Natural and synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccine adjuvants and their mechanisms of action

C Pifferi, R Fuentes, A Fernández-Tejada - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Modern subunit vaccines based on homogeneous antigens offer more precise targeting and
improved safety compared with traditional whole-pathogen vaccines. However, they are also …

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 …

Synthesis of a glycan hairpin

G Fittolani, T Tyrikos-Ergas, A Poveda, Y Yu… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The primary sequence of a biopolymer encodes the essential information for folding,
permitting to carry out sophisticated functions. Inspired by natural biopolymers, peptide and …

Chemical synthesis of glycans up to a 128-mer relevant to the O-antigen of Bacteroides vulgatus

Q Zhu, Z Shen, F Chiodo, S Nicolardi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Glycans are involved in various life processes and represent critical targets of biomedical
developments. Nevertheless, the accessibility to long glycans with precise structures …

[HTML][HTML] Glycan structures and their interactions with proteins. A NMR view

A Gimeno, P Valverde, A Ardá… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•NMR methods are of paramount importance to deduce structure, dynamics and
recognition of complex glycans.•The intrinsic low sensitivity of NMR for studying glycans and …

Novel NMR avenues to explore the conformation and interactions of glycans

P Valverde, JI Quintana, JI Santos, A Ardá… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This perspective article is focused on the presentation of the latest advances in NMR
methods and applications that are behind the exciting achievements in the understanding of …

Total Syntheses of Conjugation-Ready Trisaccharide Repeating Units of Pseudomonas aeruginosa O11 and Staphylococcus aureus Type 5 Capsular …

A Behera, D Rai, SS Kulkarni - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Pseudomonas aeruginosa belongs to the group of three “critical priority” multi-drug-resistant
pathogens listed by WHO and is responsible for severe and often deadly infections such as …

Stereoselective Synthesis of the O‐antigen of A. baumannii ATCC 17961 Using Long‐Range Levulinoyl Group Participation

L Duan, Q Nie, Y Hu, L Wang, K Guo… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we described the first synthesis of the pentasaccharide and decasaccharide of the A.
baumannii ATCC 17961 O‐antigen for developing a synthetic carbohydrate‐based vaccine …

Unraveling the promoter effect and the roles of counterion exchange in glycosylation reaction

CW Chang, MH Lin, TY Chiang, CH Wu, TC Lin… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The stereoselectivity of glycosidic bond formation continues to pose a noteworthy hurdle in
synthesizing carbohydrates, primarily due to the simultaneous occurrence of SN1 and SN2 …

Antibody glycosylation: impact on antibody drug characteristics and quality control

Z Wang, J Zhu, H Lu - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2020 - Springer
Glycosylation is a common post-translational modification that occurs during the production
of antibodies. Glycans attached to antibodies play an important role in the pharmacokinetics …