Altered glycosylation in cancer: A promising target for biomarkers and therapeutics

D Thomas, AK Rathinavel, P Radhakrishnan - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glycosylation is a well-regulated cell and microenvironment specific post-translational
modification. Several glycosyltransferases and glycosidases orchestrate the addition of …

Site-specific protein O-glycosylation modulates proprotein processing—deciphering specific functions of the large polypeptide GalNAc-transferase gene family

TBGS Katrine, H Clausen - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) greatly expand the function and
regulation of proteins, and glycosylation is the most abundant and diverse PTM. Of the many …

LncRNA SNHG7 sponges miR-216b to promote proliferation and liver metastasis of colorectal cancer through upregulating GALNT1

Y Shan, J Ma, Y Pan, J Hu, B Liu, L Jia - Cell death & disease, 2018 - nature.com
Accumulating evidence suggests long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in
cancer progression. However, the function of lncRNA SNHG7 in colorectal cancer (CRC) …

Long non-coding RNA-SNHG7 acts as a target of miR-34a to increase GALNT7 level and regulate PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in colorectal cancer progression

Y Li, C Zeng, J Hu, Y Pan, Y Shan, B Liu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2018 - Springer
Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) arises in a multistep molecular network process,
which is from either discrete genetic perturbation or epigenetic dysregulation. The long non …

Organelle specific O-glycosylation drives MMP14 activation, tumor growth, and metastasis

AT Nguyen, J Chia, M Ros, KM Hui, F Saltel, F Bard - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Cancers grow within tissues through molecular mechanisms still unclear. Invasiveness
correlates with perturbed O-glycosylation, a covalent modification of cell-surface proteins …

[HTML][HTML] Short O-GalNAc glycans: regulation and role in tumor development and clinical perspectives

J Chia, G Goh, F Bard - Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background While the underlying causes of cancer are genetic modifications, changes in
cellular states mediate cancer development. Tumor cells display markedly changed …

The Cosmc connection to the Tn antigen in cancer

T Ju, RP Aryal, MR Kudelka, Y Wang… - Cancer …, 2014 - content.iospress.com
The Tn antigen is a tumor-associated carbohydrate antigen that is not normally expressed in
peripheral tissues or blood cells. Expression of this antigen, which is found in a majority of …

Biosynthetic machinery involved in aberrant glycosylation: promising targets for developing of drugs against cancer

A Vasconcelos-dos-Santos, IA Oliveira… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Cancer cells depend on altered metabolism and nutrient uptake to generate and keep the
malignant phenotype. The hexosamine biosynthetic pathway is a branch of glucose …

GALNTs: master regulators of metastasis-associated epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)?

EM Beaman, DRF Carter, SA Brooks - Glycobiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In humans, the UDP-N-α-D galactosamine: polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferases
family (ppGalNAc-Ts, GalNAc-Ts or GALNTs) comprises 20 isoenzymes. They are …

Deconstruction of O‐glycosylation—Gal NA c‐T isoforms direct distinct subsets of the O‐glycoproteome

KT Schjoldager, HJ Joshi, Y Kong, CK Goth, SL King… - EMBO …, 2015 - embopress.org
Gal NA c‐type O‐glycosylation is found on most proteins trafficking through the secretory
pathway in metazoan cells. The O‐glycoproteome is regulated by up to 20 polypeptide Gal …