1. Preface for 1st Symposium of Japanese Consortium for Glycobiology and Glycotechnology

   • Akemi Suzuki
   • Naoyuki Taniguchi

   Preface Pages: 1 - 1

2. Structure, function and pathology of O-mannosyl glycans

   • Tamao Endo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 7

3. Regulation of integrin functions by N-glycans

   • Jianguo Gu
   • Naoyuki Taniguchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 15

4. Construction of a human glycogene library and comprehensive functional analysis

   • Hisashi Narimatsu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 24

5. Involvement of proteases in glycosyltransferase secretion: Alzheimer's β-secretase-dependent cleavage and a following processing by an aminopeptidase

   • Shinobu Kitazume
   • Minoru Suzuki
   • Yasuhiro Hashimoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 29

6. The carbohydrate recognition by cytokines modulates their physiological activities

   • Katsuko Yamashita
   • Keiko Fukushima

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 34

7. Lectin-based structural glycomics: Glycoproteomics and glycan profiling

   • Jun Hirabayashi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 40

8. Carbohydrate antigens expressed on stem cells and early embryonic cells

   • Takashi Muramatsu
   • Hisako Muramatsu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 45

9. Sulfation pattern in glycosaminoglycan: Does it have a code?

   • Hiroko Habuchi
   • Osami Habuchi
   • Koji Kimata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 52

10. Neuroglycan C, a brain-specific part-time proteoglycan, with a particular multidomain structure

    • Atsuhiko Oohira
    • Takuya Shuo
    • Sachiko Aono

    OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 57

11. Biological roles of sulfoglycolipids and pathophysiology of their deficiency

    • Koichi Honke
    • Yanglong Zhang
    • Naoyuki Taniguchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 62

12. Approach for functional analysis of glycan using RNA interference

    • Shoko Nishihara
    • Ryu Ueda
    • Mitsuru Nakamura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 68

13. Synthesis of glycoprotein molecular probes for the analyses of protein quality control system

    • Kiichiro Totani
    • Ichiro Matsuo
    • Yukishige Ito

    OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 74

14. Expression of human glycosyltransferase genes in yeast as a tool for enzymatic synthesis of sugar chain

    • Yoh-ichi Shimma
    • Yoshifumi Jigami

    OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 78

15. Superoxide production from human polymorphonuclear leukocytes by human mannan-binding protein (MBP)

    • Kazuhide Uemura
    • Harumi Yamamoto
    • Toshisuke Kawasaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 84