Sugar-Coated: Can Multivalent Glycoconjugates Improve upon Nature’s Design?

Multivalent interactions between receptors and glycans play an important role in many different biological processes, including pathogen infection, self-recognition, and the immune response. The growth in the number of tools and techniques toward the assembly of multivalent glycoconjugates means it...

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Published in:Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024-10, Vol.146 (40), p.27215-27232
Main Authors: Leslie, Kathryn G., Berry, Sian S., Miller, Gavin J., Mahon, Clare S.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Glycoconjugates - chemistry
Humans
Polysaccharides - chemistry
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Summary:Multivalent interactions between receptors and glycans play an important role in many different biological processes, including pathogen infection, self-recognition, and the immune response. The growth in the number of tools and techniques toward the assembly of multivalent glycoconjugates means it is possible to create synthetic systems that more and more closely resemble the diversity and complexity we observe in nature. In this Perspective we present the background to the recognition and binding enabled by multivalent interactions in nature, and discuss the strategies used to construct synthetic glycoconjugate equivalents. We highlight key discoveries and the current state of the art in their applications to glycan arrays, vaccines, and other therapeutic and diagnostic tools, with an outlook toward some areas we believe are of most interest for future work in this area.
ISSN:0002-7863
1520-5126
1520-5126
DOI:10.1021/jacs.4c08818