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JOURNAL OF CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 147-164Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07328303.2011.619674
Keywords
Cell wall; Fungi; Glycans; Glycome; Lectin microarray
Funding
- NEKKEN
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, & Technology in Japan
- [21406003]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21406003] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Fungal surface glycans play roles in cell protection and interaction. Our knowledge of fungal glycans, however, is limited to model yeasts and a few medically/industrially important fungi. We evaluated the usefulness of a lectin microarray in analysis of live cell surface glycans and then applied the technique to glycome of varieties of yeast-form fungi from various phyla and subphyla. We found glycan profiles are different among and within taxonomic groups. For example, Saccharomycotina were classified into two groups, one bound to mannose-specific lectins and the other bound to galactose/N-acetylgalactosamine-specific lectins. In Basidiomycota, Pucciniomycotina yeasts were distinguished from other subphylum members in binding to fucose-specific lectins. Supplemental materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry to view the free supplemental file.
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