1. Targeting Oligosaccharides and Glycoconjugates Using Superselective Binding Scaffolds.
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Tommasone S, Tagger YK, and Mendes PM
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Recognition of oligosaccharides is associated with very limited specificity due to their strong solvation in water and the high degree of subtle structural variations between them. Here, oligosaccharide recognition sites are created on material surfaces with unmatched, binary on-off binding behavior, sharply discriminating a target oligosaccharide over closely related carbohydrate structures. The basis for the superselective binding behavior relies on the highly efficient generation of a pure, high order complex of the oligosaccharide target with synthetic carbohydrate receptor sites, in which the spatial arrangement of the multiple receptors in the complex is preserved upon material surface incorporation. The synthetic binding scaffolds can easily be tailored to recognize different oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates, opening up a realm of possibilities for their use in a wide field of applications, ranging from life sciences to diagnostics., Competing Interests: A patent has been filled by the University of Birmingham related with the modular, synthetic strategy reported in this article under WO2015/118294. P.M.M is an author on the patent. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests., (© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.)
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- 2020
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