Structure and properties of the exopolysaccharide produced by Streptococcus macedonicus Sc136.

abstract：:We tested the importance of the aspartate-any residue-aspartate (DXD) motif for the enzymatic activity and nucleotide binding capacity of the Golgi glycosyltransferase GM2 synthase. We prepared point mutations of the motif, which is found in the sequence 352-VLWVDDDFV, and analyzed cells that stably expressed the muta...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Li J,Rancour DM,Allende ML,Worth CA,Darling DS,Gilbert JB,Menon AK,Young WW Jr

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig to human xenotransplantation is considered a possible solution to the prevailing chronic lack of human donor organs for allotransplantation. The Galalpha1,3Gal determinant is the major porcine xenogeneic epitope causing hyperacute rejection following human antibody binding and complement activation. In order to ch...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bäcker AE,Holgersson J,Samuelsson BE,Karlsson H

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apiose is a unique branched-chain pentose found principally in plants. It is a key component of structurally complex cell wall polysaccharides, as well as being present in a large number of naturally occurring secondary metabolites. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge on the...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Pičmanová M,Møller BL

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multivalency in lectins is a phenomenon that has been discussed at considerable length. The structural basis for the role of multivalency in garlic lectin has been investigated here through computational studies. Biochemical studies have shown that the binding affinity of garlic lectin for high mannose oligosaccharide...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ramachandraiah G,Chandra NR,Surolia A,Vijayan M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized galectin family proteins in adult tissues of Xenopus laevis and purified 14-kDa and 36-kDa proteins from the liver. The liver galectins showed comparable hemagglutination activities to those of mammalian galectins. Furthermore, we isolated five galectin cDNAs from a Xenopus liver library. These c...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Shoji H,Nishi N,Hirashima M,Nakamura T

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a recent explosion in the identification of neuromuscular diseases caused by mutations in genes that affect carbohydrate metabolism or protein glycosylation. A number of these findings relate to defects in the glycosylation of alpha dystroglycan. Alpha dystroglycan is an essential component of the dystr...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Martin PT,Freeze HH

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosphingolipids are expressed on the cell membrane and act as important factors in various events that occur across the plasma membrane. Lactosylceramide (LacCer) is synthesized from glucosylceramide and is a common precursor of various glycosphingolipids existing in whole body. Based on the enzyme purification, β1...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Tokuda N,Numata S,Li X,Nomura T,Takizawa M,Kondo Y,Yamashita Y,Hashimoto N,Kiyono T,Urano T,Furukawa K,Furukawa K

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human parasitic trematode Schistosoma mansoni has a complex life cycle that includes the freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata as intermediate host. Within each stage, the parasite synthesizes a wide array of glycoconjugates, exhibiting, in part, unique carbohydrate structures. In addition, the parasite expresses...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lehr T,Geyer H,Maass K,Doenhoff MJ,Geyer R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of unusual and rare carbohydrates were tested as potential inhibitors of various glycosidases, as well as inhibitors of N-linked oligosaccharide processing. The best inhibitors of several arylglycosidases and of glucosidase I were L-xylulose and L-fructose. Both of these sugars showed some inhibitory activity...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Muniruzzaman S,Pan YT,Zeng Y,Atkins B,Izumori K,Elbein AD

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of the common and well-documented Siaalpha 2,6 to Galbeta 1,4GlcNAc structure (Sia6LacNAc) is principally mediated by the sialyltransferase ST6Gal I, which is particularly highly expressed in liver, lactating mammary gland, intestinal epithelia of newborn animals, and B cells. Multiple independent promot...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Appenheimer MM,Huang RY,Chandrasekaran EV,Dalziel M,Hu YP,Soloway PD,Wuensch SA,Matta KL,Lau JT

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation of exponentially growing breast cancer cells (line Hs578T) was blocked specifically in G1 by 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl Coenzyme A (HMG CoA) reductase inhibition, as well as by inhibition of N-linked glycosylation. As a consequence of these inhibitory conditions, the cells were synchronized in the G1 sta...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Larsson O

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse gene knockout studies have provided unimpeachable evidence of immune-relevant functions for several sialyltransferase enzymes including ST6Gal I, ST3Gal I, and ST3Gal IV. Such studies cannot, however, identify cellular mechanisms for regulating such activities. In this article we provide evidence that murine B l...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Marino JH,Hoffman M,Meyer M,Miller KS

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the presence of higher gangliosides correlates with systematic metastasis. Disialosyl globopentaosylceramide (DSGb5) was identified previously as one of the major gangliosides from RCC tissues. Siglec-7 (sialic acid-binding Ig-like lectin-7), expressed on natural killer (NK) cells as an ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kawasaki Y,Ito A,Withers DA,Taima T,Kakoi N,Saito S,Arai Y

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Trefoil lectins are galactose/N-acetyl galactosamine specific lectins, which are widely distributed across all kingdoms of life and are known to perform several important functions. However, there is no report available on the characterization of these lectins from protozoans. We have performed structural and biophy...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Khan F,Kurre D,Suguna K

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of HNK-1 carbohydrate is mainly regulated by two glucuronyltransferases (GlcAT-P and GlcAT-S) and a sulfotransferase (HNK-1 ST). To determine how the two glucuronyltransferases are involved in the biosynthesis of the HNK-1 carbohydrate, we prepared soluble forms of GlcAT-P and GlcAT-S fused with the I...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kakuda S,Sato Y,Tonoyama Y,Oka S,Kawasaki T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endolysins are bacteriophage enzymes that lyse their bacterial host for phage progeny release. They commonly contain an N-terminal catalytic domain that hydrolyzes bacterial peptidoglycan (PG) and a C-terminal cell wall-binding domain (CBD) that confers enzyme localization to the PG substrate. Two endolysins, phage ly...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ganguly J,Low LY,Kamal N,Saile E,Forsberg LS,Gutierrez-Sanchez G,Hoffmaster AR,Liddington R,Quinn CP,Carlson RW,Kannenberg EL

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trehalose-P synthase was purified to near homogeneity from the cytoplasmic fraction of Mycobacterium smegmatis. At the final stage of purification, the enzyme preparation showed one major band of 59 kDa on SDS gels. The 59 kDa band became labeled with N3-UDP[32P]-glucose, and this labeling was inhibited in a conce...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Pan YT,Drake RR,Elbein AD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycobiology of the cestodes, a class of parasitic flatworms, is still largely unexplored. An important cestode species is Echinococcus granulosus, the tissue-dwelling larval stage of which causes hydatid disease. The E. granulosus larva is protected from the host by a massive mucin-based extracellular matrix term...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lin G,Todeschini AR,Koizumi A,Neves JL,González H,Dematteis S,Hada N,Previato JO,Ferreira F,Mendonça-Previato L,Díaz A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural human interferon (IFN)-gamma has mainly biantennary complex-type sugar chains and scarcely has multiantennary structures. We attempted to remodel the sugar chain structures using IFN-gamma as a model glycoprotein. To obtain the branching glycoforms of IFN-gamma, we introduced the genes for GnT-IV (UDP-N-acetyl...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Fukuta K,Abe R,Yokomatsu T,Kono N,Asanagi M,Omae F,Minowa MT,Takeuchi M,Makino T

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that the mannose-binding lectins, namely banana lectin (BL) and garlic lectin (GL), interacted with the insulin receptors on M210B4 cells--an established mesenchymal cell line of murine marrow origin--and initiate mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK)-dependent extracellular signa...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bajaj M,Hinge A,Limaye LS,Gupta RK,Surolia A,Kale VP

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificities of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) modification enzymes, particularly sulfotransferases, and the locations and concentrations of these enzymes in the Golgi apparatus give rise to the mature GAG polysaccharides that bind protein ligands. We studied the substrate specificities of sulfotransferases with a stabl...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Shi X,Shao C,Mao Y,Huang Y,Wu ZL,Zaia J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a glycoprotein secreted by prostate epithelial cells. PSA is currently used as a marker of prostate carcinoma because high levels of PSA are indicative of a tumor situation. However, PSA tests still suffer from a lack of specificity to distinguish between benign prostate hyperplasia ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Peracaula R,Tabarés G,Royle L,Harvey DJ,Dwek RA,Rudd PM,de Llorens R

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartic protease, widely used as a milk-coagulating agent in industrial cheese production, contains three potential N-glycosylation sites. In this study, we report the characterization of N-linked oligosaccharides on recombinant aspartic protease secreted from the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris using a combinat...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Montesino R,Nimtz M,Quintero O,García R,Falcón V,Cremata JA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal maturation can be influenced by intrinsic factors (glucocorticoid hormones) and by extrinsic factors (resident microflora); their relative roles in ontogeny of mouse intestinal trehalase expression, a marker of general gut development, and of beta1,4-galactosyltransferase (beta GT), a marker of glycosyltran...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nanthakumar NN,Dai D,Meng D,Chaudry N,Newburg DS,Walker WA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deletion of the protein mannosyltransferase 1 gene (PMT1) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae results in viable cells. O-Mannosylation of proteins is reduced to about half of the value in comparison to wild-type cells. In order to distinguish between the the PMT1 gene product (= Pmt1p) and residual transferase activity, a...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Gentzsch M,Strahl-Bolsinger S,Tanner W

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) is a leading cause of bacterial meningitis and sepsis. A key feature in pathogenicity is the capsular polysaccharide (CPS) that prevents complement activation and thus supports bacterial survival in the host. Twelve serogroups characterized by immunologically and structurally different CPSs...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Fiebig T,Berti F,Freiberger F,Pinto V,Claus H,Romano MR,Proietti D,Brogioni B,Stummeyer K,Berger M,Vogel U,Costantino P,Gerardy-Schahn R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At weaning, the intestinal mucosa surface glycans change from predominantly sialylated to fucosylated. Intestinal adaptation from milk to solid food is regulated by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The contribution by glucocorticoid, an intrinsic factor, and colonization by microbiota, an extrinsic factor, was measure...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nanthakumar NN,Meng D,Newburg DS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human noroviruses (HuNoV), members of the family Caliciviridae, are the major cause of acute viral gastroenteritis worldwide. Successful infection is linked to the ability of the protruding (P) domain of the viral capsid to bind histo-blood group antigens (HBGA). Binding to gangliosides plays a major role for many non...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Wegener H,Mallagaray Á,Schöne T,Peters T,Lockhauserbäumer J,Yan H,Uetrecht C,Hansman GS,Taube S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present two complementary strategies for enrichment of glycoproteins on living cells that combine the desirable attributes of "robust enrichment" afforded by covalent-labeling techniques and "specificity for glycoproteins" typically provided by lectin or antibody affinity reagents. Our strategy invol...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ramya TN,Weerapana E,Cravatt BF,Paulson JC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show here that cell surface glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are involved in the binding of stromal cell-derived factor (SDF)-1alpha to CD4(+)lymphoid CEM or monocytic U937 cells, inasmuch as pretreating the cells with heparitinase or chondroitinase inhibits SDF-1alpha binding by 40-41% and 31-35%, respectively. Soluble h...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Mbemba E,Gluckman JC,Gattegno L

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00