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3′-O-β-Glucosylation of nucleoside analogues using a promiscuous bacterial glycosyltransferase (2025)
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Dolan, J., Keenan, T., Ni Cheallaigh, A., A Fascione, M., & Miller, G. (2025). 3′-O-β-Glucosylation of nucleoside analogues using a promiscuous bacterial glycosyltransferase. RSC Chemical Biology, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CB00026B

Nucleoside analogue therapeutics have a proven capability within drug discovery as antiviral and antineoplastic agents. However, their efficacy can be limited by poor cellular uptake, off target toxicity and low bioavailability. Glycosylation of phar... Read More about 3′-O-β-Glucosylation of nucleoside analogues using a promiscuous bacterial glycosyltransferase.

Multigram-Scale Synthesis of 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-mannitol (DMDP) and 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-glucitol (DGDP) from d-Fructose and l-Sorbose Using a Regioselective Appel Reaction. (2025)
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Sunde-Brown, P., Miller, G. J., & Houston, T. A. (in press). Multigram-Scale Synthesis of 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-mannitol (DMDP) and 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-glucitol (DGDP) from d-Fructose and l-Sorbose Using a Regioselective Appel Reaction. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 90(6), 2288-2297. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.4c02667

We report a practical 5 g scale stereoselective synthesis of the valuable iminosugar DMDP from d-fructose in only 7 synthetic steps and in a 70% overall yield, which doubles previously reported yields. This process requires only two chromatographic p... Read More about Multigram-Scale Synthesis of 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-mannitol (DMDP) and 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-glucitol (DGDP) from d-Fructose and l-Sorbose Using a Regioselective Appel Reaction..

Synthesis of S-Glycoside Building Blocks as Mimetics of the Repeating d-GlcN-α-1,4-d-GlcA Heparan Sulfate Disaccharide (2024)
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O’Shea, C., & Miller, G. J. (2024). Synthesis of S-Glycoside Building Blocks as Mimetics of the Repeating d-GlcN-α-1,4-d-GlcA Heparan Sulfate Disaccharide. Molecules, 29(23), Article 5809. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29235809

Heparan sulfate (HS), a sulfated linear carbohydrate that decorates the cell surface and extracellular matrix, is a key regulator of biological processes. Owing to the inherent structural complexity of HS, structure-to-function studies with its ligan... Read More about Synthesis of S-Glycoside Building Blocks as Mimetics of the Repeating d-GlcN-α-1,4-d-GlcA Heparan Sulfate Disaccharide.

Towards the synthesis of a 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-mannose building block and characterisation of an unusual 2-S-phenyl anomeric pyridinium triflate salt via 1 → 2 S-migration (2024)
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Evans, S. T., Tizzard, G. J., Field, R. A., & Miller, G. J. (2024). Towards the synthesis of a 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-mannose building block and characterisation of an unusual 2-S-phenyl anomeric pyridinium triflate salt via 1 → 2 S-migration. Carbohydrate Research, 545, Article 109275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2024.109275

Regio- and stereo-selective synthetic routes to 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-mannose building blocks are often experimentally challenging when using Selectfluor with the corresponding glycal. We targeted a late-stage method to introduce fluorine in a stereospe... Read More about Towards the synthesis of a 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-mannose building block and characterisation of an unusual 2-S-phenyl anomeric pyridinium triflate salt via 1 → 2 S-migration.

Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogs Containing Sulfur or Selenium Replacements of the Ribose Ring Oxygen or Carbon. (2024)
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Benckendorff, C. M. M., Sunde-Brown, P., Ní Cheallaigh, A., & Miller, G. J. (2024). Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogs Containing Sulfur or Selenium Replacements of the Ribose Ring Oxygen or Carbon. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 89(23), 16977-16989. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.4c02409

Nucleoside analogs have proven highly successful in many pharmaceutical intervention strategies, and continued exploration of next generation structural motifs is required. Herein we discuss recent advances toward the chemical synthesis of heteroatom... Read More about Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogs Containing Sulfur or Selenium Replacements of the Ribose Ring Oxygen or Carbon..

Sugar-Coated: Can Multivalent Glycoconjugates Improve upon Nature’s Design? (2024)
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Leslie, K. G., Berry, S. S., Miller, G. J., & Mahon, C. S. (2024). Sugar-Coated: Can Multivalent Glycoconjugates Improve upon Nature’s Design?. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146(40), 27215-27232. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c08818

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... Read More about Sugar-Coated: Can Multivalent Glycoconjugates Improve upon Nature’s Design?.

Benzoylation of Tetrols: A Comparison of Regioselectivity Patterns for O- and S-Glycosides of d-Galactose (2024)
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Porter, J., Roberts, J., & Miller, G. J. (in press). Benzoylation of Tetrols: A Comparison of Regioselectivity Patterns for O- and S-Glycosides of d-Galactose. Journal of Organic Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.4c01508

Efficient protecting group strategies are important for glycan synthesis and represent a unique synthetic challenge in differentiating sugar ring hydroxyl groups. Direct methods to enable regioselective protecting group installation are thus desirabl... Read More about Benzoylation of Tetrols: A Comparison of Regioselectivity Patterns for O- and S-Glycosides of d-Galactose.

Tandem One-Pot Biocatalytic Oxidation and Wittig Reaction in Water (2024)
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Wahart, A. J. C., Beardmore, L. N. D., Field, R. A., Cosgrove, S. C., & Miller, G. J. (in press). Tandem One-Pot Biocatalytic Oxidation and Wittig Reaction in Water. Organic Letters, 26(31), 6642-6646. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.4c02201

We explore biocatalytic aldehyde generation under aqueous conditions, concomitantly delivering access to a one-pot Wittig reaction using stabilized phosphoranes and granting diverse alkene products. Using a recombinant choline oxidase mutant, we firs... Read More about Tandem One-Pot Biocatalytic Oxidation and Wittig Reaction in Water.

Adaptable Synthesis of Chondroitin Sulfate Disaccharide Subtypes Preprogrammed for Regiospecific O‐Sulfation (2024)
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Wootton, H. S., Berry, S. S., Ferguson, E. L., Mahon, C. S., & Miller, G. J. (in press). Adaptable Synthesis of Chondroitin Sulfate Disaccharide Subtypes Preprogrammed for Regiospecific O‐Sulfation. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Article e202400587. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202400587

A divergent synthetic route to chondroitin sulfate (CS) disaccharide precursors, including rarer subtypes such as CS‐D, has been developed. From common intermediates, a series of thioglycoside D‐glucosyl donors and 4,6‐O‐benzylidene protected D‐galac... Read More about Adaptable Synthesis of Chondroitin Sulfate Disaccharide Subtypes Preprogrammed for Regiospecific O‐Sulfation.

Exploring a Gemcitabine-Glucose Hybrid as a Glycoconjugate Prodrug (2024)
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Porter, J., Noble, A. R., Signoret, N., Fascione, M. A., & Miller, G. J. (in press). Exploring a Gemcitabine-Glucose Hybrid as a Glycoconjugate Prodrug. ACS Omega, 9(29), 31703-31713. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c02417

Nucleoside analogues are established treatments for cancer and viral infection. Gemcitabine is a commonly employed nucleoside analogue displaying anticancer properties against a range of tumor types but is rapidly inactivated in vivo. Efforts to bols... Read More about Exploring a Gemcitabine-Glucose Hybrid as a Glycoconjugate Prodrug.

Methyl and Benzyl (Ethyl 3,4-di-O-benzyl-2-O-benzoyl-1-thio-β-d-glucopyranosyl)uronate (2024)
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Wootton, H. S., & J. Miller, G. (2024). Methyl and Benzyl (Ethyl 3,4-di-O-benzyl-2-O-benzoyl-1-thio-β-d-glucopyranosyl)uronate. Molbank, 2024(3), Article M1847. https://doi.org/10.3390/M1847

Methyl and benzyl (ethyl 3,4-di-O-benzyl-2-O-benzoyl-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranosyl)uronate were synthesised from a protected thioglycoside in three steps. A regioselective ring opening of the benzylidene acetal with BH3.THF generated C6-OH material, whic... Read More about Methyl and Benzyl (Ethyl 3,4-di-O-benzyl-2-O-benzoyl-1-thio-β-d-glucopyranosyl)uronate.

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.

Biocatalytic Nucleobase Diversification of 4'‐Thionucleosides and Application of Derived 5‐Ethynyl‐4'‐thiouridine for RNA synthesis detection (2024)
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Westarp, S., Benckendorff, C., Motter, J., Rohrs, V., Sanghvi, Y., Neubauer, P., …Miller, G. J. (in press). Biocatalytic Nucleobase Diversification of 4'‐Thionucleosides and Application of Derived 5‐Ethynyl‐4'‐thiouridine for RNA synthesis detection. Angewandte Chemie, Article e202405040. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202405040

Nucleoside and nucleotide analogues have proven to be transformative in the treatment of viral infections and cancer. One branch of structural modification to deliver new nucleoside analogue classes explores replacement of canonical ribose oxygen wit... Read More about Biocatalytic Nucleobase Diversification of 4'‐Thionucleosides and Application of Derived 5‐Ethynyl‐4'‐thiouridine for RNA synthesis detection.

Biocatalytic Nucleobase Diversification of 4'-Thionucleosides and Application of Derived 5-Ethynyl-4'-thiouridine for RNA synthesis detection. (2024)
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Westarp, S., Benckendorff, C., Motter, J., Rohrs, V., Sanghvi, Y., Neubauer, P., …Miller, G. J. (in press). Biocatalytic Nucleobase Diversification of 4'-Thionucleosides and Application of Derived 5-Ethynyl-4'-thiouridine for RNA synthesis detection. Angewandte Chemie, Article e202405040. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202405040

Nucleoside and nucleotide analogues have proven to be transformative in the treatment of viral infections and cancer. One branch of structural modification to deliver new nucleoside analogue classes explores replacement of canonical ribose oxygen wit... Read More about Biocatalytic Nucleobase Diversification of 4'-Thionucleosides and Application of Derived 5-Ethynyl-4'-thiouridine for RNA synthesis detection..

Synthesis of a heparan sulfate tetrasaccharide using automated glycan assembly † (2024)
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Pongener, I., Sletten, E. T., Danglad-Flores, J., Seeberger, P. H., & Miller, G. J. (in press). Synthesis of a heparan sulfate tetrasaccharide using automated glycan assembly †. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ob01909h

Herein we utilise automated glycan assembly to complete solid-phase synthesis of defined heparan sulfate oligosaccharides, employing challenging d-glucuronate disaccharide donors. Using an orthogonally protected d-GlcN-α-d-GlcA donor, milligram-scale... Read More about Synthesis of a heparan sulfate tetrasaccharide using automated glycan assembly †.

Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology (2024)
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Motter, J., Benckendorff, C. M. M., Westarp, S., Sunde-Brown, P., Neubauer, P., Kurreck, A., & Miller, G. J. (in press). Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology. Natural Product Reports, https://doi.org/10.1039/d3np00051f

Covering: 2019 to 2023 Nucleoside analogues represent one of the most important classes of small molecule pharmaceuticals and their therapeutic development is successfully established within oncology and for the treatment of viral infections. However... Read More about Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology.

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.

A transcriptomics-based drug repositioning approach to identify drugs with similar activities for the treatment of muscle pathologies in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) models. (2023)
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Hoolachan, J. M., McCallion, E., Sutton, E. R., Çetin, Ö., Pacheco-Torres, P., Dimitriadi, M., …Bowerman, M. (2024). A transcriptomics-based drug repositioning approach to identify drugs with similar activities for the treatment of muscle pathologies in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) models. Human molecular genetics, 33(5), 400–425. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddad192

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic neuromuscular disorder caused by the reduction of survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein levels. Although three SMN-augmentation therapies are clinically approved that significantly slow down disease progres... Read More about A transcriptomics-based drug repositioning approach to identify drugs with similar activities for the treatment of muscle pathologies in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) models..

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..

Reverse thiophosphorylase activity of a glycoside phosphorylase in the synthesis of an unnatural Manβ1,4GlcNAc library † (2023)
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Keenan, T., Hatton, N. E., Porter, J., Vendeville, J., Wheatley, D. E., Ghirardello, M., …Fascione, M. A. (in press). Reverse thiophosphorylase activity of a glycoside phosphorylase in the synthesis of an unnatural Manβ1,4GlcNAc library †. Chemical Science, 14(42), 11638-11646. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sc04169g

β-Mannosides are ubiquitous in nature, with diverse roles in many biological processes. Notably, Manβ1,4GlcNAc a constituent of the core N-glycan in eukaryotes was recently identified as an immune activator, highlighting its potential for use in immu... Read More about Reverse thiophosphorylase activity of a glycoside phosphorylase in the synthesis of an unnatural Manβ1,4GlcNAc library †.