Galectin-8: a matricellular lectin with key roles in angiogenesis.

abstract：:From a systematic search of the UniGene and dbEST databanks, using human beta 4-galactosyltransferase (beta 4GalT-I), which is recognized to function in lactose biosynthesis, as the query sequence, we have identified five additional gene family members denoted as beta 4GalT-II, -III, -IV, -V, and -VI. Complementary DN...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lo NW,Shaper JH,Pevsner J,Shaper NL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparan sulfate (HS) is a sulfated polysaccharide that plays a key role in morphogenesis, physiology and pathogenesis. The biosynthesis of HS takes place in the Golgi apparatus by a group of enzymes that polymerize, epimerize and sulfate the sugar chain. This biosynthetic process introduces varying degrees of sulfate ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Gesteira TF,Coulson-Thomas VJ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oligosaccharide chains (glycans) attached to cell surface and extracellular proteins and lipids are known to mediate many important biological roles. However, for many glycans, there are still no evident functions that are of obvious benefit to the organism that synthesizes them. There is also no clear explanation...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Gagneux P,Varki A

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cancer cells, the glycoprotein Mucin 1 (MUC1) undergoes abnormal, truncated glycosylation. The truncated glycosylation exposes cryptic peptide epitopes that can be recognized by antibodies. Since these immunogenic regions are cancer specific, they represent ideal targets for therapeutic antibodies. We investigated ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Movahedin M,Brooks TM,Supekar NT,Gokanapudi N,Boons GJ,Brooks CL

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:We report the production of biologically active hyaluronan (HA) oligosaccharides labeled with the fluorophore 2-aminobenzoic acid (2AA). Oligosaccharides from 4 to 40 residues in length were purified to homogeneity by ion exchange chromatography using a logarithmic gradient. Molecular weight and purity characterizatio...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Seyfried NT,Blundell CD,Day AJ,Almond A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Algal fucoidan is an alpha-L-fucose-based polysaccharide endowed with important biological properties for which the structure has not yet been fully elucidated. In an attempt to implement new enzymatic tools for structural study of this polysaccharide, we have found a fucosidase activity in the digestive glands of the...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Berteau O,McCort I,Goasdoué N,Tissot B,Daniel R

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonreducing O-linked oligosaccharides were obtained from the peptidorhamnomannan of mycelia of Pseudallescheria boydii by alkaline beta-elimination under reducing conditions. They were separated by gel filtration chromatography to give three oligosaccharide fractions. The major oligosaccharide from fraction 1 was char...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Pinto MR,Gorin PA,Wait R,Mulloy B,Barreto-Bergter E

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycobiology of the cestodes, a class of parasitic flatworms, is still largely unexplored. An important cestode species is Echinococcus granulosus, the tissue-dwelling larval stage of which causes hydatid disease. The E. granulosus larva is protected from the host by a massive mucin-based extracellular matrix term...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lin G,Todeschini AR,Koizumi A,Neves JL,González H,Dematteis S,Hada N,Previato JO,Ferreira F,Mendonça-Previato L,Díaz A

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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：:Glycolipids are important components of almost all biological membranes. They possess unique properties that have only been incompletely characterized so far. The plant glycolipid digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG) strongly influences the physical behavior of phospholipid model membranes in both the dry and hydrated st...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Popova AV,Hincha DK

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis caused by infection with parasitic helminths of Schistosoma spp. is a major global health problem due to inadequate treatment and lack of a vaccine. The immune response to schistosomes includes glycan antigens, which could be valuable diagnostic markers and vaccine targets. However, no precedent exists...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Prasanphanich NS,Luyai AE,Song X,Heimburg-Molinaro J,Mandalasi M,Mickum M,Smith DF,Nyame AK,Cummings RD

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein N- and O-glycosylation are well known co- and post-translational modifications of immunoglobulins. Antibody glycosylation on the Fab and Fc portion is known to influence antigen binding and effector functions, respectively. To study associations between antibody glycosylation profiles and (patho) physiological...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： de Haan N,Falck D,Wuhrer M

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of the alpha-D-mannosidases of rat liver lysosome and cytosol was examined using oligosaccharides of the oligomannosidic type. The hydrolysis products were characterized by 400 MHz 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Both catabolic pathways occur in ordered ways, but are quite different. In fact, the lysoso...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Haeuw JF,Michalski JC,Strecker G,Spik G,Montreuil J

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of unusual and rare carbohydrates were tested as potential inhibitors of various glycosidases, as well as inhibitors of N-linked oligosaccharide processing. The best inhibitors of several arylglycosidases and of glucosidase I were L-xylulose and L-fructose. Both of these sugars showed some inhibitory activity...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Muniruzzaman S,Pan YT,Zeng Y,Atkins B,Izumori K,Elbein AD

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：: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：:Galectins are a family of carbohydrate-binding proteins with an affinity for beta-galactosides. Galectin-1 (Gal-1) is differentially expressed by various normal and pathological tissues and appears to be functionally polyvalent, with a wide range of biological activity. The intracellular and extracellular activity of ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Camby I,Le Mercier M,Lefranc F,Kiss R

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycan (GAG) assembly initiates through the formation of a linkage tetrasaccharide region serving as a primer for both chondroitin sulfate (CS) and heparan sulfate (HS) chain polymerization. A possible role for sulfation of the linkage structure and of the constitutive disaccharide unit of CS chains in the ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Gulberti S,Jacquinet JC,Chabel M,Ramalanjaona N,Magdalou J,Netter P,Coughtrie MW,Ouzzine M,Fournel-Gigleux S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania have a glycoconjugate surface coat (the glycocalyx) that acts as the interface between the parasite and its external environment. The principal components of the glycocalyx, the lipophosphoglycans and the glycoinositolphospholipids, have a variety of functions that facilitat...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Smith DF,Rangarajan D

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:The leguminous-type (L-type) lectin ER-Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC)-53, a homo-oligomeric endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-Golgi recycling protein, functions as a transport receptor for newly synthesized glycoproteins in the early secretory pathway. Although a limited subset of cargo glycoproteins transported by E...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Chen Y,Hojo S,Matsumoto N,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectins are used as defense effector proteins against predators, parasites and pathogens by animal, plant and fungal innate defense systems. These proteins bind to specific glycoepitopes on the cell surfaces and thereby interfere with the proper cellular functions of the various antagonists. The exact cellular toxicit...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bleuler-Martinez S,Stutz K,Sieber R,Collot M,Mallet JM,Hengartner M,Schubert M,Varrot A,Künzler M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig to human xenotransplantation is considered a possible solution to the prevailing chronic lack of human donor organs for allotransplantation. The Galalpha1,3Gal determinant is the major porcine xenogeneic epitope causing hyperacute rejection following human antibody binding and complement activation. In order to ch...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bäcker AE,Holgersson J,Samuelsson BE,Karlsson H

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:Glycosyltransferases, usually residing within the intracellular secretory apparatus, also circulate in the blood. Many of these blood-borne glycosyltransferases are associated with pathological states, including malignancies and inflammatory conditions. Despite the potential for dynamic modifications of glycans on dis...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lee-Sundlov MM,Ashline DJ,Hanneman AJ,Grozovsky R,Reinhold VN,Hoffmeister KM,Lau JT

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute immune-mediated polyradiculoneuropathy which can cause acute quadriplegia. Infection with micro-organisms, including Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni), Haemophilus influenzae, and Cytomegalovirus (CMV), is recognized as a main triggering event for the disease. Lipooligosacchari...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kaida K,Ariga T,Yu RK

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation of glycopeptides utilizing hydrogen bonding between glycopeptide glycans and a carbohydrate-gel matrix in the organic phase is useful for site-specific characterization of oligosaccharides of glycoproteins, when combined with mass spectrometry. In this study, recovery of glycopeptides was improved by includi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Tajiri M,Yoshida S,Wada Y

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the identity, synthesis and secretion of beta-galactoside-binding lectins by leukocytes is of importance because lactosaminoglycans present at the leukocyte cell surface may be physiologically significant lectin receptors that could mediate autocrine or paracrine functions and/or cell adhesion. This paper...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Sharma A,DiCioccio RA,Allen HJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00