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Glycoconj J
January 2025
Department of Molecular Nutrition, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru, 570020, India.
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are essential bone extracellular matrix molecules that regulate osteoblast differentiation. Numerous studies have explored endogenous and exogenous GAG osteoanabolic activities using appropriate in vitro and in vivo models. However, GAGs' underlying the mechanism of action and structure-function relationships need to be elucidated in detail.
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January 2025
National Glycoengineering Research Center, Shandong Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology and State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, 72 Binhai Rd, Qingdao, 266237, People's Republic of China.
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), as animal polysaccharides, are linked to proteins to form various types of proteoglycans. Bacterial GAG lyases are not only essential enzymes that spoilage bacteria use for the degradation of GAGs, but also valuable tools for investigating the biological function and potential therapeutic applications of GAGs. The ongoing discovery and characterization of novel GAG lyases has identified an increasing number of lyases suitable for functional studies and other applications involving GAGs, which include oligosaccharide sequencing, detection and removal of specific glycan chains, clinical drug development and the design of novel biomaterials and sensors, some of which have not yet been comprehensively summarized.
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January 2025
Graduate School of Environmental Symbiotic System Major, Nippon Institute of Technology 4-1 Gakuendai, Miyashiro Saitama 345-8501 Japan.
Coiled-coil protein carrier (CCPC) 140 is a rigid and anisotropically structured cationic coiled-coil artificial protein that has displayed up to a 1000 times higher level of cellular internalization activity than that of unstructured cell-penetrating peptides. Previous studies have demonstrated that CCPC 140's rigid and anisotropic structural properties and cationic surface properties are important for its superior cellular internalization activity. In this study, we investigated whether each physicochemical characteristic of CCPC 140 effectively contributed to activating the cellular internalization pathway.
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March 2025
Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620, USA. Electronic address:
Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI) is a life-threatening healthcare-associated infection occurring worldwide. C.
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December 2024
Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdansk, Poland.
Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) comprises a group of inherited metabolic diseases. Each MPS type is caused by a deficiency in the activity of one kind of enzymes involved in glycosaminoglycan (GAG) degradation, resulting from the presence of pathogenic variant(s) of the corresponding gene. All types/subtypes of MPS, which are classified on the basis of all kinds of defective enzymes and accumulated GAG(s), are severe diseases.
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