Sialic acids in cancer biology and immunity

OMT Pearce, H Läubli - Glycobiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
During malignant transformation, glycosylation is heavily altered compared with healthy
tissue due to differential expression of glycosyltransferases, glycosidases and …

Glycosylation: a hallmark of cancer?

BN Vajaria, PS Patel - Glycoconjugate journal, 2017 - Springer
The hallmarks of cancer are characterized by functional capabilities that allow cancer cells
to survive, proliferate and disseminate during the multistep tumorigenesis. Cancer being a …

Transfer of functional cargo in exomeres

Q Zhang, JN Higginbotham, DK Jeppesen, YP Yang… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Exomeres are a recently discovered type of extracellular nanoparticle with no known
biological function. Herein, we describe a simple ultracentrifugation-based method for …

Cell surface protein glycosylation in cancer

MN Christiansen, J Chik, L Lee, M Anugraham… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Glycosylation of proteins is one of the most important PTMs, with more than half of all human
proteins estimated to be glycosylated. It is widely known that aberrant glycosylation has …

The distinct roles of sialyltransferases in cancer biology and onco-immunology

M Hugonnet, P Singh, Q Haas… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aberrant glycosylation is a key feature of malignant transformation. Hypersialylation, the
enhanced expression of sialic acid-terminated glycoconjugates on the cell surface, has …

Hypersialylation in cancer: modulation of inflammation and therapeutic opportunities

E Rodrigues, MS Macauley - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cell surface glycosylation is dynamic and often changes in response to cellular
differentiation under physiological or pathophysiological conditions. Altered glycosylation on …

ST6GAL1: A key player in cancer

R Garnham, E Scott, KE Livermore… - Oncology …, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
Aberrant glycosylation is a universal feature of cancer cells and there is now overwhelming
evidence that glycans can modulate pathways intrinsic to tumour cell biology. Glycans are …

Genome-wide association analyses of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Chinese identify multiple susceptibility loci and gene-environment interactions

C Wu, P Kraft, K Zhai, J Chang, Z Wang, Y Li, Z Hu… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and a genome-wide gene-
environment interaction analysis of esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma (ESCC) in 2,031 …

Hypersialylation of β1 Integrins, Observed in Colon Adenocarcinoma, May Contribute to Cancer Progression by Up-regulating Cell Motility

EC Seales, GA Jurado, BA Brunson, JK Wakefield… - Cancer research, 2005 - AACR
Colon adenocarcinomas are known to express elevated levels of α2-6 sialylation and
increased activity of ST6Gal-I, the Golgi glycosyltransferase that creates α2-6 linkages …

Aberrant glycosylation associated with enzymes as cancer biomarkers

DL Meany, DW Chan - Clinical proteomics, 2011 - Springer
Background One of the new roles for enzymes in personalized medicine builds on a rational
approach to cancer biomarker discovery using enzyme-associated aberrant glycosylation. A …