Sugar Chains Decoding the Functions of Glycans /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Suzuki, Tadashi (Editor), Ohtsubo, Kazuaki (Editor), Taniguchi, Naoyuki (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Cancer research.; Immunology.; Biochemistry.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Cancer Research.

This book presents the latest breakthrough results in glycobiology regarding the roles of glycans in relation to quality control and transport of protein, the immune system, viral infection, stem cells, the neural system, and various diseases such as cancer, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary d...

Table of Contents:

• 1 N-Glycans and Quality Control of Proteins
• 2 Glycan-Mediated Protein Transport from the Endoplasmic Reticulum
• 3 Gangliosides and T-Cell Immunity
• 4 Gangliosides Regulate Tumor Properties: With Focus on the Suppression of Metastasis-Associated ppGalNAc-T13 with GM1
• 5 Role of Glycans in Viral Infection
• 6 Discovery and Applications of a Novel Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Specific Lectin Probe rBC2LCN
• 7 Glycan Structure and Neural Plasticity
• 8 The Involvement of Midkine, a Heparin-Binding Growth Factor, in Cancer Development
• 9 Tumor-Associated Glycans and Their Functional Roles in the Multistep Process of Human Cancer Progression
• 10 Mammalian Sialidase and Tumor Development
• 11 Roles of Glycans in Immune Evasion from NK Immunity
• 12 Glycomic Analysis of Cancer
• 13 Glyco-Predisposing Factor of Diabetes
• 14 Macrophages Govern Ganglioside GM3 Expression in Adipocytes to Regulate Adipogenesis and Insulin Signaling in Homeostatic and Pathogenic Conditions
• 15 O-Mannosyl Glycan and Muscular Dystrophy
• 16 Glycans and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• 17 α1,6-Fucosyltransferase Knockout Mice and Schizophrenia-Like Phenotype.  .