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ReviewChemical reviews2018

Predicting the Structures of Glycans, Glycoproteins, and Their Complexes.

Robert J Woods

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers.

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92citing papers in PubMed
7.0field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

92 citing papers in PubMed, 209 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. From a single C-mannose to multiple C-mannosyltransferases.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026
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  4. Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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  13. Rapid and Reliable Conformational Analysis of Glycans by Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Guided Molecular Dynamics Simulations.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2025
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  15. RedundantThe Journal of organic chemistry · 2025
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  18. Activity-Based Tracking of Glycan Turnover in Microbiomes.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  19. Controlling Glycan Folding with Ionic Functional Groups.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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32 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert J WoodsComplex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , University of Georgia , 315 Riverbend Road , Athens , Georgia 30602 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2400-6293
University of Georgia · US

Funding

TR&D3. Approaches to Proteoglycan Function at Biochemical and Cellular LevelsP41GM103390 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI MOREMEN, KELLEY W. · 2012 to 2019
$14.5M
Tools to enable non-specialists to model glycoconjugates and glycan-protein interactionsU01CA207824 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI FOLEY, B. LACHELE, WOODS, ROBERT J · 2016 to 2018
$1.7M
GlyProbity: tools to curate glycan structure pre and post deposition in the PDBU01CA221216 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI WOODS, ROBERT J, YOUNG, JASMINE Y · 2017 to 2019
$951k
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA207824NCI NIH HHS U01 CA221216NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103390
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex carbohydrates are ubiquitous in nature, and together with proteins and nucleic acids they comprise the building blocks of life. But unlike proteins and nucleic acids, carbohydrates form nonlinear polymers, and they are not characterized by robust secondary or tertiary structures but rather by distributions of well-defined conformational states. Their molecular flexibility means that oligosaccharides are often refractory to crystallization, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy augmented by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is the leading method for their characterization in solution. The biological importance of carbohydrate-protein interactions, in organismal development as well as in disease, places urgency on the creation of innovative experimental and theoretical methods that can predict the specificity of such interactions and quantify their strengths. Additionally, the emerging realization that protein glycosylation impacts protein function and immunogenicity places the ability to define the mechanisms by which glycosylation impacts these features at the forefront of carbohydrate modeling. This review will discuss the relevant theoretical approaches to studying the three-dimensional structures of this fascinating class of molecules and interactions, with reference to the relevant experimental data and techniques that are key for validation of the theoretical predictions.

Indexed as

Molecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationCrystallographyGlycoproteinsGlycosylationHydrogen BondingHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMolecular ConformationOligosaccharidesPolysaccharidesGlycoproteinsOligosaccharidesPolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID30091597
PMCPMC6659753
OpenAlexW2885359695

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