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Chemo-enzymatic Synthesis of N-glycans for Array Development and HIV Antibody Profiling
Published on: February 5, 2018
Deciphering glycan linkages involved in Jurkat cell interactions with gold-coated nanofibers via sugar-displayed
Jian Du1, Pao-Lin Che, Udayanath Aich
1Department of Biomedical Engineering and The Translational Tissue Engineering Center, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Abstract:
Metabolic oligosaccharide engineering (MOE) provides a method to install novel chemical functional groups into the glycocalyx of living cells. In this Letter we use this technology to compare the impact of replacing natural sialic acid, GalNAc, and GlcNAc with their thiol-bearing counterparts in Jurkat and HL-60 cells. When incubated in the presence of gold-coated nanofibers, only Jurkat cells incubated with Ac(5)ManNTGc-an analogue that installs thiols into sialosides-experienced a distinctive 'spreading' morphology. The comparison of Ac(5)ManNTGc with Ac(5)GalNTGc and Ac(5)GlcNTGc in the two cell lines implicated sialosides of N-linked glycans as critical molecular mediators of the unusual responses evoked in the Jurkat line.
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