Sentences with phrase «mucin sugars»

Since gut flora can break down and metabolize mucin sugars, this may be an underestimate.

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These modules recognise a specific sugar molecule, sialic acid, which caps the end of mucin glycan chains.

Its gel - like consistency is thanks to mucins, large, bottle brush - shaped molecules made of a protein backbone surrounded by strings of sugars.

These sugars have the ability to bind water molecules, thus giving mucins their lubricative potential.

Mucins comprise a protein backbone onto which sugar molecules are attached.

In a related series of experiments, the team found that the phages are studded with antibodylike molecules that grab onto the sugar chains in mucins.

In collaboration with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johnson & Johnson, the TUM team showed that if mucins lose these sugar molecules, they can no longer bind a sufficient amount of water, which causes them to lose their lubricative potential.

It is hypothesized that the novel mucins are part of a sugar - rich TM coating known as the glycocalyx, and that their altered production in response to steroids could lead to OH.

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For instance, the main mucin of the gastrointestinal tract, MUC2, is composed of a dimerized protein — each protein weighing 600,000 Daltons individually, so 1.2 million Daltons for the pair — plus about 4 million Daltons of sugar, for a total mass of 5 million Daltons.

Tracing backward one step toward the source of mucin deficiency, the sugars in mucin are built from smaller pieces called O - glycans.