Journal
TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 351-360Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2008.06.002
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- National Institutes of Health
- Mathers Foundation
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The surfaces of all vertebrate cells are decorated with a dense and complex array of sugar chains, which are mostly attached to proteins and lipids. Most soluble secreted proteins are also similarly decorated with such glycans. Sialic acids are a diverse family of sugar units with a nine-carbon backbone that are typically found attached to the outermost ends of these chains. Given their location and ubiquitous distribution, sialic acids can mediate or modulate a wide variety of physiological and pathological processes. This review considers some examples of their established and newly emerging roles in aspects of human physiology and disease.
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