Cloning, expression, purification, and characterization of the acid alpha-mannosidase from Trypanosoma cruzi.

abstract：:We investigated the localization of major gangliosides in adult rat brain by an immunofluorescence technique with mouse monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). Five MAbs (GMB16, GMR17, GGR12, GMR5 and GMR13) that specifically recognize gangliosides GM1, GD1a, GD1b, GT1b and GQ1b, respectively, were used. We have found that ther...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kotani M,Kawashima I,Ozawa H,Terashima T,Tai T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that secretory fluids such as tears, saliva and milk play an important role in protecting the human body from infection via a washing mechanism involving glycan-mediated adhesion of potential pathogens to secretory glycoproteins. Interaction of sweat with bacteria is well established as th...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Peterson RA,Gueniche A,Adam de Beaumais S,Breton L,Dalko-Csiba M,Packer NH

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：: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 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：:The structure of the O-antigen polysaccharide (PS) from the Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli O63 has been elucidated using a combination of bioinformatics, component analyses and NMR spectroscopy. The O-antigen is comprised of tetrasaccharide repeating units with the following structure: →2)-β-d-Quip3N(d-allo-Th...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ståhle J,Fontana C,Weintraub A,Widmalm G

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apiose is a unique branched-chain pentose found principally in plants. It is a key component of structurally complex cell wall polysaccharides, as well as being present in a large number of naturally occurring secondary metabolites. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge on the...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Pičmanová M,Møller BL

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized galectin family proteins in adult tissues of Xenopus laevis and purified 14-kDa and 36-kDa proteins from the liver. The liver galectins showed comparable hemagglutination activities to those of mammalian galectins. Furthermore, we isolated five galectin cDNAs from a Xenopus liver library. These c...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Shoji H,Nishi N,Hirashima M,Nakamura T

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucin-type O-glycome in cancer aberrantly expresses the truncated glycans Tn (GalNAcα1-Ser/Thr) and STn (Neu5Acα2,6GalNAcα1-Ser/Thr). However, the role of Tn and STn in cancer and other diseases is not well understood. Our recent discovery of the self-binding properties (carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions, CCI...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Sletmoen M,Gerken TA,Stokke BT,Burchell J,Brewer CF

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：:beta1-6 GlcNAc branching, a product of N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase V (GnT-V), is a key structure that is associated with malignant transformations and cancer metastasis. Although a number of reports concerning tumor metastasis-related glycoproteins that contain beta1-6 GlcNAc branching have appeared, the precise f...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ihara S,Miyoshi E,Nakahara S,Sakiyama H,Ihara H,Akinaga A,Honke K,Dickson RB,Lin CY,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infects over half of the world's population and is thought to be a leading cause of gastric ulcer, gastric carcinoma, and gastric malignant lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue type. Previously, we reported that a gland mucin (MUC6) present in the lower portion of the gastric mucosa contai...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lee H,Wang P,Hoshino H,Ito Y,Kobayashi M,Nakayama J,Seeberger PH,Fukuda M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Neu1 locus, in the S region of the murine histocompatibility-2 complex, regulates the sialic acid content of several liver lysosomal enzymes. Three alleles, Neu1a, Neu1b, and Neu1c, have been described on the basis of differential sialylation of the enzyme liver acid phosphatase. The Neu1a allele occurs in a small...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Carrillo MB,Milner CM,Ball ST,Snoek M,Campbell RD

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:The endoplasmic reticulum malectin is a highly conserved protein in the animal kingdom that has no counterpart so far in lower organisms. We recently determined the structure of its conserved domain and found a highly selective binding to Glc(2)Man(9)GlcNAc(2), an intermediate of N-glycosylation. In our quest for puta...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Schallus T,Fehér K,Sternberg U,Rybin V,Muhle-Goll C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the time course of the neuronal death and regeneration of rat axotomized hypoglossal nerve with various conditions of the nerve resection, and established a useful system to measure neurotrophic activities of bioactive substances. In this system, neuronal death can be evaluated by counting surviving n...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Itoh M,Fukumoto S,Baba N,Kuga Y,Mizuno A,Furukawa K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We expressed recombinant Cys subdomains in COS-7 cells to examine the role of this highly conserved protein domain in mucin biosynthesis. The entire Cys1 and Cys5 and Cys1 and Cys3 subdomains in MUC5AC and MUC5B, respectively, each with six carboxyl terminal histidine residues, were pulse-labeled with [(35)S]cysteine/...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Perez-Vilar J,Randell SH,Boucher RC

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Several tri- to hexasaccharide-alditols of the jelly coat surrounding the eggs of Bufo bufo were studied by methylation analysis, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and 1H-NMR spectroscopy. As observed for six other amphibian species, these carbohydrate chains are highly species-specific. The main characteristics of the spe...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Morelle W,Strecker G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is demonstrated with glycopeptides of the polymorphic epithelial mucin (MUC1) that post-source decay matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (PSD-MALDI) is a fast, highly sensitive, and reproducible method for the localization of O-glycosylation sites by reflectron time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry. We hav...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Goletz S,Thiede B,Hanisch FG,Schultz M,Peter-Katalinic J,Müller S,Seitz O,Karsten U

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Glycoside hydrolases are particularly abundant in all areas of metabolism as they are involved in the degradation of natural polysaccharides and glycoconjugates. These enzymes are classified into 133 families (CAZy server, http://www.cazy.org) in which members of each family have a similar structure and catalytic mech...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： André-Miral C,Koné FM,Solleux C,Grandjean C,Dion M,Tran V,Tellier C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycation of immunoglobulin G (IgG) can result from incubation with a reducing sugar in vitro or during circulation in vivo. Upon injection of a recombinantly produced human therapeutic IgG into humans, changes in the glycation levels could be observed as a function of circulation time. Mass changes on the individual ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Goetze AM,Liu YD,Arroll T,Chu L,Flynn GC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently almost no information is available on the oligosaccharide structure of the glycoproteins secreted from the methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha, a promising host for the production of recombinant proteins. In this study, we analyze the size distribution and structure of N-linked oligosaccharides attache...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kim MW,Rhee SK,Kim JY,Shimma Y,Chiba Y,Jigami Y,Kang HA

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:N-Acetylglucosaminlyltransferase-V (GnT-V) synthesizes GlcNAcbeta1,6Man branched N-glycans both in vitro and in vivo. A paralog, GnT-Vb (or GnT-IX), has also been shown to synthesize both GlcNAcbeta1,6Man branched N- and O-glycans. GnT-V is expressed in most human and rodent tissues while GnT-Vb expression is limited ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Alvarez-Manilla G,Troupe K,Fleming M,Martinez-Uribe E,Pierce M

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：: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：:Sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells (IRBCs) in the human placenta is mediated by chondroitin 4-sulfate (C4S). A cytoadherence assay using chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) is widely used for studying C4S-IRBC interactions. Bovine tracheal chondroitin sulfate A (CSA) preparation lack...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Muthusamy A,Achur RN,Valiyaveettil M,Madhunapantula SV,Kakizaki I,Bhavanandan VP,Gowda CD

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lutrophin (LH) consists of an array of isoforms with different charges and bioactivities. This study was undertaken to clarify specifically how oligosaccharides of alpha and beta subunits contribute to LH isoform charges. Porcine LH (pLH) was separated into four isoforms by isoelectric focusing (IEF), followed by subu...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ujihara M,Yamamoto K,Nomura K,Toyoshima S,Demura H,Nakamura Y,Ohmura K,Osawa T

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00