Glycans and cancer: role of N-glycans in cancer biomarker, progression and metastasis, and therapeutics

N Taniguchi, Y Kizuka - Advances in cancer research, 2015 - Elsevier
Glycosylation is catalyzed by various glycosyltransferase enzymes which are mostly located
in the Golgi apparatus in cells. These enzymes glycosylate various complex carbohydrates …

Fucosylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

B Ma, JL Simala-Grant, DE Taylor - Glycobiology, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Fucosylated carbohydrate structures are involved in a variety of biological and pathological
processes in eukaryotic organisms including tissue development, angiogenesis, fertilization …

Blockage of core fucosylation reduces cell-surface expression of PD-1 and promotes anti-tumor immune responses of T cells

M Okada, S Chikuma, T Kondo, S Hibino… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) is highly expressed on exhausted T cells and
inhibits T cell activation. Antibodies that block the interaction between PD-1 and its ligand …

Biological function of fucosylation in cancer biology

E Miyoshi, K Moriwaki, T Nakagawa - Journal of biochemistry, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Fucosylation is one of the most common modifications involving oligosaccharides on
glycoproteins or glycolipids. Fucosylation comprises the attachment of a fucose residue to N …

[HTML][HTML] Wasserstein GAN-based small-sample augmentation for new-generation artificial intelligence: a case study of cancer-staging data in biology

Y Liu, Y Zhou, X Liu, F Dong, C Wang, Z Wang - Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
It is essential to utilize deep-learning algorithms based on big data for the implementation of
the new generation of artificial intelligence. Effective utilization of deep learning relies …

Dysregulation of TGF-β1 receptor activation leads to abnormal lung development and emphysema-like phenotype in core fucose-deficient mice

X Wang, S Inoue, J Gu, E Miyoshi… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The core fucosylation (α1, 6-fucosylation) of glycoproteins is widely distributed in
mammalian tissues, and is altered under pathological conditions. To investigate …

Use of targeted glycoproteomics to identify serum glycoproteins that correlate with liver cancer in woodchucks and humans

TM Block, MA Comunale, M Lowman… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is associated with the majority of
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The diagnosis of HCC is usually made in the late stages of …

Core fucosylation regulates epidermal growth factor receptor-mediated intracellular signaling

X Wang, J Gu, H Ihara, E Miyoshi, K Honke… - Journal of Biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
α1, 6-Fucosyltransferase (Fut8) catalyzes the transfer of a fucose residue to N-linked
oligosaccharides on glycoproteins via an α1, 6-linkage to form core fucosylation in …

Aberrant glycosylation associated with enzymes as cancer biomarkers

DL Meany, DW Chan - Clinical proteomics, 2011 - Springer
Background One of the new roles for enzymes in personalized medicine builds on a rational
approach to cancer biomarker discovery using enzyme-associated aberrant glycosylation. A …

Glycosylation changes in brain cancer

L Veillon, C Fakih, H Abou-El-Hassan… - ACS chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein glycosylation is a posttranslational modification that affects more than half of all
known proteins. Glycans covalently bound to biomolecules modulate their functions by both …