Oligosaccharide synthesis and translational innovation

L Krasnova, CH Wong - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 - ACS Publications
The translation of biological glycosylation in humans to the clinical applications involves
systematic studies using homogeneous samples of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates …

Understanding the chemistry and biology of glycosylation with glycan synthesis

L Krasnova, CH Wong - Annual review of biochemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Glycoscience research has been significantly impeded by the complex compositions of the
glycans present in biological molecules and the lack of convenient tools suitable for studying …

Trimeric HIV-1-Env structures define glycan shields from clades A, B, and G

GBE Stewart-Jones, C Soto, T Lemmin, GY Chuang… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Summary The HIV-1-envelope (Env) trimer is covered by a glycan shield of∼ 90 N-linked
oligosaccharides, which comprises roughly half its mass and is a key component of HIV …

[HTML][HTML] A carbohydrate-binding protein from the edible lablab beans effectively blocks the infections of influenza viruses and SARS-CoV-2

YM Liu, M Shahed-Al-Mahmud, X Chen, TH Chen… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
The influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) and coronavirus spike (S) protein mediate virus
entry. HA and S proteins are heavily glycosylated, making them potential targets for …

Streamlining the chemoenzymatic synthesis of complex N-glycans by a stop and go strategy

L Liu, AR Prudden, CJ Capicciotti, GP Bosman… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Contemporary chemoenzymatic approaches can provide highly complex multi-antennary N-
linked glycans. These procedures are, however, very demanding and typically involve as …

Chemoenzymatic synthesis of human natural killer-1-containing glycans and application as serum antibodies probes

M Bunyatov, MA Wolfert, L Liu, R Huizinga… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the versatility of enzyme-mediated oligosaccharide assembly, it has as a limitation
that not all glycosyl transferases or glycan-modifying enzymes are readily available to install …

Hierarchical and programmable one-pot synthesis of oligosaccharides

CW Cheng, Y Zhou, WH Pan, S Dey, CY Wu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The programmable one-pot oligosaccharide synthesis method was designed to enable the
rapid synthesis of a large number of oligosaccharides, using the software Optimer to search …

Strategies for chemoenzymatic synthesis of carbohydrates

W Li, JB McArthur, X Chen - Carbohydrate research, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbohydrates are structurally complex but functionally important biomolecules. Therefore,
they have been challenging but attractive synthetic targets. While substantial progress has …

Recent progress in chemo-enzymatic methods for the synthesis of N-glycans

Q Chao, Y Ding, ZH Chen, MH Xiang, N Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Asparagine (N)-linked glycosylation is one of the most common co-and post-translational
modifications of both intra-and extracellularly distributing proteins, which directly affects their …

Reprogramming the enzymatic assembly line for site-specific fucosylation

J Ye, H Xia, N Sun, CC Liu, A Sheng, L Chi, XW Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Fucosylated carbohydrate determinants are common components of cell surface
glycoconjugates and secreted unconjugated glycans, which play pivotal roles in many …