The following spacered oligosaccharides were synthesized: GlcNAcbetal-3Galbetal-4GlcNAcbeta-sp, GlcNAcbetal-6Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta -sp, GlcNAcbeta -3(GlcNAcbeta1-6)Galbeta-4GllcNAcbeta-sp, Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta1-3Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta-sp, Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbetal-6Galbetal-4GlcNAcbeta-sp, Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta -3(Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta 1-6)Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta-sp, GlcNAcbeta1-3(Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbetal-6)Galbeta 1-4GlcNAcbeta-sp, and Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbetal-3(GlcNAcbetal-6)Galbetal-4GlcNAcbeta-sp (sp = O(CH2)2NH2). They represent N-acetyllactosamines substituted with N-acetylgly-cosamine or N-acetyllalctosamine residue at 03, O6, or at both positions of galactose. Glycosylation was achieved by coupling with N-trichloroethoxycarbonyl-protected glucosamine bromide in the presence of silver triflate.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
February 2020
INSERM, Unité U1151, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, 75015 Paris, France;
Bacterial infections are frequently based on the binding of lectin-like adhesins to specific glycan determinants exposed on host cell receptors. These interactions confer species-specific recognition and tropism for particular host tissues and represent attractive antibacterial targets. However, the wide structural diversity of carbohydrates hampers the characterization of specific glycan determinants.
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April 2015
From the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York 13210 and
Protein O-mannosylation is a glycan modification that is required for normal nervous system development and function. Mutations in genes involved in protein O-mannosyl glycosylation give rise to a group of neurodevelopmental disorders known as congenital muscular dystrophies (CMDs) with associated CNS abnormalities. Our previous work demonstrated that receptor protein-tyrosine phosphatase ζ (RPTPζ)/phosphacan is hypoglycosylated in a mouse model of one of these CMDs, known as muscle-eye-brain disease, a disorder that is caused by loss of an enzyme (protein O-mannose β-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 1) that modifies O-mannosyl glycans.
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June 2014
Laboratory of Biochemistry, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Matsuyama University, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8578, Japan.
The procyclic form of Trypanosoma brucei expresses procyclin surface glycoproteins with unusual glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchor side chain structures that contain branched N-acetyllactosamine and lacto-N-biose units. The glycosyltransferase TbGT8 is involved in the synthesis of the branched side chain through its UDP-GlcNAc: βGal β1-3N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase activity. Here, we explored the role of TbGT8 in the mammalian bloodstream form of the parasite with a tetracycline-inducible conditional null T.
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April 2014
Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Queensland 4222, Australia. Electronic address:
Galectins have essential roles in pathological states including cancer, inflammation, angiogenesis and microbial infections. Endogenous receptors include members of the lacto- and neolacto-series glycosphingolipids present on mammalian cells and contain the tetrasaccharides lacto-N-tetraose (LNT) and lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT) that form their core structural components and also ganglio-series glycosphingolipids. We present crystallographic structures of the carbohydrate recognition domain of human galectin-3, both wild type and a mutant (K176L) that influenced ligand affinity, in complex with LNT, LNnT and acetamido ganglioside a-GM3 (α2,3-sialyllactose).
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April 2010
Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris, Cedex 15, France.
Shigella bacteria invade macrophages and epithelial cells and following internalization lyse the phagosome and escape to the cytoplasm. Galectin-3, an abundant protein in macrophages and epithelial cells, belongs to a family of beta-galactoside-binding proteins, the galectins, with many proposed functions in immune response, development, differentiation, cancer and infection. Galectins are synthesized as cytosolic proteins and following non-classical secretion bind extracellular beta-galactosides.
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