Circulating blood and platelets supply glycosyltransferases that enable extrinsic extracellular glycosylation.

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：:The role of aberrant protein modifications in cancer and its diagnosis have emerged as a promising research field. Nonenzymatic glyco-oxidation of proteins under oxidative stress has been associated with carcinogenesis through advanced glycation end products (AGE)-receptors for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) a...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Mir AR,Moinuddin,Habib S,Khan F,Alam K,Ali A

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:A large family of UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide GalNAc transferases (ppGalNAc-Ts) initiates and defines sites of mucin-type Ser/Thr-O-GalNAc glycosylation. Family members have been classified into peptide- and glycopeptide-preferring subfamilies, although both families possess variable activities against glycopeptide substra...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Revoredo L,Wang S,Bennett EP,Clausen H,Moremen KW,Jarvis DL,Ten Hagen KG,Tabak LA,Gerken TA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera raised against galectin-1 exhibit crossreactivities with other galectins or related molecules. In order to overcome this problem, a monoclonal antibody to human brain galectin-1 was obtained by selecting clones without reactivity toward galectin-3. This mAb specifically bound galectin-1 of various animal orig...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Cornillot JD,Pontet M,Dupuy C,Chadli A,Caron M,Joubert-Caron R,Bourin P,Bladier D

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:Polysialic acid (PSA) is thought to attenuate neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) adhesion, thereby facilitating neural cell migration and regeneration. Although the expression of PSA has been shown to correlate with the progression of certain tumors such as small cell lung carcinoma, there have been no studies to de...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Suzuki M,Suzuki M,Nakayama J,Suzuki A,Angata K,Chen S,Sakai K,Hagihara K,Yamaguchi Y,Fukuda M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the importance of the aspartate-any residue-aspartate (DXD) motif for the enzymatic activity and nucleotide binding capacity of the Golgi glycosyltransferase GM2 synthase. We prepared point mutations of the motif, which is found in the sequence 352-VLWVDDDFV, and analyzed cells that stably expressed the muta...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Li J,Rancour DM,Allende ML,Worth CA,Darling DS,Gilbert JB,Menon AK,Young WW Jr

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-glycans have been removed by peptide-N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) from purified human non-secretory RNases derived from kidney, liver and spleen. The spleen RNase was purified by two procedures, one of which did not include the usual acid treatment step (0.25 M H2SO4, 45 min, 4 degrees C), to determine if acid tre...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lawrence CW,Little PA,Little BW,Glushka J,van Halbeek H,Alhadeff JA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new in vitro assay for oligosaccharyltransferase (OST), which catalyzes the transfer of preassembled oligosaccharides on lipid carriers onto asparagine residues in polypeptide chains. The asparagine residues reside in the sequon, Asn-X-Thr/Ser, where X can be any amino acid residue except Pro. We demons...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kohda D,Yamada M,Igura M,Kamishikiryo J,Maenaka K

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:We have isolated beta-trace protein from cerebrospinal fluid, serum, plasma, and urine samples of normal volunteers and sera and hemofiltrate of patients with chronic renal failure. Blood-derived and urinary beta-trace have significantly higher molecular weights than their cerebrospinal fluid counterpart, the amino ac...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Hoffmann A,Nimtz M,Conradt HS

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:A glycosyltransferase was fused to the yeast cell wall protein Pir, which forms the Pir1-4 protein family and is incorporated into the cell wall by an unknown linkage to be displayed at the yeast cell surface. We first expressed the PIR1-HA-gma12+ fusion, in which gma12+ encodes alpha-1,2-galactosyltransferase from th...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Abe H,Shimma Y,Jigami Y

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the fertilization behavior of Xenopus borealis from X. laevis and X. tropicalis suggest differences in the glycosylation of the egg jellies. To test this assumption, O-linked glycans were chemically released from the egg jelly coat glycoproteins of X. borealis. Over 50 major neutral glycans were observe...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Li B,Russell SC,Zhang J,Hedrick JL,Lebrilla CB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of the common and well-documented Siaalpha 2,6 to Galbeta 1,4GlcNAc structure (Sia6LacNAc) is principally mediated by the sialyltransferase ST6Gal I, which is particularly highly expressed in liver, lactating mammary gland, intestinal epithelia of newborn animals, and B cells. Multiple independent promot...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Appenheimer MM,Huang RY,Chandrasekaran EV,Dalziel M,Hu YP,Soloway PD,Wuensch SA,Matta KL,Lau JT

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human hyaluronidase Hyal-1, one of six human hyaluronidase subtypes, preferentially degrades hyaluronic acid present in the extracellular matrix of somatic tissues. Modulations of Hyal-1 expression have been observed in a number of malignant tumors. However, its role in disease progression is discussed controversi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Hofinger ES,Spickenreither M,Oschmann J,Bernhardt G,Rudolph R,Buschauer A

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:The structure of the complex mixture of the core oligosaccharide components of the lipooligosaccharide (LOS) fraction of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain TT111 was determined directly on the deacetylated products by means of spectroscopical methods. The rhamnan oligosaccharide elongating the inner Kdo residue shares s...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： De Castro C,Carannante A,Lanzetta R,Liparoti V,Molinaro A,Parrilli M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria are predominant in the intestines of breast-fed infants and offer health benefits to the host. Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are considered to be one of the most important growth factors for intestinal bifidobacteria. HMOs contain two major structures of core tetrasaccharide: lacto-N-tetraose (Galβ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Miwa M,Horimoto T,Kiyohara M,Katayama T,Kitaoka M,Ashida H,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-1, the prototype of a family of beta-galactoside-binding proteins, has been implicated in a wide variety of biological processes. Data presented herein show that galectin-1 stimulates monocyte migration in a dose-dependent manner but is not chemotactic for macrophages. Galectin-1-induced monocyte chemotaxis i...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Malik RK,Ghurye RR,Lawrence-Watt DJ,Stewart HJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional regulation mechanisms involved in the up-regulation of Fas-induced GD3 synthase gene have not yet been elucidated. 5'-Rapid amplification of cDNA end (5'-RACE) using mRNA prepared from Fas-induced Jurkat T cells revealed the presence of multiple transcription start sites of human GD3 synthase gene,...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kang NY,Kang SK,Lee YC,Choi HJ,Lee YS,Cho SY,Kim YS,Ko JH,Kim CH

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Sialyltransferases are a family of 20 gene products in mice and humans that transfer sialic acid from its activated precursor, CMP-sialic acid, to the terminus of glycoprotein and glycolipid acceptors. ST3Gal-II (coded by the St3gal2 gene) transfers sialic acid preferentially to the three positions of galactose on the...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lopez PH,Aja S,Aoki K,Seldin MM,Lei X,Ronnett GV,Wong GW,Schnaar RL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:β-Trefoil lectins are galactose/N-acetyl galactosamine specific lectins, which are widely distributed across all kingdoms of life and are known to perform several important functions. However, there is no report available on the characterization of these lectins from protozoans. We have performed structural and biophy...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Khan F,Kurre D,Suguna K

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine sperm initiate fertilization by binding to the specialized extracellular matrix of their complementary eggs, known as the zona pellucida. On the basis of data reported in this study, mouse sperm also bind to rabbit erythrocytes with higher affinity than they do to murine eggs. This unusual interaction between a...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Sutton-Smith M,Wong NK,Khoo KH,Wu SW,Yu SY,Patankar MS,Easton R,Lattanzio FA,Morris HR,Dell A,Clark GF

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the developmental role of complex N-linked oligosaccharides, we previously inactivated the mouse Mgat1 gene which encodes UDP-N-acetylglucosamine: alpha-3-D-mannoside beta-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GlcNAc-TI). Mgat1-null embryos developed morphogenic abnormalities by embryonic day (E) 9.5 a...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Campbell RM,Metzler M,Granovsky M,Dennis JW,Marth JD

更新日期：1995-07-01 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