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Fresh from the press:

Selective Quantification of Bacteria in Mixtures by Using Glycosylated Polypyrrole\/Hydrogel Nano-Layers Sebastian Balser, Michael Röhrl, Carina Spormann, Thisbe K Lindhorst,* Andreas Terfort* ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2024, 16 (11), 14243-14251, doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c14387.

Photoinduced bidirectional mesophase transition in vesicles containing azobenzene amphiphiles Svenja Carolin Hövelmann, Ella Dieballa, Jule Kuhna, Michelle Dargaszd, Rajendra Prasad Giria, Franziska Reise, Michael Paulus, Thisbe K. Lindhorst, Bridget Mary Murphy IUCrJ (International Union of Crystallography Journal) 2024, Jul 1. doi: 10.1107/S2052252524004032.

Advancing Optoglycomics: Two Orthogonal Azobenzene Glycoside Antennas in One Glycocluster – Synthesis, Switching Cycles, Kinetics and Molecular Dynamics Leon M. Friedrich, B. Hartke, Thisbe K. Lindhorst Chem. Eur. J. 2024, e202402125, doi.org/10.1002/chem.202402125, open access.

Ready chemistry with a rare sugar: Altrobioside synthesis and analysis of conformational characteristics Clemens Lütjohann, Christian Näther, Thisbe K. Lindhorst Carbohydr. Res. 2024, doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2024.109228, open access.

Trivalent Heteroglycoclusters as Focal Point Pseudoenantiomers: Synthesis and Preliminary Biological Evaluation Guillaume Despras, Carina Spormann, Felix Klockmann, Dieter Schollmeyer, Andreas Terfort, Thisbe K. Lindhorst Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2024, e20240080, doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202400809, open access.

Migration of para-Nitrophenyl Groups in Methyl Pyranosides: Configuration and Conformation Determine the Kinetic Dynamics Leon M. Friedrich,* Clemens Lütjohann,* Bernd Hartke, Thisbe K. Lindhorst* Chem. Eur. J. 2024, e20240311, doi.org/10.1002/chem.202403117, (inside cover).

Our Research is Concerned with

Biological Chemisty of Carbohydrates and Glycoconjugates - Carbohydrate, Peptide, Dendrimer Synthesis - Ligand-Receptor Interactions - Conformational Control - Conformational Switches - Photoaffinity Labeling - Ligand Design - Molecular Modeling - Bacterial Adhesion to the Glycocalyx - Organizing Multivalency Effects - Molecular Diversity - Lectin Binding


Review: Organizing multivalency in carbohydrate recognition Download

Review: Oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates in recognition processes Download

Chapter in: Handbook of Carbohydrate-Modifying Biocatalysts, P. Grunwald (Ed.), Pan Stanford Publishing Ltd., 2016, 2nd edition, pp 147-215; ISBN 978-981-4669-788.

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