Herbert W. Kavunja

Central Michigan University — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research(10), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research(7), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis(6), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses(5), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions(5)

Publications23 total

Immune Targeting of Mycobacteria through Cell Surface Glycan Engineering
ACS Chemical Biology·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Correction to “A Bifunctional Chemical Reporter for in Situ Analysis of Cell Envelope Glycan Recycling in Mycobacteria”
ACS Infectious Diseases·2023
A Bifunctional Chemical Reporter for in Situ Analysis of Cell Envelope Glycan Recycling in Mycobacteria
ACS Infectious Diseases·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
Structure Guided Design of Bacteriophage Qβ Mutants as Next Generation Carriers for Conjugate Vaccines
ACS Chemical Biology·2022· 24 citedOpen Access
Chemical Reporters for Bacterial Glycans: Development and Applications
Chemical Reviews·2021· 73 citedOpen Access
Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of 9NHAc‐GD2 Antigen to Overcome the Hydrolytic Instability of <i>O</i>‐Acetylated‐GD2 for Anticancer Conjugate Vaccine Development
Angewandte Chemie International Edition·2021· 34 citedOpen Access
Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of 9NHAc‐GD2 Antigen to Overcome the Hydrolytic Instability of <i>O</i>‐Acetylated‐GD2 for Anticancer Conjugate Vaccine Development
Angewandte Chemie·2021· 2 cited
Photoactivatable Glycolipid Probes for Identifying Mycolate–Protein Interactions in Live Mycobacteria
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2020· 64 citedOpen Access
A FRET-Based Fluorogenic Trehalose Dimycolate Analogue for Probing Mycomembrane-Remodeling Enzymes of Mycobacteria
ACS Omega·2019· 31 citedOpen Access
Engineering the Mycomembrane of Live Mycobacteria with an Expanded Set of Trehalose Monomycolate Analogues
ChemBioChem·2018· 39 citedOpen Access
Chemoenzymatic radiosynthesis of 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-trehalose ([18F]-2-FDTre): A PET radioprobe for in vivo tracing of trehalose metabolism
Carbohydrate Research·2018· 31 cited
Delivery of foreign cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitopes to tumor tissues for effective antitumor immunotherapy against pre-established solid tumors in mice
Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy·2016· 17 citedOpen Access
Abstract A030: Development of acid responsive microparticles for cytotoxic T-lymphocyte based antitumor immunotherapy
Cancer Immunology Research·2016
Bioorthogonal Chemical Reporters for Selective In Situ Probing of Mycomembrane Components in Mycobacteria
Angewandte Chemie·2016· 16 cited
Bioorthogonal Chemical Reporters for Selective In Situ Probing of Mycomembrane Components in Mycobacteria
Angewandte Chemie International Edition·2016· 101 cited
A chemical reporter strategy for detecting and identifying O-mycoloylated proteins in Corynebacterium
Chemical Communications·2016· 33 cited
Identification of Lectins from Metastatic Cancer Cells through Magnetic Glyconanoparticles
Israel Journal of Chemistry·2015· 8 citedOpen Access
Carbohydrate derived nanoplatforms as tools for lectin isolation, and delivery of cytotoxic T-cell peptide epitopes for cytotoxic T- cell mediated tumor immunotherapy
2015Open Access
Methods for Magnetic Nanoparticle Synthesis and Functionalization
2014· 5 cited
Assessing the <i>in Vivo</i> Efficacy of Doxorubicin Loaded Hyaluronan Nanoparticles
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces·2013· 68 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Benjamin M. Swarts(11), Xuefei Huang(10), Nicholas Banahene(5), Zhaojun Yin(5), Suttipun Sungsuwan(5), Shuyao Lang(5), Mohammad H. El‐Dakdouki(4), M. Sloan Siegrist(4), Hannah N. Foley(3), Jessica A. Stewart(3), Brent F. Piligian(3), Amol Arunrao Pohane(3), Xuanjun Wu(3), Zahra Rashidijahanabad(3), Sherif Ramadan(3), Temitope O. Nathan(3), Dana M. Gepford(3), Sarah Rundell(2), Jingguang Xia(2), Bo Yang(2)