Interested

• biochemistry molecular biology
• general science technology
• microbiology
• chemical physics
• genetics heredity

Scientific discipline

• medical sciences
• biological sciences

Latest publications

• N-acetylglucosaminyltransferases and nucleotide sugar transporters form multi-enzyme–multi-transporter assemblies in Golgi membranes in vivo.
• SLC35A5 protein - a Golgi complex member with putative nucleotide sugar transport activity.
• SLC35A2‐CDG: Functional characterization, expanded molecular, clinical, and biochemical phenotypes of 30 unreported Individuals.
• SLC35A2 deficiency reduces protein levels of core 1 β-1,3-galactosyltransferase 1 (C1GalT1) and its chaperone Cosmc and affects their subcellular localization
• Delivery of Nucleotide Sugars to the Mammalian Golgi: A Very Well (un) Explained Story
• Novel Insights into Selected Disease-Causing Mutations within the SLC35A1 Gene Encoding the CMP-Sialic Acid Transporter
• The glycosylation defect in solute carrier SLC35A2/SLC35A3 double knockout cells is rescued by SLC35A2–SLC35A3 and SLC35A3–SLC35A2 hybrids
• SLC35A2 Deficiency Promotes an Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition-like Phenotype in Madin–Darby Canine Kidney Cells
• Missing the sweet spot: one of the two N-glycans on human Gb3/CD77 synthase is expendable.
• Prevotella intermedia produces two proteins homologous to Porphyromonas gingivalis HmuY but with different heme coordination mode.
• Human Gb3/CD77 synthase produces P1 glycotope-capped N-glycans, which mediate Shiga toxin 1 but not Shiga toxin 2 cell entry.
• The solute carrier MFSD1 decreases the activation status of β1 integrin and thus tumor metastasis.
• Modified secreted alkaline phosphatase as an improved reporter protein for N-glycosylation analysis.
• Porphyromonas gingivalis PgFur is a member of a novel Fur subfamily with non-canonical function.
• Biosynthesis of GlcNAc-rich N- and O-glycans in the Golgi apparatus does not require the nucleotide sugar transporter SLC35A3
• Identification of novel potential interaction partners of UDP-galactose (SLC35A2), UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (SLC35A3) and an orphan (SLC35A4) nucleotide sugar transporters
• An interaction between SLC35A1 and ST3Gal4 is differentially affected by CDG-causing mutations in the SLC35A1 gene
• Mutations in the SLC35C1 gene, contributing to significant differences in fucosylation patterns, may underlie the diverse phenotypic manifestations observed in leukocyte adhesion deficiency type II patients
• Incorporation of fucose into glycans independent of the GDP-fucose transporter SLC35C1 preferentially utilizes salvaged over de novo GDP-fucose
• PgFur participates differentially in expression of virulence factors in more virulent A7436 and less virulent ATCC 33277 Porphyromonas gingivalis strains.