abstract：:Herein the biodistributions and in vivo kinetics of chemically prepared neoglycoproteins are reviewed. Chemical methods can be used to conjugate various mono- and oligosaccharides onto a protein surface. The kinetics and organ-specific accumulation profiles of these glycoconjugates, which are introduced through intrav...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ogura A,Kurbangalieva A,Tanaka K

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:The enzyme UDP-N-acetylglucosamine: α-d-mannoside β-1-6 N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase V (GnT-V) catalyzes the transfer of GlcNAc from the UDP-GlcNAc donor to the α-1-6-linked mannose of the trimannosyl core structure of glycoproteins to produce the β-1-6-linked branching of N-linked oligosaccharides. β-1-6-GlcNAc-br...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Janoš P,Kozmon S,Tvaroška I,Koca J

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:F-type lectins are fucolectins with characteristic fucose and calcium-binding sequence motifs and a unique lectin fold (the "F-type" fold). F-type lectins are phylogenetically widespread with selective distribution. Several eukaryotic F-type lectins have been biochemically and structurally characterized, and the F-typ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bishnoi R,Khatri I,Subramanian S,Ramya TN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Glycanase 1, encoded by NGLY1, catalyzes the deglycosylation of misfolded N-linked glycoproteins retrotranslocated into the cytosol. We identified nine cases with mutations in NGLY1. The patients show developmental delay, seizures, peripheral neuropathy, abnormal liver function and alacrima (absence of tears). The m...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： He P,Grotzke JE,Ng BG,Gunel M,Jafar-Nejad H,Cresswell P,Enns GM,Freeze HH

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Glycans from the nematode Haemonchus contortus (barber pole worm), a parasite of sheep and cattle, were the first to be described to possess up to three fucose residues associated with the N,N'-diacetylchitobiosyl core, two being on the reducing-terminal proximal GlcNAc and one on the distal core GlcNAc residue. The...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Paschinger K,Wilson IB

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Invasive aspergillosis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Diagnosis of this infection frequently employs detection of the circulating galactomannan in the patient serum using enzyme immunoassay (EIA), a highly sensitive and specific system. Although there are many structura...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kudoh A,Okawa Y,Shibata N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-8 (gal-8) is a "tandem-repeat"-type galectin, containing two carbohydrate recognition domains connected by a linker peptide. gal-8 is expressed both in the cytoplasm and nucleus in vascular endothelial cells (ECs) from normal and tumor-associated blood vessels, and in lymphatic endothelial cells. Herein, we d...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Troncoso MF,Ferragut F,Bacigalupo ML,Cárdenas Delgado VM,Nugnes LG,Gentilini L,Laderach D,Wolfenstein-Todel C,Compagno D,Rabinovich GA,Elola MT

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphism studies in humans provide unique opportunities to understand human biology and the mechanisms of diseases. Correlations between polymorphisms in the genes encoding human Siglecs and various diseases have been reported. Leading examples, such as the CD33 polymorphism associated with late-onset Alzh...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Angata T

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:O-Acetylglucuronoxylans (AcGX) in Arabidopsis thaliana carry acetyl residues on the 2-O and/or 3-O positions of the xylopyranosyl (Xylp) units, but the distribution of different O-acetylated Xylp units is partly unclear. We studied a possible correlation of xylan acetylation and the activities of different glycosyltra...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Chong SL,Virkki L,Maaheimo H,Juvonen M,Derba-Maceluch M,Koutaniemi S,Roach M,Sundberg B,Tuomainen P,Mellerowicz EJ,Tenkanen M

更新日期：2014-06-01 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 structure of a antigen-binding fragment (Fab) from the bactericidal monoclonal antibody LPT3-1 specific to lipooligosaccharide (LOS) inner cores from Neisseria meningitidis has been solved in complex with an eight-sugar inner core fragment NmL3 galE lpt3 KOH to 2.69 Å resolution. The epitope is centered about an i...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Parker MJ,Gomery K,Richard G,MacKenzie CR,Cox AD,Richards JC,Evans SV

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syp locus includes four genes encoding putative regulators, six genes encoding glycosyltransferases, two encoding export proteins, and six other genes encoding unidentified functional proteins associated with biofilm formation and symbiotic colonization. However, the individual functions of the respective genes re...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ye L,Zheng X,Zheng H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Glucans possess broad immunomodulatory properties, including activation of innate immune functions such as oxidative burst activity. The differential roles of complement receptor type 3 (CR3) and Dectin-1, the known β-glucan receptors, and their associated signaling pathways in the generation of oxidative burst indu...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Bose N,Wurst LR,Chan AS,Dudney CM,LeRoux ML,Danielson ME,Will PM,Nodland SE,Patchen ML,Dalle Lucca JJ,Lebeda FJ,Vasilakos JP

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：: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：:Mechanisms for nonenzymatic protein glycation have been extensively studied albeit with an emphasis at the later stages that gives rise to advanced glycation end products. No detailed investigation of the initial, noncovalent binding of d-glucose to human hemoglobin A (HbA) exists in the literature. Although anionic m...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Clark SL,Santin AE,Bryant PA,Holman R,Rodnick KJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOS) are not digested in the proximal intestine. In distal intestine, HMOS collectively modify the microbiota, but the response of individual bacteria to individual components of the HMOS is not well defined. Here, each of 25 major isolates of the human intestinal microbiota was fed indiv...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Yu ZT,Chen C,Newburg DS

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At weaning, the intestinal mucosa surface glycans change from predominantly sialylated to fucosylated. Intestinal adaptation from milk to solid food is regulated by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The contribution by glucocorticoid, an intrinsic factor, and colonization by microbiota, an extrinsic factor, was measure...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nanthakumar NN,Meng D,Newburg DS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosphingolipids are expressed on the cell membrane and act as important factors in various events that occur across the plasma membrane. Lactosylceramide (LacCer) is synthesized from glucosylceramide and is a common precursor of various glycosphingolipids existing in whole body. Based on the enzyme purification, β1...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Tokuda N,Numata S,Li X,Nomura T,Takizawa M,Kondo Y,Yamashita Y,Hashimoto N,Kiyono T,Urano T,Furukawa K,Furukawa K

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalose synthase (TreS) catalyzes the reversible conversion of maltose into trehalose in mycobacteria as one of three biosynthetic pathways to this nonreducing disaccharide. Given the importance of trehalose to survival of mycobacteria, there has been considerable interest in understanding the enzymes involved in it...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Caner S,Nguyen N,Aguda A,Zhang R,Pan YT,Withers SG,Brayer GD

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

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：:In this work, focused on possible application of α-L-fucosidases from bacterial sources in the synthesis of α-L-fucosylated glycoconjugates, several nonpathogenic aerobic bacterial strains were screened for α-L-fucosidase activity. Among them Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus was confirmed as a potent producer of enzyme w...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Benesová E,Lipovová P,Dvoráková H,Králová B

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificities of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) modification enzymes, particularly sulfotransferases, and the locations and concentrations of these enzymes in the Golgi apparatus give rise to the mature GAG polysaccharides that bind protein ligands. We studied the substrate specificities of sulfotransferases with a stabl...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Shi X,Shao C,Mao Y,Huang Y,Wu ZL,Zaia J

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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：:The occurrence of a terminal disialyl motif on mammalian O-glycans is increasingly being identified through recent mass spectrometry (MS)-based glycomic profiling. In most cases, it is carried on simple core 1 structures in which both the galactose and N-acetyl galactosamine can be disialylated. In contrast, a disialy...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Wang SH,Tsai CM,Lin KI,Khoo KH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of p53-induced gene 1 is a member of the galectin family, i.e., galectin-7 (Gal-7). To move beyond structural data by X-ray diffraction, we initiated the study of the lectin by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and circular dichroism spectroscopies, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In concert, our r...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ermakova E,Miller MC,Nesmelova IV,López-Merino L,Berbís MA,Nesmelov Y,Tkachev YV,Lagartera L,Daragan VA,André S,Cañada FJ,Jiménez-Barbero J,Solís D,Gabius HJ,Mayo KH

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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

abstract：:Circulating leukocytes that express selectin ligands such as the carbohydrate epitope sialyl Lewis X (sLeX) may interact with endothelial selectins, resulting in transmigration of the leukocyte across the endothelial wall to adjacent tissue. Due to the potential of selectin-ligand interactions as targets in viral path...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nordén R,Nyström K,Aurelius J,Brisslert M,Olofsson S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00