Glycosylation in the era of cancer-targeted therapy: where are we heading?

S Mereiter, M Balmaña, D Campos, J Gomes, CA Reis - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
This review provides insights on the impact of glycosylation in cancer biology and its
influence in the current approaches of targeted cancer therapies in the clinical setting. The …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Hallmarks of glycosylation in cancer

J Munkley, DJ Elliott - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aberrant glycosylation plays a fundamental role in key pathological steps of tumour
development and progression. Glycans have roles in cancer cell signalling, tumour cell …

Glycans and glycoproteins as specific biomarkers for cancer

MJ Kailemia, D Park, CB Lebrilla - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2017 - Springer
Protein glycosylation and other post-translational modifications are involved in potentially all
aspects of human growth and development. Defective glycosylation has adverse effects on …

Glycosylation in cancer: Selected roles in tumour progression, immune modulation and metastasis

JG Rodrigues, M Balmaña, JA Macedo, J Poças… - Cellular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tumour metastasis is the main cause of cancer related deaths. Metastasis is an intricate
multi-step process that requires the acquisition of several cancer cell features, including the …

The sweet and sour of cancer: glycans as novel therapeutic targets

MM Fuster, JD Esko - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2005 - nature.com
A growing body of evidence supports crucial roles for glycans at various pathophysiological
steps of tumour progression. Glycans regulate tumour proliferation, invasion …

Glycosylation defining cancer malignancy: new wine in an old bottle

S Hakomori - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
Aberrant glycosylation occurs in essen-tially all types of experimental and human cancers,
as has been observed for over 35 years, and many glycosyl epitopes constitute tumor …

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 …

Functional roles of N‐glycans in cell signaling and cell adhesion in cancer

YY Zhao, M Takahashi, JG Gu, E Miyoshi… - Cancer …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Glycosylation is one of the most common post‐translational modification reactions and
nearly half of all known proteins in eukaryotes are glycosylated. In fact, changes in …