Application of lectin microarrays for biomarker discovery

K Dang, W Zhang, S Jiang, X Lin, A Qian - ChemistryOpen, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many proteins in living organisms are glycosylated. As their glycan patterns exhibit protein‐,
cell‐, and tissue‐specific heterogeneity, changes in the glycosylation levels could serve as …

Role of lectin microarrays in cancer diagnosis

P Syed, K Gidwani, H Kekki, J Leivo, K Pettersson… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of cell differentiation associated tumor markers reported to date are either
glycoproteins or glycolipids. Despite there being a large number of glycoproteins reported …

A systems biology approach identifies FUT8 as a driver of melanoma metastasis

P Agrawal, B Fontanals-Cirera, E Sokolova, S Jacob… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Association of aberrant glycosylation with melanoma progression is based mainly on
analyses of cell lines. Here we present a systems-based study of glycomic changes and …

Imaging of Escherichia coli K5 and glycosaminoglycan precursors via targeted metabolic labeling of capsular polysaccharides in bacteria

YJ Wang, L Li, J Yu, HY Hu, ZX Liu, WJ Jiang, W Xu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The introduction of unnatural chemical moieties into glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) has
enormous potential to facilitate studies of the mechanism and application of these critical …

Carbohydrate sulfation as a mechanism for fine-tuning Siglec ligands

J Jung, JR Enterina, DT Bui, F Mozaneh… - ACS Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The immunomodulatory family of Siglecs recognizes sialic acid-containing glycans as “self”,
which is exploited in cancer for immune evasion. The biochemical nature of Siglec ligands …

Glycomic analysis of host response reveals high mannose as a key mediator of influenza severity

DW Heindel, S Koppolu, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Influenza virus infections cause a wide variety of outcomes, from mild disease to 3 to 5
million cases of severe illness and∼ 290,000 to 645,000 deaths annually worldwide. The …

Prevaccination glycan markers of response to an influenza vaccine implicate the complement pathway

R Qin, G Meng, S Pushalkar, MA Carlock… - Journal of Proteome …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A key to improving vaccine design and vaccination strategy is to understand the mechanism
behind the variation of vaccine response with host factors. Glycosylation, a critical modulator …

Genetically encoded fragment-based discovery of glycopeptide ligands for carbohydrate-binding proteins

S Ng, E Lin, PI Kitov, KF Tjhung… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We describe an approach to accelerate the search for competitive inhibitors for carbohydrate-
recognition domains (CRDs). Genetically encoded fragment-based discovery (GE-FBD) …

Mapping posttranscriptional regulation of the human glycome uncovers microRNA defining the glycocode

P Agrawal, T Kurcon, KT Pilobello… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Cell surface glycans form a critical interface with the biological milieu, informing diverse
processes from the inflammatory cascade to cellular migration. Assembly of discrete …

Cancer stem cell marker glycosylation: nature, function and significance

BW Mallard, J Tiralongo - Glycoconjugate Journal, 2017 - Springer
Glycans are essential for the maintenance of normal biological function, with alterations in
glycan expression being a hallmark of cancer. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a subset of …