A mechanistic study of sialic acid mutarotation: Implications for mutarotase enzymes

Jefferson Chan; Gurtej Sandhu; Andrew J. Bennet

doi:10.1039/c1ob05079f

A mechanistic study of sialic acid mutarotation: Implications for mutarotase enzymes

Jefferson Chan, Gurtej Sandhu, Andrew J. Bennet

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The mutarotation of N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) proceeds by four kinetically distinct pathways: (i) the acid-catalyzed reaction of neutral Neu5Ac; (ii) the spontaneous reaction of the carboxylic acid (the kinetically equivalent acid-catalyzed reaction on the anion being ruled out by the solvent deuterium kinetic isotope effect of 3.74 ± 0.68); (iii) a spontaneous, water-catalyzed, reaction of the anion; and (iv) a specific-base catalyzed reaction of the anion. The magnitude of the solvent kinetic isotope effect, k_H2O/k_D2O = 4.48 ± 0.74 is consistent with a ring-opening transition state in which a water molecule is deprotonating the anomeric hydroxyl group in concert with strengthening solvation of the ring oxygen atom. The mechanistic implications for Neu5Ac mutarotases are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4818-4822
Number of pages	5
Journal	Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
Volume	9
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c1ob05079f
State	Published - Jul 7 2011
Externally published	Yes

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