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Spring 2013
The number of biologically important events mediated by carbohydrates has generated great interest in the synthesis of oligosaccharides and the development of new methods for glycosidic bond formation. I have developed a glycosylation method where glycosyl donors containing a three-membered...
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Chemical, Enzymatic and Chemo-enzymatic Synthesis of Complex Oligosaccharides as Probes of Glycan Functions
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Carbohydrates, an essential class of biomolecules, mediate a variety of biological processes. Recent advances in chemical, enzymatic and chemo-enzymatic synthesis have facilitated access to an increasing number of structurally well-defined oligosaccharides. These molecules are serving as...
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Spring 2012
Tuberculosis is a contagious disease, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Harsh requirements required to treat tuberculosis result from the structure of the mycobacterial cell wall. Lipoarabinomannan, an important component and major antigen of the cell wall, is able to modulate the host immune...
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Studies of a mycobacterial α-(1→4)-mannosyltransferase involved in 3-O-methyl-mannose polysaccharide biosynthesis
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Mycobacteria produce a number of unique carbohydrates, the majority of which are found in the cell wall of the organism. In addition to these extracellular glycans, mycobacteria also produce intracellular glycans. One class of them are the 3-O-methy-lmannose polysaccharides (MMPs), whose...
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Spring 2017
Bradyrhizose, a bicyclic monosaccharide, was reported in 2011 by Molinaro and coworkers at the University of Naples in Italy. This unusual carbohydrate was isolated from the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Bradyrhizobium sp. BTAi1 and sp. ORS278 as the only component of the O-antigen. These...
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Spring 2020
“To understand something” is a perpetual theme in scientific research. In carbohydrate chemistry, we pursue to understand certain properties of sugar molecules. This is further described as the purpose of my research “understanding Mycobacterium marinum lipooligosaccharides’ (LOSs) immnuogenic...
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Spring 2010
Tuberculosis (TB) is the disease arising from infection by Mycobacterial tuberculosis and kills millions of people every year. Difficulties in the treatment of TB and the emergence of multiple-drug resistant and extreme-drug resistant M. tuberculosis strains have increased interest in finding...
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Fall 2014
Lipooligosaccharides (LOSs) are one of the three major classes of glycolipids produced by mycobacteria. Over 15 LOSs have been isolated and characterized in the past three decades. However, there are only a small number of studies that have focused on the synthesis of LOSs molecules. In this...
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Spring 2016
Furanose-containing molecules are widespread in nature and have been identified as important constituents of glycoconjugates from numerous pathogenic microorganisms. Although significant advances in the synthesis of 1,2-cis-glycofuranosides have been made, there are still some challenges. In...