Galectin-3 is associated with prostasomes in human semen.

abstract：:The TF, Tn, and SiaTn glycotopes are frequently expressed in cancer-associated mucins. Antibodies to these glycotopes were found in human serum. A set of polyacrylamide (PAA)--based glycoconjugates was applied to the direct and competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) to characterize the specificity of s...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Smorodin EP,Kurtenkov OA,Sergeyev BL,Pazynina GV,Bovin NV

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that murine resident peritoneal macrophages (PEMs) are activated in response to uptake of oligomannose-coated liposomes (OMLs), leading to production of interleukin (IL)-12. To understand the mechanism of activation of PEMs by OMLs, in the present study we investigated the role of a mannose-bi...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kato C,Kojima N

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acids bearing glycans of various structures have been under vigorous investigation in the past decade. The carbohydrate moieties of such complexes can serve as recognition sites for carbohydrate-binding proteins-lectins-and initiate receptor-mediated endocytosis. Therefore, carbohydrates can enhance cell targe...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Yan H,Tram K

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reveal the function of the carbohydrate portion of glycopeptides and glycoproteins, we chemo-enzymatically synthesized artificially N-glycosylated derivatives of eel calcitonin and studied their three-dimensional structure and biological activity. The CD and NMR spectra in trifluoroethanol-H(2)O solution showed tha...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Tagashira M,Tanaka A,Hisatani K,Isogai Y,Hori M,Takamatsu S,Fujibayashi Y,Yamamoto K,Haneda K,Inazu T,Toma K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human β-1,4-galactosyltransferase (β-1,4-GalT) V was shown to be involved in the biosynthesis of N-glycans, O-glycans and lactosylceramide (Lac-Cer) by in vitro studies. To determine its substrate specificity, enzymatic activity and its products were analyzed using mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells from β-1,4-Gal...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kumagai T,Sato T,Natsuka S,Kobayashi Y,Zhou D,Shinkai T,Hayakawa S,Furukawa K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses the challenges involved in the characterization of the glycosylation of therapeutic glycoproteins. The focus is on methods that are most commonly used in regulatory filings and lot release testing of therapeutic glycoproteins. The different types of assays for carbohydrate analysis are reviewed, ...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Higgins E

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA from four colorectal carcinoma cell lines was prepared and analysed in Northern blots using probes for the MUC2, MUC4, and MUC5AC mucin apoprotein genes. The sizes of the transcripts were very large, in the order of at least 12-16 kb. The presence of distinct bands is in contrast to earlier reports, where these tr...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Baeckström D,Hansson GC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious disease, commonly caused by bacterial pathogens, is now the world's leading cause of premature death and third overall cause behind cardiovascular disease and cancer. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), caused by E. coli bacteria, is a very common bacterial infection, a majority in women (85%) and may result in ...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Basu M,Seggerson S,Henshaw J,Jiang J,del A Cordona R,Lefave C,Boyle PJ,Miller A,Pugia M,Basu S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stage-specific embryonic antigen-4 (SSEA-4), a specific marker for pluripotent stem cells, plays an important role in the malignant behavior of several cancers. Here, SSEA-4 expression was evaluated by immunohistochemistry using monoclonal antibody RM1 specific to SSEA-4 in 181 and 117 prostate cancer (PC) specimens o...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Nakamura Y,Miyata Y,Matsuo T,Shida Y,Hakariya T,Ohba K,Taima T,Ito A,Suda T,Hakomori SI,Saito S,Sakai H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of the sialic acid-binding lectin from ovine placenta was examined in detail by haemagglutination inhibition assays applying a panel of 32 synthetic sialic acid analogues. The carboxylic acid group is a prerequisite for the interaction with the lectin, the alpha-anomer of the methyl glycoside is only a...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Troncoso MF,Iglesias MM,Isecke R,Todel CW,Brossmer R

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-glycan moiety of ascorbic acid oxidase from zucchini (Cucurbita pepo) has been described to be a core-pentasaccharide with a xylose [D'Andrea et al. (1988) Glycoconjugate J 5:151-7]. Ascorbic acid oxidase is sometimes used to characterize antibodies directed against carbohydrate determinants on plant glycoprotei...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Altmann F

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel glycosphingolipid, SEGLx (Galbeta1-4(Fucalpha1-3)Glcbeta1-3GalbetaCer), which was identified by us (Kawakami Y, et al. (1993) J Biochem 114: 677-83), shows a characteristic spectrum on 1H-NMR analysis, in which the anomeric proton resonances of a reducing end galactose and a glucose are split. To elucidate t...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kawakami J,Kawakami Y,Nakamura K,Kojima H,Ito S,Tamai Y

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maackia amurensis haemagglutinin (MAH) is a leguminous lectin which preferentially binds to a cluster of sialylated O-linked carbohydrate chains (Konami Y, Yamamoto K. Osawa T, Irimura T (1994) FEBS Lett 342:334-38). In the present study a 950 bp cDNA clone encoding MAH was isolated from a cDNA library constructed fro...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Yamamoto K,Ishida C,Saito M,Konami Y,Osawa T,Irimura T

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen-requiring enzymes, such as Δ4-desaturase (dihydroceramide desaturase), sphingolipid Δ4-desaturase/C-4-hydroxylase, and fatty acid 2-hydroxylase are involved in ceramide synthesis. We prepared free ceramides, sphingomyelins and glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from cancer cells cultivated under conditions of normoxia a...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Tanaka K,Tamiya-Koizumi K,Yamada M,Murate T,Kannagi R,Kyogashima M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A straight forward synthesis of a heptasaccharide part of the cell-wall lipopolysaccharide of Mycobacterium gordonae strain 990, known to have antigenicity, has been achieved in excellent yield. Judicious choice of protecting groups in the intermediates played a significant role throughout the synthesis. Most of the i...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Panchadhayee R,Kumar Misra A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Gb3/CD77 synthase (α1,4-galactosyltransferase) is the only known glycosyltransferase that changes acceptor specificity because of a point mutation. The enzyme, encoded by A4GALT locus, is responsible for biosynthesis of Gal(α1-4)Gal moiety in Gb3 (CD77, Pk antigen) and P1 glycosphingolipids. We showed before tha...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kaczmarek R,Mikolajewicz K,Szymczak K,Duk M,Majorczyk E,Krop-Watorek A,Buczkowska A,Czerwinski M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycation (nonenzymatic glycosylation) in the human lens (cortex and nucleus) in senile (nondiabetic) and diabetic cataracts was studied by measuring the extent of early and late glycation products, the content of free epsilon-amino groups and the formation of disulfide bonds in the soluble lens proteins. There was a ...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Duhaiman AS

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide sugar transporters play critical roles in glycosylation of proteins, lipids and proteoglycans, which are essential for organogenesis, development, mammalian cellular immunity and pathogenicity of human pathogenic agents. Functional deficiencies of these transporters result in global defects of glycoconjugat...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Liu L,Hirschberg CB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UDP-GlcNAc:alpha6-D-mannoside beta1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II (GnT II; EC 2.4.1.143) is a medial-Golgi resident enzyme that catalyses an essential step in the biosynthetic pathway leading from high mannose to complex N-linked oligosaccharides. Screening a cDNA library from Xenopus laevis ovary with a human ...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Mucha J,Svoboda B,Kappel S,Strasser R,Bencur P,Fröhwein U,Schachter H,Mach L,Glössl J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eggs from Amphibia are surrounded by several layers of jelly that are needed for proper fertilization. Jelly coat is composed of highly glycosylated mucin-type glycoproteins containing up to 60% of carbohydrates, which display a remarkable species-specificity. This material obtained from Triturus alpestris was submitt...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Florea D,Maes E,Guérardel Y,Page A,Zanetta JP,Cogalniceanu D,Strecker G

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional structures of the natural substrate unit for the enzyme N-acetylglucosamine-transferase II, GIcNAc-Man3-GlcNAc2, were investigated by molecular modelling methods. Molecular dynamics (MD) and molecular mechanics calculations on two hexasaccharides, namely GlcNAc-Man3-GlcNAc2-Asn and GlcNAc-Man3-GlcNAc...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kozar T,Tvaroska I,Carver JP

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of our ongoing program aimed at understanding the structural significance of GlcNAcβAsn linkage conserved in all eukaryotic N-glycoproteins, the present study reports on the synthesis and X-ray crystal structures of N-(3-deoxy-3-acetamido-β-D-glycopyranosyl)acetamide (Glc3NAcβNHAc) and the corresponding propio...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Mathiselvam M,Varghese B,Loganathan D

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural diversity and localization of cell surface glycosphingolipids (GSLs), including gangliosides, in glycolipid-enriched microdomains (GEMs, also known as lipid rafts) render them ideally suited to play important roles in mediating intercellular recognition, interactions, adhesion, receptor function, and si...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Itokazu Y,Tsai YT,Yu RK

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian sulfoglycolipids are comprised of two major members, sulfatide (SO(3)-3Gal-ceramide) and seminolipid (SO(3)-3Gal-alkylacylglycerol). Sulfatide is abundant in the myelin sheath and seminolipid is expressed on the spermatogenic cells. Cerebroside sulfotransferase (CST)-deficient mice generated by gene targetin...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Honke K,Zhang Y,Cheng X,Kotani N,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between Urtica dioica agglutinin (UDA) and N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and its beta(1-4)-linked oligomers was studied by fluorescence titration and isothermal titration microcalorimetry. UDA possesses one significant binding site that can be measured calorimetrically. This site is composed of three su...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Lee RT,Gabius HJ,Lee YC

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rare N-unsubstituted glucosamine (GlcNH (3)(+)) residues in heparan sulfate (HS) have important biological and pathophysiological roles. However, it is difficult to prepare naturally-occuring, GlcNH(3)(+)-containing oligosaccharides from HS because of their low abundance, as well as the inherent problems in both e...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Wei Z,Deakin JA,Blaum BS,Uhrín D,Gallagher JT,Lyon M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-Glycopyranosyl-N-hydroxysuccinimides of glucose and lactose have been synthesized. Peracetylated sugars, acetobromo sugars and benzoylated thioethyl glycosides have been used as precursors. With boron trifluoride etherate in dichloromethane, peracetylated sugars gave predominantly the beta anomer. Trimethylsilyl tri...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Andersson M,Oscarson S

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fucosylated oligosaccharides have an important role in maintaining a healthy immune system and homeostatic gut microflora. This study employed a commercial β-galactosidase in the production of fucose-containing galacto-oligosaccharides (fGOS) from lactose and fucose. The production was optimized using experiment desig...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Usvalampi A,Maaheimo H,Tossavainen O,Frey AD

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potato lectin (Solanum tuberosum agglutinin, STA) is an unusual glycoprotein containing approximately 50% carbohydrates by weight. Of the total carbohydrates, 92% is contributed by L: -arabinose, which are O-linked to hydroxyproline residues. The ferric chloride-orcinol assay (Bial's test), which is specific for pento...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Pramod SN,Venkatesh YP

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of fluorescent statistical glycopolymers, prepared via reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT)-based polymerizations, were successfully employed in lectin-mediated bacterial binding studies. The resultant glycopolymers contained three different monomers: N-(2-hydroxyethyl) acrylamide (HEAA), N-...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Wang W,Chance DL,Mossine VV,Mawhinney TP

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00