The structural complexity of glycans poses a serious challenge in the chemical synthesis of
glycosides, oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates. Glycan complexity, determined by …

Here, chemical syntheses of long, branched and complex glycans over 10-mer from plants
are summarized, which highlights amylopectin 20-mer from starch, 17-mer from carthamus …

Here we summarize the chemical syntheses of glycans containing over 20 monosaccharide
units, with the recent syntheses of ultra-long glycans, including a 92mer arabinogalactan, a …

Helicobacter pylori, listed as a human carcinogen by the Department of Health and Human
Services, colonizes the gastric mucosa of more than half of the world's population. The …

Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope represents
important targets for the development of new therapeutic agents against tuberculosis, which …

Lipopolysaccharides from Bacteroides vulgatus represent interesting targets for the
treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases. However, efficient access to long, branched and …

Dendrobium huoshanense, a traditional medicinal and food homologous plant, belongs to
the family Orchidaceae and has a long history of medicinal use. It is reported that the stem of …

Shigella is the second most common etiologic pathogen responsible for childhood acute
diarrhea. An anti-Shigella vaccine is still eagerly awaited due to the increasing drug …

For the stereoselective assembly of bioactive glycans with various functions, 1, 2-cis-O-
glycosylation is one of the most essential issues in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry. The cis …

Mucin-related tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens (TACAs) are important and
interesting targets for cancer vaccine therapy. However, efficient access to a library of mucin …