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Glycobiology of syndecan-1 in bacterial infections.
Biochemical Society transactions - 17 Apr 2018
Aquino Rafael S, Teng Yvonne Hui-Fang, Park Pyong Woo
Abstract excerpt
Syndecan-1 (Sdc1) is a major cell surface heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycan of epithelial cells, a cell type targeted by many bacterial pathogens early in their pathogenesis. Loss of Sdc1 in mice is a gain-of-function mutation that significantly decreases the susceptibility to several bacterial infections, suggesting that subversion of Sdc1 is an important virulence strategy. HS glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains of...
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