Hou SJ, Saksena R, Kovac P Preparation of glycoconjugates by dialkyl squarate chemistry revisited. Carbohydr Res(343): 196-210, 2008. [Full Text/Abstract]
Adamo, R., Kovác, P. Glycosylation under thermodynamic control. Synthesis of the di- and the hexasaccharide fragments of the O-SP of Vibrio cholerae O:1, serotype Ogawa, from fully functionalized building blocks Eur. J. Org. Chem.: 988-1000, 2007.
Saksena R, Adamo R, Kovac P Immunogens related to the synthetic tetrasaccharide side chain of the Bacillus anthracis exosporium. Bioorg Med Chem(15): 4283-310, 2007. [Full Text/Abstract]
Wang D, Carroll GT, Turro NJ, Koberstein JT, Kovac P, Saksena R, Adamo R, Herzenberg LA, Herzenberg LA, Steinman L Photogenerated glycan arrays identify immunogenic sugar moieties of Bacillus anthracis exosporium. Proteomics(7): 180-4, 2007. [Full Text/Abstract]
Wade TK, Saksena R, Shiloach J, Kovac P, Wade WF Immunogenicity of synthetic saccharide fragments of Vibrio cholerae O1 (Ogawa and Inaba) bound to Exotoxin A. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol(48): 237-51, 2006. [Full Text/Abstract]
Saksena R, Ma X, Wade TK, Kovác P, Wade WF Length of the linker and the interval between immunizations influences the efficacy of Vibrio cholerae O1, Ogawa hexasaccharide neoglycoconjugates. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol(47): 116-28, 2006. [Full Text/Abstract]
Ruttens B, Kovac P Synthesis of spacer-equipped phosphorylated di-, tri- and tetrasaccharide fragments of the O-specific polysaccharide of Vibrio cholerae O139. Carbohydr Res(341): 1077-80, 2006. [Full Text/Abstract]
Provenzano D, Kovac P, Wade WF The ABCs (Antibody, B cells, and Carbohydrate epitopes) of cholera immunity: considerations for an improved vaccine. Microbiol Immunol(50): 899-927, 2006. [Full Text/Abstract]
Taylor, R. K., Kirn, T. J., Bose, N., Stonehouse, E., Tripathi, S. A., Kovác, P., Wade, W. F. Progress towards development of a cholera subunit vaccine Chemistry & Biodiversity(1): 2036-2057, 2004.
Kovác, P Quantity over Quality?: An Open Letter to the Community of Chemists Chemistry and Biodiversity(1): 606-608, 2004.
Meeks M. D., Saksena, R., MA, X. , Wade T. K. , R. K. Taylor, Kovác, P., Wade W. F Synthetic Fragments of Vibrio cholerae O1 Inaba O-SP Bound to a Protein Carrier are Immunogenic in Mice but do not Induce Protective Antibodies Infection and Immunity(72): 4090-4101, 2004.
Ma, X., Saksena, R., Chernyak, A., Kovác, P. Neoglycoconjugates from synthetic tetra- and hexasaccharides that mimic the terminus of the O-PS of Vibrio cholerae O:1, serotype Inaba Org. Biomol. Chem.(1): 775-784, 2003.
Chernyak A Kondo S Wade TK Meeks MD Alzari PM Fournier JM Taylor RK Kovac P Wade WF Induction of protective immunity by synthetic Vibrio cholerae hexasaccharide derived from V. cholerae O1 Ogawa lipopolysaccharide bound to a protein carrier. J Infect Dis (185): 950-62, 2002. [Full Text/Abstract]
Chernyak A Karavanov A Ogawa Y Kovac P Conjugating oligosaccharides to proteins by squaric acid diester chemistry: rapid monitoring of the progress of conjugation, and recovery of the unused ligand. Carbohydr Res (330): 479-86, 2001. [Full Text/Abstract]