Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology – in health and disease.

A new study shows that gut bacteria can influence the molecular pattern of glycosylation – the presence of sugar groups on proteins – in the brain. Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria ...

The study was made possible by a new method the scientists developed—DQGlyco—which allows them to study glycosylation at a much higher scale and resolution than previous studies. Proteins are ...

A new study reveals that gut bacteria influence brain protein modifications via glycosylation. Using a novel technique called DQGlyco, researchers identified over 150,000 glycosylated protein forms, ...

The glycosylation of proteins to create glycoproteins is very common and has been linked to changes in cell adhesion, cell signaling, protein folding and receptor activation processes ...

Proteins directed towards the ER undergo homogenous glycosylation ... that need chaperons for folding. These glycoproteins have a pattern of carbohydrates attached to the nitrogen atom, similar ...