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ArticleMolecular oncology2016

Serum N-glycan analysis in breast cancer patients--Relation to tumour biology and clinical outcome.

Vilde D Haakensen, Israel Steinfeld, Radka Saldova, Akram Asadi Shehni, Ilona Kifer, Bjørn Naume, Pauline M Rudd, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Zohar Yakhini

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Article in Molecular oncology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Vilde D HaakensenDepartment of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway; The K.G. Jebsen Center for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Israel SteinfeldDepartment of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel; Agilent Laboratories, Agilent Technologies, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Radka SaldovaNIBRT GlycoScience Group, National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, Fosters Avenue, Mount Merrion, Blackrock, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Akram Asadi ShehniNIBRT GlycoScience Group, National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, Fosters Avenue, Mount Merrion, Blackrock, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Ilona KiferAgilent Laboratories, Agilent Technologies, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Bjørn NaumeDepartment of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Pauline M RuddNIBRT GlycoScience Group, National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, Fosters Avenue, Mount Merrion, Blackrock, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Anne-Lise Børresen-DaleDepartment of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway; The K.G. Jebsen Center for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: a.l.borresen-dale@medisin.uio.no.
Zohar YakhiniDepartment of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel; Agilent Laboratories, Agilent Technologies, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Electronic address: zohar_yakhini@agilent.com.
National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training · IEOslo University Hospital · NOAgilent Technologies (United States) · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycosylation and related processes play important roles in cancer development and progression, including metastasis. Several studies have shown that N-glycans have potential diagnostic value as cancer serum biomarkers. We have explored the significance of the abundance of particular serum N-glycan structures as important features of breast tumour biology by studying the serum glycome and tumour transcriptome (mRNA and miRNA) of 104 breast cancer patients. Integration of these types of molecular data allows us to study the relationship between serum glycans and transcripts representing functional pathways, such as metabolic pathways or DNA damage response. We identified tri antennary trigalactosylated trisialylated glycans in serum as being associated with lower levels of tumour transcripts involved in focal adhesion and integrin-mediated cell adhesion. These glycan structures were also linked to poor prognosis in patients with ER negative tumours. High abundance of simple monoantennary glycan structures were associated with increased survival, particularly in the basal-like subgroup. The presence of circulating tumour cells was found to be significantly associated with several serum glycome structures like bi and triantennary, di- and trigalactosylated, di- and trisialylated. The link between tumour miRNA expression levels and N-glycan production is also examined.

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Biomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsCohort StudiesFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansNeoplastic Cells, CirculatingPolysaccharidesTreatment OutcomeBiomarkers, TumorPolysaccharidesBreast cancerGene expressionIntegrated data analysismRNASerum N-glycans

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PMID26321095
PMCPMC5528923
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