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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2015

Glycocalyx Engineering with a Recycling Glycopolymer that Increases Cell Survival In Vivo.

Elliot C Woods, Nathan A Yee, Jeff Shen, Carolyn R Bertozzi

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 94 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Synthetic Lipid Biology.Chemical reviews · 2025
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  4. Proximity Labeling of Cell Surface Proteins via Cell Surface Remodeling.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Elliot C WoodsDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA).
Nathan A YeeDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4401 (USA).
Jeff ShenDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4401 (USA).
Carolyn R BertozziDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4401 (USA). bertozzi@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

Investigations of Golgi EnzymesR01GM059907 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI BERTOZZI, CAROLYN · 1999 to 2016
$5.9M
Development of Mucin-mimetics to Study the Role of the Glycocalyx in OncogenesisF31CA200544 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI WOODS, ELLIOT CARTER · 2015 to 2016
$74k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS F31 CA200544NCI NIH HHS F31CA200544NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059907NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM59907
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic glycopolymers that emulate cell-surface mucins have been used to elucidate the role of mucin overexpression in cancer. However, because they are internalized within hours, these glycopolymers could not be employed to probe processes that occur on longer time scales. In this work, we tested a panel of glycopolymers bearing a variety of lipids to identify those that persist on cell membranes. Strikingly, we found that cholesterylamine (CholA) anchored glycopolymers are internalized into vesicles that serve as depots for delivery back to the cell surface, allowing for the display of cell-surface glycopolymers for at least ten days, even while the cells are dividing. As with native mucins, the cell-surface display of CholA-anchored glycopolymers influenced the focal adhesion distribution. Furthermore, we show that these mimetics enhance the survival of nonmalignant cells in a zebrafish model of metastasis. CholA-anchored glycopolymers therefore expand the application of glycocalyx engineering in glycobiology.

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Cell SurvivalGlycocalyxCell Line, TumorHumansPolymersPolymerscancercell adhesionglycoconjugatesglycopolymerslipids

Identifiers

PMID26647316
PMCPMC4736730
OpenAlexW2136669729

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