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(1)    Alteen, M. G.; Gros, C.; Meek, R. W.; Cardoso, D. A.; Busmann, J. A.; Sangouard, G.; Deen, M. C.; Tan, H.-Y.; Shen, D. L.; Russell, C. C.; Davies, G. J.; Robinson, P. J.; McCluskey, A.; Vocadlo, D. J. A Direct Fluorescent Activity Assay for Glycosyltransferases Enables Convenient High-Throughput Screening: Application to O-GlcNAc Transferase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020, 59 (24), 9601–9609. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000621.

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(7)    Challa, V. R.; Kwon, D.; Taron, M.; Fan, H.; Kang, B.; Wilson, D.; Haeckl, F. P. J.; Keerthisinghe, S.; Linington, R. G.; Britton, R. Total Synthesis of Biselide A. Chem. Sci. 2021, 12 (15), 5534–5543. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC06223E.

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(9)    Deen, M. C.; Proceviat, C.; Shan, X.; Wu, L.; Shen, D. L.; Davies, G. J.; Vocadlo, D. J. Selective Fluorogenic β-Glucocerebrosidase Substrates for Convenient Analysis of Enzyme Activity in Cell and Tissue Homogenates. ACS Chem. Biol. 2020, 15 (4), 824–829. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.9b01044.

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(19)  Zhu, Y.; Shan, X.; Safarpour, F.; Erro Go, N.; Li, N.; Shan, A.; Huang, M. C.; Deen, M.; Holicek, V.; Ashmus, R.; Madden, Z.; Gorski, S.; Silverman, M. A.; Vocadlo, D. J. Pharmacological Inhibition of O-GlcNAcase Enhances Autophagy in Brain through an mTOR-Independent Pathway. ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2018, 9 (6), 1366–1379. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00015.