High-resolution structural insights on the sugar-recognition and fusion tag properties of a versatile β-trefoil lectin domain from the mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus.

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：:Affinities of the human blood group glycosyltransferases, alpha-(1-->3)-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (GTA) and alpha-(1-->3)-galactosyltransferase (GTB) for their common acceptor substrate alpha-l-Fucp-(1-->2)-beta-d-Galp-O(CH2)(7)CH3 (1), in the absence and presence of bound uridine 5'-diphosphate (UDP) and Mn2+...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Shoemaker GK,Soya N,Palcic MM,Klassen JS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P3 is a mouse monoclonal antibody (mAb) that binds to several NeuGc-containing gangliosides. It also reacts with antigens expressed in human breast tumors (Vázquez et al. (1995) Hybridoma , 14, 551-556). In this work, the binding specificity of P3 has been characterized in more detail using a panel of glycolipids that...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Moreno E,Lanne B,Vázquez AM,Kawashima I,Tai T,Fernández LE,Karlsson KA,Angström J,Pérez R

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase-IV (GnT-IV) has two isoenzymes, GnT-IVa and GnT-IVb, which initiate the GlcNAcbeta1-4 branch synthesis on the Manalpha1-3 arm of the N-glycan core thereby increasing N-glycan branch complexity and conferring endogenous lectin binding epitopes. To elucidate the physiological significance...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Takamatsu S,Antonopoulos A,Ohtsubo K,Ditto D,Chiba Y,Le DT,Morris HR,Haslam SM,Dell A,Marth JD,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfated O-linked oligosaccharides from the sea urchin egg receptor have been shown to bind to acrosome-reacted sperm and to inhibit fertilization in a competitive bioassay. However, the inhibitory activity of these isolated chains was much lower than that of a recombinant protein representing a portion of the extrace...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Dhume ST,Stears RL,Lennarz WJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new method to co-localize multiple glycosyl transferases in different Golgi compartments. The approach relies on the proven ability of intact, sealed rat liver Golgi preparations to concentrate exogenous labeled sugar nucleotides into the lumen where they glycosylate either endogenous or artificial...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Etchison JR,Freeze HH

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoside hydrolases are particularly abundant in all areas of metabolism as they are involved in the degradation of natural polysaccharides and glycoconjugates. These enzymes are classified into 133 families (CAZy server, http://www.cazy.org) in which members of each family have a similar structure and catalytic mech...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： André-Miral C,Koné FM,Solleux C,Grandjean C,Dion M,Tran V,Tellier C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CMP-beta-N-acetylneuraminic acid (CMP-neuNAc) is the substrate for the sialylation of glycoconjugates by sialyltransferases in microbes and higher eukaryotes. CMP-neuNAc synthetase catalyzes the formation of this substrate, CMP-neuNAc, from CTP and neuNAc. In this report we describe the purification of CMP-neuNAc synt...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Vionnet J,Concepcion N,Warner T,Zapata G,Hanover J,Vann WF

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：: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

abstract：:We report the identification, molecular cloning, and characterization of an endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. A search of the C. elegans genome database revealed the existence of a gene exhibiting 34% identity to Mucor hiemalis (a fungus) endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase (End...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kato T,Fujita K,Takeuchi M,Kobayashi K,Natsuka S,Ikura K,Kumagai H,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endo-alpha-D-mannosidase is a processing enzyme which in contrast to other glycosidases involved in the trimming of N-linked oligosaccharides of glycoproteins acts at an internal position by cleaving the linkage between the glucose-substituted mannose and the internal portion of the polymannose unit and thereby provid...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Dairaku K,Spiro RG

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi expresses a unique trans-sialidase that is responsible for the transfer of sialic acid from host glycoproteins and glycolipids to mucin-like glycoprotein acceptors on the parasite surface. The enzyme and the sialic acid acceptors are present in the mammalian forms of the parasite and in the parasite ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Amino R,Serrano AA,Morita OM,Pereira-Chioccola VL,Schenkman S

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri is a gram-negative bacterium responsible for serious enteric infections that occur mainly in the terminal ileum and colon. High interest in Shigella, as a human pathogen, is driven by its antibiotic resistance and the necessity to develop a vaccine against its infections. Vaccines of the last generat...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Molinaro A,Silipo A,Castro CD,Sturiale L,Nigro G,Garozzo D,Bernardini ML,Lanzetta R,Parrilli M

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Alg3 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae catalyzes the mannosyl transfer from Man-P-Dol to Man(5)GlcNAc(2)-PP-Dol resulting in the formation of Man(6)GlcNAc(2)-PP-Dol, which is then further processed to the final precursor oligosaccharide Glc(3)Man(9)GlcNAc(2) for N-glycosylation of proteins. Here, we identified the alg3 gene...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Berends E,Lehle L,Henquet M,Hesselink T,Wösten HA,Lugones LG,Bosch D

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:All IgG-type antibodies are N-glycosylated in their Fc part at Asn-297. Typically, a fucose residue is attached to the first N-acetylglucosamine of these complex-type N-glycans. Antibodies lacking core fucosylation show a significantly enhanced antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and an increased effi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： von Horsten HH,Ogorek C,Blanchard V,Demmler C,Giese C,Winkler K,Kaup M,Berger M,Jordan I,Sandig V

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulphated N-linked carbohydrate chains isolated from recombinant human tissue plasminogen activator expressed in mouse epithelial (C127) cells were analysed as oligosaccharide alditols by methylation analysis, liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry, and one- and two-dimensional 1H-NMR spectroscopy. The results demonst...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Pfeiffer G,Stirm S,Geyer R,Strube KH,Bergwerff AA,Kamerling JP,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:Fucosylation of glycans on glycoproteins and -lipids requires the enzymatic activity of relevant fucosyltransferases and GDP-L-fucose as the donor. Due to the biological importance of fucosylated glycans, a readily accessible source of GDP-L-fucose would be required. Here we describe the construction of a stable recom...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Mattila P,Räbinä J,Hortling S,Helin J,Renkonen R

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The content of sulfated glycans having 6-O-sulfated GlcNAc residues alters in the course of colonic carcinogenesis. We previously characterized two GlcNAc 6-O-sulfotransferases (SulTs), SulT-a and -b, expressed in colonic normal tissues and adenocarcinomas [Seko et al. (2000) Glycobiology, 10, 919-929]. Levels of the ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Seko A,Nagata K,Yonezawa S,Yamashita K

更新日期：2002-06-01 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 interaction of heparan sulfate (HS) (and the closely related molecule heparin) with FGF-1 is a requirement for enabling the growth factor to activate its cell surface tyrosine kinase receptor. However, little is known about the regulatory role of naturally occurring cell surface HS in FGF-1 activation. We have add...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Pye DA,Vivès RR,Hyde P,Gallagher JT

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-Acetylglucuronoxylans (AcGX) in Arabidopsis thaliana carry acetyl residues on the 2-O and/or 3-O positions of the xylopyranosyl (Xylp) units, but the distribution of different O-acetylated Xylp units is partly unclear. We studied a possible correlation of xylan acetylation and the activities of different glycosyltra...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Chong SL,Virkki L,Maaheimo H,Juvonen M,Derba-Maceluch M,Koutaniemi S,Roach M,Sundberg B,Tuomainen P,Mellerowicz EJ,Tenkanen M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Glucans possess broad immunomodulatory properties, including activation of innate immune functions such as oxidative burst activity. The differential roles of complement receptor type 3 (CR3) and Dectin-1, the known β-glucan receptors, and their associated signaling pathways in the generation of oxidative burst indu...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bose N,Wurst LR,Chan AS,Dudney CM,LeRoux ML,Danielson ME,Will PM,Nodland SE,Patchen ML,Dalle Lucca JJ,Lebeda FJ,Vasilakos JP

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:The N-glycans of human serum transferrin produced in Trichopulsia ni cells were analyzed to examine N-linked oligosaccharide processing in insect cells. Metabolic radiolabeling of the intra- and extracellular protein fractions revealed the presence of multiple transferrin glycoforms with molecular weights lower than t...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ailor E,Takahashi N,Tsukamoto Y,Masuda K,Rahman BA,Jarvis DL,Lee YC,Betenbaugh MJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infects over half of the world's population and is thought to be a leading cause of gastric ulcer, gastric carcinoma, and gastric malignant lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue type. Previously, we reported that a gland mucin (MUC6) present in the lower portion of the gastric mucosa contai...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lee H,Wang P,Hoshino H,Ito Y,Kobayashi M,Nakayama J,Seeberger PH,Fukuda M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylation is a common modification found on numerous proteins and lipids. However, direct detection of glycans on these intact biomolecules has been challenge. Here, utilizing enzymatic incorporation of fluorophore-conjugated sialic acids, dubbed as direct fluorescent glycan labeling, we report the labeling and de...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Wu ZL,Person AD,Burton AJ,Singh R,Burroughs B,Fryxell D,Tatge TJ,Manning T,Wu G,Swift KAD,Kalabokis V

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00