Chemical glycobiology

• Elisa Fadda,
• Rachel Hevey,
• Benjamin Schumann and
• Ulrika Westerlind

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 8–9, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.2

• methods that underlie modern glycobioinformatics approaches [15]. Validation of glycoprotein structure is an important aspect of contemporary structural biology, and Dialpuri et al. present the Privateer database to allow for facile quality control of such structures [16]. Finally, Barillot et al. bridge

Monitoring carbohydrate 3D structure quality with the Privateer database

• Jordan S. Dialpuri,
• Haroldas Bagdonas,
• Lucy C. Schofield,
• Phuong Thao Pham,
• Lou Holland and
• Jon Agirre

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 931–939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.83

• scientists. The Privateer software is a validation and analysis tool that provides access to a number of metrics and links to external experimental resources, allowing users to evaluate structures using carbohydrate-specific methods. Here, we present the Privateer database, a free resource that aims to

• new resources, including services and databases [9][10][11][12][13], and standalone software [14][15][16][17][18]. Among these, the Privateer software package has been a key tool for glycoprotein and protein–carbohydrate complex validation: Privateer analyses the conformational plausibility of each

• to improve. Because the methodology included in PDB-REDO had been affected by the lack of automatic support that plagued general purpose crystallographic model building and refinement software [4], carbohydrate-specific methods have been gradually introduced over the years [22][23]. Whilst Privateer

Elucidating the glycan-binding specificity and structure of Cucumis melo agglutinin, a new R-type lectin

• Jon Lundstrøm,
• Emilie Gillon,
• Valérie Chazalet,
• Nicole Kerekes,
• Antonio Di Maio,
• Ten Feizi,
• Yan Liu,
• Annabelle Varrot and
• Daniel Bojar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 306–320, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.31

• inspection of the electron density maps, carbohydrate moieties were introduced and checked using Privateer [40]. The final model was validated using the wwPDB validation server (https://validate-rcsb-1.wwpdb.org). Structure figures were made using PyMol 2.5.7 and ChimeraX 1.6 [31]. The parameters for CH−π

Leveraging glycomics data in glycoprotein 3D structure validation with Privateer

• Haroldas Bagdonas,
• Daniel Ungar and
• Jon Agirre

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2523–2533, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.204

• initiatives have stored results in publicly available databases, some of which can be accessed through API interfaces. In the present work, we will describe how the Privateer carbohydrate structure validation software has been extended to harness results from glycomics projects, and its use to greatly improve

• the validation of 3D glycoprotein structures. Keywords: electron cryomicroscopy; glycoinformatics; glycomics; Privateer; X-ray crystallography; Introduction Glycosylation-related processes are prevalent in life. The attachment of carbohydrates to macromolecules extends the capabilities of cells to

• stereochemistry [14], incorrect torsion [15][16], and unlikely high-energy ring conformations [17]. Early efforts in the validation of carbohydrate structures saw the introduction of online tools such as PDB-CARE [37] and CARP [16]; more recently, we released the Privateer software [24], which was the first