Heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans:(Un) Expected allies in cancer clinical management

I Faria-Ramos, J Poças, C Marques, J Santos-Antunes… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
In an era when cancer glycobiology research is exponentially growing, we are witnessing a
progressive translation of the major scientific findings to the clinical practice with the …

Heparan sulfate biosynthesis and sulfation profiles as modulators of cancer signalling and progression

C Marques, CA Reis, RR Vivès, A Magalhães - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans (HSPGs) are important cell surface and Extracellular Matrix
(ECM) maestros involved in the orchestration of multiple cellular events in physiology and …

Heparan sulfate proteoglycan signaling in tumor microenvironment

V De Pasquale, LM Pavone - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans (HSPGs) have been an
intriguing subject of study for their complex structural characteristics, their finely regulated …

Roles of heparan-sulphate glycosaminoglycans in cancer

R Sasisekharan, Z Shriver, G Venkataraman… - Nature Reviews …, 2002 - nature.com
Cell-surface/extracellular-matrix heparan-sulphate glycosaminoglycans (HSGAGs) are
complex polysaccharides that are ubiquitous in nature, and that regulate several aspects of …

Heparan sulfate and heparan sulfate proteoglycans in cancer initiation and progression

A Nagarajan, P Malvi, N Wajapeyee - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Heparan sulfate (HS) are complex unbranched carbohydrate chains that are heavily
modified by sulfate and exist either conjugated to proteins or as free, unconjugated chains …

Heparan sulfate in the tumor microenvironment

B Bartolini, E Caravà, I Caon, A Parnigoni… - … Matrix Components–Part …, 2020 - Springer
The biology of tumor cells strictly depends on their microenvironment architecture and
composition, which controls the availability of growth factors and signaling molecules. Thus …

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans in cancer: Pathogenesis and therapeutic potential

H Yang, L Wang - Advances in Cancer Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) are glycoproteins that consist of a proteoglycan
“core” protein and covalently attached heparan sulfate (HS) chain. HSPGs are ubiquitously …

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans as targets for cancer therapy: a review

JOS Onyeisi, BZF Ferreira, HB Nader… - Cancer biology & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) play important roles in cancer initiation and
progression, by interacting with the signaling pathways that affect proliferation, adhesion …

Cell-surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans as multifunctional integrators of signaling in cancer

N Hassan, B Greve, NA Espinoza-Sánchez, M Götte - Cellular Signalling, 2021 - Elsevier
Proteoglycans (PGs) represent a large proportion of the components that constitute the
extracellular matrix (ECM). They are a diverse group of glycoproteins characterized by a …

HS, an ancient molecular recognition and information storage glycosaminoglycan, equips hs-proteoglycans with diverse matrix and cell-interactive properties …

AJ Hayes, J Melrose - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heparan sulfate is a ubiquitous, variably sulfated interactive glycosaminoglycan that
consists of repeating disaccharides of glucuronic acid and glucosamine that are subject to a …