Glycoengineering the N-acyl side chain of sialic acid of human erythropoietin affects its resistance to sialidase

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 393, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 777-783

  Werner, Anselm ^a   Horstkorte, Rüdiger ^a   Glanz, Dagobert ^a   Biskup, Karina ^b   Blanchard, Véronique ^b   Berger, Markus ^b   Bork, Kaya ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glycosylation; Protein degradation; Therapeutic glycoproteins

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; SIALIC ACID; SIALIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CRICETINAE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GLYCOSYLATION; HEXOSAMINES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; NEURAMINIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84867771888     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2012-0138     Document Type: Article

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