The breast cancer-associated glycoforms of MUC1, MUC1-Tn and sialyl-Tn, are expressed in COSMC wild-type cells and bind the C-type lectin MGL

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Beatson, Richard ^a   Maurstad, Gjertrud ^b   Picco, Gianfranco ^a   Arulappu, Appitha ^a   Coleman, Julia ^a   Wandell, Hans H ^c   Clausen, Henrik ^c   Mandel, Ulla ^c   Taylor Papadimitriou, Joyce ^a   Sletmoen, Marit ^b   Burchell, Joy M ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MUCIN 1; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN C TYPE LECTIN MGL; STN ANTIGEN; TN ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LECTIN; MGL LECTIN, HUMAN; MUC1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOTINYLATION; BREAST CANCER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMC GENE; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIALYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; METABOLISM; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MUCIN-1; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84929118575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125994     Document Type: Article

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