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ReviewJournal of the American Chemical Society2021

Synthesis as an Expanding Resource in Human Milk Science.

Lianyan L Xu, Steven D Townsend

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Review in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Microbial Production of Human Milk Oligosaccharides.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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.

Lianyan L XuDepartment of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1462-0804
Steven D TownsendDepartment of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5362-7235
Vanderbilt University · US

Funding

Bioorganic Approaches Toward Novel Antimicrobial Agents and ChemotherapeuticsR35GM133602 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Steven D. Townsend · 2019 to 2026
$3.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133602
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Few classes of natural products rival the structural audacity of oligosaccharides. Their complexity, however, has stood as an immense roadblock to translational research, as access to homogeneous material from nature is challenging. Thus, while carbohydrates are critical to the myriad functional and structural aspects of the biological sciences, their behavior is largely descriptive. This challenge presents an attractive opportunity for synthetic chemistry, particularly in the area of human milk science. First, there is an inordinate need for synthesizing homogeneous human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). Superimposed on this goal is the mission of conducting syntheses at scale to enable animal studies. Herein, we present a personalized rumination of our involvement, and that of our colleagues, which has led to the synthesis and characterization of HMOs and mechanistic probes. Along the way, we highlight chemical, chemoenzymatic, and synthetic biology based approaches. We close with a discussion on emergent challenges and opportunities for synthesis, broadly defined, in human milk science.

Indexed as

Biological Science DisciplinesCarbohydrate ConformationHumansMilk, HumanOligosaccharidesOligosaccharides

Identifiers

PMID34296874
PMCPMC12010734
OpenAlexW3183985313

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