Current strategies for characterization of mucin-domain glycoproteins

D Ince, TM Lucas, SA Malaker - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Glycosylation, and especially O-linked glycosylation, remains a critical blind spot in the
understanding of post-translational modifications. Due to their nature as proteins defined by …

Towards glycan foldamers and programmable assemblies

S Djalali, N Yadav, M Delbianco - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Natural biopolymers have inspired the development of synthetic analogues that can adopt
defined conformations and assemble into 3D architectures. These compounds are mainly …

Facile synthesis of sugar nucleotides from common sugars by the cascade conversion strategy

S Wang, J Zhang, F Wei, W Li… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sugar nucleotides are essential glycosylation donors in the carbohydrate metabolism.
Naturally, most sugar nucleotides are derived from a limited number of common sugar …

Recent progress in synthesis of carbohydrates with sugar nucleotide-dependent glycosyltransferases

L Na, R Li, X Chen - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Sugar nucleotide-dependent glycosyltransferases (GTs) are key enzymes that catalyze the
formation of glycosidic bonds in nature. They have been increasingly applied in the …

“Two Birds One Stone” Strategy for the Site-Specific Analysis of Core Fucosylation and O-GlcNAcylation

Y Luo, Y Wang, Y Tian, H Zhou… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Core fucosylation and O-GlcNAcylation are the two most famous protein glycosylation
modifications that regulate diverse physiological and pathological processes in living …

Single‐Shot Solid‐Phase Synthesis of Full‐Length H2 Relaxin Disulfide Surrogates

R Zhao, P Shi, J Cui, C Shi, XX Wei, J Luo… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical synthesis of insulin superfamily proteins (ISPs) has recently been widely studied
to develop next‐generation drugs. Separate synthesis of multiple peptide fragments and …

Integrated chemoenzymatic approach to streamline the assembly of complex glycopeptides in the liquid phase

W Ma, Y Deng, Z Xu, X Liu, DG Chapla… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Glycosylation of proteins is a complicated post-translational modification. Despite the
significant progress in glycoproteomics, accurate functions of glycoproteins are still …

Recent advances in synthetic glycoengineering for biological applications

Y Zeng, F Tang, W Shi, Q Dong, W Huang - Current opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Automated platform for chemoenzymatic synthesis enables rapid preparation of
glycans and glycopeptides with diverse carbohydrate structures.•Synthetic glycoproteins …

Cofactor‐driven cascade reactions enable the efficient preparation of sugar nucleotides

Y Zheng, J Zhang, J Meisner, W Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glycosylation is catalyzed by glycosyltransferases using sugar nucleotides or occasionally
lipid‐linked phosphosugars as donors. However, only very few common sugar nucleotides …

Enabling technologies in carbohydrate chemistry: automated glycan assembly, flow chemistry and data science

MH Lin, JB Wolf, ET Sletten, D Cambié… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis of defined oligosaccharides is a complex task. Several enabling technologies
have been introduced in the last two decades to facilitate synthetic access to these valuable …