Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: cholera [ICD11:
1A00 
, ICD11:
XN7N1 ]
NCBI PubMed ID: 34495299Publication DOI: 10.1042/BST20210766Journal NLM ID: 7506897Correspondence: Oren Moscovitz <Oren.Moscovitz
mpikg.mpg.de>
Institutions: Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The importance of vaccine-induced protection was repeatedly demonstrated over the last three decades and emphasized during the recent COVID-19 pandemic as the safest and most effective way of preventing infectious diseases. Vaccines have controlled, and in some cases, eradicated global viral and bacterial infections with high efficiency and at a relatively low cost. Carbohydrates form the capsular sugar coat that surrounds the outer surface of human pathogenic bacteria. Specific surface-exposed bacterial carbohydrates serve as potent vaccine targets that broadened our toolbox against bacterial infections. Since first approved for commercial use, antibacterial carbohydrate-based vaccines mostly rely on inherently complex and heterogenous naturally derived polysaccharides, challenging to obtain in a pure, safe, and cost-effective manner. The introduction of synthetic fragments identical with bacterial capsular polysaccharides provided well-defined and homogenous structures that resolved many challenges of purified polysaccharides. The success of semisynthetic glycoconjugate vaccines against bacterial infections, now in different phases of clinical trials, opened up new possibilities and encouraged further development towards fully synthetic antibacterial vaccine solutions. In this mini-review, we describe the recent achievements in semi- and fully synthetic carbohydrate vaccines against a range of human pathogenic bacteria, focusing on preclinical and clinical studies.
carbohydrates, capsular polysaccharides, bacteria, vaccines, synthetic carbohydrate, antibacterial vaccines
Structure type: oligomer
Location inside paper: p. 2424, Fig. 11
Aglycon: spacer (CH2CH2O)2CH2CH2NH2
Trivial name: O-unit
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, O-antigen
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135813,IEDB_136044,IEDB_137340,IEDB_137472,IEDB_1391962,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_142078,IEDB_143794,IEDB_150899,IEDB_151531,IEDB_190606,SB_137,SB_165,SB_166,SB_187,SB_195,SB_29,SB_7,SB_88
Synthetic data: chemical
Comments, role: review
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 45888
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