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ArticlePloS one2016

Unmasking Heavily O-Glycosylated Serum Proteins Using Perchloric Acid: Identification of Serum Proteoglycan 4 and Protease C1 Inhibitor as Molecular Indicators for Screening of Breast Cancer.

Cheng-Siang Lee, Nur Aishah Mohd Taib, Ali Ashrafzadeh, Farhana Fadzli, Faizah Harun, Kartini Rahmat, See Mee Hoong, Puteri Shafinaz Abdul-Rahman, Onn Haji Hashim

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cheng-Siang LeeDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Nur Aishah Mohd TaibDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Ali AshrafzadehMedical Biotechnology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Farhana FadzliDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Faizah HarunDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Kartini RahmatDepartment of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
See Mee HoongDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Puteri Shafinaz Abdul-RahmanDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Onn Haji HashimDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
University of Malaya · MYUniversity Malaya Medical Centre · MY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heavily glycosylated mucin glycopeptides such as CA 27.29 and CA 15-3 are currently being used as biomarkers for detection and monitoring of breast cancer. However, they are not well detected at the early stages of the cancer. In the present study, perchloric acid (PCA) was used to enhance detection of mucin-type O-glycosylated proteins in the serum in an attempt to identify new biomarkers for early stage breast cancer. Sensitivity and specificity of an earlier developed sandwich enzyme-linked lectin assay were significantly improved with the use of serum PCA isolates. When a pilot case-control study was performed using the serum PCA isolates of normal participants (n = 105) and patients with stage 0 (n = 31) and stage I (n = 48) breast cancer, higher levels of total O-glycosylated proteins in sera of both groups of early stage breast cancer patients compared to the normal control women were demonstrated. Further analysis by gel-based proteomics detected significant inverse altered abundance of proteoglycan 4 and plasma protease C1 inhibitor in both the early stages of breast cancer patients compared to the controls. Our data suggests that the ratio of serum proteoglycan 4 to protease C1 inhibitor may be used for screening of early breast cancer although this requires further validation in clinically representative populations.

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Early Detection of CancerBlood ProteinsBlotting, WesternBreast NeoplasmsCase-Control StudiesComplement C1 Inactivator ProteinsComplement C1 Inhibitor ProteinFemaleGlycated Serum ProteinsGlycoproteinsGlycosylationHumansLectinsNeoplasm StagingPerchloratesProteoglycan 4Blood ProteinsComplement C1 Inactivator ProteinsComplement C1 Inhibitor ProteinGlycated Serum ProteinsGlycoproteinsLectinsPerchloratesPerchloric AcidPRG4 protein, humanProteoglycan 4ProteoglycansSERPING1 protein, human

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PMID26890881
PMCPMC4758733
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