Significant structural change in both O- and N-linked carbohydrate moieties of the antigenic galactomannan from Aspergillus fumigatus grown under different culture conditions.

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells recognize glycolipid antigens bound to CD1d molecules on antigen-presenting cells. Therapeutic activation of iNKT cells with the xenogeneic glycolipid α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) can prevent and reverse tumor growth in murine models, but clinical trials using α-GalCer-stimul...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Melo AM,Zhang L,Dockry ÉF,Petrasca A,Ghnewa YG,Breen EP,Morrissey ME,O'Reilly C,Bruen R,O'Meara A,Lysaght J,Zhu X,Doherty DG

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：:Influenza C virus spike glycoprotein HEF specifically recognizes glycoconjugates containing 9-O-acetyl-N-acetylneuraminic acid. The same protein also contains an esterase activity. Taking advantage of these two properties, influenza C virus was used as a very sensitive probe for the detection of traces of 9-O-acetyl-N...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Zimmer G,Suguri T,Reuter G,Yu RK,Schauer R,Herrler G

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gangliosides (sialic acid-containing glycosphingolipids) play important roles in many physiological functions, including synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, which is considered as a cellular mechanism of learning and memory. In the present study, three types of synaptic plasticity, long-term potentiation (LTP), lo...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ikarashi K,Fujiwara H,Yamazaki Y,Goto J,Kaneko K,Kato H,Fujii S,Sasaki H,Fukumoto S,Furukawa K,Waki H,Furukawa K

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, B, C, Y, W135 and X are responsible for most cases of meningococcal meningitis. Neisseria meningitidis serogroup X has recently emerged as a contributor to outbreaks of disease in Africa, but there is currently no vaccine against serogroup X. Understanding of the biosynthesis of th...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Muindi KM,McCarthy PC,Wang T,Vionnet J,Battistel M,Jankowska E,Vann WF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialidases are widely distributed glycohydrolytic enzymes removing sialic acid residues from glycoconjugates. In mammals, several sialidases with different subcellular localizations and biochemical features have been described. NEU4, the most recently identified member of the human sialidase family, is found in two fo...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bigi A,Morosi L,Pozzi C,Forcella M,Tettamanti G,Venerando B,Monti E,Fusi P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram-negative bacterium Campylobacter jejuni 81116 (Penner serotype HS:6) has a class E lipooligosaccharide (LOS) biosynthesis locus containing 19 genes, which encode for 11 putative glycosyltransferases, 1 lipid A acyltransferase and 7 enzymes thought to be involved in the biosynthesis of dideoxyhexosamine (ddHex...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Li ZZ,Riegert AS,Goneau MF,Cunningham AM,Vinogradov E,Li J,Schoenhofen IC,Thoden JB,Holden HM,Gilbert M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle degenerative diseases such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy are incurable and treatment options are still restrained. Understanding the mechanisms and factors responsible for muscle degeneration and regeneration will facilitate the development of novel therapeutics. Several recent studies have demonstrated that G...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Cerri DG,Rodrigues LC,Stowell SR,Araujo DD,Coelho MC,Oliveira SR,Bizario JC,Cummings RD,Dias-Baruffi M,Costa MC

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hexosamine pathway (HP) is a biochemical hypothesis recently proposed explaining cellular alterations occurring during diabetic microvascular complications. Diabetic retinopathy is a common microvascular complication of diabetes, and it is known that cell proliferation is severely affected during the development o...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Masson E,Wiernsperger N,Lagarde M,El Bawab S

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Cytotrophoblasts are the specialized epithelial cells of the placenta. During the first trimester, a subpopulation of chorionic villus cytotrophoblasts differentiates along an invasive pathway and penetrates the maternal endometrium, decidua and spiral arterioles. Cytotrophoblast invasiveness declines rapidly during t...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Moss L,Prakobphol A,Wiedmann TW,Fisher SJ,Damsky CH

更新日期：1994-10-01 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

abstract：:Lipid-A represents the ubiquitous, covalently bound hydrophobic component of bacterial lipopolysaccharides (endotoxins). Lipid-As isolated and characterized from rhizobial species have large variations in their backbone sugars, as well as in their hydroxy fatty acid substituents. The sugar backbones consist of either ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bhat UR,Carlson RW

更新日期：1992-12-01 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 glycobiology of Schistosoma mansoni is dominated by developmentally regulated expression of various fucosylated structures, most notably the Lewis X epitope and a multifucosylated sequence, Fuc alpha1-->2Fuc alpha1-->, in its various forms. For the infective cercarial stage, Lewis X has been structurally identifie...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Huang HH,Tsai PL,Khoo KH

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Stage-specific embryonic antigen-1 (SSEA-1) is a well-known carbohydrate antigenic epitope of undifferentiated cells, including neural stem cells (NSCs). However, the exact nature of the carrier proteins has not been fully characterized. Using proteomics analyses, we herein report that a lysosomal protein, LAMP-1, is ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Yagi H,Yanagisawa M,Kato K,Yu RK

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:Endolysins are bacteriophage enzymes that lyse their bacterial host for phage progeny release. They commonly contain an N-terminal catalytic domain that hydrolyzes bacterial peptidoglycan (PG) and a C-terminal cell wall-binding domain (CBD) that confers enzyme localization to the PG substrate. Two endolysins, phage ly...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ganguly J,Low LY,Kamal N,Saile E,Forsberg LS,Gutierrez-Sanchez G,Hoffmaster AR,Liddington R,Quinn CP,Carlson RW,Kannenberg EL

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrophy is central to several heart diseases; however, not much is known about the role of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) in this phenotype. Since GSLs have been accorded several physiological functions, we sought to determine whether these compounds affect cardiac hypertrophy. By using a rat cardiomyoblast cell line, ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Mishra S,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota plays a major role in human health and an alteration in gut microbiota structure and function has been implicated in several diseases. In the colon, mucus covering the epithelium is critical to maintain a homeostatic relationship with the gut microbiota by harbouring a microbial community at safe di...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bell A,Juge N

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis lipoarabinomannan (LAM) and biosynthetically related lipoglycans and glycans play an important role in host-pathogen interactions. Therefore, the elucidation of the complete biosynthetic pathways of these important molecules is expected to afford novel therapeutic targets. The characterizati...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Larrouy-Maumus G,Gilleron M,Skovierová H,Zuberogoitia S,Brennan PJ,Puzo G,Jackson M,Nigou J

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Endogenous lectins can control critical biological responses, including cell communication, signaling, angiogenesis and immunity by decoding glycan-containing information on a variety of cellular receptors and the extracellular matrix. Galectin-1 (Gal-1), a prototype member of the galectin family, displays only one ca...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Romero JM,Trujillo M,Estrin DA,Rabinovich GA,Di Lella S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a method of simultaneously quantifying glucosylceramide (GlcCer) and galactosylceramide (GalCer) by normal-phase HPLC using O-phtalaldehyde derivatives. Treatment with sphingolipid ceramide N-deacylase which converts the cerebrosides in the sample to their lyso-forms was followed by the quantitative lab...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Zama K,Hayashi Y,Ito S,Hirabayashi Y,Inoue T,Ohno K,Okino N,Ito M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod and cone photoreceptors project from the outer retinal surface into a carbohydrate-rich interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM). Unique IPM glycoconjugates are distributed around rods and cones. Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) strongly decorates the rod matrix domains and weakly decorates the cone matrix domains. This study c...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Acharya S,Rayborn ME,Hollyfield JG

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Spectrofluorimetry experiments using synthetic trisaccharides indicate that in compounds that display affinity for antithrombin III (AT-III), a unique trisaccharide sequence plays the key role in the early recognition, and the first step of AT-III activation. Added to previous observations, these new results suggest t...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Petitou M,Barzu T,Herault JP,Herbert JM

更新日期：1997-04-01 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