List of works - Mohammed S Motawia

2,3-Dideoxy-3-Phthalimidopentoses in the Synthesis of 3'-Amino-2',3'-Dideoxynucleosides

2’-Deoxypuromycin: Synthesis and Antiviral Evaluation

5-Alkoxymethyl-1-hydroxyalkyluracils with Potential Anti-HIV Activity

article

A Convenient Route to 3′-Amino-3′-deoxythymidine

article

A General Method Based on the Use ofN-Bromosuccinimide for Removal of the Thiophenyl Group at the Anomeric Position to Generate A Reducing Sugar with the Original Protecting Groups Still Present

article by Mohammed S Motawia et al published December 1995 in Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry

A NOVEL ROUTE TO SYNTHESIS OF 6'''-ALPHA-MALTOTRIOSYL-MALTOHEXOSE AND ITS USE AS SUBSTRATE FOR STARCH SYNTHASE II

A Short Route to Malto-trisaccharide Synthons: Synthesis of the Branched Nonasaccharide, 6′′′-α-Maltotriosyl-maltohexaose

article

A combined nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular dynamics study of the two structural motifs for mixed-linkage beta-glucans: methyl beta-cellobioside and methyl beta-laminarabioside

scientific article

A facile protocol for direct conversion of unprotected sugars into phenyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-per-O-acetylated-1,2-trans-thioglycosides

scientific article published in January 2003

A flavin-dependent monooxygenase catalyzes the initial step in cyanogenic glycoside synthesis in ferns

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

A hydration study of (1-->4) and (1-->6) linked alpha-glucans by comparative 10 ns molecular dynamics simulations and 500-MHz NMR.

scientific article

A new route to 2′,3′-dideoxycytidine

A recycling pathway for cyanogenic glycosides evidenced by the comparative metabolic profiling in three cyanogenic plant species

scientific article

A short route to 3′-deoxy-3′-fluorothymidine

Acid-catalysed rearrangement of glycosyl trichloroacetimidates: a novel route to glycosylamines

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Analogues of the antibiotic puromycin as potential prodrugs of 3′-amino-3′-deoxythymidine

Arabidopsis thaliana RGXT1 and RGXT2 encode Golgi-localized (1,3)-alpha-D-xylosyltransferases involved in the synthesis of pectic rhamnogalacturonan-II.

scientific article

Biochemical analysis of a multifunctional cytochrome P450 (CYP51) enzyme required for synthesis of antimicrobial triterpenes in plants.

scientific article published on 12 August 2013

Biosynthesis of rhodiocyanosides in Lotus japonicus: Rhodiocyanoside A is synthesized from (Z)-2-methylbutanaloxime via 2-methyl-2-butenenitrile

scientific article published in May 2012

Biosynthesis of the cyanogenic glucosides linamarin and lotaustralin in cassava: isolation, biochemical characterization, and expression pattern of CYP71E7, the oxime-metabolizing cytochrome P450 enzyme

scientific article

Bottom-Up Elucidation of Glycosidic Bond Stereochemistry.

scientific article published on 28 March 2017

Characterization and expression profile of two UDP-glucosyltransferases, UGT85K4 and UGT85K5, catalyzing the last step in cyanogenic glucoside biosynthesis in cassava

scientific article published on 19 August 2011

Characterization of a dynamic metabolon producing the defense compound dhurrin in sorghum.

scientific article

ChemInform Abstract: A Short Route to Malto-trisaccharide Synthons: Synthesis of the Branched Nonasaccharide, 6′′-α-Maltotriosyl-maltohexaose

scientific article published on 21 May 2010

ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of 4′-O-Acetyl-maltose and α-D-Galactopyranosyl-(1→4)-D-glucopyranose for Biochemical Studies of Amylose Biosynthesis

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

Chemical Synthesis of L-Fucose Derivatives for Acceptor Specificity Characterisation of Plant Cell Wall Glycosyltransferases

article

Chemical Synthesis of a Dual Branched Malto-Decaose: A Potential Substrate for α-Amylases

scholarly article by Iben Damager published in June 2005

Chemical synthesis and NMR spectra of a protected branched-tetrasaccharide thioglycoside, a useful intermediate for the synthesis of branched oligosaccharides

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Chemical synthesis of 6′-α-maltosyl-maltotriose, a branched oligosaccharide representing the branch point of starch

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Chemical synthesis of 6‴-α-maltotriosyl-maltohexaose as substrate for enzymes in starch biosynthesis and degradation

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Chemical synthesis of methyl 6'-alpha-maltosyl-alpha-maltotrioside and its use for investigation of the action of starch synthase II.

scientific article published in January 2003

Comparative study of small linear and branched alpha-glucans using size exclusion chromatography and static and dynamic light scattering

scientific article published in January 2005

DISAL Glycosyl Donors for the Synthesis of a Linear Hexasaccharide under Mild Conditions

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

De novo biosynthesis of vanillin in fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) and baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: May 2009)

Diversification of an ancient theme: hydroxynitrile glucosides

scientific article

Diversified glucosinolate metabolism: biosynthesis of hydrogen cyanide and of the hydroxynitrile glucoside alliarinoside in relation to sinigrin metabolism in Alliaria petiolata

scientific article published on 31 October 2015

First principles insight into the alpha-glucan structures of starch: their synthesis, conformation, and hydration

scientific article

Fusion of Ferredoxin and Cytochrome P450 Enables Direct Light-Driven Biosynthesis

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

General and Stereocontrolled Approach to the Chemical Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Cyanogenic Glucosides

article by Birger Lindberg Møller et al published 9 March 2016 in Journal of Natural Products

Genetic screening identifies cyanogenesis-deficient mutants of Lotus japonicus and reveals enzymatic specificity in hydroxynitrile glucoside metabolism

scientific article published on 7 May 2010

Genomic clustering of cyanogenic glucoside biosynthetic genes aids their identification inLotus japonicusand suggests the repeated evolution of this chemical defence pathway ⬇️

scientific article published on 26 July 2011

Glucosinolate engineering identifies a gamma-glutamyl peptidase.

scientific article published on 31 May 2009

Glucosinolate-related glucosides in Alliaria petiolata: sources of variation in the plant and different metabolism in an adapted specialist herbivore, Pieris rapae

scientific article published on 12 October 2014

High throughput screening of starch structures using carbohydrate microarrays.

scientific article published on 29 July 2016

In vitro Biochemical Characterization of All Barley Endosperm Starch Synthases

scientific article published on January 2015

Lotus japonicus flowers are defended by a cyanogenic β-glucosidase with highly restricted expression to essential reproductive organs.

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Male-to-female transfer of 5-hydroxytryptophan glucoside during mating in Zygaena filipendulae (Lepidoptera).

scientific article

Modulation of activity and substrate binding modes by mutation of single and double subsites +1/+2 and -5/-6 of barley alpha-amylase 1.

scientific article published on December 2001

Molecular interactions between barley and oat beta-glucans and phenolic derivatives

scientific article published on March 2009

New Phenyl 6,4′-Substituted-1-Thio-β-Maltosides, Building Blocks for The Synthesis of Linear and Branched Malto-oligosaccharides

Origin and evolution of transporter substrate specificity within the NPF family

scientific article published on 03 March 2017

Orthogonal monoterpenoid biosynthesis in yeast constructed on an isomeric substrate

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Phenolic cross-links: building and de-constructing the plant cell wall

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Phenylalanine derived cyanogenic diglucosides from Eucalyptus camphora and their abundances in relation to ontogeny and tissue type

scientific article published in December 2011

Phosphate esters in amylopectin clusters of potato tuber starch

scientific article

Sequestration, tissue distribution and developmental transmission of cyanogenic glucosides in a specialist insect herbivore

scientific article published on 21 November 2013

Starch phosphorylation--maltosidic restrains upon 3'- and 6'-phosphorylation investigated by chemical synthesis, molecular dynamics and NMR spectroscopy

scientific article

Synthesis of 3'-(4-nitroimidazol-1-yl)-2',3'-dideoxynucleosides of pyrimidine analogues and their biological evaluation against HIV

scientific article

Synthesis of 3′-Alkylthio-2′,3′-dideoxy Nucleosides with Potential Anti-HIV Activity from 2-Deoxy-D-ribose, Using a Phosphorus Pentoxide Reagent

article

Synthesis of 4'-O-acetyl-maltose and alpha-D-galactopyranosyl-(1-->4)-D-glucopyranose for biochemical studies of amylose biosynthesis.

scientific article

Synthesis of 4-O-Acetyl-2,3-dideoxy-3-(tetrabromophthalimido)-D-threo-pentopyranosyl Chloride

Synthesis of 5-alkoxymethyl derivatives of 3'-amino-2',3'-dideoxyuridine and evaluation of their activity against HIV and cancer

scientific article (publication date: 1992)

Synthesis of 6-dimethylaminopurine 2′,3′-dideoxynucleosides

Synthesis of some tetrahydronaphthyl-1,2,4-triazines of possible schistosomicidal activity

scientific article published on 01 December 1984

Synthesis of the allelochemical alliarinoside present in garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), an invasive plant species in North America

scientific article

THE HYDRATION OF THE AMYLOPECTIN BRANCH POINT. A COMBINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND NMR STUDY

article

The CYP79A1 catalyzed conversion of tyrosine to (E)-p-hydroxyphenylacetaldoxime unravelled using an improved method for homology modeling.

scientific article

The action of starch synthase II on 6"'-alpha-maltotriosyl-maltohexaose comprising the branch point of amylopectin

scientific article

The biosynthetic gene cluster for the cyanogenic glucoside dhurrin in Sorghum bicolor contains its co-expressed vacuolar MATE transporter

scientific article (publication date: 14 November 2016)

The phosphorylation site in double helical amylopectin as investigated by a combined approach using chemical synthesis, crystallography and molecular modeling

scientific article

The use of trimethylsilyl cyanide derivatization for robust and broad-spectrum high-throughput gas chromatography–mass spectrometry based metabolomics

Tissue and cellular localization of individual beta-glycosidases using a substrate-specific sugar reducing assay

scientific article published on 13 August 2009

Total biosynthesis of the cyclic AMP booster forskolin from Coleus forskohlii.

scientific article published on 14 March 2017

Vanillin formation from ferulic acid in Vanilla planifolia is catalysed by a single enzyme

scientific article

List of works by Mohammed S Motawia

2,3-Dideoxy-3-Phthalimidopentoses in the Synthesis of 3'-Amino-2',3'-Dideoxynucleosides

2’-Deoxypuromycin: Synthesis and Antiviral Evaluation

5-Alkoxymethyl-1-hydroxyalkyluracils with Potential Anti-HIV Activity

A Convenient Route to 3′-Amino-3′-deoxythymidine

A General Method Based on the Use ofN-Bromosuccinimide for Removal of the Thiophenyl Group at the Anomeric Position to Generate A Reducing Sugar with the Original Protecting Groups Still Present

A NOVEL ROUTE TO SYNTHESIS OF 6'''-ALPHA-MALTOTRIOSYL-MALTOHEXOSE AND ITS USE AS SUBSTRATE FOR STARCH SYNTHASE II

A Short Route to Malto-trisaccharide Synthons: Synthesis of the Branched Nonasaccharide, 6′′′-α-Maltotriosyl-maltohexaose

A combined nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular dynamics study of the two structural motifs for mixed-linkage beta-glucans: methyl beta-cellobioside and methyl beta-laminarabioside

A facile protocol for direct conversion of unprotected sugars into phenyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-per-O-acetylated-1,2-trans-thioglycosides

A flavin-dependent monooxygenase catalyzes the initial step in cyanogenic glycoside synthesis in ferns

A hydration study of (1-->4) and (1-->6) linked alpha-glucans by comparative 10 ns molecular dynamics simulations and 500-MHz NMR.

A new route to 2′,3′-dideoxycytidine

A recycling pathway for cyanogenic glycosides evidenced by the comparative metabolic profiling in three cyanogenic plant species

A short route to 3′-deoxy-3′-fluorothymidine

Acid-catalysed rearrangement of glycosyl trichloroacetimidates: a novel route to glycosylamines

Analogues of the antibiotic puromycin as potential prodrugs of 3′-amino-3′-deoxythymidine

Arabidopsis thaliana RGXT1 and RGXT2 encode Golgi-localized (1,3)-alpha-D-xylosyltransferases involved in the synthesis of pectic rhamnogalacturonan-II.

Biochemical analysis of a multifunctional cytochrome P450 (CYP51) enzyme required for synthesis of antimicrobial triterpenes in plants.

Biosynthesis of rhodiocyanosides in Lotus japonicus: Rhodiocyanoside A is synthesized from (Z)-2-methylbutanaloxime via 2-methyl-2-butenenitrile

Biosynthesis of the cyanogenic glucosides linamarin and lotaustralin in cassava: isolation, biochemical characterization, and expression pattern of CYP71E7, the oxime-metabolizing cytochrome P450 enzyme

Bottom-Up Elucidation of Glycosidic Bond Stereochemistry.

Characterization and expression profile of two UDP-glucosyltransferases, UGT85K4 and UGT85K5, catalyzing the last step in cyanogenic glucoside biosynthesis in cassava

Characterization of a dynamic metabolon producing the defense compound dhurrin in sorghum.

ChemInform Abstract: A Short Route to Malto-trisaccharide Synthons: Synthesis of the Branched Nonasaccharide, 6′′-α-Maltotriosyl-maltohexaose

ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of 4′-O-Acetyl-maltose and α-D-Galactopyranosyl-(1→4)-D-glucopyranose for Biochemical Studies of Amylose Biosynthesis

Chemical Synthesis of L-Fucose Derivatives for Acceptor Specificity Characterisation of Plant Cell Wall Glycosyltransferases

Chemical Synthesis of a Dual Branched Malto-Decaose: A Potential Substrate for α-Amylases

Chemical synthesis and NMR spectra of a protected branched-tetrasaccharide thioglycoside, a useful intermediate for the synthesis of branched oligosaccharides

Chemical synthesis of 6′-α-maltosyl-maltotriose, a branched oligosaccharide representing the branch point of starch

Chemical synthesis of 6‴-α-maltotriosyl-maltohexaose as substrate for enzymes in starch biosynthesis and degradation

Chemical synthesis of methyl 6'-alpha-maltosyl-alpha-maltotrioside and its use for investigation of the action of starch synthase II.

Comparative study of small linear and branched alpha-glucans using size exclusion chromatography and static and dynamic light scattering

DISAL Glycosyl Donors for the Synthesis of a Linear Hexasaccharide under Mild Conditions

De novo biosynthesis of vanillin in fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) and baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) ⬇️

Diversification of an ancient theme: hydroxynitrile glucosides

Diversified glucosinolate metabolism: biosynthesis of hydrogen cyanide and of the hydroxynitrile glucoside alliarinoside in relation to sinigrin metabolism in Alliaria petiolata

First principles insight into the alpha-glucan structures of starch: their synthesis, conformation, and hydration

Fusion of Ferredoxin and Cytochrome P450 Enables Direct Light-Driven Biosynthesis

General and Stereocontrolled Approach to the Chemical Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Cyanogenic Glucosides

Genetic screening identifies cyanogenesis-deficient mutants of Lotus japonicus and reveals enzymatic specificity in hydroxynitrile glucoside metabolism

Genomic clustering of cyanogenic glucoside biosynthetic genes aids their identification inLotus japonicusand suggests the repeated evolution of this chemical defence pathway ⬇️

Glucosinolate engineering identifies a gamma-glutamyl peptidase.

Glucosinolate-related glucosides in Alliaria petiolata: sources of variation in the plant and different metabolism in an adapted specialist herbivore, Pieris rapae

High throughput screening of starch structures using carbohydrate microarrays.

In vitro Biochemical Characterization of All Barley Endosperm Starch Synthases

Lotus japonicus flowers are defended by a cyanogenic β-glucosidase with highly restricted expression to essential reproductive organs.

Male-to-female transfer of 5-hydroxytryptophan glucoside during mating in Zygaena filipendulae (Lepidoptera).

Modulation of activity and substrate binding modes by mutation of single and double subsites +1/+2 and -5/-6 of barley alpha-amylase 1.

Molecular interactions between barley and oat beta-glucans and phenolic derivatives

New Phenyl 6,4′-Substituted-1-Thio-β-Maltosides, Building Blocks for The Synthesis of Linear and Branched Malto-oligosaccharides

Origin and evolution of transporter substrate specificity within the NPF family

Orthogonal monoterpenoid biosynthesis in yeast constructed on an isomeric substrate

Phenolic cross-links: building and de-constructing the plant cell wall

Phenylalanine derived cyanogenic diglucosides from Eucalyptus camphora and their abundances in relation to ontogeny and tissue type

Phosphate esters in amylopectin clusters of potato tuber starch

Sequestration, tissue distribution and developmental transmission of cyanogenic glucosides in a specialist insect herbivore

Starch phosphorylation--maltosidic restrains upon 3'- and 6'-phosphorylation investigated by chemical synthesis, molecular dynamics and NMR spectroscopy

Synthesis of 3'-(4-nitroimidazol-1-yl)-2',3'-dideoxynucleosides of pyrimidine analogues and their biological evaluation against HIV

Synthesis of 3′-Alkylthio-2′,3′-dideoxy Nucleosides with Potential Anti-HIV Activity from 2-Deoxy-D-ribose, Using a Phosphorus Pentoxide Reagent

Synthesis of 4'-O-acetyl-maltose and alpha-D-galactopyranosyl-(1-->4)-D-glucopyranose for biochemical studies of amylose biosynthesis.

Synthesis of 4-O-Acetyl-2,3-dideoxy-3-(tetrabromophthalimido)-D-threo-pentopyranosyl Chloride

Synthesis of 5-alkoxymethyl derivatives of 3'-amino-2',3'-dideoxyuridine and evaluation of their activity against HIV and cancer

Synthesis of 6-dimethylaminopurine 2′,3′-dideoxynucleosides

Synthesis of some tetrahydronaphthyl-1,2,4-triazines of possible schistosomicidal activity

Synthesis of the allelochemical alliarinoside present in garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), an invasive plant species in North America

THE HYDRATION OF THE AMYLOPECTIN BRANCH POINT. A COMBINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND NMR STUDY

The CYP79A1 catalyzed conversion of tyrosine to (E)-p-hydroxyphenylacetaldoxime unravelled using an improved method for homology modeling.

The action of starch synthase II on 6"'-alpha-maltotriosyl-maltohexaose comprising the branch point of amylopectin

The biosynthetic gene cluster for the cyanogenic glucoside dhurrin in Sorghum bicolor contains its co-expressed vacuolar MATE transporter

The phosphorylation site in double helical amylopectin as investigated by a combined approach using chemical synthesis, crystallography and molecular modeling

The use of trimethylsilyl cyanide derivatization for robust and broad-spectrum high-throughput gas chromatography–mass spectrometry based metabolomics

Tissue and cellular localization of individual beta-glycosidases using a substrate-specific sugar reducing assay

Total biosynthesis of the cyclic AMP booster forskolin from Coleus forskohlii.

Vanillin formation from ferulic acid in Vanilla planifolia is catalysed by a single enzyme