GlycoShape

@glycoshape.org

Glycan 3D database and toolbox for the reconstruction of glycoproteins from the RCSB PDB and EMBL-EBI AlphaFold repositories or own. Find us at https://glycoshape.org. Curated by head chef @elisafadda.bsky.social and sous chef @ojas-singh.bsky.social

🚨 Want to be part of top #glycotime on the seaside in the California sunshine? Register to the 2027 GRC Glycobiology ⬇️ Stacy and Lance put togteher up one of the most exciting programmes I have ever seen with phenomenal keynotes! We have 32 abstracts to select, so the next speaker could be YOU! 😎

Announcement of the GRC Glycobiology 2027 to be held in Ventura CA on March 14 to 19, 2027. Blue background with an photo of Ventura from the visitventuraca.com

🚨 New version of GlycoShape is now live at glycoshape.org 🥳 Powered by crabWURCS everything runs on your browser and while you save all you ReGlyco work and go back to it whenever you like 😎 Among other new things: new slick drawer, much easier to use, new slick SNFG representations and new layout

screenshot to represent the new layout of GlycoShape, here the database screen added NEW sticker

Want to know more about #glycotime resources in bioinformatics and/or build some glycoproteins with GlycoShape? Join us online on Sept 4th for fabulous hands-ON workshops organised by @glycoexpasy.bsky.social 😎🥳🧪 Online registration is FREE (Price: 0 CHF) here, eccb2026.org/communities-...

@glycoexpasy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Attending @eccb-europe.bsky.social in Geneva this year? Then, you can join our workshop! Programme and registration is here: eccb2026.org/communities-... it's free 🙂 but hurry!

Un-crystallisable glyco-complexes anyone? New work led by John Klassen's lab introduces antibody masking-native mass spectrometry (AM-nMS) a spatially resolved assay that allowed us to map glycan binding sites across the SARS-CoV-2 RBD. The results match our MDs! 😜 All details glycoshape.org/blog

screenshot of the E04 new blog entry on https://glycoshape.org/blog titled Let's talk about glycan binding to viral (glyco)proteins

glycoshape.org has now a blog where we discuss (yep you got it) glycans, glycoproteins and fun stuff! Season 1 is out with: Ep01: Why should we care about glycan heterogeneity? Ep02: How can we include glycan heterogeneity in a 3D framework? Ep03: Molecular precision glycoscience: Enter Siglecs

Header of the Blog page on https://glycoshape.org/blog that you can find in the drop-down menu under Resources> Blog

Next time you hear 'glycans are just a fancy protein decoration' 😱 show them this fabulous work led by Katrine Schjoldager and team at the CGR 🇩🇰 with us 🇬🇧 showing how The ligand preference of LRP1 is regulated by O-glycans Out now www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/10 ⬇️

The ligand preference of LRP1 is regulated by O-glycans

GALNT11-mediated O-glycans modulate LRP1 uptake of tau and Aβ, unveiling glycan-driven mechanisms in neurodegenerative pathways.

science.org

Daily job count is quite high these days after the release of our case study 1 week ago and of the ReGlyco de novo Binder Design Filter notebook ⬇️ doi.org/10.64898/202... and res. therein So exciting to see a growing number of researcher including glycosylation in their studies! 🎉 #glycotime 🧪

Bar graph showing the GlycoShape job count x day in April 2026

Most biologics are glycosylated and some of them heavily. In this “fresh off the press" #glycotime preprint we look into how a filter that accounts for glycosylation explicitly in 3D can help reduce lab costs and increase the efficiency of de novo binder design pipelines. Short 🧵 ⬇️ 1/7

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Integrating glycosylation in de novo protein design with ReGlyco Binder Design Filter https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.16.718906v1

Super congratulations to the Siglec (and many other stories) extraordinaire Dr. D'Andrea!!! 👩‍🎓🎉🥂🍾 A huge thank you to the fantastic examiners Alba Silipo (external) and Trinidad Velasco-Torrijos (internal) for your expert and in-depth examination, which made Silvia's viva a great day to remember 😎

From left: Prof Alba Silipo (UniNa, Federico II), Elisa Fadda, Dr Silvia D'Andrea, and Dr Trinidad Velasco-Torrijos, yellow table and amazing red velvet cake

Happy new year 2026 #glycotime! 🥳 We just introduced some useful options to Re-Glyco Ensemble. In the Advanced Settings you can now select a seed (positive integer) to reproduce structural ensemble of your favourite glycoforms such as the one below that you will see soon in an upcoming paper,

Structure of a protein (cyan/teal) rendered as surface with 50 frames representing the dynamic ensemble of the glycans (white surface and sticks) depicted at the three sites (N93, N99 and N104) indicated by the 2D SNFG symbols and corresponding GlyTouCan IDs. Graphic rendering with VMD

Happy birthday to us! 🥂🎂🥳 We are only 2 yo, but so much #glycotime happened since Dec 2023! ⬇️🧵 We truly appreciate your support, you fabulous glycoengineers around the world and we have so many exciting new tools for you coming up in 2026 to make your 3D glycoforms even better and faster! 🤩

Christmas wreath obtained by photoshop (gimp.org) of a protein structure with glycans in white rebuilt with Re-Glyco, protein in orange surface, red beads and green cartoons from PDB 8DLO

Super interesting work from @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social group about the effects of glycosylation in protein structure and function at the proteome scale 🤯💥🤩 Results show that sialylation and fucosylation are crucial, which makes a lot of sense. We did some extra bits 🧐 with GlycoShape ⬇️🧵

Carolyn Bertozzi@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 10mo ago

Congratulations former postdoc @jfhevler.bsky.social (in transit to Roche) and the team on their work using thermal proteome profiling along with glycosylation perturbagens to discover glycan-dependent protein functions at the proteome scale 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...