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    Synthetic Strategies for FRET-Enabled Carbohydrate Active Enzyme Probes

    Carbohydrates are an essential class of biomolecule and carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZys) catalyze their synthesis, refinement, and degradation, hence contributing an overall regulatory capacity to their und...

    Meenakshi Singh, Michael Watkinson, Eoin M. Scanlan, Gavin J. Miller in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Lectin Histochemistry for Tissues and Cells, and Dual Lectin and Antibody Co-localization

    In this chapter we describe in detail methods for lectin staining of (1) tissues, and (2) cells to identify and map endogenous glycosylation. We also describe (3) dual antibody and lectin staining of tissues t...

    Siobhán S. McMahon, Michelle Kilcoyne in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Metabolic Labeling of Primary Neurons Using Carbohydrate Click Chemistry

    Glycans play an important role in many neuronal processes, such as neurotransmitter release and reuptake, cell–cell communication and adhesion, modulation of ion channel activity, and immune function. Carbohyd...

    Jerrard M. Hayes, Darren M. O’Hara, Gavin P. Davey in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Glycoinformatics Tools for Comprehensive Characterization of Glycans Enzymatically Released from Proteins

    Glycosylation is important in biology, contributing to both protein conformation and function. Structurally, glycosylation is complex and diverse. This complexity is reflected in the topology, composition, mon...

    Ian Walsh, Sophie Zhao, Katherine Wongtrakul-Kish, Matthew Choo in Glycosylation (2022)

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    An Interactive View of Glycosylation

    The present chapter focuses on the interactive and explorative aspects of bioinformatics resources that have been recently released in glycobiology. The comparative analysis of data in a field where knowledge ...

    Julien Mariethoz, Davide Alocci, Niclas G. Karlsson, Nicolle H. Packer in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Comparative Glycomics Analysis of Mass Spectrometry Data

    Glycan profiling is a common strategy that is used to determine the distribution of N-linked glycans, O-linked glycans and glycolipid associated complex carbohydrate structures that are part of various cell an...

    Yusen Zhou, Sriram Neelamegham in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Rapid Antibody Glycoengineering in CHO Cells Via RNA Interference and CGE-LIF N-Glycomics

    The impact of the glycan distribution on the in vivo function and half-life of has long motivated the genetic engineering of producer cells to achieve structures that enhance efficacy, safety and stability. ...

    Pavlos Kotidis, Masue Marbiah, Roberto Donini, Itzcóatl A. Gómez in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Recent Advances Toward Engineering Glycoproteins Using Modified Yeast Display Platforms

    Yeast are capable recombinant protein expression hosts that provide eukaryotic posttranslational modifications such as disulfide bond formation and N-glycosylation. This property has been used to create surface d...

    Anjali Shenoy, Adam W. Barb in Glycosylation (2022)

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    O-Glycologue: A Formal-Language-Based Generator of O-Glycosylation Networks

    The web application O-Glycologue provides an online simulation of the biosynthetic enzymes of O-linked glycosylation, using a knowledge-based system described previously. Glycans can be imported in GlycoCT conden...

    Andrew G. McDonald, Gavin P. Davey in Glycosylation (2022)

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    N-glycan Characterization by Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Fluorimetry and Mass Spectrometry

    Human blood plasma and serum have been a source of biomarkers for the indication and progression of many diseases for a few decades now. Human blood plasma is also an excellent source material to enable patien...

    Richard A. Gardner, Paulina A. Urbanowicz, Daniel I. R. Spencer in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Lectin Affinity Chromatography for the Discovery of Novel Cancer Glycobiomarkers: A Case Study with PSA Glycoforms and Prostate Cancer

    Many clinical biomarkers in cancer are glycoproteins, but the majority of them only consider the protein levels. Indeed, only alfa-fetoprotein (AFP) in hepatocarcinoma and CA15-3 in breast cancer are clinicall...

    Esther Llop, Rosa Peracaula in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Monitoring the Sialome on Human Immune Cells

    The sialome or display of sialic acids on the surface of human immune cells can vary according to immune response and activation state. Here, human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated and ...

    Laura K. O’Farrell, Alexander D. Fraser, Gavin P. Davey in Glycosylation (2022)

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    GlycoStore: A Platform for H/UPLC and Capillary Electrophoresis Glycan Data

    GlycoStore (http://www.glycostore.org) is an open access chromatographic and electrophoretic retention database of glycans characterized from glycoproteins, glycol...

    Matthew P. Campbell, Sophie Zhao, Jodie L. Abrahams, Terry Nguyen-Khuong in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Characterization and Analysis of Food-Sourced Carbohydrates

    Food carbohydrates are macronutrients that are found in fruits, grains, vegetables, and milk products. These organic compounds are present in foods in the form of sugars, starches, and fibers and are composed ...

    Leonie J. Kiely, Rita M. Hickey in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Cell Free Remodeling of Glycosylation of Antibodies

    The N-glycosylation profile of a monoclonal antibody (mAb) is a critical quality attribute in relation to its therapeutic application. The control of this profile during biomanufacture is difficult because of the...

    Letícia Martins Mota, Venkata S. Tayi, Michael Butler in Glycosylation (2022)

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    In Silico Analysis of Therapeutic Antibody Aggregation and the Influence of Glycosylation

    The aggregation of therapeutic antibodies is a major issue for the pharmaceutical industry leading to loss of drug quality, increased dosage, and unwanted immune responses such as the production of anti-drug a...

    Hyesoo Jeon, Jerrard M. Hayes, K. H. Mok in Glycosylation (2022)

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    Computational Modeling of Glycan Processing in the Golgi for Investigating Changes in the Arrangements of Biosynthetic Enzymes

    Modeling glycan biosynthesis is becoming increasingly important due to the far-reaching implications that glycosylation can exhibit, from pathologies to biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Here we describe a ap...

    Ben West, A. Jamie Wood, Daniel Ungar in Glycosylation (2022)