iii Abstract Glycobiology represents a very progressive subject of cell biology. Protein-saccharide interactions play not only supporting and cell organization role, but they also represent medium for information storage and its decoding. Galectins, group of animal lectins (saccharide-binding proteins), which have selective affinity to ß-galactosides, are multifactorial molecules. They participate in cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction, transmembrane signaling, apoptosis, pre- mRNA splicing and are also present in various types of carcinomas. High expression of galectin-1 has been detected in cancer stroma originated from squamous cell epithelium. In the previous study we established that the fibroblasts - myofibroblasts transition, apart from the known TGF- beta, is also induced by galectin-1. We compared relationship between galectin-1 expression, presence of myofibroblasts and gene expression in tissue samples from patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer stroma with myofibroblasts was rich in galectin-1 expression in comparison with stroma without myofibroblasts. Moreover, we used microarray analysis (ILLUMINA) to compare the whole genome transcriptome from samples with and without presence of galectin-1. High expression of galectin-1 in tissue samples corresponded with expression...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:439789 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Valach, Jaroslav |
| Contributors | Smetana, Karel, Dřízhal, Ivo, Říhová, Blanka |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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