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ReviewBioorganic & medicinal chemistry2021

Dismantling the bacterial glycocalyx: Chemical tools to probe, perturb, and image bacterial glycans.

Phuong Luong, Danielle H Dube

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Review in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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.

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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Defined Glycan Ligands for Detecting Rare l-Sugar-Binding Proteins.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  3. Chemical biology tools to probe bacterial glycans.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Phuong LuongDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 6600 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA.
Danielle H DubeDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bowdoin College, 6600 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA. Electronic address: ddube@bowdoin.edu.
Bowdoin College · US

Funding

The Maine Biomedical Research Network (INBRE)P20GM103423 · NIGMS · MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LAB · PI Dustin Lynn Updike · 2012 to 2026
$60.0M
Deciphering Helicobacter pylori's glycocode: uncovering & harnessing drug targetsR15GM109397 · NIGMS · BOWDOIN COLLEGE · PI DUBE, DANIELLE H. · 2015 to 2021
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103423NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM109397
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bacterial glycocalyx is a quintessential drug target comprised of structurally distinct glycans. Bacterial glycans bear unusual monosaccharide building blocks whose proper construction is critical for bacterial fitness, survival, and colonization in the human host. Despite their appeal as therapeutic targets, bacterial glycans are difficult to study due to the presence of rare bacterial monosaccharides that are linked and modified in atypical manners. Their structural complexity ultimately hampers their analytical characterization. This review highlights recent advances in bacterial chemical glycobiology and focuses on the development of chemical tools to probe, perturb, and image bacterial glycans and their biosynthesis. Current technologies have enabled the study of bacterial glycosylation machinery even in the absence of detailed structural information.

Indexed as

BacteriaCarbohydrate ConformationGlycocalyxPolysaccharides, BacterialPolysaccharides, BacterialBacteriaBioorthogonal chemistryChemical toolsGlycansInhibitLectin

Identifiers

PMID34130219
PMCPMC8276522
OpenAlexW3166490828

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