Example 9
10-deacetyl-xylosyltaxol (Xyl-taxol) was subjected to galactosylation using bovine milk β-1,4-Galactosyltransferase (Sigma). 2 mM Xyl-taxol (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, 65,34% pure), 40 mM UDP-Gal, 2 mU/μl β-1,4-Galactosyltransferase, 0.22 mM α-lactalbumin and 20 mM MnCl2 in 50 mM MOPS pH 7.2 were incubated in the presence of 5%, 10% or 20% DMSO o/we at +37° C. MALDI-TOF MS analysis of all three reaction mixtures after o/we reactions revealed major signal at m/z 1128 corresponding to β-1,4-galactosylated Xyl-taxol (Gal-Xyl-taxol). The reaction mixtures were purified with Bond Elut C18 cartridge (Varian). Reaction products retained in the cartridge were eluted with 60% aqueous acetonitrile. The Gal-Xyl-taxol product was isolated by HPLC using Gemini 5 μm NX-C18 reversed-phase column (4.6×250 mm (Phenomenex)) eluted with ACN gradient in aqueous ammonium acetate.
The Gal-Xyl-taxol is 9-azido-sialylated by incubation with CMP-9-N3-sialic acid and P. damsela alpha2,6-sialyltransferase in 0.1 M Tris-HCl, pH 7.5. The 9-azido-sialylated product (Scheme 11) is purified by HPLC on Gemini 5 μm NX-C18 reversed phase column (4.6×250 mm, 110 Å (Phenomenex)) eluted with ACN gradient in aqueous ammonium acetate. The corresponding sialyl derivative is prepared similarly by using CMP-sialic acid instead of CMP-9-N3-sialic acid in the reaction.