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ReviewClinical chemistry2010

Sweetening the pot: adding glycosylation to the biomarker discovery equation.

Penelope M Drake, Wonryeon Cho, Bensheng Li, Akraporn Prakobphol, Eric Johansen, N Leigh Anderson, Fred E Regnier, Bradford W Gibson, Susan J Fisher

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Review in Clinical chemistry, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 152 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
152citing papers in PubMed
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

152 citing papers in PubMed, 301 citations in OpenAlex.

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92 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Penelope M DrakeUniversity of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Wonryeon Cho
Bensheng Li
Akraporn Prakobphol
Eric Johansen
N Leigh Anderson
Fred E Regnier
Bradford W Gibson
Susan J Fisher
University of California, San Francisco · USBuck Institute for Research on Aging · USPurdue University West Lafayette · US

Funding

Targeted and global proteomic strategies for early breast cancer detectionU24CA126477 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FISHER, SUSAN J. · 2006 to 2011
$8.7M
NCI NIH HHS 5U24CA126477-04NCI NIH HHS U24 CA126477
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCancer has profound effects on gene expression, including a cell's glycosylation machinery. Thus, tumors produce glycoproteins that carry oligosaccharides with structures that are markedly different from the same protein produced by a normal cell. A single protein can have many glycosylation sites that greatly amplify the signals they generate compared with their protein backbones. CONTENT: In this article, we survey clinical tests that target carbohydrate modifications for diagnosing and treating cancer. We present the biological relevance of glycosylation to disease progression by highlighting the role these structures play in adhesion, signaling, and metastasis and then address current methodological approaches to biomarker discovery that capitalize on selectively capturing tumor-associated glycoforms to enrich and identify disease-related candidate analytes. Finally, we discuss emerging technologies--multiple reaction monitoring and lectin-antibody arrays--as potential tools for biomarker validation studies in pursuit of clinically useful tests. SUMMARY: The future of carbohydrate-based biomarker studies has arrived. At all stages, from discovery through verification and deployment into clinics, glycosylation should be considered a primary readout or a way of increasing the sensitivity and specificity of protein-based analyses.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorGlycoproteinsGlycosylationHumansLectinsMass SpectrometryNeoplasm ProteinsNeoplasmsBiomarkers, TumorGlycoproteinsLectinsNeoplasm Proteins

Identifiers

PMID19959616
PMCPMC2849286
OpenAlexW2031079181

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