Carbohydrate-based macromolecular biomaterials

L Su, Y Feng, K Wei, X Xu, R Liu, G Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbohydrates are the most abundant and one of the most important biomacromolecules in
Nature. Except for energy-related compounds, carbohydrates can be roughly divided into …

Glycoconjugates: synthesis, functional studies, and therapeutic developments

SS Shivatare, VS Shivatare, CH Wong - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Glycoconjugates are major constituents of mammalian cells that are formed via covalent
conjugation of carbohydrates to other biomolecules like proteins and lipids and often …

Metabolic glycan labelling for cancer-targeted therapy

H Wang, DJ Mooney - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Metabolic glycoengineering with unnatural sugars provides a powerful tool to label cell
membranes with chemical tags for subsequent targeted conjugation of molecular cargos via …

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 …

Toward automated enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharides

L Wen, G Edmunds, C Gibbons, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Oligosaccharides together with oligonucleotides and oligopeptides comprise the three major
classes of natural biopolymers. Automated systems for oligonucleotide and oligopeptide …

Synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccines: challenges and opportunities

R Mettu, CY Chen, CY Wu - Journal of Biomedical Science, 2020 - Springer
Glycoconjugate vaccines based on bacterial capsular polysaccharides (CPS) have been
extremely successful in preventing bacterial infections. The glycan antigens for the …

A Hitchhiker's guide to problem selection in carbohydrate synthesis

XS Streety, JC Obike, SD Townsend - ACS Central Science, 2023 - ACS Publications
Oligosaccharides are ubiquitous in molecular biology and are used for functions ranging
from governing protein folding to intercellular communication. Perhaps paradoxically, the …

The role of fluorine in glycomimetic drug design

R Hevey - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Glycans are well established to play important roles at various stages of infection and
disease, and ways to modulate these interactions have been sought as novel therapies. The …

Recent advances on smart glycoconjugate vaccines in infections and cancer

M Anderluh, F Berti, A Bzducha‐Wróbel… - The FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vaccination is one of the greatest achievements in biomedical research preventing death
and morbidity in many infectious diseases through the induction of pathogen‐specific …

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 …