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ReviewNature chemistry2009

Opportunities and challenges in synthetic oligosaccharide and glycoconjugate research.

Thomas J Boltje, Therese Buskas, Geert-Jan Boons

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Review in Nature chemistry, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 184 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

184 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Thomas J BoltjeComplex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA, USA.
Therese Buskas
Geert-Jan Boons

Funding

Synthesis/Immunological Properties of Lewis AntigensR01CA088986 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA) · PI BOONS, GEERT-JAN · 2002 to 2015
$4.6M
Synthetic Oligosaccharides for Probing Infection and Innate ImmunityR01GM061761 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA) · PI BOONS, GEERT-JAN · 2000 to 2014
$4.5M
New synthetic methods for the preparation of carbohydrate-based vaccinesR01GM065248 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA) · PI BOONS, GEERT-JAN · 2004 to 2011
$3.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA088986NCI NIH HHS R01CA088986NIGMS NIH HHS 2R01GM065248NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061761NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM065248
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates are increasingly used as probes for biological research and as lead compounds for drug and vaccine discovery. These endeavors are, however, complicated by a lack of general methods for the routine preparation of this important class of compounds. Recent development such as one-pot multi-step protecting group manipulations, the use of unified monosaccharide building blocks, the introduction of stereoselective glycosylation protocols, and convergent strategies for oligosaccharide assembly, are beginning to address these problems. Furthermore, oligosaccharide synthesis can be facilitated by chemo-enzymatic methods, which employ a range of glycosyl transferases to modify a synthetic oligosaccharide precursor. Glycosynthases, which are mutant glycosidases, that can readily form glycosidic linkages are addressing a lack of a wide range glycosyltransferases. The power of carbohydrate chemistry is highlighted by an ability to synthesize glycoproteins.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceEnzymesGlycoconjugatesGlycomicsGlycosylationHumansMolecular Sequence DataOligosaccharidesPolymersEnzymesGlycoconjugatesOligosaccharidesPolymers

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PMID20161474
PMCPMC2794050

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