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ArticleThe Journal of organic chemistry2016

Synthesis and Evaluation of QS-21-Based Immunoadjuvants with a Terminal-Functionalized Side Chain Incorporated in the West Wing Trisaccharide.

Pengfei Wang, Dattatray A Devalankar, Qipu Dai, Ping Zhang, Suzanne M Michalek

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Article in The Journal of organic chemistry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Structural Effect on Adjuvanticity of Saponins.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2020
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  9. Vaccine Adjuvants Derivatized fromJournal of medicinal chemistry · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pengfei WangDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Pediatric Dentistry, and §Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham , 901 14th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, United States.
Dattatray A DevalankarDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Pediatric Dentistry, and §Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham , 901 14th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, United States.
Qipu DaiDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Pediatric Dentistry, and §Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham , 901 14th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, United States.
Ping ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Pediatric Dentistry, and §Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham , 901 14th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, United States.
Suzanne M MichalekDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Pediatric Dentistry, and §Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham , 901 14th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, United States.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF STRUCTURALLY DEFINED QS-21-BASED SYNTHETIC ADJUVANTSR03AI099407 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI WANG, PENGFEI · 2012 to 2013
$147k
NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI099407
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three QS-21-based vaccine adjuvant candidates with a terminal-functionalized side chain incorporated in the west wing trisaccharide have been synthesized. The terminal polar functional group serves to increase the solubility of these analogues in water. Two of the synthetic analogues have been shown to have adjuvant activity comparable to that of GPI-0100. The stand-alone adjuvant activity of the new synthetic analogues again confirmed that it is a feasible way to develop new saponin-based vaccine adjuvants through derivatizing at the west wing branched trisaccharide domain. Inclusion of an additional polar functional group such as a carboxyl group (as in 3x) or a monosaccharide (as in 4x and 5x) is sufficient to increase the water solubility of the corresponding synthetic analogues to a level comparable to that of GPI-0100 and suitable for immunological studies and clinical application. The structure of the incorporated side chain has a significant impact on the adjuvant activity in terms of the magnitude and nature of the host's responses.

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Adjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsAntibody FormationCarbohydrate SequenceCarbon-13 Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleMass SpectrometryMiceMice, Inbred BALB CProton Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopySaponinsTrisaccharidesAdjuvants, Immunologicsaponin QA-21V1SaponinsTrisaccharides

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PMID27709937
PMCPMC6488304
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