Molecular basis of incomplete O-glycan synthesis in MCF-7 breast cancer cells: Putative role of MUC6 in Tn antigen expression

Cancer Research

Volumn 65, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 7880-7887

  Freire, Teresa ^a,b   Bay, Sylvie ^b   Von Mensdorff Pouilly, Silvia ^c   Osinaga, Eduardo ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; GLYCAN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; GLYCOPROTEIN; LECTIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MUCIN; MUCIN 6; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TN ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GLYCOPEPTIDES; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCINS; POLYSACCHARIDES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 24744436431     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-04-3746     Document Type: Article

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