Recent progress in glycopeptide synthesis

Glycoproteins have a fundamental role in many physiological and pathological processes. Glycopeptides, which retain the critical carboydrate-peptide linkage region of a glycoprotein, are much more amenable to study and are important models for glycoproteins. Strategy for generating glycopetide mimics with non-native sugar-peptide linkages have been recently described which use chemoselective ligation.