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Volume 5 (2008), Issue 6 (June)

1. A phospho-sugar binding domain homologous to NagB enzymes regulates the activity of the central glycolytic genes repressor.
   Proteins, 71(4): 2038-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Structural and enzymatic analysis of MshA from Corynebacterium glutamicum: substrate-assisted catalysis.
   J Biol Chem, 283(23): 15834-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Immunochemical localization of keratan sulfate proteoglycans in cornea, sclera, and limbus using a keratanase-generated neoepitope monoclonal antibody.
   Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 49(6): 2424-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. The synthesis of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine is essential for bloodstream form trypanosoma brucei in vitro and in vivo and UDP-N-acetylglucosamine starvation reveals a hierarchy in parasite protein glycosylation.
   J Biol Chem, 283(23): 16147-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Glucosamine found as a substituent of both phosphate groups in Bordetella lipid A backbones: role of a BvgAS-activated ArnT ortholog.
   J Bacteriol, 190(12): 4281-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Characterizing the glycocalyx of poultry spermatozoa: II. In vitro storage of Turkey semen and mobility phenotype affects the carbohydrate component of sperm membrane glycoconjugates.
   J Androl, 29(4): 431-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Microglia cells protect neurons by direct engulfment of invading neutrophil granulocytes: a new mechanism of CNS immune privilege.
   J Neurosci, 28(23): 5965-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Highlights of glucosamine-6P synthase catalysis.
   Arch Biochem Biophys, 474(2): 302-17. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Glucosamine protects neonatal cardiomyocytes from ischemia-reperfusion injury via increased protein O-GlcNAc and increased mitochondrial Bcl-2.
   Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 294(6): C1509-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Kinetics of hyaluronan hydrolysis in acidic solution at various pH values.
    Biomacromolecules, 9(6): 1535-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Different content of chitin-like polysaccharides in multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease brains.
    J Neuroimmunol, 197(1): 70-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Early events induced by chitosan on plant cells.
    J Exp Bot, 59(9): 2317-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Genetic variation in sialidase and linkage to N-acetylneuraminate catabolism in Mycoplasma synoviae.
    Microb Pathog, 45(1): 38-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Molecular cloning and characterization of Brugia malayi hexokinase.
    Parasitol Int, 57(3): 354-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Synthesis of C-disaccharides via a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction and further stereocontrolled transformations.
    Carbohydr Res, 343(10): 1754-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Crystal structures of lipoglycopeptide antibiotic deacetylases: implications for the biosynthesis of a40926 and teicoplanin.
    Chem Biol, 15(6): 533-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. The Lmgpi15 gene, encoding a component of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor biosynthesis pathway, is required for morphogenesis and pathogenicity in Leptosphaeria maculans.
    New Phytol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Synthesis of a deuterated analogue of bacteriohopanetetrol-glucosamine, a probe of complex hopanoid biosynthesis.
    Org Biomol Chem, 6(13): 2394-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Chondrogenic Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis: Measurements in a Microculture System.
    Cells Tissues Organs. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Genetic dissection of the biosynthetic route to gentamicin A2 by heterologous expression of its minimal gene set.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(24): 8399-404. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Site-specific interactions of copper(II) ions with heparin revealed with complementary (SRCD, NMR, FTIR and EPR) spectroscopic techniques.
    Carbohydr Res, 343(12): 2184-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Sugar binding to recombinant wild-type and mutant glucokinase monitored by kinetic measurement and tryptophan fluorescence.
    Biochem J, 413(2): 269-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Saccharide/protein conjugate vaccines for Bordetella species: Preparation of saccharide, development of new conjugation procedures, and physico-chemical and immunological characterization of the conjugates.
    Vaccine, 26(29): 3587-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Bilateral pulvinar signal intensity decrease on T2-weighted images in patients with aspartylglucosaminuria.
    Acta Radiol, 49(6): 687-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Thrombin regulates vascular smooth muscle cell proteoglycan synthesis via PAR-1 and multiple downstream signalling pathways.
    Thromb Res. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. O-GlcNAc modulation at Akt1 Ser473 correlates with apoptosis of murine pancreatic beta cells.
    Exp Cell Res, 314(11): 2238-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Activation of PPARgamma negatively regulates O-GlcNAcylation of Sp1.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 372(4): 713-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. D3h-symmetrical hydrogen-bonding unit as a saccharide recognition and self-assembling module.
    Org Lett, 10(13): 2685-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Conformational preferences of the aglycon moiety in models and analogs of GlcNAc-Asn linkage: crystal structures and ab initio quantum chemical calculations of N-(beta-D-glycopyranosyl)haloacetamides.
    J Am Chem Soc, 130(26): 8317-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Aggregation behavior of an ultra-pure lipopolysaccharide that stimulates TLR-4 receptors.
    Biophys J, 95(2): 986-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Identification of the Streptococcus gordonii glmM gene encoding phosphoglucosamine mutase and its role in bacterial cell morphology, biofilm formation, and sensitivity to antibiotics.
    FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol, 53(2): 166-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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