Identification of an endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase gene in Caenorhabditis elegans and its expression in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Mammalian alpha1,6-fucosyltransferase (FUT8) catalyses the transfer of a fucose residue from a donor substrate, guanosine 5'-diphosphate-beta-L-fucose to the reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) of the core structure of an asparagine-linked oligosaccharide. Alpha1,6-fucosylation, also referred to as core fuc...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ihara H,Ikeda Y,Toma S,Wang X,Suzuki T,Gu J,Miyoshi E,Tsukihara T,Honke K,Matsumoto A,Nakagawa A,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the fertilization behavior of Xenopus borealis from X. laevis and X. tropicalis suggest differences in the glycosylation of the egg jellies. To test this assumption, O-linked glycans were chemically released from the egg jelly coat glycoproteins of X. borealis. Over 50 major neutral glycans were observe...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Li B,Russell SC,Zhang J,Hedrick JL,Lebrilla CB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the controversy regarding the importance of protein N-linked glycosylation in species of the genus Plasmodium, genes potentially encoding core subunits of the oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) complex have already been characterized in completely sequenced genomes of malaria parasites. Nevertheless, the currentl...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Tamana S,Promponas VJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the O-antigen polysaccharide (PS) of Escherichia coli O115 has been investigated using a combination of component analysis and 1D and 2D nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy experiments. The repeating unit of the O-antigen was elucidated using the O-deacetylated PS and has the following branc...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Fontana C,Ramström K,Weintraub A,Widmalm G

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-8 (gal-8) is a "tandem-repeat"-type galectin, containing two carbohydrate recognition domains connected by a linker peptide. gal-8 is expressed both in the cytoplasm and nucleus in vascular endothelial cells (ECs) from normal and tumor-associated blood vessels, and in lymphatic endothelial cells. Herein, we d...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Troncoso MF,Ferragut F,Bacigalupo ML,Cárdenas Delgado VM,Nugnes LG,Gentilini L,Laderach D,Wolfenstein-Todel C,Compagno D,Rabinovich GA,Elola MT

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type A Pasteurella multocida, an animal pathogen, employs a hyaluronan [HA] capsule to avoid host defenses. PmHAS, the 972-residue membrane-associated hyaluronan synthase, catalyzes the transfer of both GlcNAc and GlcUA to form the HA polymer. To define the catalytic and membrane-associated domains, pmHAS mutants were...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Jing W,DeAngelis PL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the complex mixture of the core oligosaccharide components of the lipooligosaccharide (LOS) fraction of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain TT111 was determined directly on the deacetylated products by means of spectroscopical methods. The rhamnan oligosaccharide elongating the inner Kdo residue shares s...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： De Castro C,Carannante A,Lanzetta R,Liparoti V,Molinaro A,Parrilli M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two kinds of molecules, one recognizing the sialo-/asialo-N-acetyllactosamine structures and the other recognizing the Lewis X structure in a divalent cation-independent manner, were detected on the head of boar sperm prepared from cauda epididymis by fluorescence-labeled or biotinylated dextran-based multivalent olig...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Yoshitani N,Mori E,Takasaki S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection of diploid human fibroblasts (HEL) results in neo-expression of Lewis antigens sialyl Lewis x (sLe(x)) and Lewis y (Le(y)), respectively, after transcriptional activation of different combinations of dormant human fucosyltra...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nyström K,Nordén R,Muylaert I,Elias P,Larson G,Olofsson S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparan sulfate/heparin N-deacetylase/N-sulfotransferase-1 (NDST-1) is a critical enzyme involved in heparan sulfate/heparin biosynthesis. This dual-function enzyme modifies the GlcNAc-GlcA disaccharide repeating sugar backbone to make N-sulfated heparosan. N-sulfation is an absolute requirement for the subsequent epi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Saribaş AS,Mobasseri A,Pristatsky P,Chen X,Barthelson R,Hakes D,Wang J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although members of the serine (S)- and arginine (R)-rich splicing factor family (SR proteins) were initially purified on the basis of their splicing activity in the nucleus, there is recent documentation that they exhibit carbohydrate-binding activity at the cell surface. In contrast, galectins were isolated on the b...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Haudek KC,Patterson RJ,Wang JL

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat liver sinusoidal endothelial cell (LEC) hyaluronan (HA) receptor was previously identified using a photoaffinity HA derivative (J. Biol. Chem., 267, 20451-20456, 1992). Two polypeptides with M(r) = 175,000 and 166,000, were consistently crosslinked, suggesting that the LEC HA receptor is an oligomer. Whether o...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Yannariello-Brown J,Zhou B,Weigel PH

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin/heparan sulfates (H/HS) are ubiquitous biopolymers that interact with many proteins to induce a range of biological functions. Unfortunately, how these biopolymers recognize their preferred protein targets remain poorly understood. It is suggested that computational simulations offer attractive avenues but a n...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nagarajan B,Sankaranarayanan NV,Desai UR

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid alpha-mannosidase of Trypanosoma cruzi is a broad-specificity hydrolase involved in the catabolism of glycoconjugates, presumably in the digestive vacuole. We have cloned the alpha-mannosidase gene from a T.cruzi epimastigote genomic library. The alpha-mannosidase gene was determined to be single copy by Sout...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Vandersall-Nairn AS,Merkle RK,O'Brien K,Oeltmann TN,Moremen KW

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to sialic acid, bacteria produce several other nonulosonic acids, including legionaminic acid (Leg). This has exactly the same stereochemistry as sialic acid, with the added features of 9-deoxy and 7-amino groups. In order to explore the biological effects of replacing sialic acid residues (Neu5Ac) in glyc...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Watson DC,Leclerc S,Wakarchuk WW,Young NM

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Glycomics-an integrated approach to study structure-function relationships of complex carbohydrates (or glycans)-is an emerging field in this age of post-genomics. Realizing the importance of glycomics, many large scale research initiatives have been established to generate novel resources and technologies to advance ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Raman R,Venkataraman M,Ramakrishnan S,Lang W,Raguram S,Sasisekharan R

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：: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 detailed structures of N- glycans derived from bile salt-stimulated lipase (BSSL) found in human milk were determined by combining exoglycosidase digestion with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The N- glycan structures were conclusively determined in terms of complexity...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Mechref Y,Chen P,Novotny MV

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOS) are not digested in the proximal intestine. In distal intestine, HMOS collectively modify the microbiota, but the response of individual bacteria to individual components of the HMOS is not well defined. Here, each of 25 major isolates of the human intestinal microbiota was fed indiv...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Yu ZT,Chen C,Newburg DS

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Gangliosides are able to bind to the epidermal growth factor receptor and inhibit its activation, but the mechanism of this inhibition is unknown. To address the role of receptor carbohydrates in facilitating interaction with gangliosides, we examined the ability of GM3 to bind the deglycosylated receptor and inhibit ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Wang XQ,Sun P,O'Gorman M,Tai T,Paller AS

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the alg2 mutation causes temperature-sensitive growth and abnormal accumulation of the lipid-linked oligosaccharide Man2GlcNAc2-PP-Dol (Jackson et al., Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 272, 203-209, 1989; Huffaker and Robbins, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 80, 7466-7470, 1983). A gene havi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Jackson BJ,Kukuruzinska MA,Robbins P

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of Galalpha1-3Gal-terminated oligosaccharides (alpha-Gal) epitopes has been interrupted during the course of evolution, starting with Old World primates. Partial sequences similar to the alpha1,3-galactosyltransferase (alpha1,3GalT) gene, which governs the synthesis of alpha-Gal epitopes, have been detec...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lantéri M,Giordanengo V,Vidal F,Gaudray P,Lefebvre JC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a monoclonal antibody (R-10G) specific to human induced pluripotent stem (hiPS)/embryonic stem (hES) cells by using hiPS cells (Tic) as an antigen, followed by differential screening of mouse hybridomas with hiPS and human embryonal carcinoma (hEC) cells. Upon western blotting with R-10G, hiPS/ES cel...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kawabe K,Tateyama D,Toyoda H,Kawasaki N,Hashii N,Nakao H,Matsumoto S,Nonaka M,Matsumura H,Hirose Y,Morita A,Katayama M,Sakuma M,Kawasaki N,Furue MK,Kawasaki T

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Glycans from the nematode Haemonchus contortus (barber pole worm), a parasite of sheep and cattle, were the first to be described to possess up to three fucose residues associated with the N,N'-diacetylchitobiosyl core, two being on the reducing-terminal proximal GlcNAc and one on the distal core GlcNAc residue. The...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Paschinger K,Wilson IB

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catabolism of dermatan sulfate (DS) commences with endohydrolysis of the polysaccharide to oligosaccharides by proposed endo-beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase and endohexuronidase activities. To investigate the substrate specificities of these activities, we developed an assay to measure specific products of their actio...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nielsen TC,Meikle PJ,Hopwood JJ,Fuller M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans, an opportunistic fungal pathogen, produces a glycan capsule to evade the immune system during infection. This definitive virulence factor is composed mainly of complex polysaccharides, which are made in the secretory pathway by reactions that utilize activated nucleotide sugar precursors. Alth...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Li LX,Ashikov A,Liu H,Griffith CL,Bakker H,Doering TL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides attached to the antibody constant region (Fc) of human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) has been shown to affect the pharmacokinetics and antibody effector functions of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC). However, it i...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kanda Y,Yamada T,Mori K,Okazaki A,Inoue M,Kitajima-Miyama K,Kuni-Kamochi R,Nakano R,Yano K,Kakita S,Shitara K,Satoh M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00