Global view of human protein glycosylation pathways and functions

KT Schjoldager, Y Narimatsu, HJ Joshi… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Glycosylation is the most abundant and diverse form of post-translational modification of
proteins that is common to all eukaryotic cells. Enzymatic glycosylation of proteins involves a …

Fusobacterium nucleatum and cancer

T Alon‐Maimon, O Mandelboim… - Periodontology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating evidence demonstrates that the oral pathobiont Fusobacterium nucleatum is
involved in the progression of an increasing number of tumors types. Thus far, the …

Sarcoma treatment in the era of molecular medicine

TGP Grünewald, M Alonso, S Avnet… - EMBO molecular …, 2020 - embopress.org
Sarcomas are heterogeneous and clinically challenging soft tissue and bone cancers.
Although constituting only 1% of all human malignancies, sarcomas represent the second …

Noninvasive detection of any-stage cancer using free glycosaminoglycans

S Bratulic, A Limeta, S Dabestani, H Birgisson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Cancer mortality is exacerbated by late-stage diagnosis. Liquid biopsies based on genomic
biomarkers can noninvasively diagnose cancers. However, validation studies have …

Proteoglycans remodeling in cancer: Underlying molecular mechanisms

AD Theocharis, NK Karamanos - Matrix Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Extracellular matrix is a highly dynamic macromolecular network. Proteoglycans are major
components of extracellular matrix playing key roles in its structural organization and cell …

New insights into malaria pathogenesis

CA Moxon, MP Gibbins, D McGuinness… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Malaria remains a major public health threat in tropical and subtropical regions across the
world. Even though less than 1% of malaria infections are fatal, this leads to about 430,000 …

Glycans as biomarkers in prostate cancer

E Scott, J Munkley - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in men, claiming over 350,000
lives worldwide annually. Current diagnosis relies on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing …

Liquid biopsy in pancreatic cancer–Current perspective and future outlook

Y Zhao, J Tang, K Jiang, SY Liu, A Aicher… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer is a lethal condition with a rising incidence and often presents at an
advanced stage, contributing to abysmal five-year survival rates. Unspecific symptoms and …

The GAGOme: a cell-based library of displayed glycosaminoglycans

YH Chen, Y Narimatsu, TM Clausen, C Gomes… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are essential polysaccharides in normal physiology and
disease. However, understanding of the contribution of specific GAG structures to specific …

The VAR2CSA malaria protein efficiently retrieves circulating tumor cells in an EpCAM-independent manner

MØ Agerbæk, SR Bang-Christensen, MH Yang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Isolation of metastatic circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from cancer patients is of high value for
disease monitoring and molecular characterization. Despite the development of many new …