- or L-carbohydrate derivatives, C-nucleoside precursors or polysubstituted cyclohex-2-enones and cyclohexenols (Scheme 12). Stereoselective rearrangements of the 7-oxanorbom-2-yl systems into polyhydroxylated cyclopentyl derivatives are also possible. 

This rearrangement offers a general synthesis of a- and (3-2-deoxy sugars with pyranoid and furanoid ring systems (Table).5... 

Ab initio molecular orbital calculations on these systems have been confined to the 1,2,3-triazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidines (7), the so-called 8-azapurines , and references to this subject may be found in the previously mentioned review <86AHC(39)ii7>. In 1989, quantum mechanical perturbation methods have been used to study the activity of 8-azapurine nucleoside antibiotics in transcription processes <89Mi 7i3-oi>. The l,2,3-thiadiazolo[5,4-d]pyrimidine derivative (51), a rearrangement product of 8-aza-6-thioinosine, has been used in a molecular modeling study of the antitumor activity of sugar derivatives of pyrimidopyrimidines <89PNA(86)8242>. 

In comparison to some of the other activation methods however, the dimethyl sulfoxide-acetic anhydride procedure has certain disadvantages. The method often requires the use of long reaction times (1 24 h), which can result in many side reactions, especially with sensitive substrates. Notable in this respect is that it is not uncommon for this procedure to result in the formation of substantial yields of the thiomethyl ethers obtained from the Pummerer rearrangement product as described above. In fact upon attempted oxidation of cholesterol with this system, the major product obtained was the corresponding (methylthio)methyl ether. Acetates may also be formed if the alcohol is unhindered. For example the sugar derivative (9) reacts under these conditions to form an enol acetate (derived from the requir carbonyl compound) in 40% yield contaminated with 30% of the acetate (10 equation S). ... 

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