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High‐Performance Bio‐Glue From the Berries of a Parasitic Plant

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
We report a fully bio‐based adhesive derived primarily from a (poly)saccharide extract obtained from the berries of the hemi‐parasitic plant mistletoe (Viscum album), supplemented with tannic and malic acid without any further chemical functionalization.
Ufuk Gürer, Jana T. Reh, Jonas Röder, Umut Günsel, Chiara Gunnella, Lisa Schöbel, Franz Hagn, Aldo R. Boccaccini, Oliver Lieleg   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turning-off Signaling by Siglecs, Selectins and Galectins: Chemical Inhibition of Glycan-dependent Interactions in Cancer

Frontiers in Oncology, 2016
Aberrant glycosylation, a common feature associated with malignancy, has been implicated in important events during cancer progression. Our understanding of the role of glycans in cancer has grown exponentially in the last few years, concurrent with ...
Alejandro Javier Cagnoni, Alejandro Javier Cagnoni, Juan Manuel Pérez Sáez, Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich, Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich, Karina Valeria Mariño   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

C-type lectins, fungi and Th17 responses

Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews, 2010
Th17 cells are a recently discovered subset of T helper cells characterised by the release of IL-17, and are thought to be important for mobilization of immune responses against microbial pathogens, but which also contribute to the development of autoimmune diseases.
Vautier, Simon, Sousa, Maria da Glória, Brown, Gordon D.   +2 more
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Protein Corona Formation on Soft Nanocarriers Under Biomimetic Circulatory Flow

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
A biomimetic venous circulation system is developed to study protein corona formation on soft nanocarriers under physiological shear. Liposomes, PLGA nanoparticles, and lipid‐polymer hybrid nanoparticles acquire largely shared but material‐dependent protein coronas that alter surface properties and suppress cellular uptake, highlighting the importance ...
Anamarija Nikoletić, Dominik Simon Müller, Timon Flathmann, Jakob Steuer, Evangelos Natsaridis, Chiara Candino, Abdullah Kahraman, Oya Tagit   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Well‐Defined α(2,8)‐ and α(2,9)‐Linked Oligosialosides

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Well‐defined α(2,8)‐ and α(2,9)‐linked oligosialic acids of different lengths can be prepared by employing recombinant bacterial polysialyltransferases in combination with chemically modified CMP‐Neu5Ac derivatives. After transfer, a sialoside is formed bearing an artificial entity, which blocks further glycosylation.
Jelle A. Fok, Keshav Kishor, Mehman I. Bunyatov, Gerlof P. Bosman, Geert‐Jan Boons   +4 more
wiley   +2 more sources

A new player in the game: platelet-derived extracellular vesicles in dengue hemorrhagic fever

Platelets, 2020
Thrombocytopenia and vascular leakage are clinical hallmarks in dengue hemorrhagic fever. Sung et al. present a new mechanism where platelet-derived extracellular vesicles participate in increasing vascular permeability during dengue virus infection in ...
Marisol Perez-Toledo, Nonantzin Beristain-Covarrubias   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Taxonomic Distribution and Molecular Evolution of Mytilectins

Marine Drugs, 2023
R-type lectins are a widespread group of sugar-binding proteins found in nearly all domains of life, characterized by the presence of a carbohydrate-binding domain that adopts a β-trefoil fold.
Marco Gerdol, Daniela Eugenia Nerelli, Nicola Martelossi, Yukiko Ogawa, Yuki Fujii, Alberto Pallavicini, Yasuhiro Ozeki   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Malectin Alleviates Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus via Glycoprotein Quality Control Mechanisms

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Malectin alleviates high glucose‐induced ER stress and damage in placental trophoblasts, a function dependent on its six critical carbohydrate‐binding residues. In a GDM mouse model, administration of TAT‐Malectin ameliorated hyperglycemia and placental ER stress and prevented fetal macrosomia.
Jiahui Zhu, Yumeng Zhang, Ye Wang, Xiaoyu Zhu, Ailin Yuan, Weijing Yin, Huangmin Yu, Xuemin Pang, Yufeng He, Yuchen Wang, Tong Wang, Yong Li, Yunlong Si   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae lipooligosaccharide directs dendritic cell-induced T helper responses. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2009
Gonorrhea is one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted diseases in the world. A naturally occurring variation of the terminal carbohydrates on the lipooligosaccharide (LOS) molecule correlates with altered disease states.
Sandra J van Vliet, Liana Steeghs, Sven C M Bruijns, Medi M Vaezirad, Christian Snijders Blok, Jésus A Arenas Busto, Marcel Deken, Jos P M van Putten, Yvette van Kooyk   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

C-type lectins facilitate tumor metastasis

Oncology Letters, 2016
Metastasis, a life-threatening complication of cancer, leads to the majority of cases of cancer-associated mortality. Unfortunately, the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms of cancer metastasis remain to be fully elucidated. C-type lectins are a large group of proteins, which share structurally homologous carbohydrate-recognition domains (CRDs)
Ding, Dongbing, Yao, Yao, Zhang, Songbai, Su, Chunjie, Zhang, Yonglian   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources