Associations of genetic polymorphisms of Siglecs with human diseases.

abstract：:Heparan sulfates (HSs) exert critical regulatory actions on many proteins, including growth factors, and are essential for normal development. Variations in their specific sulfation patterns are known to regulate binding and signaling of fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) via tyrosine kinase receptors (FGFRs). We previo...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ford-Perriss M,Guimond SE,Greferath U,Kita M,Grobe K,Habuchi H,Kimata K,Esko JD,Murphy M,Turnbull JE

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal alpha-mannosidase is a broad specificity exoglycosidase involved in the ordered degradation of glycoproteins. The bovine enzyme is used as an important model for understanding the inborn lysosomal storage disorder alpha-mannosidosis. This enzyme of about 1,000 amino acids consists of five peptide chains, nam...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Faid V,Evjen G,Tollersrud OK,Michalski JC,Morelle W

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：: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：: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：:The polydispersity of hyaluronan (HA) presents challenges for analyzing its solution properties, such as the relationship between mass and particle size. The broad mass range of natural HA (≤50-fold) makes molecular characterization difficult and ambiguous compared to molecules with known molecular weights (e.g., prot...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Weigel PH,Baggenstoss BA

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：: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：:Cancer-derived heat shock protein gp96 induces a tumor-specific protective immune response primarily mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) directed toward cancer-associated peptides associated with gp96. Both innate and adaptive immune responses have been demonstrated using a cell culture-based signaling mechanism...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Suriano R,Ghosh SK,Chaudhuri D,Mittelman A,Banerjee A,Tiwari RK

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoinositolphospholipids (GIPLs) were isolated from promastigotes of the lizard parasites Leishmania adleri by phenol/water extraction. Phosphoinositol oligosaccharides were liberated by mild alkaline hydrolysis, purified by gel filtration and high pH anion exchange chromatography, and characterized by methylation a...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Previato JO,Jones C,Wait R,Routier F,Saraiva E,Mendonça-Previato L

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:An ultrasensitive method for analysis of polysialic acid (polySia) chains, using fluorescence-assisted high-performance liquid chromatography was developed. The new method is a substantial improvement of our earlier method in which the reducing terminal Sia residues of a homologous series of oligo/polySia hydrolytical...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Inoue S,Lin SL,Lee YC,Inoue Y

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:Binding characteristics of two types of ligands for human neo-C-reactive protein (neo-CRP), which is a conformationally altered but physiologically relevant form of CRP, were studied fluorometrically by probing CRP immobilized on a polystyrene surface with europium-labeled ligands. Two Eu-ligands used were bovine seru...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lee RT,Lee YC

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:The core oligosaccharide Glc(3)Man(9)GlcNAc(2) is assembled by a series of membrane-bound glycosyltransferases as the lipid carrier dolichylpyrophosphate-linked glycan in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The first step of this assembly pathway on the ER luminal side is mediated by ALG3 (asparagine-linked glycosylation ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kajiura H,Seki T,Fujiyama K

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:We have employed fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS) to screen the N-linked oligosaccharides of Bowes melanoma tissue plasminogen activator (mt-PA), and recombinant t-PAs produced by Chinese hamster ovary cells (rt-PA) and by a gene-enriched melanoma cell line (rmt-PA). These studies have confirmed the pu...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Chan AL,Morris HR,Panico M,Etienne AT,Rogers ME,Gaffney P,Creighton-Kempsford L,Dell A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different types of peptide:N-glycanase (PNGase) were identified in developing embryos of medaka fish ( Oryzias latipes ). Because the optimum pH values for their activities were acidic and neutral, they were designated as acid PNGase M and neutral PNGase M, respectively. The acid PNGase M corresponded to the enzym...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Seko A,Kitajima K,Iwamatsu T,Inoue Y,Inoue S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galbeta1-4GlcNAc is thought to be a common disaccharide unit preferentially recognized by vertebrate galectins. Eight-amino-acid residues conserved in proteins belonging to the galectin family have been suggested to be responsible for recognition. Meanwhile, we isolated and analyzed endogenous N-glycans of Caenorhabdi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Takeuchi T,Nishiyama K,Sugiura K,Takahashi M,Yamada A,Kobayashi S,Takahashi H,Natsugari H,Kasai K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri is the major human pathogen causing shigellosis. O-antigens of all S. flexneri serotypes (except for serotype 6) share the →2)-α-l-Rhap(III)-(1 → 2)-α-l-Rhap(II)-(1 → 3)-α-l-Rhap(I)-(1 → 3)-β-d-GlcpNAc-(1→ basic O-unit, whereas differences between the serotypes are conferred by phage-encoded glucosyl...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Knirel YA,Lan R,Senchenkova SN,Wang J,Shashkov AS,Wang Y,Perepelov AV,Xiong Y,Xu J,Sun Q

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) is a glucose metabolite with pivotal functions as a key substrate for the synthesis of glycoconjugates like hyaluronan, and as a metabolic sensor that controls cell functions through O-GlcNAc modification of intracellular proteins. However, little is known about the regulation of h...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Oikari S,Makkonen K,Deen AJ,Tyni I,Kärnä R,Tammi RH,Tammi MI

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactans are linear polysaccharides of β(1→4)-linked galactose residues. Although they can antagonize galectin function, the nature of their binding to galectins needs to be better defined to develop them as drugs. Here, we investigated interactions between galectin-3 (Gal-3) and a series of galactans ranging in weig...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Miller MC,Zheng Y,Zhou Y,Tai G,Mayo KH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lepidopteran insect cells are used routinely as hosts for foreign glycoprotein expression by recombinant baculoviruses, but the precise nature of their N-glycosylation pathway remains poorly defined. These cells clearly have processing glucosidases and mannosidases that can convert precursors to Man3GlcNAc2 structures...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Jarvis DL,Bohlmeyer DA,Liao YF,Lomax KK,Merkle RK,Weinkauf C,Moremen KW

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Diagnosis of this infection frequently employs detection of the circulating galactomannan in the patient serum using enzyme immunoassay (EIA), a highly sensitive and specific system. Although there are many structura...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kudoh A,Okawa Y,Shibata N

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Artocarpus lakoocha agglutinin (ALA), isolated from the seeds of A. lakoocha fruit, is a galactose-binding lectin and a potent mitogen of T and B cells. Knowledge obtained from previous studies on the affinity of ALA was limited to molecular and submolecular levels of Galbeta1-->3GalNAc (T) and its derivatives. In the...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Singh T,Chatterjee U,Wu JH,Chatterjee BP,Wu AM

更新日期：2005-01-01 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