Recent Publications
1. Wang, L.X., Amin, M.N., “Chemical and chemoenzymatic synthesis of glycoproteins for
deciphering functions” (Invited Review), Chemistry & Biology, 21, 51-66 (2014).
2. Ahmed, A.A, Giddens, J.P., Pincetic, A., Lomino, J.V., Ravetch, J.V., Wang, L.X., Bjorkman, P.J.,
“Structural characterization of anti-inflammatory Immunoglobulin G Fc proteins”, J. Mol. Biol.,
426, 3166-79 (2014).
3. Trastoy, B., Lomino, J.V., Pierce, B.G., Carter, L.G., Gunther, S., Giddens, J.P., Snyder, G.A.,
Weiss, T.M., Weng, Z., Wang, L.X., Sundberg, E.J., “Crystal structure of Streptococcus pyogenes
EndoS, an immunomodulatory endoglycosidase specific for human IgG antibodies”, Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA, 111, 6714-6719 (2014).
4. Smith, E.L., Giddens, J.P., Iavarone, A.T., Godula, K., Wang, L.X., Bertozzi, C.R.,
“Chemoenzymatic Fc glycosylation via engineered aldehyde tags”, Bioconjugate Chem., 25,
788-795 (2014).
5. Chiang, M.J., Holbert, M.A., Kalin, J.H., Ahn, Y.H., Giddens, J, Amin, M.N., Taylor, M.S., Collins,
S.L., Chan-Li, Y, Waickman, A, Hsiao, P.Y., Bolduc, D, Leahy, D.J., Horton, M.R., Wang, L.X.,
Powell, J.D., Cole, P.A. , “An Fc domain protein-small molecule conjugate as an enhanced
immunomodulator. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 3370-3373 (2014).
6. Wang, L.X., “Synthetic carbohydrate antigens for HIV vaccine design” (Invited Review), Current
Opinion in Chemical Biology, 17, 997–1005 (2013).
7. Wang, L.X., Davis, B.G., “Realizing the promise of chemical glycobiology” (Invited Review),
Chemical Science, 4, 3381-3394 (2013).
8. Amin, M.N., McLellan, J.S., Huang, W., Orwenyo, J., Burton, D.R., Koff, W.C., Kwong, P.D.,
Wang, L.X., “Synthetic glycopeptides reveal the glycan specificity of HIV-neutralizing
antibodies”, Nature Chem. Biol., 9, 521-526 (2013).
9. Pancera, M., Shahzad-ul-Hussan, S., Doria-Rose, N. A., McLellan, J.S., Dai, K., Loesgen, S.,
Staupe, S.P., Yang, Y., Haynes, B. F., Amin, M.N., Wang, L. X., Burton, D. R., Koff, W.C., Nabel,
G.J., Mascola, J.R., Bewley, C.A., Kwong, P.D., “Structural basis for diverse N-glycan recognition
and enhanced HIV-1 neutralization by V1/V2-directed antibodies”, Nature Struct. Mol. Biol., 20,
804-813 (2013).
10. Orwenyo, J., Huang, W., Wang, L.X., “Chemoenzymatic synthesis and lectin recognition of a
selectively fluorinated glycoprotein”, Bioorg. Med. Chem., 21, 4768-77 (2013).
11. Lomino, J.V., Naegeli, A., Orwenyo, J., Amin, M.N., Aebi, M., Wang, L.X., “A two-step enzymatic
glycosylation of polypeptides with complex N-glycans”, Bioorg. Med. Chem., 21, 2262-70 (2013).
12. Wang, H., Huang, W., Orwenyo, J., Banerjee, A., Vasta, G.R., Wang, L.X., “Design and synthesis
of glycoprotein-based multivalent glyco-ligands for influenza hemagglutinin and human galectin-3”.
Bioorg. Med. Chem., 21, 2037-44 (2013).
13. Feng, C., Ghosh, A., Amin, M.N., Giomarelli, B., Shridhar, S., Banerjee, A., Fernández-Robledo,
J.A., Bianchet, M.A., Wang, L.X., Wilson, I.B., Vasta, G.R., “The galectin CvGal1 from the eastern
oyster (Crassostrea virginica) binds to blood group A oligosaccharides on the hemocyte surface”,
J. Biol. Chem., 288, 24394-409 (2013).
14. Huang, W., Giddens, J., Fan, S.Q., Toonstra, C., Wang, L.X., “Chemoenzymatic glycoengineering
of intact IgG antibodies for gain of functions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 12308−12318 (2012).
15. Cross, A.S., Hyun, S.W., Miranda-Ribera, A., Feng, C., Liu, A., Nguyen, C., Zhang, L., Luzina,
I.G., Atamas, S.P., Twaddell, W.S., Guang, W., Lillehoj, E.P., Puche, A.C., Huang, W., Wang,
L.X., Passaniti, A., Goldblum, S.E. “NEU1 and NEU3 sialidase activity expressed in human lung
microvascular endothelia. NEU1 restrains endothelial cell migration whereas NEU3 does not”, J.
Biol. Chem., 287, 15966-15980 (2012).
16. Fan, S., Huang, W., Wang, L. X. “Remarkable transglycosylation activity of glycosynthase mutants
of Endo-D, an endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase from Streptococcus pneumoniae”, J. Biol. Chem.,
287, 11272–11281 (2012).
17. Lillehoj, E.P., Hyun, S.W., Feng, C., Zhang, L., Liu, A., Guang, W., Nguyen, C., Luzina, I.G.,
Atamas, S.P., Passaniti, A., Twaddell, W.S., Puché, A.C., Wang, L.X., Cross, A.S., Goldblum, S.E.
“NEU1 sialidase expressed in human airway epithelia regulates epidermal growth factor receptor
(EGFR) and MUC1 protein signaling”, J. Biol. Chem., 287, 8214-8231 (2012).
18. Wang, L. X., Lomino, J. V. “Emerging technologies for making glycan-defined glycoproteins”
(Invited Review), ACS Chemical Biology, 7, 110-122 (2011).
19. McLellan, J., Pancera, M., Carrico, C., Gorman, J., Julien, J. P., Khayat, R., Louder, R., Pejchal,
R., Sastry, M., Dai, K., O’Dell, S., Patel, N., Shahzad-ul-Hussan, S., Yang, Y., Zhang, B., Zhou, T.,
Zhu, J., Boyington, J. C., Chuang, G. Y., Diwanji, D., Georgiev, I., Kwon, Y. D., Lee, D., Louder,
M. K., Moquin, S., Schmidt, S. D., Yang, Z. Y., Bonsignori, M., Crump, J. A., Kapiga, S. H., Sam,
N. E., Haynes, B. F., Burton, D. R., Koff, W. C., Walker, L. M., Phogat, S., Wyatt, R., Orwenyo, J.,
Wang, L. X., Arthos, J., Bewley, C. A., Mascola, J. R., Nabel, G. J., Schief, W. R., Ward, A. B.,
Wilson, I. A., Kwong, P. D., “Structure of HIV-1 gp120 V1/V2 domain with broadly neutralizing
antibody PG9”, Nature, 480, 336-343 (2011).
20. Zou, G., Ochiai, H., Huang, W., Yang, Q., Li, C., Wang, L. X., “Chemoenzymatic synthesis and
Fc receptor binding of homogeneous glycoforms of antibody Fc domain. Presence of a bisecting
sugar moiety enhances the affinity of Fc to FcIIIa receptor”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 1897518991 (2011).
21. Amin, M. N., Huang, W., Mizanur, R. M., Wang, L. X., “Convergent synthesis of homogeneous
Glc1Man9GlcNAc2-protein and derivatives as ligands of molecular chaperones in protein quality
control”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 14404–14417 (2011).
22. Huang, W., Li, J., Wang, L. X., “Unusual transglycosylation activity of Flavobacterium
meningosepticum endoglycosidases enables convergent chemoenzymatic synthesis of core
fucosylated complex N-glycopeptides”, ChemBioChem, 12, 932-941 (2011).
23. Huang, W., Zhang, X., Ju, T., Cummings, R.D., Wang, L.X. “Expeditious chemoenzymatic
synthesis of CD52 glycopeptide antigens”, Org. Biomol. Chem., 8, 5224-5233 (2010).
24. Brooks, C.L., Schietinger, A., Borisova1, S.N., Kufer, P., Okon, M., Hirama, T., MacKenzie,
C.R., Wang, L.X., Schreiber, H., Evans, S.V., “Antibody recognition of a novel tumor-specific
glycopeptide antigen”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107, 10056-10061 (2010).
25. Huang, W., Yang, Q., Umekawa, M., Yamamoto, K., Wang, L.X., “Arthrobacter endo-beta-Nacetylglucosaminidase shows transglycosylation activity on complex type N-glycan oxazolines.
One-pot conversion of ribonuclease B to sialylated ribonuclease C”. ChemBioChem, 11, 13501355 (2010).
26. Yang, Q., Li, C., Wei, Y., Huang, W., Wang, L. X., “Expression, glycoform characterization, and
antibody-binding of HIV-1 V3 glycopeptide domain fused with human IgG1-Fc”, Bioconjugate
Chem., 21, 875-883 (2010).
27. Schwarz, F., Huang, W., Li, C., Schulz, B. L., Lizak, C., Palumbo, A., Numao, S., Neri, D., Aebi,
M., Wang, L. X. “A combined method for producing homogeneous glycoproteins with eukaryotic
N-glycosylation”, Nature Chem. Biol., 6, 264-266 (2010).
28. Umekawa, M., Li, C., Higashiyama, T., Huang, W., Ashida, H., Yamamoto, K., Wang, L. X.,
“Efficient glycosynthase mutant derived from Mucor hiemalis endo--N-acetylglucosaminidase
capable of transferring oligosaccharide from both sugar oxazoline and natural N-glycan”, J.
Biol. Chem., 281, 511-521 (2010).
29. Huang, W., Wang, D., Yamada, M., Wang, L. X., “Chemoenzymatic synthesis and lectin array
characterization of a class of N-glycan clusters”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 17963-17971 (2009).
30. Huang, W., Li, C., Li, B., Umekawa, M., Yamamoto, K., Zhang, X., Wang, L. X., “Novel
glycosynthases enable a highly efficient chemo-enzymatic synthesis of N-glycoproteins carrying
intact natural N-glycans”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 2214-2223 (2009).
31. Zhu, X. Y., Holtz, B., Wang, Y., Wang, L. X., Orndorff, P. E., Guo, A., „Quantitative glycomics
from fluidic glycan microarrays“, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 13646-13650 (2009).
32. Wang, L. X., “Expanding the repertoire of glycosynthases”, Chem. Biol., 16, 1026-1027 (2009).
33. Newsom-Davis, T. E., Wang, D., Steinman, L., Chen, P. F. T., Wang, L. X., Simon, A. K.,
Screaton, G. R., “Enhanced immune recognition of cryptic glycan markers in human tumors”,
Cancer Research., 69, 2018-25 (2009).
34. Wang, L. X., Huang, W., “Enzymatic transglycosylation for glycoconjugate synthesis” (Invited
Review), Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol., 13, 592–600 (2009).
35. Huang, W., Groothuys S., Heredia A., Kuijpers B.H., Rutjes F.P., van Delft F.L., Wang L.X.,
“Enzymatic glycosylation of triazole-linked GlcNAc/Glc-peptide: Synthesis, stability, and anti-HIV
activity of triazole-linked HIV-1 gp41 glycopeptide C34 analogues”, ChemBioChem, 10, 12341242 (2009).
36. Huang, W., Ochiai, H., Zhang, X., Wang, L. X., “Introducing N-glycans into natural products
through a chemoenzymatic approach”, Carbohydr. Res., 343, 2903-2913 (2008).
37. Wei, Y., Li, C., Huang, W., Li, B., Strome, S. E., Wang, L. X., “Glyco-engineering of human
IgG1-Fc through combined yeast expression and in vitro chemoenzymatic glycosylation”,
Biochemistry, 47, 10294-10304 (2008).
38. Ochiai, H., Huang, W., Wei, Y., Wang, L. X., “Expeditious chemoenzymatic synthesis of
homogeneous N-glycoproteins carrying defined oligosaccharide ligands”. J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
130, 13790-13803 (2008).
39. Li, C., Huang, W., Wang, L. X., “Chemoenzymatic synthesis of N-linked neoglycoproteins
through a chitinase-catalyzed transglycosylation”, Bioorg. Med. Chem., 16, 8366-8372 (2008).
40. Li, B., Takegawa, K., Suzuki, T., Yamamoto, K., Wang, L. X., “Synthesis and inhibitory activity of
oligosaccharide thiazolines as a class of mechanism-based inhibitors for endo-beta-Nacetylglucosaminidases”, Bioorg. Med. Chem., 16, 4670-4675 (2008).
41. Wang, L. X., “Chemoenzymatic synthesis of glycopeptides and glycoproteins through
endoglycosidase-catalyzed transglycosylation”, Carbohydr. Res., 343, 1509-22 (2008).
42. Umekawa, M., Huang, W., Li, B., Fujita, K., Ashida, H., Wang, L. X., Yamamoto, K., “Mutants of
Mucor hiemalis endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase show enhanced transglycosylation and
glycosynthase-like activities”, J. Biol. Chem., 283, 4469-4479 (2008).