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Latest papers
Functional conservation of divergent peptidase_M60 O-glycopeptidases in enterococcus.
Glycobiology · 2026
Substrate recognition and cleavage by mucin degrading O-glycopeptidases from the gut microbe Bacteroides caccae.
The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026
A dual-color FRET assay for detection and quantitative analysis of O-glycopeptidases.
Methods in enzymology · 2026
Latest funding
- $1,040,400
Molecular insights into mucin degradation by host-adapted microbes.
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $150,000
Nano-Flow Liquid Chromatography Equipment for Mass Spectrometry
NSERC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $250,000
Engineering a new interferon lambda therapy for gastrointestinal diseases
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
10 publications.
Functional conservation of divergent peptidase_M60 O-glycopeptidases in enterococcus.
Mihalynuk LG, Pluvinage B, Canil O, Thompson N, Wakarchuk W, Boraston AB
Substrate recognition and cleavage by mucin degrading O-glycopeptidases from the gut microbe Bacteroides caccae.
Pluvinage B, Bourdon K, Canil O, Deventer A, Alvarez B, Mihalynuk L, Thompson N, Wakarchuk W, Boraston AB
A dual-color FRET assay for detection and quantitative analysis of O-glycopeptidases.
Canil O, Mihalynuk L, Thompson N, Wakarchuk W, Boraston A
Differential substrate preferences IN ACTINOBACTERIAL protein O-MANNOSYLTRANSFERASES and alteration of protein-O-MANNOSYLATION by choice of secretion pathway.
Saxena H, Patel R, Kelly J, Wakarchuk W
Toward an experimental system for the examination of protein mannosylation in Actinobacteria.
Saxena H, Buenbrazo N, Song WY, Li C, Brochu D, Robotham A, Ding W, Tessier L, Chen R, Kelly J, Wakarchuk W
Attenuation of Polysialic Acid Biosynthesis in Cells by the Small Molecule Inhibitor 8-Keto-sialic acid.
Hunter C, Gao Z, Chen HM, Thompson N, Wakarchuk W, Nitz M, Withers SG, Willis LM
O-glycosylation and its role in therapeutic proteins.
Thompson N, Wakarchuk W
A previously uncharacterized O-glycopeptidase from Akkermansia muciniphila requires the Tn-antigen for cleavage of the peptide bond.
Medley BJ, Leclaire L, Thompson N, Mahoney KE, Pluvinage B, Parson MAH, Burke JE, Malaker S, Wakarchuk W, Boraston AB
Engineering polysialic acid on Schwann cells using polysialyltransferase gene transfer or purified enzyme exposure for spinal cord injury transplantation.
Pearse DD, Rao SNR, Morales AA, Wakarchuk W, Rutishauser U, El-Maarouf A, Ghosh M
Architecturally complex O-glycopeptidases are customized for mucin recognition and hydrolysis.
Pluvinage B, Ficko-Blean E, Noach I, Stuart C, Thompson N, McClure H, Buenbrazo N, Wakarchuk W, Boraston AB
Molecular insights into mucin degradation by host-adapted microbes.
Principal investigators: Boraston, Alisdair B; Wakarchuk, Warren W
Keywords: Enzymology; Glycobiology; O-Glycosylation; Peptidase; Structural Biology
Nano-Flow Liquid Chromatography Equipment for Mass Spectrometry
Principal investigators: Uhrig, Richard
Keywords: quantitative proteomics; post-translational modifications; time-course experimentation; large sample cohort analysis; agriculture; single cell proteomics; circadian biology; abiotic stress; biochemistry
Engineering a new interferon lambda therapy for gastrointestinal diseases
Principal investigators: Santer, Deanna
Investigation the role of the O-glycan on the serology of the receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV2 spike protein (COVID-19 pandemic strain)_x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_
Principal investigators: Wakarchuk, Warren
Improvement of glycosyltransferases for in vitro glycan remodeling of plant derived therapeutic proteins.
Principal investigators: Wakarchuk, Warren
Exploring the fundamentals of bacterial protein O-mannosylation
Principal investigators: Wakarchuk, Warren
Keywords: glycosylation; glycosyltransferase; mannosylation; actinobacteria; synthetic biology
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Alisdair Boraston and Warren Wakarchuk: 1 shared paper
- Mark Nitz and Warren Wakarchuk: 1 shared paper
- Biological Sciences
- Biochem
- Department of Chemistry
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