Selective inhibition of function-specific β-GlcNAcase has great potential in terms of drug design and biological research. The symmetrical bis-naphthalimide M-31850 was previously obtained by screening for specificity against human glycoconjugate-lytic β-GlcNAcase. Using protein-ligand co-crystallization and molecular docking, we designed an unsymmetrical dyad of naphthalimide and thiadiazole, ...

Conventional glycoconjugate vaccines are prepared with polysaccharides isolated from bacterial fermentation, an approach with some significant drawbacks such as handling of live bacterial strains, the presence of biological impurities, and inter-batch variations in oligosaccharide epitope structure. However, it has been shown in many cases that a synthetic fragment of appropriate structure conj...

Streptococcus suis bacteria are one of the most serious health problems for pigs and an emerging zoonotic agent in humans working swine industry. S. express capsular polysaccharides (CPS) a major bacterial virulence factor that define serotypes. Oligosaccharides resembling CPS serotypes 2, 3, 9, 14 have been synthesized, glycans related to 2 9 were placed on glycan array surfaces screen blood f...

The combination of carbohydrates with BODIPY fluorophores gives rise to a family BODIPY-carbohydrate hybrids or glyco-BODIPYs, which mutually benefit from the encounter. Thus, standpoint, glyco-BODIPYs can be regarded as fluorescent glycoconjugate derivatives application in imaging techniques, whereas fluorophore view biocompatibility, water-solubility, and reduced toxicity, among others, broug...

Functionalized carbohydrate-centered glycoclusters formed the starting material for the synthesis of tagged oligosaccharide and glycoconjugate mimetics, which were obtained by thiourea-bridging, peptide coupling and in particular squaric diester-mediated coupling. The latter method could also be utilized to provide new multivalent glycoconjugates, which were tested for their anti-adhesive prope...