Glycoconjugates: synthesis, functional studies, and therapeutic developments

SS Shivatare, VS Shivatare, CH Wong - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Glycoconjugates are major constituents of mammalian cells that are formed via covalent
conjugation of carbohydrates to other biomolecules like proteins and lipids and often …

Glycosylation in cancer: mechanisms and clinical implications

SS Pinho, CA Reis - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Despite recent progress in understanding the cancer genome, there is still a relative delay in
understanding the full aspects of the glycome and glycoproteome of cancer. Glycobiology …

Glycointeractions in bacterial pathogenesis

J Poole, CJ Day, M von Itzstein, JC Paton… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Many important interactions between bacterial pathogens and their hosts are highly specific
binding events that involve host or pathogen carbohydrate structures (glycans). Glycan …

Mechanisms of the Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition and Tumor Microenvironment in Helicobacter pylori-Induced Gastric Cancer

J Baj, I Korona-Głowniak, A Forma, A Maani, E Sitarz… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is one of the most common human pathogens, affecting half of
the world's population. Approximately 20% of the infected patients develop gastric ulcers or …

The role of O-glycosylation in human disease

A Magalhães, HO Duarte, CA Reis - Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
O-glycosylation is a highly frequent post-translation modification of proteins, with important
functional implications in both physiological and disease contexts. The biosynthesis of O …

Experimental models to study intestinal microbes–mucus interactions in health and disease

L Etienne-Mesmin, B Chassaing… - FEMS microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A close symbiotic relationship exists between the intestinal microbiota and its
host. A critical component of gut homeostasis is the presence of a mucus layer covering the …

The densely O-glycosylated MUC2 mucin protects the intestine and provides food for the commensal bacteria

L Arike, GC Hansson - Journal of molecular biology, 2016 - Elsevier
All mucins are highly O-glycosylated by variable glycans depending on species, histoblood
group and organ. This makes the intestinal main mucin MUC2 non-degradable by the host …

Applying transcriptomics to study glycosylation at the cell type level

LA Dworkin, H Clausen, HJ Joshi - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
The complex multi-step process of glycosylation occurs in a single cell, yet current analytics
generally cannot measure the output (the glycome) of a single cell. Here, we addressed this …

Recent advances on smart glycoconjugate vaccines in infections and cancer

M Anderluh, F Berti, A Bzducha‐Wróbel… - The FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vaccination is one of the greatest achievements in biomedical research preventing death
and morbidity in many infectious diseases through the induction of pathogen‐specific …

Adhesion of Helicobacter Species to the Human Gastric Mucosa: A Deep Look Into Glycans Role

R Matos, I Amorim, A Magalhães… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Helicobacter species infections may be associated with the development of gastric
disorders, such as gastritis, peptic ulcers, intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia and gastric …