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Handbook of Glycosyltransferases and Related Genes

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Editors:
  1. Naoyuki Taniguchi

    1. Department of Biochemistry, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan

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  2. Koichi Honke

    1. Department of Biochemistry, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan

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  3. Minoru Fukuda

    1. Glycobiology Program, Cancer Research Institute, The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, USA

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  4. Henrik Clausen
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  5. Kiyoshi Furukawa
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  6. Gerald W. Hart
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Table of contents (89 chapters)

  1. N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases

    1. β6-N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase (IGnT)

      • Minoru Fukuda
      Pages 125-132

    2. Core 2 β6-N- Acetylglucosaminyltransferase-I and -III

      • Minoru Fukuda, Tilo Schwientek, Henrik Clausen
      Pages 133-142

    3. Core 2 β6-N- Acetylglucosaminyltransferase-II

      • Minoru Fukuda, Jiunn-Chern Yeh
      Pages 143-150

    4. α4-N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase

      • Jun Nakayama
      Pages 151-157

    5. O-GlcNAc Transferase

      • Sai Prasad N. Iyer, Gerald W. Hart
      Pages 158-163

  2. N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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  3. N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases

    1. Polypeptide N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases

      • Fred K. Hagen, Kelly G. Ten Hagen, Lawrence A. Tabak
      Pages 167-173

    2. β4-N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferase

      • Koichi Furukawa
      Pages 174-179

    3. Histoblood Group A and B Transferases, Their Gene Structures, and Common O Group Gene Structures

      • Sen-Itiroh Hakomori
      Pages 180-188

    4. Histoblood Group A Variants, O Variants, and Their Alleles

      • Sen-Itiroh Hakomori
      Pages 189-196

    5. Forssman Glycolipid Synthase

      • Koichi Honke
      Pages 197-201

  4. Fucosyltransferases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. α2-Fucosyltransferases (FUT1,FUT2, and Sec1)

      • Rafael Oriol, Rosella Mollicone
      Pages 205-217

    3. α3/4-Fucosyltransferase (FUT3, Lewis enzyme)

      • Hisashi Narimatsu
      Pages 218-225

    4. α3-Fucosyltransferase-IV (FUT4)

      • Hisashi Narimatsu
      Pages 226-231

    5. α3-Fucosyltransferase-V (FUT5)

      • Reiji Kannagi
      Pages 232-236

    6. α3-Fucosyltransferase-VI (FUT6)

      • Reiji Kannagi
      Pages 237-245

    7. α3-Fucosyltransferase-VII (FUT7)

      • Hisashi Narimatsu
      Pages 246-251

    8. α3-Fucosyltransferase-IX (FUT9)

      • Hisashi Narimatsu
      Pages 252-258

    9. α6-Fucosyltransferase (FUT8)

      • Eiji Miyoshi, Naoyuki Taniguchi
      Pages 259-263
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About this book

The so-called postgenomic research era has now been launched, and the field of gly­ cobiology and glycotechnology has become one of the most important areas in life science because glycosylation is the most common post-translational modification reaction of proteins in vivo. On the basis of Swiss-Prot data, over 50% proteins are known to undergo glycosylation, but in fact the actual functions of most of the sugar chains in the glycoconjugates remain unknown. The complex carbohydrate chains of glycoproteins, glycolipids, and proteoglycans represent the secondary gene products formed through the reactions of glycosyl­ transferases. The regulation of the biosynthesis of sugar chains is under the control of the expression of glycosyltransferases, their substrate specificity, and their local­ ization in specific tissue sites. There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that these enzymes play pivotal roles in a variety of important cellular differentiation and developmental events, as well as in disease processes. Over 300 glycosyltransferases appear to exist in mammalian tissues. If the genes that have been purified and cloned from various species such as humans, cattle, pigs, rats and mice are counted as one, approximately 110 glycogenes that encode glycosyltransferases and related genes have been cloned at present, and this number continues to grow each day. However, most of the functions of the glycosyltransferase genes and related genes are unknown. This fact has stimulated numerous new and interesting approaches in molecular biologi­ cal investigations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biochemistry, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan

    Naoyuki Taniguchi, Koichi Honke

  • Glycobiology Program, Cancer Research Institute, The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, USA

    Minoru Fukuda

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Glycosyltransferases and Related Genes

  • Editors: Naoyuki Taniguchi, Koichi Honke, Minoru Fukuda, Henrik Clausen, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Gerald W. Hart, Reiji Kannagi, Toshisuke Kawasaki, Taroh Kinoshita, Takashi Muramatsu, Masaki Saito, Joel H. Shaper, Kazuyuki Sugahara, Lawrence A. Tabak, Dirk H. Eijnden, Masaki Yanagishita, James W. Dennis, Koichi Furukawa, Yoshio Hirabayashi, Masao Kawakita, Koji Kimata, Ulf Lindahl, Hisashi Narimatsu, Harry Schachter, Pamela Stanley, Akemi Suzuki, Shuichi Tsuji, … Katsuko Yamashita

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-67877-9

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-67877-9Published: 28 June 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 670

  • Topics: Enzymology, Biochemistry, general

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology

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