The observation of multivalent complexes of Shiga-like toxin with globotriaoside and the determination of their stoichiometry by nanoelectrospray Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry.

abstract：:Galectin-3 is a galactose-binding lectin that has been found in several mammalian tissues. Galectin-3 gene is expressed in a wide range of normal and tumoral cells. In the case of myeloid cells, its expression correlates with the differentiation of monocytes to macrophages. In the case of cancer cell lines, its expres...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Gaudin JC,Arar C,Monsigny M,Legrand A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta1-6 GlcNAc branching, a product of N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase V (GnT-V), is a key structure that is associated with malignant transformations and cancer metastasis. Although a number of reports concerning tumor metastasis-related glycoproteins that contain beta1-6 GlcNAc branching have appeared, the precise f...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ihara S,Miyoshi E,Nakahara S,Sakiyama H,Ihara H,Akinaga A,Honke K,Dickson RB,Lin CY,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrophy is central to several heart diseases; however, not much is known about the role of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) in this phenotype. Since GSLs have been accorded several physiological functions, we sought to determine whether these compounds affect cardiac hypertrophy. By using a rat cardiomyoblast cell line, ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Mishra S,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramide is a pivotal molecule in signal transduction and an essential structural component of the epidermal permeability barrier. The epidermis is marked by a high concentration of ceramide and by a unique spectrum of ceramide species: Besides the two ceramide structures commonly found in mammalian tissue, N-acylsphi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Vielhaber G,Brade L,Lindner B,Pfeiffer S,Wepf R,Hintze U,Wittern KP,Brade H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic-acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectins (Siglecs) are a family of transmembrane receptors that are well documented to play roles in regulation of innate and adaptive immune responses. To see whether the features that define the molecular recognition of sialic acid were found in other sialic-acid-binding protei...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Rademacher C,Bru T,McBride R,Robison E,Nycholat CM,Kremer EJ,Paulson JC

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-antigen (O-polysaccharide), a part of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, is one of the most variable cell constituents and is related to bacterial virulence. O-antigen diversity is almost entirely due to genetic variations in O-antigen gene clusters. In this study, the O-polysaccharide structures of Salmo...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Liu B,Perepelov AV,Svensson MV,Shevelev SD,Guo D,Senchenkova SN,Shashkov AS,Weintraub A,Feng L,Widmalm G,Knirel YA,Wang L

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transplantation of organs from lower animals such as pigs into humans is prevented by a severe rejection reaction initiated by complement fixing xenoreactive natural antibodies. Most anti-pig xenoreactive natural antibodies in humans are thought to recognize Gal alpha 1-3Gal beta 1-4GlcNAc and are also thought to ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Parker W,Lateef J,Everett ML,Platt JL

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：:A large family of UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide GalNAc transferases (ppGalNAc-Ts) initiates and defines sites of mucin-type Ser/Thr-O-GalNAc glycosylation. Family members have been classified into peptide- and glycopeptide-preferring subfamilies, although both families possess variable activities against glycopeptide substra...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Revoredo L,Wang S,Bennett EP,Clausen H,Moremen KW,Jarvis DL,Ten Hagen KG,Tabak LA,Gerken TA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several tri- to hexasaccharide-alditols of the jelly coat surrounding the eggs of Bufo bufo were studied by methylation analysis, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and 1H-NMR spectroscopy. As observed for six other amphibian species, these carbohydrate chains are highly species-specific. The main characteristics of the spe...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Morelle W,Strecker G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of a protective cyst wall by Giardia is essential for the survival of the parasite outside the host intestine and for transmission among susceptible hosts. The structure of the G. intestinalis filamentous cyst wall was studied by chemical methods, mass spectrometry, and (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectro...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Gerwig GJ,van Kuik JA,Leeflang BR,Kamerling JP,Vliegenthart JF,Karr CD,Jarroll EL

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer-associated glycan structures can be both tumor markers and engines of disease progression. The structure Siaα2,6Galβ1,4GlcNAc (Sia6LacNAc), synthesized by sialyltransferase ST6GAL1, is a cancer-associated glycan. Although ST6GAL1/Sia6LacNAc are often overexpressed in colorectal cancer (CRC), their biological an...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Venturi G,Gomes Ferreira I,Pucci M,Ferracin M,Malagolini N,Chiricolo M,Dall'Olio F

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNAs that encode the 70 kDa C-terminal portion of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP-1), with or without an N-terminal signal peptide sequence and C-terminal glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) signal sequence of MSP-1, were expressed in mammalian cell lines via recombinant vaccinia virus. The ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Yang S,Nikodem D,Davidson EA,Gowda DC

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Man9-alpha-mannosidase, responsible for trimming Man9GlcNAc2 in the endoplasmic reticulum to Man8GlcNAc2, the substrate for oligosaccharide elongation, has been purified to homogeneity from stabilized microsomal membranes without employing autolytic digestion. The activity was solubilized by t...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ziegler FD,Trimble RB

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalose synthase (TreS) catalyzes the reversible conversion of maltose into trehalose in mycobacteria as one of three biosynthetic pathways to this nonreducing disaccharide. Given the importance of trehalose to survival of mycobacteria, there has been considerable interest in understanding the enzymes involved in it...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Caner S,Nguyen N,Aguda A,Zhang R,Pan YT,Withers SG,Brayer GD

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a method of simultaneously quantifying glucosylceramide (GlcCer) and galactosylceramide (GalCer) by normal-phase HPLC using O-phtalaldehyde derivatives. Treatment with sphingolipid ceramide N-deacylase which converts the cerebrosides in the sample to their lyso-forms was followed by the quantitative lab...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Zama K,Hayashi Y,Ito S,Hirabayashi Y,Inoue T,Ohno K,Okino N,Ito M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol is described for uniform 13C labelling of terminal galactose residues of the glycan chains of glycoproteins, using an enzymatic method which does not perturb the protein. The technique is illustrated by application to the biantennary N-linked glycan chains attached at Asn 297 of immunoglobulin G (IgG). Isot...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Gilhespy-Muskett AM,Partridge J,Jefferis R,Homans SW

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:Blood dendritic cell antigen 2 (BDCA-2) is a C-type lectin found on the surface of plasmacytoid dendritic cells. It functions as a glycan-binding receptor that downregulates the production of type I interferons and thus plays a role in oligosaccharide-mediated immunomodulation. The carbohydrate recognition domain in B...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kim JW,Budzak J,Liu Y,Jégouzo SAF,Drickamer K,Taylor ME

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed structural and functional studies over the last decade have led to current recognition of the mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan (LAM) as a phosphatidylinositol anchored lipoglycan with diverse biological activities. Fatty acylation has been demonstrated to be essential for LAM to maintain its functional integri...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Chatterjee D,Khoo KH

更新日期：1998-02-01 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 evolutionarily conserved Notch signaling pathway plays broad and important roles during embryonic development and in adult tissue homeostasis. Unlike most other pathways used during animal development, Notch signaling does not rely on second messengers and intracellular signaling cascades. Instead, pathway activat...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Jafar-Nejad H,Leonardi J,Fernandez-Valdivia R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exciting discoveries in many diverse fields of hyaluronan (HA) biology over the last 40 years have centered around the ability of HA to bind cell surface HA receptors (e.g., CD44, Layilin, LYVE-1, HARE/Stab2 and RHAMM) and sometimes also to activate intracellular signal transduction pathways, frequently involving ERK1...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Weigel PH

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 165 amino acid form of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF165) is a heparin-binding growth factor with mitogenic activity for vascular endothelial cells. We examined activities of various heparin derivatives toward their interactions with VEGF165 using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and elucidated the s...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ono K,Hattori H,Takeshita S,Kurita A,Ishihara M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) transporters (GATs) have long been recognized for their key role in the uptake of neurotransmitters. The GAT1 belongs to the family of Na(+)- and Cl(-)-coupled transport proteins, which possess 12 putative transmembrane (TM) domains and three N-glycosylation sites on the extracellular lo...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Hu J,Fei J,Reutter W,Fan H

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ganglioside GM3 (Siaα2-3Galβ1-4Glcβ1-1Cer) has been known to participate in insulin signaling by regulating the association of the insulin receptor in caveolae microdomains (lipid rafts), which is essential for the execution of the complete insulin metabolic signaling in adipocytes. Macrophage-secreted factors includi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nagafuku M,Sato T,Sato S,Shimizu K,Taira T,Inokuchi J

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:The high-molecular-mass salivary mucin MG1, one of two major mucins produced by human salivary glands, plays an important role in oral health by coating the tooth surface and by acting as a bacterial receptor. Here this mucin was purified from the submandibular/sublingual saliva of a blood group O individual. The pres...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Thomsson KA,Prakobphol A,Leffler H,Reddy MS,Levine MJ,Fisher SJ,Hansson GC

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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