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Correction: Virtual screening, identification and in vitro validation of small molecule GDP-mannose dehydrogenase inhibitors (2024)
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Dolan, J. P., Ahmadipour, S., Wahart, A. J. C., Cheallaigh, A. N., Sari, S., Eurtivong, C., …Miller, G. J. (in press). Correction: Virtual screening, identification and in vitro validation of small molecule GDP-mannose dehydrogenase inhibitors. RSC Chemical Biology, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cb90026j

Correction for ‘Virtual screening, identification and in vitro validation of small molecule GDP-mannose dehydrogenase inhibitors’ by Jonathan P. Dolan et al., RSC Chem. Biol., 2023, 4, 865–870, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CB00126A.

Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase (2023)
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Arnott, Z. L. P., Morgan, H. E., Hollingsworth, K., Stevenson, C. M. E., Collins, L. J., Tamasanu, A., …Webb, M. E. (2024). Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase. Angewandte Chemie, Article e202310862. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202310862

Quantitative and selective labelling of proteins is widely used in both academic and industrial laboratories, and catalytic labelling of proteins using transpeptidases, such as sortases, has proved to be a popular strategy for such selective modifica... Read More about Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase.

Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase (2023)
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Arnott, Z. L. P., Morgan, H. E., Hollingsworth, K., Stevenson, C. M. E., Collins, L. J., Tamasanu, A., …Webb, M. E. (2024). Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63(8), Article e202310862. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202310862

Quantitative and selective labelling of proteins is widely used in both academic and industrial laboratories, and catalytic labelling of proteins using transpeptidases, such as sortases, has proved to be a popular strategy for such selective modifica... Read More about Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase.

Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides (2023)
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Wahart, A. J. C., Dolan, J. P., Anderson, S. D., Cheallaigh, A. N., Staniland, J., Lima, M. A., …Cosgrove, S. C. (2023). Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides. ChemBioChem, Article e202300752. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202300752

Wahart et al. demonstrate the use of an immobilised oxidase enzyme coupled to an extractive amino resin for the bioremediation of a common industrial surfactant. This allows the facile purification of alkyl monoglucosides without the need for high en... Read More about Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides.

Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides. (2023)
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Wahart, A. J. C., Dolan, J. P., Anderson, S. D., Cheallaigh, A. N., Staniland, J., Lima, M. A., …Cosgrove, S. C. (in press). Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides. ChemBioChem, Article e202300625. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202300625

As the world moves towards net-zero carbon emissions, the development of sustainable chemical manufacturing processes is essential. Within manufacturing, purification by distillation is often used, however this process is energy intensive and methods... Read More about Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides..

Virtual screening, identification and in vitro validation of small molecule GDP-mannose dehydrogenase inhibitors † (2023)
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Dolan, J., Ahmadipour, S., Wahart, A., Ni Cheallaigh, A., Sari, S., Eurtivong,, C., …Miller, G. (2023). Virtual screening, identification and in vitro validation of small molecule GDP-mannose dehydrogenase inhibitors †. RSC Chemical Biology, 4(11), 865-870. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CB00126A

Upon undergoing mucoid conversion within the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa synthesises copious quantities of the virulence factor and exopolysaccharide alginate. The enzyme guanosine diphosphate ma... Read More about Virtual screening, identification and in vitro validation of small molecule GDP-mannose dehydrogenase inhibitors †.

Biocatalytic Approaches to Building Blocks for Enzymatic and Chemical Glycan Synthesis (2022)
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Cosgrove, Miller, & Dolan. (2022). Biocatalytic Approaches to Building Blocks for Enzymatic and Chemical Glycan Synthesis. JACS Au, 47-61. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.2c00529

While the field of biocatalysis has bloomed over the past 20–30 years, advances in the understanding and improvement of carbohydrate-active enzymes, in particular, the sugar nucleotides involved in glycan building block biosynthesis, have progressed... Read More about Biocatalytic Approaches to Building Blocks for Enzymatic and Chemical Glycan Synthesis.

Synthesis of C6-modified mannose 1-phosphates and evaluation of derived sugar nucleotides against GDP-mannose dehydrogenase. (2022)
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Ahmadipour, S., Wahart, A., Dolan, J., Beswick, L., Hawes, C., Field, R., & Miller, G. (2022). Synthesis of C6-modified mannose 1-phosphates and evaluation of derived sugar nucleotides against GDP-mannose dehydrogenase. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 18, 1379 - 1384. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.18.142

Sufferers of cystic fibrosis are at significant risk of contracting chronic bacterial lung infections. The dominant pathogen in these cases is mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Such infections are characterised by overproduction of the exopolysaccharide... Read More about Synthesis of C6-modified mannose 1-phosphates and evaluation of derived sugar nucleotides against GDP-mannose dehydrogenase..

Synthesis of cholera toxin B subunit glycoconjugates using site-specific orthogonal oxime and sortase ligation reactions (2022)
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P. Dolan, J., Machin, D. C., Dedola, S., Field2, R. A., Webb, M. E., & Bruce Turnbull, W. (2022). Synthesis of cholera toxin B subunit glycoconjugates using site-specific orthogonal oxime and sortase ligation reactions. Frontiers in Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2022.958272

The chemoenzymatic synthesis of a series of dual N- and C-terminal–functionalized cholera toxin B subunit (CTB) glycoconjugates is described. Mucin 1 peptides bearing different levels of Tn antigen glycosylation [MUC1(Tn)] were prepared via solid-pha... Read More about Synthesis of cholera toxin B subunit glycoconjugates using site-specific orthogonal oxime and sortase ligation reactions.

Chemical and enzymatic synthesis of the alginate sugar nucleotide building block: GDP-d-mannuronic acid (2019)
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Beswick, L., Ahmadipour, S., Dolan, J. P., Rejzek, M., Field, R. A., & Miller, G. J. (2019). Chemical and enzymatic synthesis of the alginate sugar nucleotide building block: GDP-d-mannuronic acid. Carbohydrate Research, 485(1), 107819 -107819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2019.107819

Highlights Sugarnucleotide synthesis. Chemical and enzymatic access to GDP-d-ManA. Evaluation of protected and free uronate 1-phosphates for pyrophosphorylation.

Continuous flow iodination using an automated computer-vision controlled liquid-liquid extraction system (2017)
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O'Brien, M., Cooper, D., & Dolan, J. (2017). Continuous flow iodination using an automated computer-vision controlled liquid-liquid extraction system. Tetrahedron Letters, 829 - 834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2017.01.029

Abstract A dynamic computer-vision control system incorporating open-source software technologies (Python, OpenCV) was used to automate a gravity based in-line liquid-liquid extraction during the iodination of enaminones in continuous flow. The syste... Read More about Continuous flow iodination using an automated computer-vision controlled liquid-liquid extraction system.