title: Mass spectrometric strategies: providing structural clues for helminth glycoproteins.
abstract: Here we review current knowledge of helminth glycans and introduce parasitologists to the power of the mass spectrometric techniques that have been largely responsible for defining their carbohydrate moieties. A brief overview of glycosylation in other eukaryotes is presented, with a focus on mammalian glycosylation, to facilitate understanding of how parasite structures might be recognized as 'self' or 'foreign' by the immune system of the host.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Biochemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, SW7 2AY., London, UK.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Haslam
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dell
mesh_terms: D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D006031:Glycosylation; D015801:Helminth Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D006023:Glycoproteins; D015801:Helminth Proteins