Sucrose is the main saccharide used for long-distance transport in plants and plays an essential role energy metabolism; however, there are no analogues real-time imaging live cells. We have optimised a synthetic approach to prepare sucrose including very small (?50 Da or less) Raman tags fructose moiety. Spectroscopic analysis identified alkyne-tagged compound 6 as analogue recognised by endog...

Despite significant progress in the design of receptors and sensors for simple polyols and monosaccharides, few synthetic receptors discriminate among multiple saccharide units simultaneously, especially under physiological conditions. Described here is the three-dimensional structure of a supramolecular complex-a β-peptide bundle-designed for the potential to interact simultaneously with as ma...

Fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis (FACE) is a simple and inexpensive method for separating saccharides. Oligosaccharides were tagged with the charged fluorophore 8-aminonaphthalene-1,3,6-trisulfonate (ANTS), and the reductive amination reactions were essentially complete after approximately 16 h under the given experimental conditions. Saccharide-ANTS adducts were then separated...

Glyco-gold nanoparticles combine in a single entity the peculiar properties of gold nanoparticles with the biological activity of carbohydrates. The result is an exciting nanosystem, able to mimic the natural multivalent presentation of saccharide moieties and to exploit the peculiar optical properties of the metallic core. In this review, we present recent advances on glyco-gold nanoparticle a...

In the article title of the original publication, the word ''polyphenol'' was incorrectly published as ''ployphenol''. The correct article title should read as follows. ''High quality RNA isolation from polyphenol-, poly-saccharide-and protein-rich tissues of lentil (Lens culinaris)'' Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permi...