TY - JOUR
T1 - A Method to the Madness of N-Glycan Complexity?
AU - Stanley, Pamela
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/4/6
Y1 - 2007/4/6
N2 - Cell-surface glycoprotein receptors have varying numbers of N-glycan sites. In this issue of Cell, Lau et al. (2007) report that increasing intracellular UDP-GlcNAc leads to increased branching of N-glycans, increased receptor association with cell-surface galectin-3, and enhanced signaling. They also show that the kinetics of this response differ between growth-promoting receptors, which have 8-16 N-glycans, and those that induce growth arrest, which have very few N-glycans, suggesting that hexosamine flux may regulate the transition from growth to arrest.
AB - Cell-surface glycoprotein receptors have varying numbers of N-glycan sites. In this issue of Cell, Lau et al. (2007) report that increasing intracellular UDP-GlcNAc leads to increased branching of N-glycans, increased receptor association with cell-surface galectin-3, and enhanced signaling. They also show that the kinetics of this response differ between growth-promoting receptors, which have 8-16 N-glycans, and those that induce growth arrest, which have very few N-glycans, suggesting that hexosamine flux may regulate the transition from growth to arrest.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cell.2007.03.022
DO - 10.1016/j.cell.2007.03.022
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 17418781
AN - SCOPUS:33947725535
VL - 129
SP - 27
EP - 29
JO - Cell
JF - Cell
SN - 0092-8674
IS - 1
ER -