Global view of human protein glycosylation pathways and functions

KT Schjoldager, Y Narimatsu, HJ Joshi… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Glycosylation is the most abundant and diverse form of post-translational modification of
proteins that is common to all eukaryotic cells. Enzymatic glycosylation of proteins involves a …

Biological functions of fucose in mammals

M Schneider, E Al-Shareffi, RS Haltiwanger - Glycobiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Fucose is a 6-deoxy hexose in the l-configuration found in a large variety of different
organisms. In mammals, fucose is incorporated into N-glycans, O-glycans and glycolipids by …

Biological roles of glycans

A Varki - Glycobiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Simple and complex carbohydrates (glycans) have long been known to play major
metabolic, structural and physical roles in biological systems. Targeted microbial binding to …

Glycans and cancer: role of N-glycans in cancer biomarker, progression and metastasis, and therapeutics

N Taniguchi, Y Kizuka - Advances in cancer research, 2015 - Elsevier
Glycosylation is catalyzed by various glycosyltransferase enzymes which are mostly located
in the Golgi apparatus in cells. These enzymes glycosylate various complex carbohydrates …

FUT8 alpha-(1, 6)-fucosyltransferase in cancer

K Bastian, E Scott, DJ Elliott, J Munkley - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aberrant glycosylation is a universal feature of cancer cells that can impact all steps in
tumour progression from malignant transformation to metastasis and immune evasion. One …

[HTML][HTML] The role of N-glycosylation in cancer

Y Lin, DM Lubman - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite advances in understanding the development and progression of cancer in recent
years, there remains a lack of comprehensive characterization of the cancer glycoproteome …

Blockage of core fucosylation reduces cell-surface expression of PD-1 and promotes anti-tumor immune responses of T cells

M Okada, S Chikuma, T Kondo, S Hibino… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) is highly expressed on exhausted T cells and
inhibits T cell activation. Antibodies that block the interaction between PD-1 and its ligand …

Sialylation and fucosylation of epidermal growth factor receptor suppress its dimerization and activation in lung cancer cells

YC Liu, HY Yen, CY Chen, CH Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Protein glycosylation is an important posttranslational process, which regulates protein
folding and functional expression. Studies have shown that abnormal glycosylation in tumor …

Fucosylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

B Ma, JL Simala-Grant, DE Taylor - Glycobiology, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Fucosylated carbohydrate structures are involved in a variety of biological and pathological
processes in eukaryotic organisms including tissue development, angiogenesis, fertilization …

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 …