Foodstuffs of various sorts have been implicated as a cause of goiter for many years. Only by the discovery of Chesney, Clawson and Webster in 1928 that cabbage feeding would result in thyroid enlargement in laboratory animals (1) were these vague hypotheses started on a firm experimental footing, however (for detailed review see Reference 2). Although various articles of diet have been reporte...

An efficient route for the synthesis of orthogonally protected D-galactosamine thioglycosides via one-pot double serial and double parallel displacements of the D-mannosyl-2,4-bis-trifluoromethanesulfonates by azide and nitrite ions is described. These building blocks were utilized to synthesize the rare disaccharide moiety of the zwitterionic polysaccharide of Bacteroides fragilis and the sele...

BACKGROUND In bacteria with truncated lipopolysaccharide structures, i.e., lacking the O-antigen polysaccharide part, core structures are exposed to the immune system upon infection and thus their use as carbohydrate surface antigens in glycoconjugate vaccines can be considered and investigated. One such suggested structure from Haemophilus influenzae LPS is the phosphorylated pentasaccharide 6...

BACKGROUND Extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli are mostly responsible for a diverse spectrum of invasive human and animal infections leading to the urinary tract infections. Bacterial lipopolysaccharides are responsible for their pathogenicity and their interactions with host immune responses. In spite of several breakthroughs in the development of therapeutics to combat urinary tract infections...

Sugars with heteroatoms other than oxygen have attained considerable importance in glycobiology and in drug design since they are often more stable in blood plasma due to their resistance to enzymes, such as glycosidases, phosphorylases and glycosyltransferases. The replacement of oxygen atoms in sugars with sulfur forms thio-sugars, which are potentially useful for the treatment of diabetes an...

the glycosylation of 1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-thiones has been performed with peracetylated β-pyranosyl bromide in the presence of potassium carbonate. deprotection of acetylated thioglycosides was necessary for increasing their antibacterial effects. the structure of nucleosides were confirmed by 1h nmr, 13c nmr and hrms. the anomeric protons of nucleosides c1–4 were assigned to the doublet, confirm...

[figure: see text] 1,2-Migration and concurrent glycosidation of phenyl 2,3-O-thionocarbonyl-1-thlo-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosides under the action of methyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (MeOTf) afforded in high yields the 3-O-(methylthio)carbonyl-2-S-phenyl-2,6-dideoxy-beta-L-glucopyranosides, ready precursors to the corresponding 2-deoxy-beta-glycosides.