Heparan sulfate: biosynthesis, structure, and function

JP Li, M Kusche-Gullberg - International review of cell and molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
Heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans (PGs) are ubiquitously expressed on cell surfaces and
in the extracellular matrix of most animal tissues, having essential functions in development …

Interactions between heparan sulfate and proteins—design and functional implications

U Lindahl, J Li - International review of cell and molecular biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans at cell surfaces and in the extracellular matrix of most
animal tissues are essential in development and homeostasis, and variously implicated in …

Heparan sulfate biosynthesis: regulation and variability

J Kreuger, L Kjellén - Journal of Histochemistry & …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Nearly all vertebrate cells have been shown to express heparan sulfate proteoglycans
(HSPGs) at the cell surface. The HSPGs bind to many secreted signaling proteins, including …

Highly sensitive sequencing of the sulfated domains of heparan sulfate

CLR Merry, M Lyon, JA Deakin, JJ Hopwood… - Journal of Biological …, 1999 - ASBMB
The heparan sulfates (HS) are hypervariable linear polysaccharides that act as membrane
co-receptors for growth factors, chemokines, and extracellular matrix proteins. In most …

Heparan sulfate: decoding a dynamic multifunctional cell regulator

J Turnbull, A Powell, S Guimond - Trends in cell biology, 2001 - cell.com
The heparan sulfates are a family of cell-surface and matrix polysaccharides with an
incredible degree of structural diversity that are distributed widely in virtually all metazoan …

Heparan sulfate-protein interactions: therapeutic potential through structure-function insights

DR Coombe, WC Kett - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences CMLS, 2005 - Springer
Heparin and the related glycosaminoglycan, heparan sulfate, bind a myriad of proteins. The
structural diversity of heparin and heparan sulfates is enormous, but differences in the …

Regulated diversity of heparan sulfate

U Lindahl, M Kusche-Gullberg, L Kjellén - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1998 - ASBMB
Large numbers of proteins in animal tissues occur immobilized in the extracellular space, at
cell surfaces or in the extracellular matrix. Some are anchored through interactions with …

Heparan sulfate: lessons from knockout mice

E Forsberg, L Kjellén - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2001 - Am Soc Clin Investig
J. Clin. Invest. 108: 175–180 (2001). DOI: 10.1172/JCI200113561. a molecular design in
which clusters of N-and O-sulfated sugar residues (red or green in Figure 1) are separated …

Isolation and characterization of heparan sulfate from various murine tissues

M Warda, T Toida, F Zhang, P Sun, E Munoz, J Xie… - Glycoconjugate …, 2006 - Springer
Heparan sulfate (HS), is a proteoglycan (PG) found both in the extracellular matrix and on
cell surface. It may represent one of the most biologically important glycoconjugates, playing …

Heparan sulfate: a piece of information

M Salmivirta, K Lidholt, ULF Lindahl - The FASEB journal, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The sulfated glycosaminoglycans, heparan sulfate and heparin, are increasingly implicated
in cell‐biological processes such as cytokine action, cell adhesion, and regulation of …