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| Rudd,T.R.; Hughes,A.; Holman,J.; Solari,V.; de Oliveira Ferreira,E.; Cavalcante Pilotto Domingues,R.M.; Yates,E.A.. |
| Heparan sulphate (HS) and the related polysaccharide, heparin, exhibit conformational and charge arrangement properties, which provide a degree of redundancy allowing several seemingly distinct sequences to exhibit the same activity. This can also be mimicked by other sulphated polysaccharides, both in overall effect and in the details of interactions and structural consequences of interactions with proteins. Together, these provide a source of active compounds suitable for further development as potential drugs. These polysaccharides also possess considerable size, which bestows upon them an additional useful property: the capability of disrupting processes comprising many individual interactions, such as those characterising the attachment of microbial... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Heparan sulfate; Biosynthesis; Structure-function; Microbial attachment. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2012000500002 |
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| CAVALCANTE,LENY A.; GARCIA-ABREU,JOSÉ; MOURA NETO,VIVALDO; SILVA,LUIZ CLAUDIO; WEISSMÜLLER,GILBERTO. |
| Bilaterally symmetric organisms need to exchange information between the left and right sides of their bodies to integrate sensory input and to coordinate motor control. Thus, an important choice point for developing axons is the Central Nervous System (CNS) midline. Crossing of this choice point is influenced by highly conserved, soluble or membrane-bound molecules such as the L1 subfamily, laminin, netrins, slits, semaphorins, Eph-receptors and ephrins, etc. Furthermore, there is much circumstantial evidence for a role of proteoglycans (PGs) or their glycosaminoglycan (GAG) moieties on axonal growth and guidance, most of which was derived from simplified models. A model of intermediate complexity is that of cocultures of young neurons and astroglial... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Astrocytes; Axon growth; Extracellular matrix; Heparan sulfate; Midline; Midbrain. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652002000400010 |
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| Cavalcante,L.A.; Garcia-Abreu,J.; Mendes,F.A.; Moura Neto,V.; Silva,L.C.F.; Onofre,G.; Weissmüller,G.; Carvalho,S.L.. |
| Proteoglycans are abundant in the developing brain and there is much circumstantial evidence for their roles in directional neuronal movements such as cell body migration and axonal growth. We have developed an in vitro model of astrocyte cultures of the lateral and medial sectors of the embryonic mouse midbrain, that differ in their ability to support neuritic growth of young midbrain neurons, and we have searched for the role of interactive proteins and proteoglycans in this model. Neurite production in co-cultures reveals that, irrespective of the previous location of neurons in the midbrain, medial astrocytes exert an inhibitory or nonpermissive effect on neuritic growth that is correlated to a higher content of both heparan and chondroitin sulfates... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Astrocytes; Axonal growth; Chondroitin sulfate; Heparan sulfate; Midline; Midbrain. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2003000800005 |
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