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- noun Plural form of
glycan .
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Bertozzi and her research group used copper-free click chemistry to label glycans in a variety of mouse tissues including the intestines, heart and liver.
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Bertozzi and her research group used copper-free click chemistry to label glycans in a variety of mouse tissues including the intestines, heart and liver.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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"There is great scientific interest in monitoring the dynamics of glycans as they move about within cells and on the cell surface, but the means to tag glycans with imaging probes in living organisms has been lacking," says Bertozzi, who is the director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences and Physical Biosciences Divisions, and the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry as well as a professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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"There is great scientific interest in monitoring the dynamics of glycans as they move about within cells and on the cell surface, but the means to tag glycans with imaging probes in living organisms has been lacking," says Bertozzi, who is the director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences and Physical Biosciences Divisions, and the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry as well as a professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley.
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Birds possess slightly different sugars, known as a2-3 sialylated glycans, to which H5N1 connects easily.
Scientists Find Key to What Could Make Bird Flu a Human Pandemic 2008
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Both H3N2 and H1N1 latched onto sugar configurations known as a2-6 sialylated glycans, found exclusively in our upper respiratory tracts.
Scientists Find Key to What Could Make Bird Flu a Human Pandemic 2008
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"The gut microbiome of giant pandas has enriched metabolism of carbohydrates, amino acids, xenobiotics, nucleotides, glycans, vitamins and lipids, which can bring the basic nutrition and energy for pandas' living," Wei said.
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However, concentrations of these glycans, as they are called, decline as we age, which researchers say contributes to less elastic and thinner skin.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Stephen Adams 2012
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"Our study points to the key role played by glycans in protecting hemagglutinin from neutralization as pandemic viruses evolve into seasonal ones," says Dr. Nabel.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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More information: C-J Wei et al. Cross-neutralization of 1918 and 2009 influenza viruses: Role of glycans in viral evolution and vaccine design.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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