Forssman disaccharide is the specific ligand of a galectin from the sponge Geodia cydonium but does not mediate its binding to nuclear protein np56.

abstract：:The human intestine houses a dense microbial ecosystem in which the struggle for nutrients creates a continual and dynamic selective force. Host-produced mucus glycans provide a ubiquitous source of carbon and energy for microbial species. Not surprisingly, many gut resident bacteria have become highly adapted to effi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Marcobal A,Southwick AM,Earle KA,Sonnenburg JL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ganglioside GM3 (Siaα2-3Galβ1-4Glcβ1-1Cer) has been known to participate in insulin signaling by regulating the association of the insulin receptor in caveolae microdomains (lipid rafts), which is essential for the execution of the complete insulin metabolic signaling in adipocytes. Macrophage-secreted factors includi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nagafuku M,Sato T,Sato S,Shimizu K,Taira T,Inokuchi J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lens culinaris lectin (LCA) is a useful probe for the detection in serum of a core-fucosylated alpha-fetoprotein, called AFP-L3 fraction, which is a well-known marker for the diagnosis and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma. Here we performed a systematic quantitative interaction analysis of LCA and its close homol...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Tateno H,Nakamura-Tsuruta S,Hirabayashi J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 165 amino acid form of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF165) is a heparin-binding growth factor with mitogenic activity for vascular endothelial cells. We examined activities of various heparin derivatives toward their interactions with VEGF165 using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and elucidated the s...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ono K,Hattori H,Takeshita S,Kurita A,Ishihara M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trehalose-P synthase was purified to near homogeneity from the cytoplasmic fraction of Mycobacterium smegmatis. At the final stage of purification, the enzyme preparation showed one major band of 59 kDa on SDS gels. The 59 kDa band became labeled with N3-UDP[32P]-glucose, and this labeling was inhibited in a conce...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Pan YT,Drake RR,Elbein AD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human anticoagulant factor, Protein C, is a plasma glycoprotein that has reported anti-ischaemic and anti-inflammatory properties. To explore potential mechanisms for these reported activities, we examined the effect of Protein C on the process of cell adhesion to vascular endothelial cells, which plays a critical...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Grinnell BW,Hermann RB,Yan SB

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：: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：:We show here that cell surface glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are involved in the binding of stromal cell-derived factor (SDF)-1alpha to CD4(+)lymphoid CEM or monocytic U937 cells, inasmuch as pretreating the cells with heparitinase or chondroitinase inhibits SDF-1alpha binding by 40-41% and 31-35%, respectively. Soluble h...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Mbemba E,Gluckman JC,Gattegno L

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Chitin oligosaccharides (COs) play a role in plant development and are presumed to affect body plan formation during vertebrate embryogenesis. The mechanisms of COs recognition and cellular processes underlying embryonic development are still not understood. We analyze the possible link with the mitogen-activated prot...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Snaar-Jagalska BE,Krens SF,Robina I,Wang LX,Spaink HP

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse macrophage galactose/N-acetylgalactosamine-specific C-type lectin (MMGL) is a type II transmembrane glycoprotein belonging to the C-type lectin family. Our development of monoclonal antibodies led us to discover that a calcium-dependent conformational change is detected by an antibody (termed mAb LOM-11) and tha...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Hosoi T,Imai Y,Irimura T

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Giardia lamblia, the protist that causes diarrhea, makes an Asn-linked-glycan (N-glycan) precursor that contains just two sugars (GlcNAc(2)) attached by a pyrophosphate linkage to a polyprenol lipid. Because the candidate cis-prenyltransferase of Giardia appears to be more similar to bacterial enzymes than to those of...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Grabińska KA,Cui J,Chatterjee A,Guan Z,Raetz CR,Robbins PW,Samuelson J

更新日期：2010-07-01 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 synthesis of Galalpha1-3Gal-terminated oligosaccharides (alpha-Gal) epitopes has been interrupted during the course of evolution, starting with Old World primates. Partial sequences similar to the alpha1,3-galactosyltransferase (alpha1,3GalT) gene, which governs the synthesis of alpha-Gal epitopes, have been detec...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lantéri M,Giordanengo V,Vidal F,Gaudray P,Lefebvre JC

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:Sialic acids cap the glycans of cell surface glycoproteins and glycolipids. They are involved in a multitude of biological processes and aberrant sialic acid expression is associated with several pathologies. Sialic acids modulate the characteristics and functions of glycoproteins and regulate cell-cell as well as cel...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Moons SJ,Adema GJ,Derks MT,Boltje TJ,Büll C

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) is used abundantly in the clinic to stimulate red blood cell growth in anaemic patients. The efficacy of the drug depends strongly on the extent of sialylation of its carbohydrate moiety. Prompted by conflicting literature reports on the issue, we reinvestigated the structures...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Watson E,Bhide A,van Halbeek H

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biosynthesis and functions of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) are not well known. A typical housekeeping enzyme, beta1,4-galactosyltransferase, links galactose to glucose to form lactose which is then used as backbone for the assembly of HMO. We investigated whether milk lactose and HMO may be labeled in vivo by an ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Rudloff S,Obermeier S,Borsch C,Pohlentz G,Hartmann R,Brösicke H,Lentze MJ,Kunz C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concanavalin A staining of cellular glycoproteins and the direct analysis of their sugar chains released by hydrazinolysis revealed that the processing of N-linked sugar chains of some glycoproteins is suppressed by exposure of mouse monocytoid cells P388D1 to dimethyl sulphoxide, which can induce Fc receptor-medi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Fukushima K,Takasaki S

更新日期：1993-02-01 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：: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 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：:Macrophages are major cells of inflammatory process and take part in a large number of physiological and pathological processes. According to tissue environment, they can polarize into pro-inflammatory (M1) or alternative (M2) cells. Although many evidences have hinted to a potential role of cell-surface glycosaminogl...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Martinez P,Denys A,Delos M,Sikora AS,Carpentier M,Julien S,Pestel J,Allain F

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection of diploid human fibroblasts (HEL) results in neo-expression of Lewis antigens sialyl Lewis x (sLe(x)) and Lewis y (Le(y)), respectively, after transcriptional activation of different combinations of dormant human fucosyltra...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nyström K,Nordén R,Muylaert I,Elias P,Larson G,Olofsson S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic basis for the biosynthetic assembly of the globotetraose containing lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Haemophilus influenzae strain RM118 (Rd) was determined by structural analysis of LPS derived from mutant strains. We have previously shown that the parent strain RM118 elaborates a population of LPS molecules mad...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Hood DW,Cox AD,Wakarchuk WW,Schur M,Schweda EK,Walsh SL,Deadman ME,Martin A,Moxon ER,Richards JC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00