Fucosylated oligosaccharides occur throughout nature and many of them play a variety of
roles in biology, especially in a number of recognition processes. As reviewed here, much of …

Contents Early embryonic development, implantation and maintenance of a pregnancy are
critically dependent on an intact embryo‐maternal communication. So far, only few signals …

Fucosylated glycoconjugates are involved in numerous biological events, and α-l-
fucosidases, the enzymes responsible for their processing, are therefore of crucial …

Protein-carbohydrate interaction is exploited in cell adhesion mechanisms besides the
recognition of peptide motifs. The sugar code thus significantly contributes to the intriguing …

In mice and other mammals, spermatogenesis is maintained by spermatogonial stem cells
(SSCs), a cell population belonging to undifferentiated type A spermatogonia. In the …

The extracellular embryonic coats (embryo/blastocyst coverings) that surround early
mammalian embryos are most often still referred to as zona pellucida. Accumulating …

Abstract Sperm protein 17 (Sp17) is an antigenic protein highly expressed in spermatozoa.
Sp17 expression was demonstrated recently in multiple myeloma, suggesting that it may be …

The central dogma of molecular biology limits the downstream flow of genetic information to
proteins. Progress from the last two decades of research on cellular glycoconjugates justifies …

The term 'code'in biological information transfer appears to be tightly and hitherto exclusively
connected with the genetic code based on nucleotides and translated into functional …

The zona pellucida (ZP) is an extracellular matrix surrounding the oocyte and the early
embryo that exerts several important functions during fertilization and early embryonic …