A cationic motif upstream Engrailed2 homeodomain controls cell internalization through selective interaction with heparan sulfates

S Cardon, YP Hervis, G Bolbach, C Lopin-Bon… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Engrailed2 (En2) is a transcription factor that transfers from cell to cell through
unconventional pathways. The poorly understood internalization mechanism of this cationic …

Uremic Toxin-Induced Exosome-like Extracellular Vesicles Contain Enhanced Levels of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans which Facilitate the Interaction with Very Small …

C Freise, A Zappe, N Löwa, J Schnorr, K Pagel… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Uremic toxins exert pathophysiological effects on cells and tissues, such as the generation
of a pro-calcifying subtype of exosome-like extracellular vesicles (EVs) in vascular cells …

Affinity and specificity for binding to glycosaminoglycans can be tuned by adapting peptide length and sequence

H Crijns, L Adyns, E Ganseman, S Cambier… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although glycosaminoglycan (GAG)–protein interactions are important in many
physiological and pathological processes, the structural requirements for binding are poorly …

Pingyangmycin and bleomycin share the same cytotoxicity pathway

Y He, Y Lan, Y Liu, H Yu, Z Han, X Li, L Zhang - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Pingyangmycin is an anticancer drug known as bleomycin A5 (A5), discovered in the
Pingyang County of Zhejiang Province of China. Bleomycin (BLM) is a mixture of mainly two …

Rapid cellular uptake of citrate-coated iron oxide nanoparticles unaffected by cell-surface glycosaminoglycans

L Kampen, A Remmo, SG Twamley, A Weller… - Nanoscale …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Citrate-coated iron oxide nanoparticles, specifically Synomag®-COOH (SynC), are
promising tracers in magnetic particle imaging (MPI) due to their high magnetic moments …

Heparan sulfate and chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans are targeted by bleomycin in cancer cells

X Li, Y Lan, Y He, Y Liu, H Luo, H Yu, N Song… - Cellular physiology and …, 2017 - karger.com
Abstract Background/Aims: Bleomycin is a clinically used anti-cancer drug that produces
DNA breaks once inside of cells. However, bleomycin is a positively charged molecule and …

Pingyangmycin inhibits glycosaminoglycan sulphation in both cancer cells and tumour tissues

Y Lan, X Li, Y Liu, Y He, C Hao, H Wang… - Journal of Cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pingyangmycin is a clinically used anticancer drug and induces lung fibrosis in certain
cancer patients. We previously reported that the negatively charged cell surface …

Cell glycosaminoglycans content modulates human voltage‐gated proton channel (HV1) gating

DJB Orts, M Arcisio‐Miranda - The FEBS Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Voltage‐gated proton channels (HV1) have been found in many mammalian cells and play
a crucial role in the immune system, male fertility, and cancer progression …

A cationic motif in Engrailed-2 homeoprotein controls its internalization via selective cell-surface glycosaminoglycans interactions

S Cardon, G Bolbach, YP Hervis, C Lopin-Bon… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Engrailed-2 (En2) is a transcription factor that possesses as most homeoproteins
the unique and intriguing property to transfer from cell to cell through unconventional …

Heparanase modulation by Wingless/INT (Wnt)

CM Melo, HB Nader, GZ Justo, MAS Pinhal - Molecular Biology Reports, 2021 - Springer
Heparanase is an endo-beta-glucuronidase, the only enzyme in mammals capable of
cleaving heparan sulfate/heparin chains from proteoglycans. The oligosaccharides …