A captivating challenge in chemistry lies in achieving robust and precise binding of
uncharged, hydrophilic carbohydrate entities. Although past decades have provided a …

Carbohydrates play a number of structural, functional, and metabolic roles in underpinning
natural life processes, acting in states of both health and disease. Given this importance …

Daniela Kroiss obtained her MSc degree in biotechnology at BOKU and is currently a PhD
student in the biochemistry program at CUNY, where she works on a joint project between …

Carbohydrate–receptor interactions are often involved in the docking of viruses to host cells,
and this docking is a necessary step in the virus life cycle that precedes infection and …

The cyclopentyl group was expected to act as a building block for artificial carbohydrate
receptors and to participate in van der Waals contacts with the carbohydrate substrate in a …

Compared to the numerous X-ray crystal structures of protein-carbohydrate complexes, the
successful elucidation of the crystal structures of complexes between artificial receptors and …

The O‐linked β‐N‐acetylglucosamine (O‐GlcNAc) modification, termed O‐GlcNAcylation, is
an essential and dynamic post‐translational modification in cells. O‐GlcNAc transferase …

Galectins are a galactoside specific subclass of carbohydrate binding proteins (lectins)
involved in various cellular activities, certain cancers, infections, inflammations, and many …

Carbohydrates are abundant in Nature, where they are mostly assembled within glycans as
free polysaccharides or conjugated to a variety of biological molecules such as proteins and …

Synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs) that selectively recognize cell‐surface glycans
could be used for detection, drug delivery, or as therapeutics. Here we report the synthesis …