Cells and Culture

It has been predicted that nearly half of all human proteins are glycosylated indicating the significance of glycoproteins in human health and disease. For example, the glycans attached to proteins have emerged as important biomarkers in the diagnosis of diseases such as cancers and play a significant role in how pathogenic viruses gain entry into human cells. The study of glycoproteins has now become a truly proteomic science. In the last few years, technology developments including in silico methods, high throughput separation and detection techniques have accelerated the characterization of glycoproteins in cells and tissues. Glyco-engineering coupled to rapid recombinant protein production has facilitated the determination of glycoprotein structures key to exploring and exploiting their functional roles. Each chapter in this volume is written by experts in the field and together provide a review of the state of the art in the emerging field of glycoproteomics.

Zusammenfassung
Regeneration of tissue to replace damaged or injured tissue is the goal of t- sue engineering. Biomaterials like polyglycolic acid, collagen and small-intestinal submuscosa provide a temporary scaffold to guide new tissue growth and or- nization. Typically, they need to be biodegradable, showing good cell atta- ment and proliferation and they should possess appropriate mechanical properties (Kim et al. , 2000). Synthetic polymers ful ll most of these requirements but lack cell-adhesion peptides on their surface to enhance cell attachment. Ce- adhesion peptides are present in ECM proteins like collagen and elastin. Thus a synthetic polymer coated with ECM proteins would result in a scaffold that mimics the natural cellular environment with enhanced cell attachment and p- liferation. The new bioactive scaffold will be made by combining a synthetic polymer coated with a layer of recombinant ECM proteins produced by CHO cells. The rst step consists of identifying polymers that give best results in terms of CHO cell attachment and growth. Classical techniques to determine biomass are inappropriate to evaluate 3-D structures. Thus a screening system based on stable GFP expressing CHO cells was used to compare the different scaffolds. Simple uorescent measurement after cell lysis allows determining cell attachment and p- liferation on synthetic polymers. Finally CHO cells producing human recombinant collagen I and elastin were generated. We showed that both proteins are expressed and secreted by CHO DG44 cells. 2 Materials and Methods 2.

Inhalt
Preface; Glycoproteomics in Health and Disease, W.B. Struwe, E.F.J. Cosgrave, J.C. Byrne, R. Saldova, P.M. Rudd.; Glyco-engineering of Fc Glycans to the Biological Functions in Therapeutic IgGs, T. Shantra Raju, D.M. Knight, R.E. Jordan; Bioinformatics Databases and Applications Available for Glycobiology and Glycomics, R. Ranzinger, K. Maa, T. Lütteke; Lectin Microarrays: simple tools for the analysis of complex glycans, L. Krishnamoorthy and L.K. Mahal; The Application of High Throughput Mass Spectrometry to the Analysis of Glycoproteins, S. Singh, M.T. Andersen, J.J. Steen; Solutions to the Glycosylation Problem for Low- and High-Throughput Structural Glycoproteomics, S.J. Davis and M. Crispin; Role of Glycoproteins in Virus-Human Cell Interactions, T.A. Bowden and E.E. Fry; Subject Index