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ReviewApplied microbiology and biotechnology2012

Engineering of routes to heparin and related polysaccharides.

Ujjwal Bhaskar, Eric Sterner, Anne Marie Hickey, Akihiro Onishi, Fuming Zhang, Jonathan S Dordick, Robert J Linhardt

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In one paragraph

Review in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 117 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Synthetic biology for heparin biomanufacturing.Bioresources and bioprocessing · 2026
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  4. Bioengineered production of glycosaminoglycans and their analogues.Systems microbiology and biomanufacturing · 2021
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  5. Synthetic heparan sulfate standards and machine learning facilitate the development of solid-state nanopore analysis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  7. Techniques for Detection of Clinical Used Heparins.International journal of analytical chemistry · 2021
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  10. ZNF263 is a transcriptional regulator of heparin and heparan sulfate biosynthesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  11. Review
  12. Glycans in drug discovery.MedChemComm · 2019
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  13. Recombinant Heparin-New Opportunities.Frontiers in medicine · 2018
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  17. Engineered heparins as new anticoagulant drugs.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ujjwal BhaskarDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
Eric Sterner
Anne Marie Hickey
Akihiro Onishi
Fuming Zhang
Jonathan S Dordick
Robert J Linhardt
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · US

Funding

Development of a Bioengineered Heparin from a Non-Animal SourceR01HL096972 · NHLBI · RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE · PI DORDICK, JONATHAN S., LINHARDT, ROBERT J · 2009 to 2013
$3.9M
SEQUENCING THE POLYSACCHARIDE COMPONENT OF PROTEOGLYCANSR01GM038060 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI LINHARDT, ROBERT J · 1988 to 2012
$2.8M
An Artificial Golgi: Controlled GAG Synthesis and ScreeningR01GM090257 · NIGMS · RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE · PI DORDICK, JONATHAN S., LINHARDT, ROBERT J · 2009 to 2010
$597k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL096972NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM038060NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM090257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anticoagulant heparin has been shown to possess important biological functions that vary according to its fine structure. Variability within heparin's structure occurs owing to its biosynthesis and animal tissue-based recovery and adds another dimension to its complex polymeric structure. The structural variations in chain length and sulfation patterns mediate its interaction with many heparin-binding proteins, thereby eliciting complex biological responses. The advent of novel chemical and enzymatic approaches for polysaccharide synthesis coupled with high throughput combinatorial approaches for drug discovery have facilitated an increased effort to understand heparin's structure-activity relationships. An improved understanding would offer potential for new therapeutic development through the engineering of polysaccharides. Such a bioengineering approach requires the amalgamation of several different disciplines, including carbohydrate synthesis, applied enzymology, metabolic engineering, and process biochemistry.

Indexed as

Metabolic EngineeringAnimalsBiotechnologyHeparinStructure-Activity RelationshipHeparin

Identifiers

PMID22048616
PMCPMC3252477
OpenAlexW2026992667

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