title: Practical synthesis of wybutosine, the hypermodified nucleoside of yeast phenylalanine transfer ribonucleic acid.
abstract: An improved synthesis of 3-beta-D-ribofuranosylwybutine (2) has been achieved by the Wittig reaction between 4,6-dimethyl-9-oxo-3-[2,3,5-tris-O-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-beta-D-ribofuranosyl]-4,9-dihydro-3H-imidazo[1,2-a]-purine-7-carbaldehyde (8) and the phosphorane derived from (R)-2-[(methoxycarbonyl)amino]-3-(triphenylphosphonio)propanoate (9), followed successively by methylation, hydrogenation, and deprotection. On the other hand, the minor nucleoside wybutosine of yeast tRNA(Phe) was isolated on a scale of 80 microg by partial digestion of unfractionated tRNA (1 g) with nuclease P1, followed successively by reversed-phase column chromatography, complete digestion with nuclease P1/alkaline phosphatase, and reversed-phase HPLC. Comparison of this nucleoside with 2 has unambiguously established that the structure of wybutosine is (alphaS)-alpha-[(methoxycarbonyl)-amino]-4,6-dimethyl-9-oxo-3-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-4,9-dihydro-3H-imidazo[1,2-a]purine-7-butanoic acid methyl ester (2).
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Japan. itaya@dbs.p.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Taisuke
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Itaya
authors.forename: Tae
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanai
authors.forename: Takehiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iida
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012346:RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl / Q000737:chemistry*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D009705:Nucleosides; D012346:RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl; C467591:wybutosine