Glycans Schistosoma

Khoo, K.-H., Chatterjee, D., Caulfield, J.P., Morris, H.R. and Dell, A. (1997b) Structural mapping of the glycans from the egg glycoproteins of Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma japonicum. Identification of novel core structures and terminal sequences. Glycobiology 7, 663-677. 

Geyer, H., Wuhrer, M., Kurokawa, T. and Geyer, R. (2004) Characterization of keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) glycans sharing a carbohydrate epitope with Schistosoma mansoni glycoconjugates. Micron 35, 105-106. 

Huang, H.H., Tsai, P.L. and Khoo, K.H. (2001) Selective expression of different fucosylated epitopes on two distinct sets of Schistosoma mansoni cercarial O-glycans identification of a novel core type and Fewis X structure. Glycobiology 11, 395 106. 

K. H. Khoo, S. Sarda, X. Xu, J. P. Caulfield, M. R. McNeil, S. W. Homans, H. R. Morris, A. Dell, A unique multifucosylated -3GalNAc beta 1 4GlcNAc beta 1—>3Gal alpha I- motif constitutes the repeating unit of the complex O-glycans derived from the cercarial glycocalyx of Schistosoma mansoni, J Biol Chem, (1995), 270, 17114—23. 

Figure 3. Structures of some major N- and O-glycans in Schistosoma sp. Denoted antigenic structures are boxed.

Figure 4. Structures of other unusual glycans in Schistosoma sp.

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