Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37473442›Full record

ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2023

Mirror Image Mucins and Thio Mucins with Tunable Biodegradation.

Victoria R Kohout, Casia L Wardzala, Jessica R Kramer

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. An Ultrapotent, Ultraeconomical, Antifreeze Polypeptide.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  8. Multiple roles and mechanisms of MUC6 in cancer (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Victoria R KohoutDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.
Casia L WardzalaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.
Jessica R KramerDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4268-0126
University of Utah · US

Funding

Synthetic mucins in epithelial models to probe virus-mucin interactionsR35GM147262 · NIGMS · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Jessica Kramer Stratton · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
Chemically Tunable Mucins to Probe Pathogenic Function in the Epithelial MilieuF32HL154791 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI KOHOUT, VICTORIA ROSE · 2021 to 2023
$145k
NHLBI NIH HHS F32 HL154791NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM147262
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mucin glycoproteins are the major component of mucus and are integral to the cellular glycocalyx. Mucins play diverse roles in health and disease, are an important element in epithelial tissue models, and have broad therapeutic potential. All mucin applications are currently challenged by their inherent structural heterogeneity and degradation by proteases. In this study, we describe the synthesis and study of chemically defined mucin analogues bearing native glycans. We utilized combinations of enantiomer amino acids and glycan thioether linkages to achieve tunable proteolysis while maintaining cytocompatibility and binding activity. Structural characterization revealed a previously unknown mirror-image helix and sheds light on the molecular drivers of glycoprotein conformation. This work represents an important step toward the development of artificial mucins for biomedical applications.

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MucinsPolysaccharidesGlycocalyxGlycoproteinsMucusGlycoproteinsMucinsPolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID37473442
PMCPMC11080933
OpenAlexW4384926495

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