This research focused on the study of the amino sugar recycling and sialic acid degradation pathway as a possible entry point for N-acyl glucosamines for the production of sialic acid analogs. Meeting this objective would allow the development of a bacterial strain capable of producing non-natural nonulosonic acids that could be used in the development of medicines, vaccines or useful compounds for the study of interactions between pathogenic organisms and their host. The first step was to understand how N-acetyl-D-glucosamine-6-phosphate deacetylase reacts to different types of substrates in order to determine its tolerance to the size of acyl groups in acyl amino sugars. This was achieved by studying the enzymatic activity in an in vitro system. We determine that the enzyme has a preference for small and slightly bulky acyl groups. Then, an in silico docking modeling and an in vivo system experiment were carried out. These experiments allowed to confirm the previous results. The second project was carried out due to the uncertainty of whether the kinase involved in the catabolic pathway would be able to phosphorylate the substrates. By quantifying residual ATP, the high specificity of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine kinase could be verified. This result led us to think about the design of an organic synthesis strategy that would allow the phosphorylation of glucosamine in carbon 6. A simple synthetic route was designed based on the protection of the two most reactive moieties of the amino sugars and the reactivity of the hydroxy group on carbon 6. However, we had problems with the purification step of the final product due to its high polarity. The next stage of this investigation was to confirm the transformation of GlcNAc into ManNAc. For this, an NMR analysis was designed that would detect the presence of both sugars in the reaction system. The epimerization of ManNAc to GlcNAc was detected successfully. Notwithstanding, the reverse reaction could not be detected. Based on the results obtained in the previous stage, we realized that an error was made in the epimerization reaction since we placed the wrong kinase because we did not take into account its substrate specificity. Finally, we tried to produce sialic acid analogs in a fermentative system using different genetic variants of Escherichia coli. Two of the expected analogs, Neu5Pr and Neu5nBu, were obtained. In addition, NagA activity towards substrates with small acyl groups was confirmed.

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Les iminosucres, analogues de sucres dont l'oxygène intracyclique a été remplacé par un azote, constituent une classe importante de mimes de sucres. Introduire une chaîne alkyle sur le carbone pseudo-anomérique donne accès à une classe importante d'iminosucres, les iminosucres C-glycosides, qui peuvent être des inhibiteurs de glycosidases puissants et sélectifs.Le principal défi associé à la synthèse d'iminosucres C-glycosides est la mise au point de voies de synthèse efficaces et applicables à tous types de sucres permettant ainsi d'accéder à une grande diversité de synthons et d'accélérer la découverte de molécules d'intérêt biologique.Ce travail de thèse a consisté dans un premier temps à élaborer une synthèse efficace et convergente d'iminosucres C-glycosides à six et sept chaînons, à partir d'un précurseur commun, le 6-azido-6-désoxy-2,3,4-tri-O-benzyl-D-glucopyranose. Cette nouvelle méthode implique une réaction tandem Staudinger/Aza-Wittig ainsi qu'une isomérisation de cycle d'azépanes stéréocontrolée.La deuxième partie de ce manuscrit traite de l'extension de cette méthodologie à la synthèse de nouveaux D- et L-iminosucres C-glycosides à six chainons mimes de la N-acétyle-D-glucosamine.La dernière partie de ce travail a été consacrée à la synthèse d'iminosucres-aza-couronnes, qui constituent un nouveau type de récepteur moléculaire. L'étude de leur capacité à complexer des métaux a été effectuée par des techniques de RMN ou fluorimétrie et a donné des résultats prometteurs. / Iminosugars, sugar analogs in which the endocyclic oxygen has been replaced by a nitrogen, constitute a major class of sugar mimetics. Introducing an alkyl chain at the pseudoanomeric carbon position leads to another class of important iminosugars, the iminosugars C-glycosides that can be potent and selective glycosidase inhibitors. The main challenge associated with iminosugars C-glycosides synthesis is currently the design of efficient and general routes applicable to any starting sugar and enabling introduction of structural diversity from advanced synthons to accelerate the discovery of biologically relevant molecules.The first part of this work focused on the development of an efficient and convergent synthesis of six and seven membered iminosugars C-glycosides from a common 6-azido-6-deoxy-2,3,4-tri-O-benzyl-D-glucopyranose precursor. This new methodology involves a highly diastereoselective tandem ring enlargement/alkylation and a stereocontrolled ring contraction.The second part of the thesis delt with the extension of the methodology to access six-membered D- and L-iminosugars C-glycosides derived from N-acetyl-D-glucosamine.The third part of this work was devoted to the synthesis of iminosugar-aza-crowns, which constitute a new type of molecular receptors, using the synthetic route developed in the first part. The ability of these compounds to complex metals was studied either by NMR or fluorimetric techniques and showed promising results.

Les symbioses bactérie-légumineuse (nodulation) et champignon-plante (mycorhization) présentent un intérêt agrobiologique et écologique majeur ; elles permettent aux plantes de croître naturellement sur un sol aride et peu fertile. Il a été démontré très récemment que les signaux impliqués dans la mise en place de la symbiose endomycorhizienne à arbuscule (facteurs "Myc") sont très proches de ceux de la nodulation. Il s'agit de molécules appartenant à la famille des lipo-chitooligosaccharides. Afin de réaliser la synthèse de ces molécules, deux nouvelles méthodologies ont été développées. L'ouverture oxydante d'acétals de 4,6-O-benzylidène de plusieurs glycopyranosides (en série gluco, galacto et manno) par le diméthyldioxirane (DMDO) a été étudiée. Le contrôle de la régiosélectivité a été effectué grâce au groupement protecteur introduit sur la fonction alcool de la position 3. La formation directe de β-glycosides de la N-acétyl-D-glucosamine par catalyse au triflate de fer (III) a été étudiée. La réaction a été menée sous irradiation micro-ondes ou en flux continu (système minifluidique Vapourtec®). Une nouvelle stratégie pour la synthèse du facteur [Myc-IV (C16:0, S)] a ensuite été établie. Nous avons utilisé un réactif peu toxique et non odorant pour introduire le motif thio nécessaire à la formation de deux liaisons glycosidiques. Le disaccharide précurseur de l'unité réductrice a été obtenu grâce à la première méthodologie développée au cours de cette thèse. / Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is a root endosymbiosis between plants and fungi. It has an agrobiological interest and a crucial ecological importance because it allows plants to grow on aride and infertile soil. Recently, the structure of the symbiotic signal "Myc factor" was identified as a mixture of lipochitooligosaccharides (LCOs). In order to propose a new synthesis of LCOs, we developed two green methodologies in glycochemistry. We performed the oxidative cleavage of 4,6-O-benzylidene acetals of various glycopyranosides (gluco, manno and galacto series) with dimethyldioxirane (DMDO) and its regioselective control with a suitable protecting group at position 3. We investigated the formation of β-glycoside of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine using catalytic iron (III) triflate. The reaction can be performed using microwave irradiation or, for scale-up synthesis, flow chemistry using Vapourtec® minifluidic system. We establish a new strategy for the total synthesis of the most abundant Myc factor [Myc-IV (C16:0, S)]. We used odorless and few toxic MbpSH reagent to introduce the activated thio residue involved in two glycosylation reactions. The disaccharide acceptor precursor of the reducing end was obtained after oxidative cleavage of the 4,6-O-benzylidene moiety by DMDO.