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David Sychantha
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Latest papers
Ngt-1: A glycosyltransferase that confers resistance to three distinct antibiotic classes
Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2026
Denuded peptidoglycan oligosaccharides enable the biochemical investigation of bacterial cell wall recognition, modification, and degradation.
The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026 · senior author
Targeting bacterial nickel transport with aspergillomarasmine A suppresses virulence-associated Ni-dependent enzymes
Nature Communications · 2024 · first author
Latest funding
- $125,000
Developing tools for studying the essential enzymes that synthesize, degrade, and tailor the bacterial cell wall
CFI · 2026 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Ngt-1: A glycosyltransferase that confers resistance to three distinct antibiotic classes
Abbas A, Sychantha D, Koteva K, Chiao M, Sokaribo A, Hackenberger D, Andres S, Wright GD
Denuded peptidoglycan oligosaccharides enable the biochemical investigation of bacterial cell wall recognition, modification, and degradation.
Emmanuel BG, DelMistro G, Anderson AC, Vandenende C, Clarke AJ, Sychantha D
Targeting bacterial nickel transport with aspergillomarasmine A suppresses virulence-associated Ni-dependent enzymes
Sychantha D, Chen X, Koteva K, Prehna G, Wright GD
Developing tools for studying the essential enzymes that synthesize, degrade, and tailor the bacterial cell wall
Principal investigators: Sychantha, David
Keywords: Microbiology, Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Chemical Biology, Antibiotics, Antibiotic Resistance Liquid chromatography, spectrophotometry, fluorometry
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Sara Andres and Gerard Wright: 2 shared papers
- Gerard Wright and Gerd Prehna: 2 shared papers
- Gerard Wright and David Sychantha: 2 shared papers
- Sara Andres and David Sychantha: 1 shared paper
- Gerd Prehna and David Sychantha: 1 shared paper
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
- Department of Chemistry
- Microbiology
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