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Dismantling the bacterial glycocalyx: Chemical tools to probe, perturb, and image bacterial glycans
Date: 2021-07-15
Creator: Phuong Luong, Danielle H. Dube
Access: Open access
- The bacterial glycocalyx is a quintessential drug target comprised of structurally distinct glycans. Bacterial glycans bear unusual monosaccharide building blocks whose proper construction is critical for bacterial fitness, survival, and colonization in the human host. Despite their appeal as therapeutic targets, bacterial glycans are difficult to study due to the presence of rare bacterial monosaccharides that are linked and modified in atypical manners. Their structural complexity ultimately hampers their analytical characterization. This review highlights recent advances in bacterial chemical glycobiology and focuses on the development of chemical tools to probe, perturb, and image bacterial glycans and their biosynthesis. Current technologies have enabled the study of bacterial glycosylation machinery even in the absence of detailed structural information.
Fluorescent Sugar Analogs as Probes for Bacterial Monosaccharide Uptake Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Foje-Geh Robert Tendoh
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Evaluation of design parameters for monosaccharide probes used in the metabolic labeling of bacterial glycans Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Sophia Elisabeth Nigrovic
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