Enzymatic synthesis of low molecular weight heparins from N-sulfo heparosan depolymerized by heparanase or heparin lyase

Authors:

Yanlei Yu a, Li Fu b e, Peng He b, Ke Xia b, Sony Varghese e, Jonathan Dordick c d e, Hong Wang a, Fuming Zhang c e, Robert J. Linhardt b c d e

Affiliation:

College of Pharmaceutical Science & Collaborative Innovation Center for Yangtze River Delta Region Green Pharmaceuticals, Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Resources Exploitment & Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, 310014 Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Description:

Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) is prepared from the controlled chemical or enzymatic depolymerization of animal sourced heparins. It has been widely used as an anticoagulant. Concerns about the shortcomings of animal-derived heparin and the contamination of supply chain demand biochemical approaches for synthesizing LMWH. In the present study, two LMWHs were enzymatically synthesized from low molecular weight N-sulfated heparosan (LMW-NSH) cleaved by recombinant hydrolase, endo-β-glucuronidase, (HepBp) or heparin lyase III (HepIII), followed by subsequent sulfotransferase modifications. Structural characterization shows that LMWH chains prepared using HepBp had a saturated uronic acid residue at their reducing ends, while chains of LMWH prepared using HepIII had an unsaturated uronic acid residue at their non-reducing end. Both LMWHs had anti-factor Xa and anti-factor IIa activities comparable to enoxaparin. This approach demonstrates that the hydrolase, HepBp, can be used to prepare a new type of LMWH that has no unsaturated uronic acid at its non-reducing end.

Publications:

  • Yu, Yanlei, Li Fu, Peng He, Ke Xia, Sony Varghese, Jonathan Dordick, Hong Wang, Fuming Zhang, and Robert J. Linhardt; Enzymatic synthesis of low molecular weight heparins from N-sulfo heparosan depolymerized by heparanase or heparin lyase; Carbohydrate Polymers, 2022
  • Tags:

    Heparin
    Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
    Surface plasmon resonance

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