abstract：:Heterologous complementation in yeast has been a successful tool for cloning and characterisation of genes from various organisms. Therefore we constructed conditionally lethal Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains by replacing the endogenous promoter from the genes of interest (glycosyltransferases) by the stringently reg...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Mazhari-Tabrizi R,Blank M,Mumberg D,Funk M,Schwarz RT,Eckert V

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major impediment in the analysis of glycosaminoglycans is the difficulty to cleave quantitatively the glycosidic bonds because of the stabilisation of glycosidic bonds and of the relative instability of the liberated constituents. This manuscript describes a modified procedure of methanolysis in the presence of bari...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Zanetta JP,Timmerman P,Leroy Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the alpha-D-galactose-(1-->3)-D-galactose epitope has been identified to be the major target in the process of hyperacute rejection of xenografts transplanted from nonprimate donors to humans, specific inhibitors of alpha-galactosyltransferases are of broad interest. Using Trypanosoma brucei, a protozoan parasit...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kolb V,Amann F,Schmidt RR,Duszenko M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colominic acid is an alpha2,8-linked sialic acid polymer produced by Escherichia coli. We found that synthetic sulfated-colominic acids (SC) remarkably inhibited the cytotoxicity of bee and snake venom toward mouse fibroblast cells, but colominic acids showed no inhibition themselves, indicating the important role of ...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Oda Y,Kinoshita M,Hamada K,Nakayama K,Ohta Y,Yamaguchi S,Tsukada Y,Kawai Y,Kakehi K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partial oligosaccharide sequences of glycoconjugates and the nature of their glycosidic linkages were investigated in normal human prostate, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostatic carcinoma by means of lectin histochemistry, using light microscopy and Western blot analysis. The labeling pattern of BPH di...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Arenas MI,Romo E,de Gaspar I,de Bethencourt FR,Sánchez-Chapado M,Fraile B,Paniagua R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteropolysaccarides were isolated from the Korean medicinal plant, Phellodendri cortex (Hwangbek), by hot water and alkali extractions. The extracted polysaccharides were fractionated into eight fractions and they are mainly composed of D-N-acetylglucosamine, D-galactose, D-mannose, and D-glucose. Among the polysacch...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Park JI,Shim JK,Do JW,Kim SY,Seo EK,Kwon HJ,Lee TK,Kim JK,Choi DY,Kim CH

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous fungi are commonly used in the fermentation industry for large scale production of glycoproteins. Several of these proteins can be produced in concentrations up to 20-40 g per litre. The production of heterologous glycoproteins is at least one or two orders of magnitude lower but research is in progress to...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Maras M,van Die I,Contreras R,van den Hondel CA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosphingolipids were prepared from pig lung and pooled into two fractions with (i) < or = 3 sugar residues, and (ii) > or = 3 sugar residues. Oligosaccharides were prepared and used for gas chromatography, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. The gl...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Bäcker AE,Thorbert S,Rakotonirainy O,Hallberg EC,Olling A,Gustavsson M,Samuelsson BE,Soussi B

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both infiltrating leukocytes and soluble immunoglobulin form aggregates in synovial fluid during the inflammatory process in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Some of these changes are probably mediated by the adhesion molecule, E-selectin, which increases its expression with disease activity. As glycosylation changes in IgG...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Goodarzi MT,Axford JS,Varanasi SS,Alavi A,Cunnane G,Fitzgerald O,Turner GA

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-glycans from soluble extracts of ten pollens were examined. The pyridylaminated oligosaccharides derived from these sources were subject to gel filtration and reverse-phase HPLC, in conjunction with exoglycosidase digests, and in some cases matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionisation mass spectrometry. In compar...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Wilson IB,Altmann F

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent studies have revealed the existence of two distinct Gal: 3-O-sulfotransferases capable of acting on the C-3 position of galactose in a Core 2 branched structure, e.g., Galbeta1-->4GlcNAcbeta1-->6(Galbeta1-->3)GalNacalph a1-->OBenzyl as acceptor to give 3-O-sulfoGalbeta1-->4GlcNAcbeta1-->3(Galbeta1-->3)G alN...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Jain RK,Piskorz CF,Chandrasekaran EV,Matta KL

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for determination of alpha1,6fucosyltransferase activity has been described. Recently, the disialyl-biantennary undecasaccharide was prepared in high yield from egg yolk [(1996), Carbohydr Lett 2: 137-42]. By treatment of this oligosaccharide with neuraminidase and beta-galactosidase, we readily obtained ...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Yazawa S,Kochibe N,Nishimura T,Shima C,Takai I,Adachi M,Asao T,Hada T,Enoki Y,Juneja LR

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In aging and diabetes, glycation of collagen molecules leads to the formation of cross-links that could alter the surface charge on collagen fibrils, and hence affect the properties and correct functioning of a number of tissues. The electron-optical stain phosphotungstic acid (PTA) binds to positively charged amino a...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Hadley JC,Meek KM,Malik NS

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongly reacting antibodies specific for defined mucin gene products are often directed against the mucin protein backbone of the heavily glycosylated serine/threonine rich regions. A prerequisite for the use of such antibodies is often the complete removal of the oligosaccharides from the protein. This paper describ...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Axelsson MA,Hansson EM,Sikut R,Hansson GC

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between Urtica dioica agglutinin (UDA) and N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and its beta(1-4)-linked oligomers was studied by fluorescence titration and isothermal titration microcalorimetry. UDA possesses one significant binding site that can be measured calorimetrically. This site is composed of three su...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Lee RT,Gabius HJ,Lee YC

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductive amination of 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (Kdo) with allylamine (AIIN) or 2-(4-aminophenyl)ethylamine (APEA) yields epimer pairs of 2-N-allylamino and 2-N-[2-(4-aminophenyl)ethylamino]-2,3-dideoxy-D-glycero-D-galacto- and -2,3-dideoxy-D-glycero-D-talo-octonic acid. The yields were 50-60% due to reduction...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Grimmecke HD,Brade H

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human skin fibroblasts were incubated with a fluorogenic xyloside, 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-xyloside (Xyl-MU), in the presence or absence of tunicamycin. The xyloside-initiated glycosaminoglycans (GAG-MUs) were isolated from the culture medium, and their structures characterized. When the cells were incubated with ...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Takagaki K,Tazawa T,Munakata H,Nakamura T,Endo M

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylneuraminic acid (a sialic acid) occurs mainly as a terminal substituent of oligosaccharides of glycoconjugates. Derivatives of neuraminic acid occur widely, substituted in the amino and hydroxy side chains, as well in the C-9 carbon skeleton. These derivatives are responsible for specific functions of sialic a...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Stehling P,Gohlke M,Fitzner R,Reutter W

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined structure-function relationships that have been proposed to account for the heparin-binding properties of basic fibroblast growth factor and its receptor, FGFR-1, using synthetic peptides, DNA synthesis assays and binding assays in a resonant mirror biosensor. The results suggest that the interaction ...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kinsella L,Chen HL,Smith JA,Rudland PS,Fernig DG

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the postnatal developmental profiles of N-acetylneuraminic acid cytidylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.43) (CMP-Neu5Ac synthetase) in different rat tissues. This enzyme, which catalyses the activation of NeuAc to CMP-Neu5Ac, was detected in brain, kidney, heart, spleen, liver, stomach, intestine, lung, thymus, prost...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Revilla-Nuin B,Reglero A,Feo JC,Rodriguez-Aparicio LB,Ferrero MA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel glycosphingolipid, SEGLx (Galbeta1-4(Fucalpha1-3)Glcbeta1-3GalbetaCer), which was identified by us (Kawakami Y, et al. (1993) J Biochem 114: 677-83), shows a characteristic spectrum on 1H-NMR analysis, in which the anomeric proton resonances of a reducing end galactose and a glucose are split. To elucidate t...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kawakami J,Kawakami Y,Nakamura K,Kojima H,Ito S,Tamai Y

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional structures of the natural substrate unit for the enzyme N-acetylglucosamine-transferase II, GIcNAc-Man3-GlcNAc2, were investigated by molecular modelling methods. Molecular dynamics (MD) and molecular mechanics calculations on two hexasaccharides, namely GlcNAc-Man3-GlcNAc2-Asn and GlcNAc-Man3-GlcNAc...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kozar T,Tvaroska I,Carver JP

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-glycan moiety of ascorbic acid oxidase from zucchini (Cucurbita pepo) has been described to be a core-pentasaccharide with a xylose [D'Andrea et al. (1988) Glycoconjugate J 5:151-7]. Ascorbic acid oxidase is sometimes used to characterize antibodies directed against carbohydrate determinants on plant glycoprotei...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Altmann F

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational space of methyl 6-O-[(R)- and (S)-1-carboxyethyl]-alpha-D-galactopyranoside has been investigated. A grid search employing energy minimization at each grid point over the three major degrees of freedom, namely phi, psi and omega, identified low energy regions. The R-isomer shows five low energy conf...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Stenutz R,Widmalm G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously detected an alkali-labile and developmentally regulated antigen in rat embryonic cerebral cortex, which may be 9-O-acetylsialylated GT3 ganglioside (Hirabayashi Y, Hirota M, Suzuki Y, Matsumoto M, Obata K, Ando S (1989) Neurosci Lett 106:193-98). In this study we established a mouse monoclonal antib...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Zhang G,Ji L,Kurono S,Fujita SC,Furuya S,Hirabayashi Y

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbohydrate determinants, sialyl Lewis A and sialyl Lewis X, which are frequently expressed on human cancer cells, serve as ligands for a cell adhesion molecule of the selectin family, E-selectin, which is expressed on vascular endothelial cells. These carbohydrate determinants are involved in the adhesion of can...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Kannagi R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small keratan sulphate proteoglycan, fibromodulin, has been isolated from pooled human articular cartilage. The main chain repeat region and the chain caps from the attached N-linked keratan sulphate chains have been fragmented by keratanase II digestion, and the oligosaccharides generated have been reduced and is...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Lauder RM,Huckerby TN,Nieduszynski IA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two azidohexasaccharide building blocks, of which the glycosyl acceptor was the 5-(methoxycarbonyl)pentyl glycoside, were coupled using the trichloroacetimidate technology. The 12 azido functions present in the dodecasaccharide thus formed were then converted to amino groups using hydrogen sulfide as a reducing reagen...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Ogawa Y,Kovac P

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partitioning of the overall molecular charge distribution into atom centered monopole charges, while quantum mechanically ill-defined, is nevertheless a technique which finds applications in several broad classes of chemical problems. Charges derived from fits to electrostatic potentials have an intuitive appeal s...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Carey C,Chirlian LE,Francl MM,Gange DM

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured chondrocytes derived from the caudal and cephalic ends of embryonic chick sterna have been compared with each other and with whole sternum, by using a panel of 21 lectins to probe the distribution of oligosaccharides in glycoconjugates of cells and matrix at various times of culture or development. On culture...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： McClure SF,Stoddart RW,McClure J

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty different human and animal tissues were investigated for the presence of polyglycosylceramides. The glycolipids were isolated by peracetylation of dry tissue residues left after conventional lipid extraction, followed by extraction with chloroform and subsequent Sephadex LH-20, Sephadex LH-60 and silica gel chr...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Miller-Podraza H,Stenhagen G,Larsson T,Andersson C,Karlsson KA

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the comparative TLC immunostaining investigation of neutral GSLs and gangliosides from human skeletal and heart muscle is described. A panel of specific polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies as well as the GM1-specific choleragenoid were used for the overlay assays, combined with preceding neuraminidase t...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Müthing J,Cacić M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric carcinoma is a major cause of cancer death worldwide and, like most human cancers, probably develops after environmental insults acting on normal individuals and/or individuals with increased genetic susceptibility. Mucins are attractive molecules to study the relationship between genetics and environment beca...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Carvalho F,Seruca R,David L,Amorim A,Seixas M,Bennett E,Clausen H,Sobrinho-Simões M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SewA385T mutation of the FUT2 gene was found to correlate with both the erthrocyte Le(a + b+) and/or salivary ABH partial-secretor phenotypes of Polynesians. Constructs with FUT1 and FUT2 wild type genes, and the FUT2 SewA385T, seG428A and seC571T mutated alleles, were cloned into pcDNAI, and expressed in COS-7 ce...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Henry S,Mollicone R,Fernandez P,Samuelsson B,Oriol R,Larson G

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frog integumentary mucin B.1 (FIM-B.1) represents a polymorphic extracellular mosaic protein which contains tandemly arranged serine/threonine-rich modules as well as cysteine-rich domains. The latter are probably important for oligomerization of FIM-B.1 and have also been found in many proteins of the complement casc...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Joba W,Hoffmann W

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA from four colorectal carcinoma cell lines was prepared and analysed in Northern blots using probes for the MUC2, MUC4, and MUC5AC mucin apoprotein genes. The sizes of the transcripts were very large, in the order of at least 12-16 kb. The presence of distinct bands is in contrast to earlier reports, where these tr...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Baeckström D,Hansson GC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 ABO blood group antigens (peripheral core structure: Gal beta 1-3GlcNAc beta 1-R) are expressed mainly in endodermally-derived tissues, but are not synthesized in mesodermally-derived tissues. In the former tissues, H type 1 antigen is generated largely by alpha-2-L-fucosyltransferase encoded by secretor (Se) g...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Tanegashima A,Nishi K,Fukunaga T,Rand S,Brinkmann B

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new strategy for the fluorometric determination of glycosyltransferase activities is reported. The method involves dansyl chloride derivatization of the reduced form (pNH2phenyl) of a hydrophobic, aglycon moiety covalently linked to a number of acceptor substrates (pNO2phenyl). Focusing on the Golgi enzyme core 2 N-...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Palmerini CA,Datti A,Vanderelst IE,Minuti L,Orlacchio A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human glioma D-54MG cell line grown in vitro primarily expresses ganglio series gangliosides, particularly GM2. Subcutaneous injection of these cells into nude mice produced xenografts with an increased content of the human glioma-associated lacto series gangliosides, primarily 3'-isoLM1, an alteration that was do...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Fredman P,Wikstrand CJ,Månsson JE,Reifenberger G,Bigner SH,Rasheed A,Svennerholm L,Bigner DD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the antibody 3G9-A was assayed for activity against human erythrocyte glycosphingolipids. The antibody was found to recognize glycosphingolipid components from blood group A erythrocytes but not glycosphingolipids from blood group B or O erythrocytes. Subsequent investigation revealed that the glycosphi...

journal_title：Glycoconjugate journal

authors： Briggs JB,Mandrell R,Macher BA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00