Chemical reporters for biological discovery

M Grammel, HC Hang - Nature chemical biology, 2013 - nature.com
Functional tools are needed to understand complex biological systems. Here we review how
chemical reporters in conjunction with bioorthogonal labeling methods can be used to …

The Tn antigen—structural simplicity and biological complexity

T Ju, VI Otto, RD Cummings - … Chemie International Edition, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Glycoproteins in animal cells contain a variety of glycan structures that are added co‐and/or
posttranslationally to proteins. Of over 20 different types of sugar–amino acid linkages …

Polypeptide GalNAc-transferase T3 and familial tumoral calcinosis: secretion of fibroblast growth factor 23 requires O-glycosylation

K Kato, C Jeanneau, MA Tarp, A Benet-Pages… - Journal of Biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
Mutations in the gene encoding the glycosyltransferase polypeptide GalNAc-T3, which is
involved in initiation of O-glycosylation, were recently identified as a cause of the rare …

Site-specific protein O-glycosylation modulates proprotein processing—deciphering specific functions of the large polypeptide GalNAc-transferase gene family

TBGS Katrine, H Clausen - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) greatly expand the function and
regulation of proteins, and glycosylation is the most abundant and diverse PTM. Of the many …

Location, location, location: new insights into O-GalNAc protein glycosylation

DJ Gill, H Clausen, F Bard - Trends in cell biology, 2011 - cell.com
O-GalNAc glycosylation of proteins confers essential structural, protective and signaling
roles in eumetazoans. Addition of O-glycans onto proteins is an extremely complex process …

The chemistry and biology of mucin-type O-linked glycosylation

HC Hang, CR Bertozzi - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2005 - Elsevier
Mucin-type O-linked glycosylation is a fundamental post-translational modification that is
involved in a variety of important biological processes. However, the lack of chemical tools to …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the development of sialyltransferase inhibitors to control cancer metastasis: A comprehensive review

R Al Saoud, A Hamrouni, A Idris, WK Mousa… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metastasis accounts for the majority of cancer-associated mortalities, representing a huge
health and economic burden. One of the mechanisms that enables metastasis is …

Understanding the chemistry and biology of glycosylation with glycan synthesis

L Krasnova, CH Wong - Annual review of biochemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Glycoscience research has been significantly impeded by the complex compositions of the
glycans present in biological molecules and the lack of convenient tools suitable for studying …

Polypeptide GalNAc-Ts: from redundancy to specificity

M de Las Rivas, E Lira-Navarrete, TA Gerken… - Current opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mucin-type O-glycosylation is a post-translational modification (PTM) that is predicted to
occur in more than the 80% of the proteins that pass through the Golgi apparatus. This PTM …

Emerging paradigms for the initiation of mucin-type protein O-glycosylation by the polypeptide GalNAc transferase family of glycosyltransferases

TA Gerken, O Jamison, CL Perrine, JC Collette… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Mammalian mucin-type O-glycosylation is initiated by a large family of∼ 20 UDP-GalNAc:
polypeptide α-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferases (ppGalNAc Ts) that transfer α-GalNAc …