Design, synthesis, biochemical, and antiviral evaluations of C6 benzyl and C6 biarylmethyl substituted 2-hydroxylisoquinoline-1, 3-diones: dual inhibition against HIV reverse … SKV Vernekar, Z Liu, E Nagy, L Miller, KA Kirby, DJ Wilson, J Kankanala, ... Journal of medicinal chemistry 58 (2), 651-664, 2015 | 138 | 2015 |
A single subset of dendritic cells controls the cytokine bias of natural killer T cell responses to diverse glycolipid antigens P Arora, A Baena, OA Karl, NK Saini, SS Kharkwal, MF Goldberg, ... Immunity 40 (1), 105-116, 2014 | 135 | 2014 |
IgG antibody response elicited by a fully synthetic two-component carbohydrate-based cancer vaccine candidate with α-galactosylceramide as built-in adjuvant XG Yin, XZ Chen, WM Sun, XS Geng, XK Zhang, J Wang, PP Ji, ZY Zhou, ... Organic letters 19 (3), 456-459, 2017 | 83 | 2017 |
Visible-light-induced specific desulfurization of cysteinyl peptide and glycopeptide in aqueous solution XF Gao, JJ Du, Z Liu, J Guo Organic letters 18 (5), 1166-1169, 2016 | 82 | 2016 |
NKT TCR recognition of CD1d-α-C-galactosylceramide O Patel, G Cameron, DG Pellicci, Z Liu, HS Byun, T Beddoe, J McCluskey, ... The Journal of Immunology 187 (9), 4705-4713, 2011 | 72 | 2011 |
Enzymatic oxidation of cholesterol: properties and functional effects of cholestenone in cell membranes M Neuvonen, M Manna, S Mokkila, M Javanainen, T Rog, Z Liu, R Bittman, ... PLoS One 9 (8), e103743, 2014 | 66 | 2014 |
Synthesis of Immunostimulatory α-C-Galactosylceramide Glycolipids via Sonogashira Coupling, Asymmetric Epoxidation, and Trichloroacetimidate-Mediated … Z Liu, HS Byun, R Bittman Organic letters 12 (13), 2974-2977, 2010 | 57 | 2010 |
Synthesis of C-Glycoside Analogues of α-Galactosylceramide via Linear Allylic C–H Oxidation and Allyl Cyanate to Isocyanate Rearrangement Z Liu, R Bittman Organic letters 14 (2), 620-623, 2012 | 49 | 2012 |
Synthesis and evaluation of liposomal anti-GM3 cancer vaccine candidates covalently and noncovalently adjuvanted by αGalCer XG Yin, J Lu, J Wang, RY Zhang, XF Wang, CM Liao, XP Liu, Z Liu, J Guo Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 64 (4), 1951-1965, 2021 | 42 | 2021 |
Synthesis of (S)-FTY720 vinylphosphonate analogues and evaluation of their potential as sphingosine kinase 1 inhibitors and activators Z Liu, N MacRitchie, S Pyne, NJ Pyne, R Bittman Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 21 (9), 2503-2510, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
An improved two-step synthetic route to primary allylic alcohols from aldehydes Z Liu, Y Gong, HS Byun, R Bittman New Journal of Chemistry 34 (3), 470-475, 2010 | 37 | 2010 |
Improving Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin as a vaccine delivery vector for viral antigens by incorporation of glycolipid activators of NKT cells MM Venkataswamy, TW Ng, SS Kharkwal, LJ Carreņo, AJ Johnson, ... PloS one 9 (9), e108383, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
NKT-cell glycolipid agonist as adjuvant in synthetic vaccine Z Liu, J Guo Carbohydrate research 452, 78-90, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
Convergent Synthesis of N-Linked Glycopeptides via Aminolysis of ω-Asp p-Nitrophenyl Thioesters in Solution JJ Du, XF Gao, LM Xin, Z Lei, Z Liu, J Guo Organic letters 18 (19), 4828-4831, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
Asymmetric Synthesis of d-ribo-Phytosphingosine from 1-Tetradecyne and (4-Methoxyphenoxy)acetaldehyde Z Liu, HS Byun, R Bittman The Journal of organic chemistry 75 (13), 4356-4364, 2010 | 30 | 2010 |
Liposomal antitumor vaccines targeting mucin 1 elicit a lipid‐dependent immunodominant response JJ Du, SY Zou, XZ Chen, WB Xu, CW Wang, L Zhang, YK Tang, SH Zhou, ... Chemistry–An Asian Journal 14 (12), 2116-2121, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
Total Synthesis of α-1C-Galactosylceramide, an Immunostimulatory C-Glycosphingolipid, and Confirmation of the Stereochemistry in the First-Generation Synthesis Z Liu, HS Byun, R Bittman The Journal of organic chemistry 76 (21), 8588-8598, 2011 | 28 | 2011 |
Peptide-free synthetic nicotine vaccine candidates with α-galactosylceramide as adjuvant XZ Chen, RY Zhang, XF Wang, XG Yin, J Wang, YC Wang, X Liu, JJ Du, ... Molecular Pharmaceutics 16 (4), 1467-1476, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
Stereocontrolled Synthesis of a Potential Transition-State Inhibitor of the Salicylate Synthase MbtI from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Z Liu, F Liu, CC Aldrich The Journal of organic chemistry 80 (13), 6545-6552, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
Synthesis of Cholesterol Analogues Bearing BODIPY Fluorophores by Suzuki or Liebeskind–Srogl Cross‐Coupling and Evaluation of Their Potential for Visualization of Cholesterol Pools Z Liu, SG Thacker, S Fernandez‐Castillejo, EB Neufeld, AT Remaley, ... ChemBioChem 15 (14), 2087-2096, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |