Glycosylation in cancer: mechanisms and clinical implications

SS Pinho, CA Reis - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Despite recent progress in understanding the cancer genome, there is still a relative delay in
understanding the full aspects of the glycome and glycoproteome of cancer. Glycobiology …

Protein glycosylation and tumor microenvironment alterations driving cancer hallmarks

A Peixoto, M Relvas-Santos, R Azevedo… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Decades of research have disclosed a plethora of alterations in protein glycosylation that
decisively impact in all stages of disease and ultimately contribute to more aggressive cell …

[HTML][HTML] Hypersialylation in cancer: modulation of inflammation and therapeutic opportunities

E Rodrigues, MS Macauley - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cell surface glycosylation is dynamic and often changes in response to cellular
differentiation under physiological or pathophysiological conditions. Altered glycosylation on …

[HTML][HTML] The role of sialyl-Tn in cancer

J Munkley - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Activation of an aberrant glycosylation pathway in cancer cells can lead to expression of the
onco-foetal sialyl-Tn (sTn) antigen. STn is a truncated O-glycan containing a sialic acid α-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Plant lectin: a promising future anti-tumor drug

EHE Konozy, MEM Osman - Biochimie, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the early discovery of plant lectins at the end of the 19th century, and the finding that
they could agglutinate erythrocytes and precipitate glycans from their solutions, many …

Mechanisms of cisplatin resistance and targeting of cancer stem cells: adding glycosylation to the equation

JA Ferreira, A Peixoto, M Neves, C Gaiteiro… - Drug Resistance …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cisplatin-based chemotherapeutic regimens are the most frequently used (neo) adjuvant
treatments for the majority of solid tumors. While platinum-based chemotherapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] A sweet warning: mucin-type O-glycans in cancer

Y Zhang, L Sun, C Lei, W Li, J Han, J Zhang, Y Zhang - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Glycosylation is a common post-translational modification process of proteins. Mucin-type O-
glycosylation is an O-glycosylation that starts from protein serine/threonine residues …

Biosynthetic machinery involved in aberrant glycosylation: promising targets for develo** of drugs against cancer

A Vasconcelos-dos-Santos, IA Oliveira… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Cancer cells depend on altered metabolism and nutrient uptake to generate and keep the
malignant phenotype. The hexosamine biosynthetic pathway is a branch of glucose …

Emerging antibody-based therapeutic strategies for bladder cancer: A systematic review

R Azevedo, JA Ferreira, A Peixoto, M Neves… - Journal of Controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Bladder cancer is the most common malignancy of the urinary tract, presents the highest
recurrence rate among solid tumors and is the second leading cause of death in …

[HTML][HTML] Immunomodulatory glycomedicine: Introducing next generation cancer glycovaccines

R Freitas, A Peixoto, E Ferreira, A Miranda… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide due to the lack of safer and more
effective therapies. Cancer vaccines developed from neoantigens are an emerging strategy …