Mucus plays a vital role in protecting the lungs from environmental factors, but conversely, in
muco-obstructive airway disease, mucus becomes pathologic. In its protective role, mucus …

During the last decade, there have been enormous advances in our knowledge of
glycoproteins and the stage has been set for the biotechnological production of many of …

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the post-translational modification of
serine and threonine hydroxyl groups by glycosylation, because the resulting O-linked …

Human Tamm‐Horsfall glycoprotein has been purified from the urine of one male. The Asn‐
linked carbohydrate chains were enzymically released by peptide‐N4‐(N‐acetyl‐β …

Human airway mucins represent a very broad family of polydisperse high molecular mass
glycoproteins, which are part of the airway innate immunity. Apomucins, which correspond to …

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most lethal genetic disorder in Caucasians and is characterized by
the production of excessive amounts of viscous mucus secretions in the airways of patients …

The presence of a high bacterial population in a region of the gastrointestinal tract is usually
associated with the secretion of sulphomucins into the mucus gel covering that region. The …

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is responsible for 10 to 20% of the cases of community-acquired
pneumonia and has been associated with acute exacerbations of asthma (22). M …

Clinical laboratories are increasingly receiving requests to perform nucleic acid amplification
tests for the detection of a wide variety of infectious agents. In this paper, the efficiency of …

Airway mucus is a complex airway secretion whose primary function as part of the
mucociliary transport mechanism is to to serve as renewable and transportable barrier …