abstract：:Heat stress on Madin-Darby canine kidney cells increased ceramide content to 187% at 40 degrees C for 24 h, and the de novo synthesis from serine increased to 146%. Glucosylceramide (GlcCer) and galactosylceramide (GalCer) synthesis from ceramide, the first glycosylation step of sphingolipid metabolism in kidney cells...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Niimura Y,Moue T,Takahashi N,Nagai K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-antigen (O-polysaccharide), a part of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, is one of the most variable cell constituents and is related to bacterial virulence. O-antigen diversity is almost entirely due to genetic variations in O-antigen gene clusters. In this study, the O-polysaccharide structures of Salmo...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Liu B,Perepelov AV,Svensson MV,Shevelev SD,Guo D,Senchenkova SN,Shashkov AS,Weintraub A,Feng L,Widmalm G,Knirel YA,Wang L

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The core oligosaccharide Glc(3)Man(9)GlcNAc(2) is assembled by a series of membrane-bound glycosyltransferases as the lipid carrier dolichylpyrophosphate-linked glycan in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The first step of this assembly pathway on the ER luminal side is mediated by ALG3 (asparagine-linked glycosylation ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kajiura H,Seki T,Fujiyama K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the pectic polysaccharide rhamnogalacturonan II (RG-II) pectin constituent are remarkably evolutionary conserved in all plant species. At least 12 different glycosyl residues are present in RG-II. Among them is the seldom eight-carbon sugar 3-deoxy-d-manno-octulosonic acid (Kdo) whose biosynthetic pa...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Séveno M,Séveno-Carpentier E,Voxeur A,Menu-Bouaouiche L,Rihouey C,Delmas F,Chevalier C,Driouich A,Lerouge P

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：: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：:Changes in mucin protein expression and in glycosylation are common features in pre-neoplastic lesions and cancer and are therefore used as cancer-associated markers. De novo expression of intestinal mucin MUC2 and cancer-associated sialyl-Tn antigen are frequently observed in intestinal metaplasia (IM) and gastric ca...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Conze T,Carvalho AS,Landegren U,Almeida R,Reis CA,David L,Söderberg O

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase-IV (GnT-IV) has two isoenzymes, GnT-IVa and GnT-IVb, which initiate the GlcNAcbeta1-4 branch synthesis on the Manalpha1-3 arm of the N-glycan core thereby increasing N-glycan branch complexity and conferring endogenous lectin binding epitopes. To elucidate the physiological significance...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Takamatsu S,Antonopoulos A,Ohtsubo K,Ditto D,Chiba Y,Le DT,Morris HR,Haslam SM,Dell A,Marth JD,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galbeta1-4GlcNAc is thought to be a common disaccharide unit preferentially recognized by vertebrate galectins. Eight-amino-acid residues conserved in proteins belonging to the galectin family have been suggested to be responsible for recognition. Meanwhile, we isolated and analyzed endogenous N-glycans of Caenorhabdi...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Takeuchi T,Nishiyama K,Sugiura K,Takahashi M,Yamada A,Kobayashi S,Takahashi H,Natsugari H,Kasai K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer-derived heat shock protein gp96 induces a tumor-specific protective immune response primarily mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) directed toward cancer-associated peptides associated with gp96. Both innate and adaptive immune responses have been demonstrated using a cell culture-based signaling mechanism...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Suriano R,Ghosh SK,Chaudhuri D,Mittelman A,Banerjee A,Tiwari RK

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Galectins are a sub-family of lectins, defined by their highly conserved beta-sandwich structures and ability to bind to beta-galactosides, like Gal beta1-4 Glc (lactose). Here, we used (15)N-(1)H HSQC and pulse field gradient (PFG) NMR spectroscopy to demonstrate that galectin-1 (gal-1) binds to the relatively large ...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Miller MC,Klyosov A,Mayo KH

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute immune-mediated polyradiculoneuropathy which can cause acute quadriplegia. Infection with micro-organisms, including Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni), Haemophilus influenzae, and Cytomegalovirus (CMV), is recognized as a main triggering event for the disease. Lipooligosacchari...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kaida K,Ariga T,Yu RK

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：: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：:Intelectin is an extracellular animal lectin found in chordata. Although human and mouse intelectin-1 recognize galactofuranosyl residues included in cell walls of various microorganisms, the physiological function of mammalian intelectin had been unclear. In this study, we found that human intelectin-1 was a serum pr...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Tsuji S,Yamashita M,Hoffman DR,Nishiyama A,Shinohara T,Ohtsu T,Shibata Y

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is associated with growth, invasion, and metastasis of human solid tumors. Aberrant activation of endothelial cells and induction of microvascular permeability by a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) signaling pathway is observed in pathological angiogenesis including tumor, wo...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Chung TW,Kim SJ,Choi HJ,Kim KJ,Kim MJ,Kim SH,Lee HJ,Ko JH,Lee YC,Suzuki A,Kim CH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Malian medicinal plant Biophytum petersianum Klotzsch (Oxalidaceae) is used as a treatment against various types of illnesses related to the immune system, such as joint pains, inflammations, fever, malaria, and wounds. A pectic polysaccharide obtained from a hot water extract of the aerial parts of B. petersianum...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Inngjerdingen M,Inngjerdingen KT,Patel TR,Allen S,Chen X,Rolstad B,Morris GA,Harding SE,Michaelsen TE,Diallo D,Paulsen BS

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catabolism of dermatan sulfate (DS) commences with endohydrolysis of the polysaccharide to oligosaccharides by proposed endo-beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase and endohexuronidase activities. To investigate the substrate specificities of these activities, we developed an assay to measure specific products of their actio...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Nielsen TC,Meikle PJ,Hopwood JJ,Fuller M

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Affinities of the human blood group glycosyltransferases, alpha-(1-->3)-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (GTA) and alpha-(1-->3)-galactosyltransferase (GTB) for their common acceptor substrate alpha-l-Fucp-(1-->2)-beta-d-Galp-O(CH2)(7)CH3 (1), in the absence and presence of bound uridine 5'-diphosphate (UDP) and Mn2+...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Shoemaker GK,Soya N,Palcic MM,Klassen JS

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:A common argument against using plants as a production system for therapeutic proteins is their inability to perform authentic N-glycosylation. A major concern is the presence of beta 1,2-xylose and core alpha 1,3-fucose residues on complex N-glycans as these nonmammalian N-glycan residues may provoke unwanted side ef...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Jin C,Altmann F,Strasser R,Mach L,Schähs M,Kunert R,Rademacher T,Glössl J,Steinkellner H

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:It is widely reported that derivatives of sugar moieties can be used to metabolically label cell surface carbohydrates or inhibit a particular glycosylation. However, few studies address the effect of substitution of the cytidylmonophosphate (CMP) portion on sialyltransferase activities. Here we first synthesized 2'-O...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Miyazaki T,Angata K,Seeberger PH,Hindsgaul O,Fukuda M

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:The egg jellies of sea urchins contain sulfated polysaccharides with unusual structures, composed of linear chains of l-fucose or l-galactose with well-defined repetitive units. The specific pattern of sulfation and the position of the glycosidic bond vary among sulfated polysaccharides from different species. These p...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Cinelli LP,Castro MO,Santos LL,Garcia CR,Vilela-Silva AC,Mourão PA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K92 produces a capsular polysialic acid with alternating alpha2,8 alpha2,9 NeuNAc linkages. This polysaccharide is cross-reactive with the neuroinvasive pathogen Neisseria meningitidis Group C. The K92 polysialyltransferase (PST) catalyzes the synthesis of the polysialic acid with alternating linkages...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Vionnet J,Vann WF

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：: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：:We have elucidated the carbohydrate-binding profile of a non-monosaccharide-binding lectin named Eucheuma serra lectin (ESA)-2 from the red alga Eucheuma serra using a lectin-immobilized column and a centrifugal ultrafiltration-high performance liquid chromatography method with a variety of fluorescence-labeled oligos...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Hori K,Sato Y,Ito K,Fujiwara Y,Iwamoto Y,Makino H,Kawakubo A

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:The human parasitic trematode Schistosoma mansoni has a complex life cycle that includes the freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata as intermediate host. Within each stage, the parasite synthesizes a wide array of glycoconjugates, exhibiting, in part, unique carbohydrate structures. In addition, the parasite expresses...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Lehr T,Geyer H,Maass K,Doenhoff MJ,Geyer R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides attached to the antibody constant region (Fc) of human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) has been shown to affect the pharmacokinetics and antibody effector functions of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC). However, it i...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Kanda Y,Yamada T,Mori K,Okazaki A,Inoue M,Kitajima-Miyama K,Kuni-Kamochi R,Nakano R,Yano K,Kakita S,Shitara K,Satoh M

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:Viscumin of mistletoe (Viscum album L.) has a concentration-dependent activity profile unique to plant AB-toxins. It starts with lectin-dependent mitogenicity and then covers toxicity and cell agglutination, associated with shifts in the monomer/dimer equilibrium. Each lectin subunit harbors two sections for ligand co...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Jiménez M,André S,Siebert HC,Gabius HJ,Solís D

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common O-glycan core structure in animal glycoproteins is the core 1 disaccharide Galbeta1-3GalNAcalpha1-Ser/Thr, which is generated by the addition of Gal to GalNAcalpha1-Ser/Thr by core 1 UDP-alpha-galactose (UDP-Gal):GalNAcalpha1-Ser/Thr beta1,3-galactosyltransferase (core 1 beta3-Gal-T or T-synthase, EC2.4.1.1...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Ju T,Zheng Q,Cummings RD

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gangliosides, sialic acid-containing glycosphingolipids, are ubiquitously expressed in all eukaryotic cells and are primarily localized in the plasma membrane. Cholera toxin B subunit (Ctxb), a component of a heat-labile enterotoxin produced by Vibrio cholerae, has been frequently used as a probe to detect GM1 ganglio...

journal_title：Glycobiology

authors： Yanagisawa M,Ariga T,Yu RK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00