• The terms glycans and polysaccharides are defined by IUPAC as synonyms meaning "compounds consisting of a large number of monosaccharides linked glycosidically"...
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    carbohydrate consisting of several sugar molecules, sometimes also referred to as glycan, to a nitrogen atom (the amide nitrogen of an asparagine (Asn) residue of...
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    Nomenclature For Glycans (SNFG) is a community-curated standard for the depiction of simple monosaccharides and complex carbohydrates (glycans) using various...
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  • Glycan arrays, like that offered by the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG), National Center for Functional Glycomics (NCFG) and Z Biotech, LLC,...
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    cell. In contrast, perturbation of glycan processing (enzymatic removal/addition of carbohydrate residues to the glycan), which occurs in both the endoplasmic...
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  • Glycan nomenclature is the systematic naming of glycans, which are carbohydrate-based polymers made by all living organisms. In general glycans can be...
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    Glycan-Protein interactions represent a class of biomolecular interactions that occur between free or protein-bound glycans and their cognate binding...
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  • Glycosylation is the reaction in which a carbohydrate (or 'glycan'), i.e. a glycosyl donor, is attached to a hydroxyl or other functional group of another...
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  • the structure, biosynthesis, and biology of saccharides (sugar chains or glycans) that are widely distributed in nature. Sugars or saccharides are essential...
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  • ways by changing protein stability and regulating protein activity. O-glycans, which are the sugars added to the serine or threonine, have numerous functions...
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  • Moreover, glycans can be modified (modified sugars), this increases its complexity. Complex biosynthetic pathways for glycans. Usually glycans are found...
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    systematic study of all glycan structures of a given cell type or organism" and is a subset of glycobiology. "Carbohydrate", "glycan", "saccharide", and "sugar"...
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    N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase subunit A (PIG-A, or phosphatidylinositol glycan, class A) is the catalytic subunit of the phosphatidylinositol...
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  • GlycoRNAs are small non-coding RNAs with sialylated glycans. Glycans mediate inter- and intramolecular interactions by adding polysaccharide chains onto...
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  • host glycans Immune recognition of glycans Glycans in immune cell communication Glycans in development and physiology Glycans in cancer biology Glycans in...
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  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (pronunciation) or glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI) is a phosphoglyceride that can be attached to the C-terminus of a protein...
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  • Glycopeptides are peptides that contain carbohydrate moieties (glycans) covalently attached to the side chains of the amino acid residues that constitute...
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    ME, Patel F, Wilken R, et al. (February 2015). "Glycans in the immune system and The Altered Glycan Theory of Autoimmunity: a critical review". Journal...
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    deoxy sugar with the chemical formula C6H12O5. It is found on N-linked glycans on the mammalian, insect and plant cell surface. Fucose is the fundamental...
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    usually being used to maintained glucose level in blood. Polysaccharides and glycans are made by the sequential addition of monosaccharides by glycosyltransferase...
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    and autoreactive processes. Intelectins (X-type lectins) bind microbial glycans and may function in the innate immune system as well. Lectins may be involved...
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    projects are: Analysis of potential glycan-binding proteins on various glycan arrays (CFG glycan array, Microbial glycan array, NCFG-derived arrays)[clarification...
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    ● Blue: envelope ● Turquoise: spike glycoprotein (S) ● Pink: envelope proteins (E) ● Green: membrane proteins (M) ● Orange: glycan...
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    include endothelin receptor antagonists, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, beta-glycan peptides, halofuginone, basiliximab, alemtuzumab, abatacept, and haematopoietic...
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  • tool to help glycomics researchers to determine asparagine-linked glycan (N-glycan) structures based on collision-induced dissociation (CID) tandem mass...
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    considerable amount of mannose residues due to the tight clustering of glycans in its viral spike. These mannose residues are the target for broadly neutralizing...
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    the mass of the trimeric envelope spike is N-linked glycans. The density is high as the glycans shield the underlying viral protein from neutralisation...
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    Translation Proteolysis Glycosyl- ation Sugar acids Double/multiple sugars & glycans Simple sugars Inositol-P Amino sugars & sialic acids Nucleotide sugars...
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    addition, small amounts of these N-glycans also bear bisecting GlcNAc and α-2,6-linked sialic acid residues. The N-glycan composition in IgG has been linked...
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    Retrieved December 21, 2015. Bertozzi CR, Rabuka D (2017). "Structural Basis of Glycan Diversity". Essentials of Glycobiology (3rd ed.). Cold Spring Harbor (NY):...
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