Unusually high expression of N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-IVa in human choriocarcinoma cell lines: A possible enzymatic basis of the formation of abnormal biantennary sugar chain

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3949-3953

  Takamatsu, Shinji ^a   Oguri, Suguru ^a,c   Minowa, Mari Toba ^a   Yoshida, Aruto ^a   Nakamura, Katsumi ^a   Takeuchi, Makoto ^a   Kobata, Akira ^b  

^a KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; CHORIOCARCINOMA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIALYLATION; SOLUBILIZATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TROPHOBLAST;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATES; CHORIOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033566771     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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