Effect of posttranslational modifications and subclass on IgG activity: from immunity to immunotherapy

F Nimmerjahn, G Vidarsson, MS Cragg - Nature immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Humoral immune responses are characterized by complex mixtures of polyclonal antibody
species varying in their isotype, target epitope specificity and affinity. Posttranslational …

High-throughput glycomic methods

I Trbojević-Akmačić… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Glycomics aims to identify the structure and function of the glycome, the complete set of
oligosaccharides (glycans), produced in a given cell or organism, as well as to identify …

mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 induce comparably low long-term IgG Fc galactosylation and sialylation levels but increasing long-term IgG4 responses …

JS Buhre, T Pongracz, I Künsting, AS Lixenfeld… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The new types of mRNA-containing lipid nanoparticle vaccines BNT162b2 and
mRNA-1273 and the adenovirus-based vaccine AZD1222 were developed against SARS …

Afucosylated IgG responses in humans–structural clues to the regulation of humoral immunity

JJ Oosterhoff, MD Larsen, CE van der Schoot… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Healthy immune responses require efficient protection without excessive inflammation.
Recent discoveries on the degree of fucosylation of a human N-linked glycan at a conserved …

Role of Fc core fucosylation in the effector function of IgG1 antibodies

J Golay, AE Andrea, I Cattaneo - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The presence of fucose on IgG1 Asn-297 N-linked glycan is the modification of the human
IgG1 Fc structure with the most significant impact on FcɣRIII affinity. It also significantly …

Role of N-Glycosylation in FcγRIIIa interaction with IgG

J Van Coillie, MA Schulz, AEH Bentlage… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immunoglobulins G (IgG) and their Fc gamma receptors (FcγRs) play important roles in our
immune system. The conserved N-glycan in the Fc region of IgG1 impacts interaction of IgG …

[HTML][HTML] Plant glycoengineering for designing next-generation vaccines and therapeutic proteins

R Strasser - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein glycosylation has a huge impact on biological processes in all domains of life. The
type of glycan present on a recombinant glycoprotein depends on protein intrinsic features …

Pathogenicity and virulence of malaria: Sticky problems and tricky solutions

IS Walker, SJ Rogerson - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Infections with Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax cause over 600,000 deaths
each year, concentrated in Africa and in young children, but much of the world's population …

SARS-CoV-2 infection of phagocytic immune cells and COVID-19 pathology: Antibody-dependent as well as independent cell entry

O Matveeva, Y Nechipurenko, D Lagutkin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Our review summarizes the evidence that COVID-19 can be complicated by SARS-CoV-2
infection of immune cells. This evidence is widespread and accumulating at an increasing …

Core fucosylation regulates the function of pre-BCR, BCR and IgG in humoral immunity

Y Sun, X Li, T Wang, W Li - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Most of the membrane molecules involved in immune response are glycosylated. N-glycans
linked to asparagine (Asn) of immune molecules contribute to the protein conformation …