Introduction

The six mammalian glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate, heparin, heparan sulfate, hyaluronan, and keratan sulfate, are linear polysaccharides. Except for hyaluronan, they are sulfated to various extent, and covalently attached to proteins to form proteoglycans. GAGs interact with growth factors, morphogens, chemokines, extracellular matrix proteins and their bioactive fragments, receptors, lipoproteins, and pathogens. These interactions mediate their functions, from embryonic development to extracellular matrix assembly and regulation of cell signaling in various physiological and pathological contexts such as angiogenesis, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and infections. We have built the first comprehensive draft of the GAG interactome composed of 832 biomolecules (827 proteins and five GAGs) and 932 protein–GAG interactions. This network is a scaffold, which in the future should integrate structures of GAG–protein complexes, quantitative data of the abundance of GAGs in tissues to build tissue-specific interactomes, and GAG interactions with metal ions such as calcium, which plays a major role in the assembly of the extracellular matrix and its interactions with cells. This contextualized interactome will be useful to identify druggable GAG-protein interactions for therapeutic purpose.

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Speakers

• Sylvie Ricard-Blum Université Lyon 1, ICBMS, France

  http://icbms.univ-lyon1.fr/annuaire/198-ricard-blum

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Venue

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Online, Beilstein-Institut, Trakehner Str. 7 - 9, Frankfurt am Main, 60487, Germany

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Committee

• Carsten Kettner Beilstein-Institut, Germany

  https://www.beilstein-institut.de/en

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Dr. Carsten Kettner
Beilstein-Institut
+49 69 7167 3221
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