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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2026

Merging Enzymatic Catalysis with Iron Catalysis for Highly Stereoselective Heparan Sulfate Oligosaccharide Assembly.

Dakang Zhang, Zixiang Jiang, Le Yin, Xiao-Wen Zhang, Haoyu Yang, Pinzhi Wang, Changmin Xie, Eduardo Stancanelli, Yongmei Xu, Haoran Wang and 3 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Process Safety Assessment of the Iron-Catalyzed 1,2-Organic process research & development · 2026
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  3. Iron Porphyrin Catalysts Induce Stereospecific Glycosylation with Glycal Epoxides.Synlett : accounts and rapid communications in synthetic organic chemistry · 2026
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Dakang ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.ORCID 0009-0005-9149-189X
Zixiang JiangDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.ORCID 0009-0007-8265-6212
Le YinDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.ORCID 0009-0009-2200-5666
Xiao-Wen ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.
Haoyu YangDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.
Pinzhi WangDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.
Changmin XieDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.
Eduardo StancanelliGlycan Therapeutics, 617 Hutton St, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, United States.
Yongmei XuDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Haoran WangDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Junjiang SunDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Jian LiuDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Hao XuDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5029-8392

Funding

Selective Nitrogen Atom Transfer for Applications in Biomedical SciencesR35GM134926 · NIGMS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI XU, HAO · 2020 to 2025
$2.1M
A 400 MHz NMR SpectrometerS10OD034395 · OD · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI KRAUSS, ISAAC JONATHAN · 2023 to 2023
$482k
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM134926NIH HHS S10 OD034395
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heparan sulfate (HS) regulates numerous biological processes, but it occurs naturally as a heterogeneous mixture of sulfated complex glycans. Therefore, pursuing a broadly effective approach for homogeneous HS synthesis to advance biological studies has been an outstanding challenge in glycoscience. By merging the catalytic power of sulfotransferases (SULTs) with two distinct iron-catalyzed glycosylation reactions, we report herein a highly stereoselective and generally applicable HS assembly strategy. Every glycosidic linkage in HS was assembled by one of these iron-catalyzed, entirely stereoselective glycosylation reactions. An array of sulfate groups that are essential to HS's function were installed at their desired locations via the SULT-controlled sulfation of HS precursors. This general approach is showcased in the synthesis of an anticoagulant HS hexasaccharide and other full-length precursors of HS octasaccharides.

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Heparan SulfateIronOligosaccharidesSulfotransferasesBiocatalysisGlycosylationStereoisomerismHeparan SulfateIronOligosaccharidesSulfotransferases

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PMID41423902
PMCPMC12814361

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