October 2006

• Cholesterol glucosylation promotes immune evasion by Helicobacter pylori

  Christian Wunder et al.
  Original research paper: Nature Medicine 12 1030-1038
  (2006); doi:10.1038/nm1480

  Abstract

• Natural killer T cells recognize diacylglycerol antigens from pathogenic bacteria

  Yuki Kinjo et al.
  Original research paper: Nature Immunology 7 978-986
  (2006); doi:10.1038/ni1380

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• High-throughput screening methodology for the directed evolution of glycosyltransferases

  Amir Aharoni et al.
  Original research paper: Nature Methods 3 609-614
  (2006); doi:10.1038/nmeth899

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• The charged sialic acid exhibits its power again: a new high-throughput screening technology

  Peng George Wang
  Original research paper: Nature Methods 3 589-590
  doi:10.1038/nmeth0806-589

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• The sweet side of biomarker discovery

  Carlos J Bosques, S Raguram and Ram Sasisekharan
  Original research paper: Nature Biotechnology 24 1100-1101
  doi:10.1038/nbt0906-1100

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• The role of heparan sulphate in inflammation

  Christopher R. Parish
  Original research paper: Nature Reviews Immunology 6 633-643
  (2006); doi:10.1038/nri1918

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• Breaching the great wall: peptidoglycan and microbial interactions

  Karen A. Cloud-Hansen et al.
  Original research paper: Nature Reviews Microbiology 4 710-716
  (2006); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1486

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• Sulfation patterns of glycosaminoglycans encode molecular recognition and activity

  Cristal I Gama et al.
  Original research paper: Nature Chemical Biology 2 467-473
  (2006); doi:10.1038/nchembio810

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• Synthetic sugars enhance the functional glycomics toolkit

  Jeremy E Turnbull and Robert J Linhardt
  Original research paper: Nature Chemical Biology 2 449-450
  doi:10.1038/nchembio0906-449

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• Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Immunoglobulin G Resulting from Fc Sialylation

  Yoshikatsu Kaneko, Falk Nimmerjahn and Jeffrey V Ravetch
  Original research paper: Science 313, 670-673 (2006)
  doi:10.1126/science.1129594

  Abstract

• Bacterial Glycans: Key Mediators of Diverse Host Immune Responses

  Laurie E Comstock and Dennis L Kasper
  Original research paper: Cell 127, 847-850 (2006)
  doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.08.021

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• Chemical Technologies for Probing Glycans

  Jennifer A Prescher and Carolyn R Bertozzi
  Original research paper: Cell 126, 851-854 (2006)
  doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.08.017

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• Glycosylation in Cellular Mechanisms of Health and Disease

  Kazuaki Ohtsubo and Jamey D Marth
  Original research paper: Cell 126, 855-867 (2006)
  doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.08.019

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• System-wide Genomic and Biochemical Comparisons of Sialic Acid Biology Among Primates and Rodents: EVIDENCE FOR TWO MODES OF RAPID EVOLUTION

  Tasha K Altheide et al.
  Original research paper: Journal of Biological Chemistry 281, 25689-25702 (2006)
  doi:10.1074/jbc.M604221200

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• Laforin: A dual specificity phosphatase that dephosphorylates complex carbohydrates

  Carolyn A Worby, Matthew S Gentryand and Jack E Dixon
  Original research paper: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 10 August 2006
  doi:10.1074/jbc.M606117200

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• Glycoproteomic probes for fluorescent imaging of fucosylated glycans in vivo

  Masaaki Sawa et al.
  Original research paper: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 10312371-12376 (2006)
  doi:10.1073/pnas.0605418103

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• Caenorhabditis elegans ortholog of a diabetes susceptibility locus: oga-1 (O-GlcNAcase) knockout impacts O-GlcNAc cycling, metabolism, and dauer

  Michele E Forsythe et al
  Original research paper: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, 11952-11957
  doi:10.1073/pnas.0601931103

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• GlycoPEGylation of recombinant therapeutic proteins produced in Escherichia coli

  Shawn DeFrees et al.
  Original research paper: Glycobiology 16, 833-843 (2006)
  doi:10.1093/glycob/cwl004

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• Glycopeptides as versatile tools for glycobiology

  Therese Buskas, Sampat Ingale and Geert-Jan Boons
  Original research paper: Glycobiology 16, 113R-136R (2006)
  doi:10.1093/glycob/cwj125

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• Inhibition of hybrid- and complex-type glycosylation reveals the presence of the GlcNAc transferase I-independent fucosylation pathway

  Max Crispin et al.
  Original research paper: Glycobiology 16, 959-968 (2006)
  doi:10.1093/glycob/cwj119

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• Two categories of mammalian galactose-binding receptors distinguished by glycan array profiling

  Peter J Coombs, Maureen E Taylor and Kurt Drickamer
  Original research paper: Glycobiology 16 1C-7C (2006)
  doi:10.1093/glycob/cwj126

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• Search for glucose/galactose-binding proteins in newly discovered protein sequences using molecular modeling techniques and structural analysis

  Madumita Patra
  Original research paper: Glycobiology 16959-968 (2006)
  doi:10.1093/glycob/cwl021

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