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The present study gives an evaluation of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), macrophage electrophoretic mobility test (MEM), sialyltransferase, galactosyltransferase isoenzyme (SGT), ribonuclease and reverse transcriptase as diagnostic aids in malignant diseases. CEA and sialyltransferase are of certain value in the monitoring of cancer, as their values in the serum may rise before progression of disease or relapse. Both tests are not reliable parameters in the early diagnosis of malignancy. Our results with regard to the MEM test have not proved in any way useful in the diagnosis of cancer. Our preliminary results appear to indicate that, provided further simplification of the method can be achieved, SGT isoenzyme determination seems to be a better means of diagnosing cancer. In view of inherent-methodological difficulties reverse transcriptase has, at present, no clinical application in the diagnosis of cancer.
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PMID:[Developments in the serological diagnosis of malignant diseases]. 746 58

In many cases of human cancer, the appearance of hypersialylated glycan structures is related to a precise stage of the disease; this may depend on altered regulation of one or more sialyltransferases genes. Since several distinct sialyltransferase enzymes arising from different unique genes transfer sialic acid residues in the same linkage onto the same acceptor, it is impossible to precisely determine which enzyme is involved in the observed phenotype based on enzymatic assays. We have developed a very sensitive and highly reproducible multiplex reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction technique in order to monitor the expression of four human sialyltransferases genes ST6Gal I, ST3Gal I, ST3Gal III and ST3Gal IV in small cell samples. Multiplex PCR amplification using specific primers for each sialyltransferase and detection of amplification products by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is a method that is fast and easy to handle and has proven to be useful for establishing sialyltransferase patterns of expression in breast immortalized cell line HBL100 as well as in breast cancer cell lines MCF-7/6, MCF-7/AZ and MDA.
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PMID:Multiplex RT-PCR method for the analysis of the expression of human sialyltransferases: application to breast cancer cells. 953 Sep 53

Carbocisteine is a mucoregulatory drug regulating fucose and sialic acid contents in mucus glycoprotein. To investigate the mechanism of carbocisteine action, we evaluated the effects of carbocisteine on the activity of fucosidase, sialidase, fucosyltransferase and sialyltransferase, and on the expression of Muc5ac mRNA in the airway epithelium of SO(2)-exposed rats. Wistar rats were repeatedly exposed to a 300-ppm SO(2) gas for 44 days. Carbocisteine (125 and 250 mg/kg x2/day) was administered for 25 days after 20 days of SO(2) gas exposure. These enzyme activities were measured by fluorogenic substrate or glycoproteinic exogenous acceptor method. The expression levels of Muc5ac mRNA and protein were determined with real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (real-time RT-PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), respectively. Carbocisteine (250 mg/kg x2/day) inhibited all the changes in these enzyme activities and the expressions of Muc5ac mRNA and protein in the lung after repeated SO(2) exposure. These findings suggest that carbocisteine may normalize fucose and sialic acid contents in mucin glycoprotein through regulation of these enzyme activities, and inhibition of both Muc5ac mRNA and protein expressions in SO(2)-exposed rats.
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PMID:Effects of carbocisteine on altered activities of glycosidase and glycosyltransferase and expression of Muc5ac in SO2-exposed rats. 1503 71

The negative effects of ammonium on recombinant protein productivity and glycosylation have been well documented, but the interaction of ammonium on glycosylation genes has not been completely elucidated. In this study, the effects of elevated ammonium on 12 glycosylation related genes in Chinese hamster ovary cells were evaluated by quantitative real time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Numerous cytosol and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) localized genes associated with early glycosylation steps were insensitive to the ammonium condition. The initial expression of uridine diphosphate (UDP)-galactose transporter was higher for the ammonium-treated culture, while the initial expressions of cytosine monophosphate (CMP)-sialic acid transporter, beta(1,4)-galactosyltransferase, and UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase were higher for the control culture. alpha(2,3)-sialyltransferase was observed to have lower expression level under the elevated ammonium condition compared to the control culture. This study indicates that galactosylation and sialylation inhibition is mainly due to decreased gene expression of galactosyltransferase, sialyltransferase, and CMP-sialic acid transporter and not due to sialidase. These unbalanced initial glycosylation and branching steps can explain the higher molecular heterogeneity under ammonium stress. Moreover, this study indicates that elevated ammonium has limited effects on the glycosylation genes associated with the ER and cytosol compared to the genes associated with the Golgi.
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PMID:Effects of elevated ammonium on glycosylation gene expression in CHO cells. 1638 Feb 82