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 …

Toward automated enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharides

L Wen, G Edmunds, C Gibbons, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Oligosaccharides together with oligonucleotides and oligopeptides comprise the three major
classes of natural biopolymers. Automated systems for oligonucleotide and oligopeptide …

Unmasking fucosylation: from cell adhesion to immune system regulation and diseases

J Li, HC Hsu, JD Mountz, JG Allen - Cell chemical biology, 2018 - cell.com
Fucosylation is a biological process broadly observed in vertebrates, invertebrates, plants,
bacteria, and fungi. Fucose moieties on cell-surface glycans are increasingly recognized as …

Haptoglobin: From hemoglobin scavenging to human health

A di Masi, G De Simone, C Ciaccio, S D'Orso… - Molecular Aspects of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Haptoglobin (Hp) belongs to the family of acute-phase plasma proteins and represents the
most important plasma detoxifier of hemoglobin (Hb). The basic Hp molecule is a tetrameric …

Altered N‐glycosylation profiles as potential biomarkers and drug targets in diabetes

N Rudman, O Gornik, G Lauc - FEBS letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
N‐glycosylation is a ubiquitous protein modification, and N‐glycosylation profiles are
emerging as both biomarkers and functional effectors in various types of diabetes. Genome …

N‐glycome signatures in human plasma: associations with physiology and major diseases

V Dotz, M Wuhrer - FEBS letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
N‐glycome analysis in total plasma or serum yields information about the levels and
glycosylation patterns of major plasma glycoproteins, including immunoglobulins, acute …

The role and importance of glycosylation of acute phase proteins with focus on alpha-1 antitrypsin in acute and chronic inflammatory conditions

C McCarthy, R Saldova, MR Wormald… - Journal of proteome …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Acute phase proteins (APPs) are a group of circulating plasma proteins which undergo
changes quantitatively or qualitatively at the time of inflammation. Many of these APPs are …

Selectin ligands Sialyl-Lewis a and Sialyl-Lewis x in gastrointestinal cancers

M Trinchera, A Aronica, F Dall'Olio - Biology, 2017 - mdpi.com
The tetrasaccharide structures Siaα2, 3Galβ1, 3 (Fucα1, 4) GlcNAc and Siaα2, 3Galβ1, 4
(Fucα1, 3) GlcNAc constitute the epitopes of the carbohydrate antigens sialyl-Lewis a (sLea) …

Developments in the identification of glycan biomarkers for the detection of cancer

LR Ruhaak, S Miyamoto, CB Lebrilla - Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2013 - ASBMB
Changes in glycosylation readily occur in cancer and other disease states. Thanks to recent
advances in the development of analytical techniques and instrumentation, especially in …

Plasma N-glycan signatures are associated with features of inflammatory bowel diseases

F Clerc, M Novokmet, V Dotz, KR Reiding, N de Haan… - Gastroenterology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Biomarkers are needed for early detection of Crohn's disease (CD) and
ulcerative colitis (UC) or to predict patient outcomes. Glycosylation is a common and …