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ReviewBiomolecules2016

Enzymes for N-Glycan Branching and Their Genetic and Nongenetic Regulation in Cancer.

Yasuhiko Kizuka, Naoyuki Taniguchi

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Review in Biomolecules, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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80citing papers in PubMed
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

80 citing papers in PubMed, 147 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Temporal and Sex-DependentInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  13. The Role of Glycans in Human Immunity-A Sweet Code.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  19. Protein N -Glycans in Healthy and Sclerotic Glomeruli in Diabetic Kidney Disease.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2024
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20 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yasuhiko KizukaDisease Glycomics Team, Systems Glycobiology Research Group, Global Research Cluster, RIKEN, Wako, 351-0198, Japan. y.kizuka@riken.jp.
Naoyuki TaniguchiDisease Glycomics Team, Systems Glycobiology Research Group, Global Research Cluster, RIKEN, Wako, 351-0198, Japan. dglycotani@riken.jp.
RIKEN · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

N-glycan, a fundamental and versatile protein modification in mammals, plays critical roles in various physiological and pathological events including cancer progression. The formation of N-glycan branches catalyzed by specific N-acetylglucosaminyltransferases [GnT-III, GnT-IVs, GnT-V, GnT-IX (Vb)] and a fucosyltransferase, Fut8, provides functionally diverse N-glycosylated proteins. Aberrations of these branches are often found in cancer cells and are profoundly involved in cancer growth, invasion and metastasis. In this review, we focus on the GlcNAc and fucose branches of N-glycans and describe how their expression is dysregulated in cancer by genetic and nongenetic mechanisms including epigenetics and nucleotide sugar metabolisms. We also survey the roles that these N-glycans play in cancer progression and therapeutics. Finally, we discuss possible applications of our knowledge on basic glycobiology to the development of medicine and biomarkers for cancer therapy.

Indexed as

Enzyme InhibitorsEpigenesis, GeneticFucosyltransferasesGlycosylationHumansN-AcetylglucosaminyltransferasesNeoplasmsPolysaccharidesEnzyme InhibitorsFucosyltransferasesN-AcetylglucosaminyltransferasesPolysaccharidescancerfucoseGlcNAcglycosylationglycosyltransferaseN-Glycan

Identifiers

PMID27136596
PMCPMC4919920
OpenAlexW2343703378

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