Synthesis of a fluorescent arabinofuranosyl disaccharide: a probe for arabinosyltransferase activity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Abstract (5- N , N -Dimethylaminonaphthalene-1-sulfonamidoethyl)-5- O -(α- d -arabinofuranosyl)-α- d -arabinofuranoside 1 was synthesized as a fluorescent probe for the determination of arabinosyltransferase activity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis .