High throughput isolation and glycosylation analysis of IgG-variability and heritability of the IgG glycome in three isolated human populations

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Pučić, Maja ^a   Knežević, Ana ^a   Vidič, Jana ^b   Adamczyk, Barbara ^c   Novokmet, Mislav ^a   Polašek, Ozren ^d   Gornik, Olga ^e   Šupraha Goreta, Sandra ^e   Wormald, Mark R ^f   Redžic, Irma ^a   Campbell, Harry ^g   Wright, Alan ^h   Hastie, Nicholas D ^h   Wilson, James F ^g   Rudan, Igor ^d,g   Wuhrer, Manfred ⁱ   Rudd, Pauline M ^c   Josić, Djuro ^j,k   Lauc, Gordan ^a,e  

^a GENOS GLYCOSCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Croatia)

^b BIA SEPARATIONS   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^j BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOBENZAMIDE; GALACTOSE; GLYCAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; ANTHRANILIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FUCOSE; GLYCOPEPTIDASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOSYLATED IGG; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLYCOSYLATION; HERITABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HYDROPHILIC INTERACTION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SIALYLATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GLYCOBIOLOGY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHRANILIC ACIDS; FEMALE; FUCOSE; GENETIC VARIATION; GLYCOMICS; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE-N4-(N-ACETYL-BETA-GLUCOSAMINYL) ASPARAGINE AMIDASE; POLYSACCHARIDES; POPULATION;

EID: 80054016444     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M111.010090     Document Type: Article

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