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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2015

Biosynthetic Machinery Involved in Aberrant Glycosylation: Promising Targets for Developing of Drugs Against Cancer.

Andréia Vasconcelos-Dos-Santos, Isadora A Oliveira, Miguel Clodomiro Lucena, Natalia Rodrigues Mantuano, Stephen A Whelan, Wagner Barbosa Dias, Adriane Regina Todeschini

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
82citing papers in PubMed
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

82 citing papers in PubMed, 141 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. The Role of Glycans in Human Immunity-A Sweet Code.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  11. Getting to know adenosine deaminase 2 deficiency inside and out.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2025
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  14. Glycoscience in Advancing PD-1/PD-L1-Axis-Targeted Tumor Immunotherapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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22 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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andréia Vasconcelos-Dos-SantosInstituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brasil.
Isadora A OliveiraInstituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brasil.
Miguel Clodomiro LucenaInstituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brasil.
Natalia Rodrigues MantuanoInstituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brasil.
Stephen A WhelanDepartment of Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Proteomics Center, Boston University School of Medicine , Boston, MA , USA.
Wagner Barbosa DiasInstituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brasil.
Adriane Regina TodeschiniInstituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer cells depend on altered metabolism and nutrient uptake to generate and keep the malignant phenotype. The hexosamine biosynthetic pathway is a branch of glucose metabolism that produces UDP-GlcNAc and its derivatives, UDP-GalNAc and CMP-Neu5Ac and donor substrates used in the production of glycoproteins and glycolipids. Growing evidence demonstrates that alteration of the pool of activated substrates might lead to different glycosylation and cell signaling. It is already well established that aberrant glycosylation can modulate tumor growth and malignant transformation in different cancer types. Therefore, biosynthetic machinery involved in the assembly of aberrant glycans are becoming prominent targets for anti-tumor drugs. This review describes three classes of glycosylation, O-GlcNAcylation, N-linked, and mucin type O-linked glycosylation, involved in tumor progression, their biosynthesis and highlights the available inhibitors as potential anti-tumor drugs.

Indexed as

cancerglycansglycoconjugateglycosyltransferaseshexosamine biosynthetic pathwayinhibitorsN-linked glycanO-linked glycan

Identifiers

PMID26161361
PMCPMC4479729
OpenAlexW1549233174

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