Protein glycosylation and tumor microenvironment alterations driving cancer hallmarks

A Peixoto, M Relvas-Santos, R Azevedo… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Decades of research have disclosed a plethora of alterations in protein glycosylation that
decisively impact in all stages of disease and ultimately contribute to more aggressive cell …

Aberrant sialylation in cancer: therapeutic opportunities

J Munkley - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary All cells are covered in a thick layer of sugar molecules known as glycans.
Changes to this sugar coat are common in cancer, and in particular cancer cells often …

Metabolism, biochemical actions, and chemical synthesis of anticancer nucleosides, nucleotides, and base analogs

J Shelton, X Lu, JA Hollenbaugh, JH Cho… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nucleoside, nucleotide, and base analogs have been in the clinic for decades to treat both
viral pathogens and neoplasms. More than 20% of patients on anticancer chemotherapy …

The distinct roles of sialyltransferases in cancer biology and onco-immunology

M Hugonnet, P Singh, Q Haas… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aberrant glycosylation is a key feature of malignant transformation. Hypersialylation, the
enhanced expression of sialic acid-terminated glycoconjugates on the cell surface, has …

A systematic review on the implications of O-linked glycan branching and truncating enzymes on cancer progression and metastasis

R Gupta, F Leon, S Rauth, SK Batra, MP Ponnusamy - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glycosylation is the most commonly occurring post-translational modifications, and is
believed to modify over 50% of all proteins. The process of glycan modification is directed by …

[HTML][HTML] Glycoproteogenomics characterizes the CD44 splicing code associated with bladder cancer invasion

C Gaiteiro, J Soares, M Relvas-Santos, A Peixoto… - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Bladder cancer (BC) management demands the introduction of novel molecular
targets for precision medicine. Cell surface glycoprotein CD44 has been widely studied as a …

Protein glycosylation in gastric and colorectal cancers: Toward cancer detection and targeted therapeutics

JA Ferreira, A Magalhaes, J Gomes, A Peixoto… - Cancer letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Glycosylation is the most frequent and structurally complex posttranslational modification in
cell-surface and secreted proteins. Glycans are major orchestrators of biological processes …

[HTML][HTML] GlycoMinestruct: a new bioinformatics tool for highly accurate mapping of the human N-linked and O-linked glycoproteomes by incorporating structural …

F Li, C Li, J Revote, Y Zhang, GI Webb, J Li, J Song… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Glycosylation plays an important role in cell-cell adhesion, ligand-binding and subcellular
recognition. Current approaches for predicting protein glycosylation are primarily based on …

[HTML][HTML] Hypoxia enhances the malignant nature of bladder cancer cells and concomitantly antagonizes protein O-glycosylation extension

A Peixoto, E Fernandes, C Gaiteiro, L Lima… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Invasive bladder tumours express the cell-surface Sialyl-Tn (STn) antigen, which stems from
a premature stop in protein O-glycosylation. The STn antigen favours invasion, immune …

Glycoproteomics identifies HOMER3 as a potentially targetable biomarker triggered by hypoxia and glucose deprivation in bladder cancer

A Peixoto, D Ferreira, R Azevedo, R Freitas… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Background Muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) remains amongst the deadliest
genitourinary malignancies due to treatment failure and extensive molecular heterogeneity …