Mj. Bamford et al., SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL-ACTIVITY OF CONFORMATIONALLY CONSTRAINED SIALYL-LEWIS-X ANALOGS WITH REDUCED CARBOHYDRATE CHARACTER, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 6(3), 1996, pp. 239-244
Two conformationally constrained analogues of sialyl Lewis X have been
synthesised in which the GlcNAc residue has been replaced with cycloh
exyl and phenyl rings. The cyclohexyl derived compound was equipotent
to sLex and sLea in vitro, suggesting the main role of the GlcNAc resi
due in sLex is conformational, and represents a simplified inhibitor o
f adhesion.