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ReviewChemical Society reviews2013

Multivalent glycoconjugates as anti-pathogenic agents.

Anna Bernardi, Jesus Jiménez-Barbero, Alessandro Casnati, Cristina De Castro, Tamis Darbre, Franck Fieschi, Jukka Finne, Horst Funken, Karl-Erich Jaeger, Martina Lahmann and 23 more

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Review in Chemical Society reviews, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 153 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
153citing papers in PubMed
19.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

153 citing papers in PubMed, 531 citations in OpenAlex.

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93 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

33 authors at 20 institutions in 12 countries.

Anna BernardiUniversità di Milano, Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Industriale and Centro di Eccellenza CISI, via Venezian 21, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Jesus Jiménez-Barbero
Alessandro Casnati
Cristina De Castro
Tamis Darbre
Franck Fieschi
Jukka Finne
Horst Funken
Karl-Erich Jaeger
Martina Lahmann
Thisbe K Lindhorst
Marco Marradi
Paul Messner
Antonio Molinaro
Paul V Murphy
Cristina Nativi
Stefan Oscarson
Soledad Penadés
Francesco Peri
Roland J Pieters
Olivier Renaudet
Jean-Louis Reymond
Barbara Richichi
Javier Rojo
Francesco Sansone
Christina Schäffer
W Bruce Turnbull
Trinidad Velasco-Torrijos
Sébastien Vidal
Stéphane Vincent
Tom Wennekes
Han Zuilhof
Anne Imberty
BOKU University · ATUniversité Grenoble Alpes · FRUniversity of Bern · CHUniversity of Florence · ITUniversity of Parma · ITWageningen University & Research · NLBangor University · GBBiomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine · ESCentro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas · ESChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel · DECIC biomaGUNE · ESDépartement de Chimie Moléculaire · FRForschungszentrum Jülich · DEHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEInstitut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires · FRInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology · GBInstituto de Investigaciones Químicas · ESIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli · ITNational University of Ireland, Maynooth · IEOllscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway · IE

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF P 21954Austrian Science Fund FWF P 22791Austrian Science Fund FWF P 24317
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multivalency plays a major role in biological processes and particularly in the relationship between pathogenic microorganisms and their host that involves protein-glycan recognition. These interactions occur during the first steps of infection, for specific recognition between host and bacteria, but also at different stages of the immune response. The search for high-affinity ligands for studying such interactions involves the combination of carbohydrate head groups with different scaffolds and linkers generating multivalent glycocompounds with controlled spatial and topology parameters. By interfering with pathogen adhesion, such glycocompounds including glycopolymers, glycoclusters, glycodendrimers and glyconanoparticles have the potential to improve or replace antibiotic treatments that are now subverted by resistance. Multivalent glycoconjugates have also been used for stimulating the innate and adaptive immune systems, for example with carbohydrate-based vaccines. Bacteria present on their surfaces natural multivalent glycoconjugates such as lipopolysaccharides and S-layers that can also be exploited or targeted in anti-infectious strategies.

Indexed as

BacteriaBacterial AdhesionBacterial ToxinsGalectinsGlycoconjugatesHIVHumansImmunity, InnateLipopolysaccharidesNanoparticlesVirus InternalizationBacterial ToxinsGalectinsGlycoconjugatesLipopolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID23254759
PMCPMC4399576
OpenAlexW2003312569

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