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Automated carbohydrate synthesizer "GolgiTM"

Shin-Ichiro Nishimura
Drug-Seeds Discovery Research Laboratory
(Research Center for Glycoscience)
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Hiroki Shimizu
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Hiroshi Hinou
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An automated carbohydrate-synthesizer (glycoconjugate-synthesizer) "GolgiTM" was developed by mimicing biosynthetic system of the Golgi apparatus in cells. The system was improved by using tailored-magnetic beads for immobilizing glycosyltransferases and fine-filter membrane system to achieve fully-automated synthesis in 36 or 96-well reaction vessels. It was demonstrated that combined use of "GolgiTM" with a conventional peptide-synthesizer gives high throughput parallel synthesis of biologically important glycopeptides.

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Figure 1: Application for glycolipid synthesis.

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Figure 2: Strategy of the glycopeptide synthesis

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