In mammals several cell adhesion molecules are involved during the pre-and postnatal
development of all organ systems. A very prominent member of this family is the neural cell …

Polysialic acid (polySia) and oligosialic acid (oligoSia) chains are linear polysaccharides
composed of sialic acid monomers. The majority of biological poly/oligoSia chains are …

Fertilization in animals is a complex sequence of several biochemical events beginning with
the insemination into the female reproductive tract and, finally, leading to embryogenesis …

Histones are not only the organizing and regulatory elements of the genome, the five
histones—H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4—also fulfill many tasks outside the cell. Their release …

Sialic acid is a terminal sugar of carbohydrate chains that participates in numerous
biological events. Recent studies have explored the mechanism of carbohydrate‐mediated …

Many enzymes make “mistakes”. Consequently, repair enzymes have evolved to correct
these mistakes. For example, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and mitochondrial malate …

Oligosialic and polysialic acids (oligo/polySia) are characterized by high structural diversity,
because of different types of sialic acids and glycosidic linkages. Although several methods …

Sialic acid polymers of glycoproteins and glycolipids are characterized by a high diversity in
nature and are involved in distinct biological processes depending inter alia on the …

Negatively-charged polysialic acid (polySia) chains are usually membrane-bound and are
often expressed on the surface of neuroinvasive bacterial cells, neural cells, and tumor cells …

Polysialic acids are linear polysaccharides composed of sialic acid monomers. These
polyanionic chains are usually membrane-bound, and are expressed on the surfaces of …