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CLINICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 56, 期 2, 页码 223-236出版社
AMER ASSOC CLINICAL CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2009.136333
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- Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer initiative [5U24CA126477-04]
- NIH
- National Cancer Institute
BACKGROUND: Cancer has profound effects on gene expression, including a cell's glycosylation machinery. Thus, tumors produce glycoproteins that carry oligosaccharides with structures that are markedly different from the same protein produced by a normal cell. A single protein can have many glycosylation sites that greatly amplify the signals they generate compared with their protein backbones. CONTENT: In this article, we survey clinical tests that target carbohydrate modifications for diagnosing and treating cancer. We present the biological relevance of glycosylation to disease progression by highlighting the role these structures play in adhesion, signaling, and metastasis and then address current methodological approaches to biomarker discovery that capitalize on selectively capturing tumor-associated glycoforms to enrich and identify disease-related candidate analytes. Finally, we discuss emerging technologies-multiple reaction monitoring and lectin-antibody arrays-as potential tools for biomarker validation studies in pursuit of clinically useful tests. SUMMARY: The future of carbohydrate-based biomarker studies has arrived. At all stages, from discovery through verification and deployment into clinics, glycosylation should be considered a primary readout or a way of increasing the sensitivity and specificity of protein-based analyses. (C) 2009 American Association for Clinical Chemistry
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