Recent advances in chemical synthesis of O-linked glycopeptides and glycoproteins: An advanced synthetic tool for exploring the biological realm

J Zhao, F Ye, P Huang, P Wang - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Glycoproteins play crucial roles in various biological processes. To investigate the
relationship between glycan structure and function, researchers have employed various …

Developments in the chemical synthesis of heparin and heparan sulfate

I Pongener, C O'Shea, H Wootton… - The Chemical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heparin and heparan sulfate represent key members of the glycosaminoglycan family of
carbohydrates and underpin considerable repertoires of biological importance. As such …

Solid‐Phase‐Supported Chemoenzymatic Synthesis and Analysis of Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycan Glycopeptides

P Lin, Y Xu, SK Bali, J Kim, A Gimeno… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Proteoglycans (PGs), consisting of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) linked with the core protein
through a tetrasaccharide linkage region, play roles in many important biological events …

Recent advances in glycopeptide and glycoprotein synthesis: a refined synthetic probe towards the biological world

H Zhuang, H Hao, Y Qiu, J Gan… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary Protein glycosylation is the most complex and diverse form of
post‐translational modification in human body. Meanwhile, glycosylation of peptides and …

Binding of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances to the human pregnane X receptor

TT Lai, Y Eken, AK Wilson - Environmental Science & Technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a class of environmentally persistent
industrial compounds that disrupt various metabolic pathways. Among the protein receptors …

Chemical editing of proteoglycan architecture

TR O'Leary, M Critcher, TN Stephenson, X Yang… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Proteoglycans are heterogeneous macromolecular glycoconjugates that orchestrate many
important cellular processes. While much attention has focused on the poly-sulfated …

Structural insights into pixatimod (PG545) inhibition of heparanase, a key enzyme in cancer and viral infections

M Chhabra, JC Wilson, L Wu, GJ Davies… - … A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Pixatimod (PG545), a heparan sulfate (HS) mimetic and anticancer agent currently
in clinical trials, is a potent inhibitor of heparanase. Heparanase is an endo‐β …

Fluorosulfate as a latent sulfate in peptides and proteins

C Liu, X Liu, M Zhou, C Xia, Y Lyu, Q Peng… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sulfation widely exists in the eukaryotic proteome. However, understanding the biological
functions of sulfation in peptides and proteins has been hampered by the lack of methods to …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis and interaction with growth factors of sulfated oligosaccharides containing an anomeric fluorinated tail

JL de Paz, MJ García-Jiménez, V Jafari… - Bioorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Compounds that mimic the biological properties of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and can be
more easily prepared than the native GAG oligosaccharides are highly demanded. Here, we …

Convergent chemoenzymatic synthesis and biological evaluation of a heparan sulfate proteoglycan syndecan-1 mimetic

J Gao, Y Xu, J Liu, X Huang - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A new convergent chemoenzymatic synthesis strategy, integrating enzymatic synthesis of
heparan sulfate, sortase A ligation, copper (I)-catalyzed alkyne–azide cycloaddition, and …