Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Bacterial glycosyltransferase-mediated cell-surface chemoenzymatic glycan modification

  • Senlian Hong,
  • Yujie Shi,
  • Nicholas C. Wu,
  • Geramie Grande,
  • Lacey Douthit,
  • Hua Wang,
  • Wen Zhou,
  • K. Barry Sharpless,
  • Ian A. Wilson,
  • Jia Xie,
  • Peng Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09608-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Glycan molecules can be modified directly on the cell surface via chemoenzymatic approaches. Here, the authors employ a set of four bacterial glycosyltransferases to develop a live cell-based killing assay to probe host cell glycan-mediated influenza A virus infection.