Glycomics-driven discoveries in schistosome research

CH Hokke, AM Deelder, KF Hoffmann… - Experimental …, 2007 - Elsevier
Schistosome glycans and glycoconjugates play a prominent role in the parasite's biology, in
particular in the interaction with the human host. A large amount of structural data regarding
glycosylation of different schistosome life stages and glycoconjugate subsets has been
collected in the last decade, but many significant gaps in our knowledge of the schistosomal
glycome remain. Here we will present a concise review of the already available data guided
by a selection of recently generated stage-specific glycan profiles, and discuss implications …